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Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19
Coronavirus: A Nationwide Survey of the Push for Early Release as Pandemic Fears Grow by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis “Mother Nature is a serial killer. No one’s better. More creative. . . . She’s a bitch.” – World War Z Between January and August of 2019, the Department of …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Early Prison Release for Gangsta Rapper Sped Up by Coronavirus by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Daniel Hernandez was a Brooklyn rap artist who managed to achieve no small measure of fame. To his fans he was Tekashi 6ix9ine. He decided to live the gangsta life and rapped about his …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Filed under: Editorials, COVID-19
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright Prison Legal News launched in May 1990, making this the thirtieth anniversary issue. I hand typed five pages, half the issue, in my maximum-security prison cell and Ed Mead, my co-editor, typed the other half in his cell. We sent it …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19, Rural Prisons
Prioritizing Jails Over Hospitals Has Made Rural US More Vulnerable to COVID-19 by Jasmine Heiss, Jack Norton by Jasmine Heiss and Jack Norton, reprinted from Truthout Infrastructure development is a matter of life and death: This has always been true, and we are now in a clarifying moment. In the midst …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19
May Update: Protect Yourself and Your Facility from COVID-19 by Michael D. Cohen, MD by Michael D. Cohen, M.D. In the April issue of Prison Legal News, I discussed the nature of the disease called COVID-19 (COrona VIrus Disease-2019) and ways to protect yourself and your facility through personal cleanliness, …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Leaving Prison for a Real Home in California by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon A pilot program started by a nonprofit in Alameda County, California seeks to meet an acute need for shelter faced by a group that doesn’t get much positive attention: recently released prisoners. Run by former prosecutor …
Third Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Pennsylvania Prisoners’ Dry Cell Suit by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Third Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the grant of summary judgement alleging prison officials lacked a penological interest in extending a prisoner’s duration in a dry cell. On January 15, 2020, it …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Health Care Services Killing Women at Virginia Prison by David Reutter by David M. Reutter With four deaths in five months at Virginia’s Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women (FCCW), a federal district court began moving its focus from care for individual prisoners to systematic change in July 2019. The Virginia …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
$120,000 Settlement for Minnesota Woman Forced to Remove Hijab for Booking by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A $120,000 settlement was reached on November 5, 2019 in a lawsuit alleging officials at Minnesota’s Ramsey County Jail applied discriminatory treatment to a Muslim woman. The settlement with the county also …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Filed under: DNA Testing/Samples, Asylum
DOJ to Treat Immigrants Like Criminals by Collecting DNA Samples by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss In March 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that federal Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents will begin collecting DNA samples for criminal investigation from immigrants designated for detention in Immigration and …
Texas Prison Health Care Costs at Record High Despite Population Reduction by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Despite a reduction in the Texas prisoner population, state prisons are spending record amounts on prisoner health care. The reason is not an improvement in the health care afforded prisoners. Pending lawsuits allege …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Minnesota Prison Bans “No Touch” Rule by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Back in 2011, the United States Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) performed an anonymous survey at the Minnesota Department of Corrections’ (MDOC) Shakopee women’s prison. The survey’s results showed that Shakopee was among the worst …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19
ICE Diverts Needed Face Masks from Medical Professionals by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) placed a request for bids on its website in March 2020 for 45,000 N95 protective face masks for 26 of its enforcement and removal operation field offices. This came at a …
Alabama Grandma Sentenced to Life on Drug Charge Finally Paroled by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In recent years many states have made changes to their criminal codes in an effort to reduce their prison populations. Those amendments, however, are rarely retroactive and leave those already imprisoned to serve …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by California: On March 28, 2020, death row prisoner Lonnie Franklin Jr., 67, aka “Grim Sleeper,” was found unresponsive in his San Quentin cell. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokeswoman Terry Thornton told reporters, “There were no signs of trauma. They don’t know why he died.” …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Coalition Fights to Ensure Jailed Voters in Arizona Can Vote by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer In 1974, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that jail detainees who are under no voting disability — which essentially means that they have not yet been convicted of a felony and lost their right …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Paroled New Yorker Wrongfully Confined; Awarded $3,250 by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Clarence Delaney, Jr. was granted $40 per day for 88 days of unlawful confinement by the State of New York, receiving a total payment of $3,250. He also was able to recover his 42 USC § 1983 …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Michigan Permits Prisoners to Seek Financial Assistance for College by Bill Barton by Bill Barton In October 2019, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed into law a 2020 budget that allowed prisoners to seek college financial aid through a state program that had long been out-of-bounds to prisoners. The Tuition Incentive …
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 …
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