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Seventh Circuit Reiterates That Threats and Withholding Grievance Forms Render Administrative Remedies Unavailable to Prisoner
Article • July 15, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
Filed under: Retaliation for Filing Grievances, Failure to Protect (General), Eighth Amendment
Seventh Circuit Reiterates That Threats and Withholding Grievance Forms Render Administrative Remedies Unavailable to Prisoner by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On January 24, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit vacated the dismissal of a federal prisoner’s suit and remanded the case to the district court, …
$1 Million Paid After Indiana Jailers Fatally Beat and Taser Detainee, But Prosecutor Finds No Crime
Article • July 15, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
Filed under: Failure to Treat, Drug Overdose, Restraints, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Excessive Force (Wrongful Death)
$1 Million Paid After Indiana Jailers Fatally Beat and Taser Detainee, But Prosecutor Finds No Crime by Keith Sanders, Benjamin Tschirhart by Keith Sanders and Benjamin Tschirhart When a caregiver fails to seek medical attention for a person during an emergency, inflicting instead additional pain and suffering and looking on …
HRDC v. St. Joseph County, IN, USDC, Complaint, Censorship, 2022
Filing • June 27, 2022
Filed under: Damages, Injunctions, PLN Litigation, Censorship, HRDC Litigation
HRDC v. St. Joseph County, IN, USDC, Complaint, Censorship, 2022 USDC IN/ND case 3:22-cv-00489 document 1 filed 06/27/22 page 1 of 10 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF INDIANA SOUTH BEND DIVISION HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Plaintiff, v. …
Cooper v. City of Elkhart, IN, Settlement, Wrongfully Convicted, 2022
Brief • June 16, 2022
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
Cooper v. City of Elkhart, IN, Settlement, Wrongfully Convicted, 2022 MUTUAL RELEASE AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT This MUTUAL RELEASE AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT (the “Agreement”) is made effective this ____ day of June, 2022 (the “Effective Date”), by and among the City of Elkhart, Indiana; Diana Rezutko, as Personal Representative of the …
“Jailhouse Politician” Withdraws from Indiana Race, But Another Wins in DC
Article • May 23, 2022
Filed under: Elections, Post-release, ex-offender, re-entry
“Jailhouse Politician” Withdraws from Indiana Race, But Another Wins in DC by Jo Ellen Nott By Jo Ellen Nott On May 18, 2022, an Indiana jail detainee who had advanced in the GOP primary for the Clinton Township Board—while being held in the Boone County Jail without bond—signed to formally …
Smallwood v. Williams, IN, Brief of Amici Curiae, Excessive Force, 2022
Brief • April 13, 2022
Filed under: Sexual Assault, Excessive Force
Smallwood v. Williams, IN, Brief of Amici Curiae, Excessive Force, 2022 Case: 21-3047 Document: 25 Filed: 04/13/2022 Pages: 35 No. 21-3047 IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT HOWARD SMALLWOOD, v. Plaintiff-Appellant, DON WILLIAMS, ET AL., Defendants-Appellees. On Appeal from the United States District Court for …
News In Brief
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News In Brief by Arizona: After two escaped prisoners were recaptured and returned to the Arizona State Prison in Florence on January 31, 2021, Phoenix station KNXV reported that at least part of the blame for their escape was assigned to short-staffing of guards at the state Department of Corrections …
$21,525 Awarded by Federal Court to Indiana Prisoner Subjected to Battery by Guard
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Filed under: Guard Brutality/Beatings, Settlements
$21,525 Awarded by Federal Court to Indiana Prisoner Subjected to Battery by Guard by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A federal district court in Indiana awarded $21,525 to a prisoner on May 30, 2021, after granting partial summary judgment in a civil rights action he filed alleging battery by …
News in Brief
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: On November 17, 2021, a former Alabama state prison guard was sentenced in federal court in Birmingham to 87 months in prison. As reported by the Birmingham News, a search found the guard, Gary Charles Dixon, Jr., 36, with 497 grams of methamphetamine when he …
Indiana Supreme Court Denies Relief to Prisoner Whose Commissary Account Was Garnished
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Filed under: Seizure of Prisoner Funds, Commissary
