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Brief • September 8, 2020
Filed under: Police
Ellis v. City of Buffalo, NY, Complaint, Personal Injury-Motor Vehicle, 2020 !FILED: ERIE COUNTY CLERK 09/08/2020 04:19 Pij NYSCEF DOC. NO. 1 INDEX NO. 809973/2020 RECEIVED NYSCEF: 09/08/2020 STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT : COUNTY OF ERIE BRANDON P. ELLIS as Guardian of the Person and Property of CHELSEA …
Island v. McClain, IL, Settlement, Unlawful Search & Seizure, 2020 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION JAMELL ISLAND, TREZELLE ISLAND, and JANELL ISLAND, Plaintiffs, v. ) ) 19 C 1831 ) No. ) ) District Judge Rebecca R. Pallmeyer ) ) CITY …
Brief • September 6, 2020
Agard v. Walworth County, S.D., class action complaint, unconstitutional conditions of jail, 2020 Case 1:20-cv-01018-CBK Document 1 Filed 09/06/20 Page 1 of 30 PageID #: 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF SOUTH DAKOTA NORTHERN DIVISION Megan Maria Agard, Chico Baker, Robert DeSersa, Kara Jane Logg, Deborah Looking Back, Prairie …
In-the-News Article • September 4, 2020
Paul Wright quoted in article about business opportunities after prison Sept. 4, 2020 Articles with PLN Quotes Verna Magazine Frederick Hutson: The Story of Pigeonly’s CEO Frederick Hutson: The Story of Pigeonly’s CEO Frederick Hutson, a Brooklyn born businessman began work in the United States Air Force after finishing school …
Abdullah v. Wexford, IL, Settlement, Medical Neglect, 2020 Information Sheet for Case Number ____ _________________________________________ ,. ,., 16-920 16-CV-920 Opposin(I Counsel: Abdullah, Salik #C82430 v. IDOC, et al. IDOC# Plaintiffs: Filed Case Name Official Case# Case# Defendants: Received 8/16/16 Pro Se L.1 Class Action On Appeal [] Spears [ .J …
Brief • September 2, 2020
Congress v. State of Vermont, VT, Complaint, Failure to Treat/Reasonable Accommodation, 2020 STATE OF VERMONT CIVIL DIVISION Docket No.: v. F C O O R N IN FI D CA EN M TI E AL RA STATE OF VERMONT, AGENCY OF HUMAN SERVICES and DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS; BENJAMIN WATTS, in …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Ohio Jails Under Investigation by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins A pattern of deaths, escapes and alleged civil rights abuses statewide have spurred investigations of at least two major county jails and increased oversight of 313 detention facilities in Ohio, local media revealed in January 2020. Governor Mike DeWine admitted …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Filed under: Commissary, Telephone Rates
San Francisco Eliminates Fees on Jail Phone Calls by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson We are never again going to take a commission or make money off of products and services provided to incarcerated people and their support networks, their families,” declared Anne Stuhldreher, director of the San Francisco Treasurer’s …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Maine DOC, Medical Provider, Pay $250,000 Settlement Due to Excessive Force on 11-Year-Old by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson The state of Maine and medical provider CorrectCare Solutions (now Wellpath) paid a 14-year-old $250,000 after two guards at a juvenile detention center “bashed” his face into a metal bed frame, …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Wisconsin: Court Dismisses Prisoners’ Suit Over Asbestos, Mold on Procedural Grounds by Chad Marks by Chad Marks An October 8, 2019, order from the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin dismissed for procedural violations a lawsuit brought by prisoners at the state’s Prairie Du Chien Correctional Institution. …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Filed under: Shock Incarceration
Consultants Advising Rich on Prison Life by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Even before he was found guilty in New York on two counts of rape on February 24, 2020, Hollywood movie producer Harvey Weinstein hired a prison consultant – Craig Rothfeld, CEO of Inside Outside Ltd. – to teach …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Does Increased Guard Violence Mean Texas Prisoners Are at Greater Risk? by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Violence perpetrated against prisoners by staff of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) has risen dramatically over the past decade, according to the prison system’s own statistics. From 6,624 use-of-force incidents by …
Transgender Woman Who Says She Was Raped, Beaten, Sues Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center by A transgender woman who was housed with male prisoners at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. (MDC), sued the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) on the grounds that staff ignored her requests for safety, resulting …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Jails and Prisons Have Reduced Their Populations in the Face of the Pandemic, but Not Enough To Save Lives by Emily Widra, Peter Wagner Our updated analysis finds that the initial efforts to reduce jail populations have slowed, while the small drops in state prison populations are still too little …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
The Prison Was Built to Hold 1,500 Inmates. It Had Over 2,000 Coronavirus Cases by Dara Lind Prison overcrowding has been quietly tolerated for decades. But the pandemic is forcing a reckoning. by Dara Lind, ProPublica This article was originally published June 18, 2020, by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
How Long Can You Hide a Dead Body in a Prison Cell? by Keri Blakinger Mental-health problems, short staffing plague a Texas lockup in COVID lockdown. by Keri Blakinger, The Marshall Project, originally published July 13, 2020 Source Materials If things were a little too quiet in a particular cell …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by California:In June 2020, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) commuted 21 state prisoners’ sentences, a dozen of them were for murder convictions, patch.com reported. Seven were committed when the prisoner was 22 or younger. Half of the prisoners are now 59 or older. One commutation went to …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Court Approves $1,250,000 Settlement in Suit Against Tennessee County for Fair Labor Violations by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On December 10, 2019, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, Eastern Division, modified and approved a $1.25 million settlement of a lawsuit against Madison County, Tennessee that …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
New Jersey: Commission Recommends State Take 100 Steps to Improve Re-Entry for Ex-Prisoners by Chad Marks by Chad Marks A commission that was legislatively mandated recommended in an October 2019 report that New Jersey improve re-entry services for those leaving prison. The Reentry Services Commission outlined 100 steps to aid …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Williams & Connolly, HRDC Win Censorship Case Against Virginia Regional Jail, $210,000 in Attorney Fees by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Williams & Connolly LLP of Washington, D.C. and the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), parent organization of Prison Legal News (PLN), have won a federal civil rights judgment against …
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