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Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Arizona DOC Raids Prisoner-Generated Funds to Pay for Lock Repairs; Whistleblower Says Records Being Falsified by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke After the Arizona Department of Corrections (DOC) received $17.7 million from the state legislature’s Joint Committee on Capital Review to repair defective cell locks at a maximum-security prison, a …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Recent Exonerees Give the Public Advice on Being Locked Down: You Have No Idea by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Now the whole country is incarcerated,” Theophalis “Binky Bilal” Wilson said after being released in January 2020, exonerated after 28 years wrongfully in prison, only to find himself locked in …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Lawsuit: Release Prisoners in Virus Tinderbox to Home Confinement by David Reutter Patrick Jones first federal prisoner to die after judge rejects plea by David M. Reutter A non-violent federal drug offender who pleaded for early release in the months prior to the COVID-19 pandemic hitting America died of the …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19
Prison Postcards: Prisoners Write About Fears, Incompetence, at Their Facilities by Ken Silverstein by Ken Silverstein On April 15, President Donald Trump announced that the coronavirus pandemic had peaked in the United States. That same day, nearly 2,300 people in the country died from COVID-19, the disease cause by the …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Filed under: Prison Labor, COVID-19
Rikers Island Prisoners Helped with Preparations to Bury the Coronavirus Dead by Prisoners jailed with a conviction at New York’s Rikers Island were offered $6 an hour to dig mass graves at Hart Island, where more than 1 million mostly indigent city residents are already buried. In a city with …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Federal Judge “Troubled” by Arizona Prison Director’s Response to Coronavirus; State Rep Calls it “Reckless” by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Court-appointed advocates filed a motion in federal court concerning the Arizona prison director’s response to the coronavirus, which federal Judge Roslyn Silver called “troubling,” writing that it “may reflect …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
California Publishes Use of Force in Prisons Report by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso In June 2019, California’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) published its annual report, “Monitoring the Use of Force,” for incidents the previous year at all juvenile and adult facilities operated by the Department of …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Connecticut Prisoners Win Lawsuit After Hepatitis Exposure by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon In May 2019, a final settlement agreement was approved for 15 prisoners who were exposed to Hepatitis C when a Correctional Managed Health Care (CMHC) nurse at MacDougall-Walker State Prison in Suffield, Connecticut, used the same needle …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Nevada Prisoner Prevails in Good Time Deprivation Appeal by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon On June 20, 2019, a two-justice majority on a Nevada court of appeals panel reversed and remanded a district court’s dismissal of a state prisoner’s civil rights complaint over the removal of good time credits. The …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
California Three-Judge Court Denies Emergency Motion to Reduce Prison Population During Pandemic by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis On April 4, 2020, a three-judge court in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California denied a motion seeking an order requiring the California Department of Corrections and …
Arkansas Supreme Court Denies Prisoner Preliminary Injunction on Religious Issues by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso On June 6, 2019 the Supreme Court of Arkansas denied a prisoner’s appeal of a circuit court’s refusal to issue a preliminary injunction regarding Arkansas Department of Corrections (ADC) policies as applied to …
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 …
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