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Survivors of Texas Jail Suicidee Win $516,000 Against Phone Provider by Matthew T. Clarke The mother and son of a prisoner who committed suicide by hanging himself from a telephone in his ...
. Boyd finally walked free after 23 years in prison. He has since filed a federal civil rights suit seeking damages for his wrongful conviction and incarceration, which remains pending – just another ...
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
. Despite being a convicted felon, Cesar had significant future earnings potential because his employer was willing to re-hire him after his release from prison. Even so, Steven Goldberg, another attorney ...
Article • August 15, 2010 • from PLN August, 2010
and convincing evidence” that Greg Taylor had been wrongly convicted. When Taylor, 47, was released from prison the same day of the judicial panel’s decision, state officials gave him a $45 check as “gate money ...
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
. A federal judge refused to allow him to present evidence of his 10 years in prison to the jury. Instead, they heard only that he had spent two days in county jail. No damages were awarded. After ...
Article • April 15, 2003 • from PLN April, 2003
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
% of the "time to serve." Worse yet, and applicable to Jackson, for those prisoners whose crime predated the 1998 rule, but who began serving their sentence after 1998, the new rule was applied retroactively ...
In-the-News Article • January 1, 2008
group Private Corrections Institute, had filed suit after CCA denied his request for records about prison operations and lawsuits they were part of. CCA, which operates the Metro Davidson County ...
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
“suffered a series of cerebrovascular accidents and a serious stroke.” After her release, she “experienced a difficult rehabilitation period and still suffers memory loss, difficulty ...
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
as anything I’ve heard about [in] any Columbian prison.” According to her attorney, after testing positive for COVID-19, Days languished for 75 days in solitary confinement. Days endured weeks ...
Article • September 1, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021
of touching his penis. She became depressed, took an overdose of drugs, and was placed on suicide watch. After her release to the general population, Doe 2 was assigned to a two-person cell with a prisoner who ...
microfiche from University Microfilms International, 300 North Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1346. THE NATIONAL PRISON PROJECT JOURNAL ~II .~ Agreement Reached in Rhode Island Prison Case After 17 Years n ...
Publication • 2021
Filed under: Recidivism
on prisoners, their release, and crime; 37.7 million people in the United States had contracted COVID-19 as of August 23, 2021, of whom 628,285 died (“Coronavirus in the U.S.” 2021). Given the close-quarters ...
SCOTUS Stops Fourth Circuit from Tossing Federal Prisoner’s Appeal on Technicality by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman A federal prisoner filed a Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) complaint ...
, two girls received a broken arm after they were placed in a "hammerlock" hold by guards. The hold, in which a guard grasps a prisoner's thumb to force the arm behind the back, relies in part on "pain ...
federal litigation. See: Hankins v. Finnel, 964 F. 2d 853 (8th Cir. 1992) and Wright v. Riveland, 219 F.3d 905 (9th Cir. 2000)]. The bill isn?t discharged when a prisoner is released. Former prisoner Mark ...
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
but that may be changing. After Baraka taught himself to read while incarcerated, he obtained his GED. And when his almost 60-year prison sentence was reduced to four years, he went on to become an American ...
Publication • February 10, 2016
involving a child, Congress passed Megan’s Law, which amended the Wetterling Act in 1996 by mandating community notification for fifteen years after their release of adults convicted of violent sex offenses ...
Article • October 1, 2020 • from PLN October, 2020
Filed under: Wrongful Death, Suicides
by hanging himself with a bedsheet in his holding cell at the jail. He had been arrested in June 2012 after allegedly threatening a man with a knife in a parking lot. His mother, Jacqueline Smith, said she ...
was pronounced dead at the scene. Her parents sued the jail staff and its mental health provider for various claims, but primarily that she shouldn’t have been released from suicide watch a day after ...
Article • June 15, 2006 • from PLN June, 2006
Filed under: News, News in Brief
in Florence, was sentenced to two months home detention after pleading guilty to having sex with a prisoner over a four month period last summer. Florida: On May 25, 2006, Robert Stenlunk, 32, a guard ...
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