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Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Filed under: Settlements, Grievances
$500 Jury Verdict for Pennsylvania Prisoner After Federal Court Clarifies DOC Grievance Procedures by On February 29, 2024, a jury in federal court for the Western District of Pennsylvania awarded $500 to a state prisoner for his excessive force claim against a state Department of Corrections (DOC) guard. Along the …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Filed under: Lie Detector Tests
California Prisons Ban High-Tech Lie Detector by On August 16, 2024, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s (CDCR) announced a ban on use of the Computer Voice Stress Analyzer (CVSA). The controversial technology analyzes voice tremors that supposedly betray when a prisoner is lying. But it has been found …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Two More West Virginia Jailers Plead Guilty in Detainee’s Homicide by Guilty pleas from two former guards at West Virginia’s Southern Regional Jail were filed on August 8, 2024, for their roles in the fatal beating of detainee Quantez Burks, 27, in May 2022. As PLN reported, two other former …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
California Throws Prisoners Under the Bus to Adopt New Heat Rules by In a desperate bid to get new heat-­related workplace safety rules adopted before summer arrived, California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) agreed on April 18, 2024, to drop prisons and jails from the measure. Two temperature …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
$23,138 Plus Out-Of-State Transfer for Virginia Prisoner Who Accused Guards of Excessive Force and Altering Video by On March 25, 2024, Virginia prisoner Steven Allen Riddick, 50, agreed to accepted $23,138 from the state Department of Corrections (DOC) to settle claims made in several civil rights cases filed in federal …
Brief • November 11, 2024
Estate of Lucas Bellamy v. Omweri, Proposed Order for Distribution of Wrongful Death Proceeds, Wrongful Death-Medical Neglect, 2024 CASE 0:24-cv-00170-DWF-TNL Doc. 49 Filed 11/11/24 Page 1 of 5 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA Louis Bellamy, as Trustee for the next of kin of Lucas John Bellamy, Deceased, Plaintiff, …
In-the-News Article • November 5, 2024
Lawsuit alleges N.M. prison mail policy violates inmates’ First Amendment rights Nov. 5, 2024 Articles about PLN Litigation corrections1.com In 2021, N.M. DOC began redirecting inmate mail to a Florida vendor for scanning, giving inmates photocopies instead of originals to reduce contraband in prisons By Phaedra Haywood The Santa Fe …
Brief • October 31, 2024
Filed under: Disabled Prisoners
Wilson v. Dixon, FL, Complaint, Denial of Disability Accomodations, 2024 Case 1:24-cv-24253-KMW Document 1 Entered on FLSD Docket 10/31/2024 Page 1 of 63 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA MIAMI DIVISION CASE NO. 1:24-cv-24253 DWAYNE WILSON, TYRONE HARRIS, and GARY WHEELER, individually and on behalf of those similarly …
In-the-News Article • October 30, 2024
Prison Phone Co. GTL Gets OK On $17M Price-Fix Deal Oct. 30, 2024 Articles about PLN Litigation Law360.com Prison phone company Global*Tel Link Corp will pay $17 million to escape claims that it colluded with two other companies to inflate the cost of calls made from inside U.S. prisons after …
In-the-News Article • October 30, 2024
Texas Justices Quiz Sales Tax Break For Private Prison Co. Oct. 30, 2024 Articles that mention PLN Law360.com By Michael Nunes Texas Supreme Court justices questioned Wednesday whether a private prison operator is eligible to receive a sales tax exemption granted to governmental entities, mulling over whether the company functions as an …
Brief • October 30, 2024
Filed under: Failure to Treat
Green v. Anoka County, MN, Complaint, Inadequate Medical Treatment, 2024 CASE 0:24-cv-01250-JRT-DLM Doc. 49 Filed 10/30/24 Page 1 of 108 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA Deyonta D. Green, Case No. 24-cv-1250 (JRT/DLM) Plaintiff, v. FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT Anoka County, et al, Defendants and Third-Party Plaintiffs, JURY TRIAL DEMANDED …
Brief • October 29, 2024
Filed under: Wrongful Death
Estate of Kevin Wiley v. City of Issaquah, WA, Settlement, Wrongful Death, 2024 FULL AND FINAL RELEASE THIS IS A COMPLETE RELEASE READ IT BEFORE SIGNING IN CONSIDERATION for the sum of three million dollars ($3,000,000.00), I, Richelle Marie Dickey, as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Kevin Wiley …
FCC Slashes Prison and Jail Phone Rates, Caps Video Call Cost, Eliminates “Site Commission” Kickbacks by On August 26, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) published its final rule in the Federal Register, formalizing rulemaking that the agency issued the previous month which significantly reduces the cost of phone and …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Filed under: Private Prisons
Houston Detainees Shipped to Private Jails in Mississippi and Louisiana by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso With the Harris County Jail (HCJ) short 139 guards, minimum staffing ratios set by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS) have mathematically capped the number of beds that can be filled at …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Illinois Pays $3 Million for Subjecting Prisoners to Degrading Mass Strip Search by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso After a dozen years of fighting over a mass strip-search conducted during a training exercise in an Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) prison for women, the federal court for the Central …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Third Circuit Finds Relation-Back Rule Misapplied to Philadelphia Prisoner’s “Crappy” Ordeal Lawsuit by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 21, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit vacated summary judgment in favor of a Philadelphia Department of Corrections (DOC) guard, who was accused of leaving …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Prisoners Reportedly Locked in Showers in Oklahoma, Florida by David Reutter by David M. Reutter According to a lawsuit removed to federal court for the Western District of Oklahoma on May 1, 2024, prisoners at Great Plains Correctional Center (GPCC) were confined in a tiny shower stall for days on …
CDCR Slammed for Reclassifying Staff Misconduct Allegations as Routine Grievances by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso A report issued by California’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) on January 29, 2024, harshly criticized the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) for taking prisoner grievances that contained allegations of …
Indiana Sheriff Pleads Guilty to Corruption, County Pays $328,000 to Jail Detainees for “Night of Terror” by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In federal court for the Southern District of Indiana on April 11, 2024, Clark County officials agreed to pay $328,000 to settle claims filed by 25 former detainees …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
$7.25 Million Paid for Psychotic Detainee’s Suicide After 20 Days in Solitary at Indiana Jail by On May 28, 2024, remaining claims were dismissed in federal court for the Southern District of Indiana by the Estate of Joshua McLemore, a psychotic Jackson County Jail detainee who starved himself to death …
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