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Brief • August 2, 2024
In Re Armor Health Management LLC Liquidation, Aug. 02, 2024 Filing # 203950828 E-Filed 08/02/2024 02:48:49 PM IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE ELEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA IN RE: ARMOR HEALTH MANAGEMENT, LLC, and ARMOR CORRECTIONAL HEALTH & MEDICAL SERVICES OF NEW YORK, INC. Assignor, …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Filed under: Education
Pell Grant Restoration Not Reaching All Prisoners by Marina Bueno, an incarcerated writer, hopes to attend college but faces a harsh reality—no college classes are offered at her Florida women’s prison in Homestead. In fact, only 326 out of 80,000 state prisoners were enrolled in a college class as of …
Brief • July 1, 2024
Knox v. Bradshaw, FL,Settlement, Excessive Force, 2024 PALM BEACH COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE FLSS Exemption Sheet X FSS ☐ 119.071(2)(c) ☐ 112.533(2)(a) Open Internal Affairs investigation. ☐ 119.071(2)(d) Surveillance techniques, procedures, and personnel; inventory of law enforcement resources, policies, or plans pertaining to mobilization, deployment, or tactical operations. ☐ 119.071(3)(a), 281.301 …
Other Jails Study Miami Diversion Program to Keep Mentally Ill from Repeated Incarceration by Faced with repeated jail admissions of people suffering from schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses (SMI), the city of Miami has developed one of the nation’s most comprehensive diversion programs, focusing on treatment and community integration …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Filed under: Suicides
Florida County Pays $300,000 to Settle Jail Suicide Suit by Matthew Clarke On October 17, 2023, the estate of a detainee who committed suicide in Florida’s Escambia County Jail accepted $300,000 to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit. Lukas MacKenzie Snelson, 24, was arrested on December 30, 2021, for second …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Report Finds Current Path of Florida Prison System “Unsustainable” by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   Florida Department of Corrections (DOC) leaders have come before the state legislature repeatedly to warn that it is a system operating in crisis. In a presentation on November 15, 2023, by global consulting …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Watchdog Finds “Alarming Conditions” at BOP Women’s Lockup in Florida by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   When confronted with prisoner complaints, officials often produce glowing inspection reports and blame prisoners for destroying prison infrastructure. All too often, though, inept supervision is to blame for failure to maintain facilities. …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
HRDC Files Suit for Exonerated Florida Prisoner Wrongfully Incarcerated Over 44 Years by On April 17, 2024, the nonprofit Human Rights Defense Center—which publishes PLN and Criminal Legal News—filed suit in federal court for the Middle District of Florida on behalf of Willie Williams, Jr., 79, seeking redress for over …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Florida Prisons Playing “Whack-a-Mole” With Jailbroken Tablets by In an essay published in Slate on December 14, 2023, former Florida prisoner Ryan Moser said that officials with the state Department of Corrections (DOC) were “essentially playing whack-a-mole” in their efforts to combat an epidemic of “jailbreaking” prison-issued electronic tablets. The …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Filed under: Drug Overdose
Two Sentenced in Detainee’s Fentanyl Death at North Florida Jail by Two detainees at Florida’s Okaloosa County Jail were sentenced to federal prison on April 5, 2024, for smuggling fentanyl into the lockup and providing it to a detainee, who overdosed and died on Christmas Eve 2022. Gary Chase, 30, …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Dismissal Affirmed of Florida Prisoner’s Claim for Exposure to Human Waste by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On December 11, 2023, the Supreme Court of the U.S. declined to issue a writ of certiorari to hear a Florida prisoner’s appeal to a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals …
Article • April 26, 2024
Filed under: Employee Litigation
$1.4 Million Verdict for Florida Jail Guard Injured in Transport Van Crash by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 20, 2021, a Florida jury awarded $1.4 million to Bradford County Jail guard Clinton Jenkins, 53. The jury’s award was based on its finding that the truck driver who …
Article • April 26, 2024
Florida Supreme Court Bans ‘Vexatious’ Prisoner From Filing Further Pro Se Petitions by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On April 13, 2023, the Supreme Court of Florida directed its Clerk to “reject any future pleadings or other requests for relief” submitted by state prisoner Daryl A. Sanders, “unless such …
Williams v. Ritchey, FL, Complaint, Wrongful Conviction, 2024 Case 3:24-cv-00367 Document 1 Filed 04/17/24 Page 1 of 40 PageID 1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA JACKSONVILLE DIVISION Willie Williams, Plaintiff, No.24-cv-367 v. Charles David Ritchey, W. J. Mooneyham, J.R. Starling, the Estate of …
Williams v. Ritchey, FL, Complaint, Wrongful Conviction, 2024 Case 3:24-cv-00367 Document 1 Filed 04/17/24 Page 1 of 40 PageID 1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA JACKSONVILLE DIVISION Willie Williams, Plaintiff, No.24-cv-367 v. Charles David Ritchey, W. J. Mooneyham, J.R. Starling, the Estate of …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Florida County Makes Free Jail Phone Calls Available by On October 1, 2023, phone calls became free for some 860 jail detainees at the jail in Florida’s Alachua County, whose Board of Commissioners voted for the change six months earlier. That brought the cost from 21 cents per minute to …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Florida Pastor Accused of Running Shoplifting Ring With DUI Diversion Program Participants by The former pastor at a Florida church who ran its diversion program for DUI arrestees was arrested on August 7, 2023, accused of coercing program members into a shoplifting ring that allegedly stole $1.4 million in merchandise …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
From the Editor by Paul Wright By Paul Wright Probably the biggest threat to the credibility of the American police state is that of wrongful convictions. American history has plenty of examples of prisoners being freed from lengthy prison sentences after being wrongfully convicted of crimes they did not commit. …
Muslim Florida Prisoner Awarded Permanent Injunction to Grow Untrimmed Beard by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On August 14, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida awarded a permanent injunction to state prisoner Owen D. Denson, a Muslim known as Abdul Hakeen Jahmal Naseer Shabazz, …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
BOP Pays $40,000 to Prisoner Sexually Assaulted at Florida Lockup by Guard, Who Must Pay Her $1 Million by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Back in June 2022, the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) agreed to pay $40,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a prisoner repeatedly subjected to …
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