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Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
$550,000 Settlement in Nationwide Class-Action Lawsuit Over High-Fee Debit Cards by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In September 20, 2019, an Ohio federal court granted preliminary approval of a settlement in a class action lawsuit against Stored Value Cards, Inc., doing business as Numi Financial, and Republic Bank & Trust …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Filed under: Settlements, Suicides
$300,000 Settlement in Lincoln County Missouri Jail Attempted Suicide Suit by Chad Marks by Chad Marks Mark A. Jaconski was arrested on June 17, 2015, for outstanding traffic warrants and taken to Mercy Hospital for a “fit for confinement” determination. Hospital officials made that determination and Jaconski was transported to …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Filed under: Medical
Report Decries Ongoing Inadequate Medical Care for Pregnant Arizona Prisoners by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke ACLU and Prison Law Office attorneys representing Arizona state prisoners toured the Perryville prison for three days in April 2019, interviewing 25 women who had recently given birth or suffered miscarriages in prison. The …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Veteran Dies After Beating by Guards at North Carolina Jail by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter Guards at North Carolina’s Wayne County Detention Center (WCDC) abused and beat to death a mentally ill veteran who was arrested for breaking the window out his neighbor’s truck in May 2017, …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Filed under: Private Prisons
Senator Warren Has Plan To Ban Private Prison Contracts by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer Massachusetts Democratic Senator and current presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren introduced a plan last June that would essentially ban all government entities, at any level, from contracting with private prison companies. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, …
Fulton County Ordered to Clean Up Repulsive Jail Conditions for Mentally Ill Women by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter A Georgia federal district court ordered the Fulton County Sheriff to give more out of cell time and to provide sanitary confinement conditions for women at the South Fulton …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Florida Prison Isolation Suit Survives Dismissal Stage by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter A Florida federal district court denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that the Florida Department of Corrections’ (FDOC) policies and practices related to isolation are unconstitutional. As PLN reported, the Southern Poverty Law …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Alabama Jail Guards Face Liability for Inaction to Methadone Withdrawal Symptoms by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter In an unpublished opinion, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the denial of qualified immunity to guards in a civil rights action alleging they were deliberately indifferent to a pretrial …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Filed under: Organizing
Riots At South Carolina Prison Spark Wave of Lawsuits by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter The April 15, 2018, riot at South Carolina’s Lee Correctional Institution (LCI) illustrates the consequences of prison understaffing. That riot was the worst in America’s prisons in 25 years. The toll was seven …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Filed under: Medical, Brain Injury
$12.6 Million Jury Award for Man Denied Medical Care Before Jailed by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter A California federal jury awarded $12,617,674 to a man who suffered brain damage after San Diego County sheriff’s deputies pulled him away from an examining paramedic and hauled him off to …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
“Free” E-Tablets Are Anything But by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon A lengthy article concerning e-tablets in state prisons was published in the April 2018 issue of PLN (p.44). One of the warnings set out in that article concerned the high fees accompanying apps for those devices. JPay stands out …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Federal Prisoner to Receive Opioid Addiction Medication While Incarcerated by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss The federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) came to an agreement September 11, 2019, with Leaman Crews to provide him buprenorphine for opioid use disorder (OUD) during his 36-month prison sentence. Represented by Lauren Bonds of …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Cook County Jail’s Three Book Possession Policy Constitutional by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter An Illinois federal district court granted summary judgment to Cook County in a civil rights action alleging a jail policy that limits its pretrial detainees to possession of three books violates the First Amendment. …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
$150,000 Settlement for Opioid Withdrawal Death in Indiana County Jail by Anthony W. Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso The Floyd County, Indiana, jail reached a settlement in July in the death of a prisoner related to opioid withdrawal. Hanna Robb, 23, was booked into the Floyd County Jail on March …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Filed under: Mental Health
Michigan Finding Success With More Humane Treatment of Mentally Ill Prisoners by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter Michigan’s new approach to dealing with mentally ill prisoners is not only more humane, it is proving to be more effective at reducing recidivism. When Heidi Washington took over as director …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Court Confirms Pennsylvania Prisoner’s Sentence in Tobacco Contraband Case by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter Tobacco is a valuable commodity in jails and prisons because it is considered contraband. Maurice Dewayne Wakefield, II, went to great lengths with a group of prisoners to get another prisoner’s stash of …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Filed under: Wrongful Death, Suicides
Suicide or Murder? Jeffrey Epstein’s Death Still Drawing Attention to Bureau Inadequacies by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso Months after the August 2019 death of Jeffrey Epstein, rumors and theories are still circulating that cast doubt on the cause of death. The 66-year-old billionaire became the center of the …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Long-running Maricopa County, Arizona Jail Lawsuit Ends by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon With all of the negative publicity concerning the Maricopa County, Arizona, jails associated with former Sheriff Joe Arpaio, it’s easy to overlook the fact that the unconstitutional conditions there began under Sheriff-elect Jerry Hill. It was during …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Seventh Circuit Upholds Prison Guard’s Rape Convictions, But County Not Liable by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer Darryl L. Christensen was a Polk County, Wisconsin jail guard who over the course of three years, between 2011 and 2014, repeatedly sexually assaulted two female prisoners. When this was discovered by jail …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Report Published on Louisiana’s Extensive Use Of Solitary Confinement by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer joint report published in June 2019by Solitary Watch, the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana, and the Jesuit Social Research Institute/Loyola University New Orleans discusses the use of solitary confinement by the Louisiana prison system. …
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