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Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Turn Key Health Clinics: Another Private Jail Medical Provider Leaving a Trail of Death and Misery by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Jails face a monumental task in the provision of medical care. Those who’ve just been arrested are often experiencing withdrawal from drugs or alcohol. Other pre-existing medical …
Missouri DOC Chief Held in Contempt of Court for Keeping Exonerated Prisoner Locked Up by On August 7, 2024, the head of Missouri’s Department of Corrections (DOC) was held in contempt by a state court judge for refusing to release Howard Roberts, 82, after the prisoner’s conviction was overturned. State …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Texas Appeals Court Tosses Former Prisoner’s Illegal Voting Conviction by On March 28, 2024, Texas’ Second District Court of Appeals (COA2D) overturned Crystal Mason’s illegal voting conviction, ruling that the state failed to present any evidence of criminal intent by the Black grandmother from Fort Worth to vote illegally in …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright America is going on its fourth decade of experimenting with private, for profit health services for prisoners. Regardless of the company and the location the outcomes are all the same: a lot of misery, pain and death imposed by a business …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Fifth Circuit Calls Denial of Texas Prisoner’s In Forma Pauperis Request “Arbitrary or Erroneous” by When Texas prisoner Larry Donnell Gibbs filed suit in federal court in 2021 against officials with the state Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), he paid the filing fee and did not ask to proceed in …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Filed under: Education, jobs
Washington Prison Trade Training Program Boosts Employment Income Upon Release by When Brittany Wright, 30, got out of a Washington prison in June 2023, she was confident that it would be easier than her last release 10 years earlier. Back then, she had found it almost impossible to find a …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
DOJ Sues Utah DOC, Alleging Discrimination Against Transgender Prisoner by On April 2, 2024, the U.S. Dept. of Justice sued the Utah Department of Corrections (DOC) for allegedly violating the rights of a transgender prisoner under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. ch. 126 §12101 et seq. The …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Former Ohio Deputy Prison Warden Gets Probation for Overtime Fraud by The former Deputy Warden of Ohio’s Warren Correctional Institution was sentenced on March 20, 2024, to probation not exceeding five years, after pleading guilty to theft in office. Robert Welch, 57, admitted stealing over $19,000 in pay for overtime …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
First Circuit Affirms Qualified Immunity for Massachusetts Officials Who Held Prisoner in Solitary for Two Years Without Hearing by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In a maddeningly byzantine decision on February 21, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit dismissed a claim by Massachusetts prisoner Jwainus Perry …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Georgia Prison Education Program Shuttered by Georgia State University announced on March 21, 2024, that it was pulling the plug on its eight-­year-­old Prison Education Program (PEP), in which 60 prisoners at two state prisons and one federal lockup were working toward college associate degrees. PEP alumni include nine men …
Former Warden Added to Suit Over Brutal Killing of Disabled Virginia Prisoner by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In an amended complaint filed in federal court for the Western District of Virginia on January 19, 2024, the former warden of Marion Correctional Treatment Center (MCTC) was added to the list …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
“We Killed Him”: Alabama Jailers Cut Plea Deals After Detainee Freezes to Death by On July 31, 2024, a former guard at Alabama’s Walker County Jail agreed to plead guilty to federal charges filed after a detainee was left naked on his cell floor for two weeks and froze to …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
New York City Mayor Blocks Solitary Confinement Ban After Council Overrides His Veto by New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) declared a state of emergency on July 28, 2024, issuing an executive order blocking a new law banning solitary confinement in city jails just one day before it was …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Former Detainee Sues “Disgusting” Atlanta Jail Where He Was Stabbed 13 Times by A lawsuit filed in Georgia’s Fulton County on May 1, 2024, blames poor conditions at the county jail for an assault by fellow detainees on Michael Horton, in which he was stabbed 13 times. As PLN reported, …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Solitary Confinement Prompts Lawsuit in Massachusetts, Hunger Strike in Maine by A suit filed by six Massachusetts prisoners on July 1, 2024, alleges that conditions in what the state Department of Corrections (DOC) calls a “Secure Adjustment Unit” (SAU) are no different from solitary confinement—something state legislators outlawed in 2018. …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
NaphCare Settles One Suit At Oregon Jail, Loses Motion to Dismiss Second by On August 2, 2024, after losing a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a Jeffrey Simms-­Belaire, a former detainee at Oregon’s Washington County Jail (WCJ), private jail medical contractor NaphCare, Inc. secured an agreement with a …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Remedying Wrongs by Kenneth Alyass The administrative remedy process is a roadblock to challenging inhumane prison conditions. With the help of advocates, people in prison are fighting back. As a way to challenge the inhumane conditions of their imprisonment, people behind bars have made remarkable use of the very legal …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Competency Evaluation Ordered for Condemned Utah Prisoner by David Reutter On February 13, 2024, the Third Judicial Circuit Court in and for Salt Lake County, Utah, ordered an examination to determine if death row prisoner Ralph Leroy Menzies, 65, is competent to be executed. Menzies’ attorneys argued that he suffers …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Former Prisoners Can Become President, But Other Job Options Are Limited by The conviction on May 30, 2024, of former Pres. Donald J. Trump (R) on 34 felony charges in New York did not derail the current GOP nominee’s campaign to return to the White House. But it would prevent …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Environmental Impact Statement Released for Controversial Proposed BOP Lockup in Kentucky by On July 10, 2024, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) released the final environmental impact statement (EIS) for a proposed new lockup to be constructed in Kentucky, moving the project closer to construction than it has ever been …
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