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Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
$4,000 Federal Bench Verdict to Kentucky Prisoner Assaulted by Guard While Restrained by On March 26, 2021, the U.S. DistrictCourt for the Western District of Kentucky granted summary judgment to a state prisoner who sued a former guard for assaulting him while he was compliant and restrained. Kentucky State Penitentiary …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: According to Birmingham Real-Time News, a kidnapper was recaptured after being erroneously released from jail in Jefferson County, Alabama, on December 17, 2021. The prisoner, Matthew Burke, 35, was apprehended during a traffic stop after being released from the Jefferson County Jail on Dec. 11 …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by California: A guard at San Quentin State Prison and one of two outside co-conspirators were arraigned on September 8, 2021, on federal charges they smuggled cellphones to an unnamed prisoner on death row at the California lockup. According to a statement by the U.S. Department of …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Filed under: Hepatitis, Failure to Treat
Kentucky’s Prison HCV Policy of Monitoring Without Treatment Constitutional by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, in an unpublished opinion, held that the Kentucky Department of Corrections (KDOC) policy of refusing to provide Direct-Acting Antivirals (DAAs) to all prisoners infected with hepatitis C virus …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Filed under: Telephone Rates
Louisville Jail Moves to Have Free Phone Calls for Prisoners by First of the Year by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Louisville, Kentucky’s Metro Department of Corrections (MDOC) who operates the city jail has been ordered by the Metro Council Budget Committee to stop charging prisoners for phone calls from …
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 …
Article • September 1, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021
$2.1 Million Awarded in Beating Ordered by Kentucky Jail Guard by On July 9, 2021, a federal jury awarded $2.1 million in damages to an alleged Kentucky shoplifter who was beaten by fellow prisoners at the Shelby County Detention Center on the orders of a jail guard. According to the …
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
Filed under: Suicides
Sixth Circuit Reinstates Lawsuit Over Kentucky Jail Prisoner’s Suicide by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 29, 2020, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reinstated a claim against a Louisville, Kentucky jail classification officer who, contrary to jail policy, moved a prisoner to a segregation …
Brief • July 6, 2021
Prince v. Warren County, KY, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2021 Case 1:21-cv-00100-GNS Document 1 Filed 07/06/21 Page 1 of 12 PageID #: 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY BOWLING GREEN DIVISION [Filed Electronically] CHRISTOPHER L. PRINCE, and BETSABE PUGA, Guardian of C.W.P.P., a minor PLAINTIFFS v. WARREN COUNTY, …
Article • July 1, 2021 • from PLN July, 2021
District Court Certifies Class Status in Louisville Jail Overdetention of Prisoners’ Suit by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky granted plaintiffs’ motion seeking class certification in a suit alleging the Louisville Metro Department of Corrections (LMDC) holds people after their court-ordered …
Article • July 1, 2021 • from PLN July, 2021
$200,000 Settlement for Kentucky Woman in Jail Childbirth Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On February 17, 2021, a Kentucky federal court dismissed a lawsuit brought by a woman who was abandoned by jailers while a pretrial detainee and forced to give birth alone in a cell. The lawsuit …
Glass v. Franklin County, KY, Deposition of Jason Junkins, Wrongful Death, 2021 ·1· · · · · · · · ·UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT ·2· · · · · · · · ·EASTERN DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY ·3· · · · · · · · ·CENTRAL DIVISION AT FRANKFORT ·4· · …
Sixth Circuit Refuses to Extend Bivens to BOP Prisoner’s First Amendment Claims by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On July 16, 2020, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of a federal prisoner’s Bivens action, because First Amendment claims are not cognizable …
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 …
Article • June 1, 2021 • from PLN June, 2021
Filed under: Sovereign Immunity
Kentucky Consolidated Local Government Entitled to Sovereign Immunity by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Kentucky Supreme Court held that the Louisville Metro Government (LMG) are entitled to sovereign and qualified immunity in a lawsuit alleging violation of Ky. Rev. Stat. 71.040. The court’s December 17, 2020, opinion was …
Article • June 1, 2021 • from PLN June, 2021
Filed under: Private Prisons
Kentucky Leases Closed Private Prison to Use as State Facility by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Kentucky in December 2020 reopened Otter Creek Correctional Center (OCCC), leasing it from CoreCivic, formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), but staffing it with state employed Department of Corrections (DOC) staff. Its …
Brief • 2021
Kentucky Dept of Public Advocacy v. Kentucky DOC, KY, Complaint, Prisoners' Right to Mail, 2021 COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY FRANKLIN CIRCUIT COURT 48TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DIVISION ____ CIVIL ACTION NO. __________________ – Electronically Filed – KENTUCKY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC ADVOCACY, PLAINTIFFS KENTUCKY ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS, CHRISTOPHER KOTERAS, MICHAEL FUGATE, …
Troutman v. Louisville Metro Government, KY, Expert Report, Medical Neglect, 2021 STEPHANIE TROUTMAN, Administratrix of the ESTA TE OF CHARLES R. TROUTMAN, Jr., Plaintiff, vs. LOUISVILLE JEFFERSON COUNTY METRO GOVERNMENT, MARKE. BOLTON, JAMES COX, CORRECT CARE SOLUTIONS, KIMBERLY BROWN, and DONNA SMITH, MD, Defendants, in the U. S. DISTRICT COURT, …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
$1.1 Million Settlement in Kentucky Jail Sex Abuse Suit by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 7, 2020, Kentucky’s Larue County Detention Center agreed to pay $1.1 million to settle a lawsuit alleging former guard Jerome Perry sexually abused nine prisoners. The women’s lawsuit alleged that between February …
Article • January 21, 2021
Filed under: Sovereign Immunity
Kentucky Consolidated Local Government Entitled to Sovereign Immunity by David M. Reutter The Supreme Court of Kentucky held that the Louisville Metro Government (LMG) and its employees are entitled to sovereign and qualified in a lawsuit alleging violation of Ky. Rev. Stat. 71.040. The court’s December 17, 2020, opinion was …
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