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Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Louisiana’s COVID-19 Prisoner Furlough Panel Next to Useless by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon On June 5, 2020, as Louisiana entered the second phase of its reopening program following shutdowns ordered to counteract the COVID-19 pandemic, the state Department of Public Safety and Corrections (DOC) suspended a panel it had …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
North Carolina Prisoners at Deadliest Federal Prison File Suit on COVID-19 Response by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 26, 2020, federal prisoners aided by civil rights groups and a major international law firm, filed a class action lawsuit challenging the handling of a COVID-19 outbreak by the Bureau …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Preliminary Studies: Black/Latino Populations Disproportionately Affected by COVID-19 by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney According to a June 2020 report from Medical News Today, the infection and mortality rates — and a lack of testing — for COVID-19 disproportionately affects Black and Latino populations within the United States based upon …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
North Carolina Cancer Patient Dies From COVID-19 After BOP Denies Compassionate Release and Sentencing Judge Rejects Appeal by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna On July 3, 2020, the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) reported prisoner John Dailey died of COVID-19 at the Federal Correctional Complex (FCC) in Butner, North Carolina. …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Filed under: COVID-19
Pandemic Medical Update: The Latest on Vaccines and Prisoners by Michael D. Cohen, MD by Michael D. Cohen, M.D. The pandemic was more widespread than ever in the United States, as PLN was going to press. Almost every day records were being set for the daily number of new cases …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Filed under: Prisoner Media, Journalist
In Prisons, the Press Also Yearns to Be Free by Casey Bastian by Casey Bastian Anyone who has any experience with a jail or prison knows that they are like small islands. Overcrowded, dysfunctional, and violent. Too frequently, prisoner rights violations, abusive behavior of guards and other related injustices occur …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Tennessee Juvenile Murderer’s Sentence Commuted by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon One of the late great singer Karen Carpenter’s hit songs was Bless the Beasts and the Children, wherein she lamented that neither has choice nor voice. Such was the case with young Cyntoia Brown, who found herself being trafficked …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
How Jails Became a Breeding Ground for the Coronavirus by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders Back in August 2020, “things at Waseca were calm,” recalled Channing Lacy. Like many other women incarcerated in the low-security Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Waseca, Minnesota, the 33-year-old considered herself lucky that the prison …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Salt Lake County, Utah, Settles Federal Civil Rights Wrongful Death Claim for $950,000 by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Salt Lake County, Utah settled in March of 2020 a wrongful-death lawsuit stemming from the in-custody death in 2016 of Lisa Marie Ostler, who died when jail officials ignored her symptoms …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Filed under: Rural Prisons
Urban Redo: Lorton, Virginia Prison Recreated as Liberty Village by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Developers in Fairfax County, Virginia, are remaking the Lorton Reformatory historical landmark into a suburban village. County officials are using the prime real estate just off I-95 with good roads to D.C. and a growing …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Court Rejects Class Status for Nebraska Prisoners Facing Substandard Health Care by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A Nebraska Federal district court denied class certification in a lawsuit alleging systematic deficiencies in the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (NCDS) health-care system. Individual claims of some of the lead incarcerated …
Private Health Care Services in County Jails Comes at High Price by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss An analysis published on October 26, 2020 by Reuters showed U.S. jails that contracted with private health care companies had higher death rates on average among prisoners and detainees than those with government-run …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Sixth Circuit Holds Ohio Prisoner Can Be Executed Despite Previous Botched Attempt by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 23, 2020, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that an Ohio prisoner could be executed despite a previous botched attempt. Romell Broom was taken to the Ohio execution chamber …
Second Circuit: No Error in Blocking New York Parolee from Attending His Own Civil Rights Trial Against Prison Officials by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 12, 2020, the Second Circuit court of appeals held that a federal court did not commit error when it denied a New York …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
My Ankle Monitor Won’t Let Me Take Out The Garbage by Eleanor Bader While we live under “house arrest” amid the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s a good time to revisit what the real thing is like. by Eleanor Bader, The Indypendent When most of us think about house arrest, ankle monitors …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Seventh Circuit Holds Illinois Prisoners Retain Fourth Amendment Rights to Bodily Privacy, Overruling Circuit Precedents by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 11, 2020, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that prisoners retain Fourth Amendment rights to bodily privacy requiring that physical and visual strip searches be reasonable. …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Filed under: Prison Rebellion, Food, Water
Georgia Prisoners Lacked Food, Water, Leading to Melee by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins A violent disturbance was reported inside Georgia’s Ware State Prison in early August 2020. A prisoner reporting from inside the prison on an illegal cellphone cited health issues, three meals a day consisting only of cheese …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Filed under: Rural Prisons
Some Prisons Bear Names of Enslavers, Oppressors, Racists and Segregationists by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Questions are currently being raised about the historic figures in whose honor statues were erected and schools and streets were named. Names include those of segregationists, slave owners and racists. Now, attention is being …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Filed under: COVID-19, Juvenile Prisons
COVID-19 Hits Fairfax, Virginia Juvenile Detention Center by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss An outbreak of COVID-19 began September 29, 2020, at the Juvenile Detention Center (JDC) in Fairfax County, Virginia, with eight staff and six juveniles testing positive over the next 10 days for the novel coronavirus that causes …
Federal Class Action Settlement Aims to Eliminate Horrific Conditions at Santa Barbara, California Jails in Three Years by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna A federal class action lawsuit filed in December of 2017 alleging numerous humanitarian violations at Santa Barbara County Adult Detention Facilities (County Jail) settled on July 17, …
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