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Federal Court Grants Default Summary Judgment in Favor of Indiana Prisoner as Sanction for State’s Lies by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell In a rare move, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana on January 3, 2020 granted default judgment in favor of a prisoner who sued …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Filed under: Overdetention, Suicides
Suit: Mississippi Man Sentenced to Two Days Hangs Himself After Jail Kept Him 52 Days Longer by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney After he lost work and was unable to pay a fine, Robert Wayne Johnson was sentenced to the Keller Neshoba Regional Correctional Facility (KNRCF) in rural Kemper County, …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
How Prepared Are State Prison Systems for a Viral Pandemic? by Emily Widra, Peter Wagner by Emily Widra and Peter Wagner, originally published April 10, 2020 at the Prison Policy Initiative website Since the Prison Policy Initiative’s first coronavirus briefing at the beginning of March, the organization has been tracking how federal, state, and local …
Emergency Cancellation of Attorney Visits Subject to Court Oversight by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 20, 2020, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the cancellation of lawyer-client visits at the Metropolitan Detention Center-Brooklyn (MDC). The court urged a quick resolution …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Undisclosed Settlement in Kentucky Case a Textbook Case of Negligent Privatized Prison Medical Care by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The provision of medical care is an expensive proposition regardless of whether a citizen or prisoner is in need of care. Tight budgets have pushed many jails and prisons …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Illinois Supreme Court: Settlements with Private Companies When Contracted for Government Service Are Public Record by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss The Illinois Supreme Court on December 19, 2019 held that settlement agreements reached by private contractors, if directly related to the services they provide, are public record. It said …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19
Mass Incarceration, Meet COVID-19 Opportunity to release prisoners with little public safety risk is clear by Sharon Dolovich by Sharon Dolovich Most of America’s 2.3 million prisoners cannot practice social distancing. They are packed into overcrowded facilities, living, sleeping and bathing within feet—sometimes inches—of each other. What’s more, they often …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Multiple Indictments, Prison Sentences, for Guards and Officials at Violence-Plagued Cleveland Jail by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon The year 2019 was a busy one for a grand jury in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Indictments were handed down for seven guards, a former associate warden and a former director of the …
Another Prisoner Dies at Tennessee Prison Run By CoreCivic by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The September 14, 2019, death of prisoner Albert Dorsey, 60, at the Hardeman County Correctional Facility (HCCF), a private prison operated by Tennessee-based CoreCivic, was initially called a suicide by the medical examiner. The prison’s …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
New Yorker Held Three Years at Rikers Island Before Acquittal by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A man from New York City was held three years in a Rikers Island jail before a Brooklyn jury acquitted him October 1, 2019 of a knife-point armed robbery. Mike Colon, 51, was just …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Kentucky Governor’s Executive Order Restores Voting Rights for Felons by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear issued an executive order that restored the voting rights of over 140,000 convicted felons. The order was signed just days after Beshear was sworn in in December 2019, and it …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Women Advocate for the Release of COVID-19 At-Risk Prisoners in Indiana by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss A prisoner advocacy group in April began urging residents to call Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb and the state Department of Corrections (DOC) Commissioner Robert Carter to demand the release of nonviolent prisoners, the …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Filed under: Hearing, COVID-19
Arizona Court Denies Emergency COVID-19 Motion by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Arizona federal district court overseeing the Stipulation in a class action that challenged the medical care within the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADOC) denied an emergency motion to require ADOC to develop a comprehensive COVID-19 plan. …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
D.C. Juvenile Offender Finally Released After 26 Years Behind Bars by Bill Barton by Bill Barton David Bailey was a reckless and violent 17-year-old when he shot and killed two people outside a Washington, D.C. night club. He was convicted of second-degree murder and received a sentence of 35 years …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19, Overcrowding
Ohio Prisoner’s Facebook Live a Plea for Help During COVID-19 Pandemic by "They’re literally leaving us in here to die,” said a prisoner live-streaming on Facebook in a plea for help April 3, 2020. The now-viral online video captures the desperation of prisoners during the coronavirus pandemic. The 31-year-old, wearing …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Santa Rita Jail Accused of Slave Labor in California Class Action by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Current and former prisoners at Santa Rita Jail in Alameda County, California, filed a class action lawsuit on November 18, 2019 against the county, Sheriff Gregory Ahern, and Aramark Correctional Services for violating …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Open Prison: Lessons from the Past by Michael Fortino, Ph.D by Michael Fortino, Ph.D. Open prison is unthinkable today in the United States, though in Scandinavia such institutions are heralded as models of civility and rehabilitation. The U.S. experimented with open prisons back in 1941, which proved there were better …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Chatham County Jail Reverses On Book Ban But Limits Number of Publications by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Following a letter from the ACLU of Georgia, the Chatham County sheriff rescinded a jail policy that banned detainees from receiving books and magazines from outside sources. The ACLU still took …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
$25 Million Jury Award to Baltimore City Prisoner For Guards Setting Up Retaliatory Gang Attack by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell A jury awarded a prisoner brutally beaten at the Baltimore City Detention Center $25 million, after guards allegedly worked in concert with a gang and arranged a beating as …
Brief • May 1, 2020
Texas AG Opinion That GEO Corporation Is Subject To State Public Records Law KEN rA.t'CTO N ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEX:\S May 01, 2020 Mr. Michael Shaunessy Counsel for Geo Group, Inc. McGinnis & Lochridge 600 Congress Avenue, Suite 2100 Austin, Texas 78701 OR2020-12334 Dear Mr. Shaunessy: You ask whether certain …
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