Indiana Supreme Court Denies Relief to Prisoner Whose Commissary Account Was Garnished by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian On May 19, 2021, the Court of Appeals of Indiana refused to dismiss a lower court’s ruling against a state prisoner whose prison account was garnished by the state Department of …
Perry v. Littlejohn, IN, Verdict, Failure to Protect, 2021
Brief • December 8, 2021
Filed under: Failure to Protect (General)
Perry v. Littlejohn, IN, Verdict, Failure to Protect, 2021 Case 1:18-cv-02437-JPH-MJD Document 275 Filed 12/08/21 Page 1 of 2 PageID #: 1672 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF INDIANA INDIANAPOLIS DIVISION JASON SETH PERRY, Plaintiff, V. FRANK LITTLEJOHN, RICHARD BROWN, Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) …
News in Brief
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A 20-year-old guard at the Lauderdale County Detention Center in Florence, Alabama, was arrested on October 29, 2021, on charges that he attempted to smuggle methamphetamine into the jail. According to a report by Huntsville TV station WHNT, the guard, Matthew Moran, faces one count …
Indiana Prisoner Entitled to Credit Time During Period of Erroneous Liberty
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Filed under: U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, Credits
Indiana Prisoner Entitled to Credit Time During Period of Erroneous Liberty by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Indiana Supreme Court held that a prisoner who was erroneously released early “is entitled to credit time as if he were still incarcerated during the period he was erroneously at liberty.” …
Indiana DOC Settles HRDC Mail Censorship Suit
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Filed under: Settlements, PLN Litigation, Censorship
Indiana DOC Settles HRDC Mail Censorship Suit by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On September 21, 2021, the Indiana Department of Corrections (INDOC) agreed to a slate of policy reforms embodied in a consent decree to settle a censorship lawsuit filed by the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), publisher of …
News in Brief
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: On August 19, 2021, twoconvicted robbers were convicted of murder in the death of a fellow prisoner they and two others attacked in 2017 at Bibb Correctional Facility in Brent, Alabama. According to a report by Montgomery TV station WSFA, Dominique Covin and Roderick DeLaune …
Indiana DOC Settles Class-Action Lawsuit Over Ban on Incoming Mail Except That in White Envelopes Using White, Lined Paper
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
Filed under: Settlements, Mail Regulations
Indiana DOC Settles Class-Action Lawsuit Over Ban on Incoming Mail Except That in White Envelopes Using White, Lined Paper by On August 9, 2019, an Indiana federal court memorialized the stipulations in a private settlement agreement between the Indiana Department of Corrections (DOC) and a class of prisoners subject to …
News in Brief
Article • September 1, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A former guard at the Mobile Metro Jail was scheduled to be arraigned on May 19, 2021, after being indicted for his role in an alleged scheme to smuggle cellphones into the Alabama lockup in exchange for bribes. According to a report by local TV …
$11,000 Recovery for Asthmatic Indiana Prisoner in Denial of Treatment After Cell Block Fire
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
Filed under: Failure to Treat, Fire Hazards
$11,000 Recovery for Asthmatic Indiana Prisoner in Denial of Treatment After Cell Block Fire by A combined $11,000 settlement and default judgment was obtained by a pro se asthmatic prisoner in a lawsuit alleging guards were deliberately indifferent to the prisoner’s health during and after a cell block fire at …
News in Brief
Article • June 1, 2021 • from PLN June, 2021
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Australia: A February 2021 ruling by the Supreme Court in the Australian province of Victoria presented “a rare win” for a prisoner contesting prison procedures, according to a report by The Conversation. The convict, 56-year-old Craig Minogue, argued that Barwon Prison’s random drug testing and strip-searching …
Six Howard County, Indiana Jail Guards Fired Over Sexual Assaults and Harassment of Prisoners
Article • June 1, 2021 • from PLN June, 2021
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Staff-Prisoner Harassment, Prison Rape Elimination Act
Six Howard County, Indiana Jail Guards Fired Over Sexual Assaults and Harassment of Prisoners by Michael Fortino, Ph.D by Michael Fortino, Ph.D. Following multiple PREA (Prison Rape Elimination Act) investigations into the inappropriate actions of six sheriff’s Office employees, all were summarily fired from their positions at the Howard County …
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