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Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022
Seventh Circuit Allows Wisconsin Prisoner to Amend Inartfully Pleaded Pro Se Complaint by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On February 2, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit revived a Wisconsin prisoner’s retaliation claim against a state prison guard, saying that the district court erred when it …
Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A federal prisoner in Birmingham was gunned down outside a privately-operated reentry facility on July 16, 2022. The Associated Press reported that the prisoner, Larry Taylor, 47, had just been released from the facility, which is operated under contract from the federal Bureau of Prisons …
Brief • August 5, 2022
Filed under: Retaliation
Jones v. State of Wisconsin, WI, Settlement, Retaliation, 2022 MUTUAL RELEASE AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT · This Mutual Release and Settlement Agreement ("Agreement") is made among William Jones ("Plaintiff'') and the State of Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Department of Corrections ("DOC"), and all employees of those entities (collectively, 11 State"). WHEREAS, Plaintiff …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: In Mobile on January 21, 2022, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Alabama announced that an 18-month federal prison sentence for bribery had been handed down by a federal court to Lakerdra Shanta Snowden, 31, a former guard at the Escambia County …
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 …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Filed under: PLN Litigation, Censorship
HRDC Sues Lincoln County Wisconsin Jail over Censorship Practices by The Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC) sued the Lincoln County, Wisconsin, Jail (LCJ) alleging its mail policies violate HRDC’s First Amendment rights by banning all publications. The lawsuit also alleges Fourteenth Amendment violations for failing to provide due process when …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Filed under: Summary Judgment, Sanctions
Seventh Circuit: Local Rules Requiring Specific Filings to Summary Judgments Should Not be Used as a Sanction by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Providing an example of how the rules apply to everyone—even pro se prisoners—the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld the motion of summary judgment …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Filed under: Staffing
Wisconsin Feels Effects of Staffing Shortage in State Prisons by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Staffing shortages in Wisconsin’s maximum security prison, Waupun Correctional Facility, prompted the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (WDOC) in June of 2021 to ask for guards at the state’s other prisons to voluntarily report to Waupun …
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 …
Brief • July 20, 2021
Filed under: PLN Litigation, Censorship
HRDC v. Lincoln Co, Sheriff Schneider, et. al, WI, Complaint, Censorship, 2021 Case: 3:21-cv-00453 Document #: 1 Filed: 07/19/21 Page 1 of 11 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, a not-for-profit corporation, Case No.: 3:21-cv-00453 Plaintiff, v. JURY TRIAL DEMANDED …
Filing • July 19, 2021
HRDC v. Lincoln Co, Sheriff Schneider, et. al, WI, Complaint, Censorship, 2021 Case: 3:21-cv-00453 Document #: 1 Filed: 07/19/21 Page 1 of 11 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, a not-for-profit corporation, Case No.: 3:21-cv-00453 Plaintiff, v. JURY TRIAL DEMANDED …
Article • July 1, 2021 • from PLN July, 2021
Filed under: In Custody
Incarcerated Persons Not In-Custody for Miranda Purposes by The Wisconsin Supreme Court held “that neither the Wisconsin Constitution nor the purposes underlying Miranda warnings support a judicially created rule treating all incarcerated individuals as ‘in custody.’” The court’s January 29, 2021 opinion was issued in an appeal brought by Brian …
Article • July 1, 2021 • from PLN July, 2021
Wisconsin Prisoner In Vegetative State After Suicide Attempt Wins New Trial on Jury Instruction Error by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a jury’s judgment in a civil rights action alleging guards at Wisconsin’s Madison County Jail (MCJ) were deliberately indifferent to …
Publication • 2021
Filed under: Shootings
County of Kenosha, WI, Distrcit Attorney Report on the Officer Involved Shooting of Jacob Blake, 2021 COUNTY OF KENOSHA DISTRICT ATTORNEY Michael D. Graveley District Attorney Report on the Officer Involved Shooting of Jacob Blake Synopsis This document contains the factual and legal conclusions of the Kenosha County District Attorney’s …
Publication • 2021
Filed under: Voting Rights
Ballots for All - Ensuring Eligible Wisconsinites in Jail Have Equal Access to Voting, 2021 ALL VOTING IS LOCAL LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF WISCONSIN ACLU OF WISCONSIN Ballots for All: Ensuring Eligible Wisconsinites in Jail Have Equal Access to Voting Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 1 BACKGROUND 3 RESULTS FROM …
Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: In February 2021, Huntsville TV station WHNT reported a delay in the trial on theft and ethics charges of Mike Blakely, sheriff of Limestone County, Alabama. According to the report, retired Colbert County Circuit Judge Pride Tompkins, who had been appointed to hear the case …
Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021
$105,000 Settlement in Wisconsin Prisoner’s Excessive Force Claim by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Wisconsin Department of Corrections paid $105,000 to settle a prisoner’s excessive use of force lawsuit. The December 2, 2020, settlements resolves the suit brought by prisoner Kuan Barnett. Barnett’s civil rights action stemmed from …
Brief • March 12, 2021
Lieberman v. Portage County, WI, Judgment, Violation of Surveillance Act, 2021 Case: 3:18-cv-00450-jdp Document #: 149 Filed: 03/12/21 Page 1 of 3 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRJCT OF WISCONSIN BRETT LIEBERMAN, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiff, v. PORTAGE COUNTY, MIKE …
Article • March 1, 2021 • from PLN March, 2021
Pay-to-Stay Fees Impoverish Prisoners, Increase Recidivism by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Pay-to-stay fees are charged by over 30% of the county jails and detention centers in the state of Wisconsin. Critics contend that the system contributes to recidivism and that the penalties are so high that they violate the …
New Details Emerge on Senseless Death in a Milwaukee, Wisconsin Jail by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Recent public outrage over the needless killings of Black men at the hands of police has led to greater scrutiny of the many instances in which people of color die either while being …
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