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Pennsylvania DOC, Mental Health Contractor Settle Wrongful Death Suit for $27,500 by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) have agreed to pay $15,000 to the estate of a mentally ill prisoner who was killed after being attacked by another prisoner …
Article • April 2, 2019 • from PLN April, 2019
Filed under: Commissary
Texas Prisons, We’ve Got Some Questions About Your Commissary Vendors by Stephen Raher by Stephen Raher, Prison Policy Initiative One of the original inspirations for the Prison Policy Initiative’s May 2018 report on prison commissaries earlier  [see: PLN, Aug. 2018, p.1] was a 2010 article from the Texas Tribune that analyzed $95 million in purchases …
Article • April 2, 2019 • from PLN April, 2019
Alabama DOC Stonewalling Federal Investigation; Eight Prisoners go on Hunger Strike by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On October 3, 2018, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a petition to enforce a subpoena naming Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner of the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC), as the respondent. The …
Georgia: Court Certifies Class Action for Prisoners Held Beyond Their Release Date by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna A U.S. District Court judge in Georgia has certified a class-action suit that seeks to hold the Fulton County Jail liable for failing to release dozens of prisoners after they posted bond or …
Article • April 2, 2019 • from PLN April, 2019
Filed under: Wrongful Release
Wisconsin Prisoner Not Due Credit for Time Spent Free after Erroneous Release by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer Zachary S. Friedlander was already serving a sentence at the Oshkosh Correctional Institution in Wisconsin for a heroin conviction when, on April 15, 2016, he pleaded no contest to one count of …
Alabama DOC Refuses Muslim Spiritual Adviser in Execution Chamber by Kevin W. Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss Domineque Hakim Marcelle Ray, 42, was put to death by lethal injection at Alabama’s Holman Correctional Facility on February 7, 2019, after his request to have his Muslim spiritual adviser, Imam Yusef Maisonet, …
Article • April 2, 2019 • from PLN April, 2019
Filed under: Mandamus
Ohio: Mandamus Action Moot Where Relief Has Been Granted by On December 20, 2018, the Ohio Supreme Court affirmed the dismissal of a prisoner’s writ of mandamus against the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC).  State prisoner William H. Evans, Jr. filed the mandamus petition against DRC director Gary …
Article • April 2, 2019 • from PLN April, 2019
Class Certification in Missouri Prisoners’ Hepatitis C Suit Upheld by On December 6, 2018, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld class certification in a lawsuit alleging the Missouri Department of Corrections (MDOC) and Corizon Health failed to provide adequate medical screening and treatment to prisoners with hepatitis C (HCV). …
Article • April 2, 2019 • from PLN April, 2019
Mugshots.com Operators Arrested, Face Extradition to California by Chad Marks by Chad Marks Four people have been charged with extortion, money laundering and identity theft by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra. In May 2018, Sahar Sarid, Kishore Vidya Bhavnanie, Thomas Keesee and David Usdan, allegedly the operators of Mugshots.com and …
Article • April 2, 2019 • from PLN April, 2019
California Prison Psychiatrists Blow Whistle on Poor Mental Healthcare, Falsified Records by Steve Horn by Steve Horn The landmark case of Coleman v. Brown, a federal lawsuit that forced California to provide better mental health treatment for state prisoners, has taken an unusual turn after the state’s prison psychiatry chief …
Article • April 2, 2019 • from PLN April, 2019
For Journalists Covering Prisons, the First Amendment is Little Help by Jonathan Peters by Jonathan Peters, Columbia Journalism Review “Each prison is a fiefdom, and the warden is at the top of the feudal system.” That’s how Gary Fields, who covered criminal justice for The Wall Street Journal, put it in 2012, discussing …
Article • April 2, 2019 • from PLN April, 2019
Study Says Mass Incarceration Contributes to Poverty and Hunger by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna A 2018 report by the Washington, D.C.-based Bread for the World Institute (BWI) made the argument that “U.S. poverty would have dropped by 20 percent between 1980 and 2004 if not for mass incarceration,” quoting …
“It Smelled Like Death”: Reports of Mold Contamination in Prisons and Jails by Panagioti Tsolkas by Panagioti Tsolkas “There was big, dark, gray, blackish mildew around the air vent and that’s where the air was coming from … it smelled like death.” – Candie Hailey, Rikers Island pre-trial detainee Over the …
Article • April 2, 2019 • from PLN April, 2019
Congressional Report Finds Misconduct by BOP Administrators Often Ignored by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A memorandum from the House Subcommittee on National Security, released on January 2, 2019, concluded that misconduct by senior leadership in the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) “appears to be largely tolerated or ignored altogether.”  …
Article • April 2, 2019 • from PLN April, 2019
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright This month’s cover story reports on the landmark First Step Act, which is the first criminal justice reform bill in decades that might actually benefit some prisoners. Until now, the cavalcade of criminal justice legislation that has emerged from Congress over …
Article • April 2, 2019 • from PLN April, 2019
Hawaii Supreme Court: Pretrial Solitary Wrong, but Warden Protected by Qualified Immunity by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Mukadin Gordon, who had an extensive criminal record, was arrested for a non-violent offense in August 2010 and placed in solitary confinement for several months.  He sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 …
Article • April 2, 2019 • from PLN April, 2019
Ohio County Jail Settles PLN Censorship Suit for $45,000 by Steve Horn by Steve Horn In response to a censorship lawsuit filed in 2017 by Prison Legal News’parent organization, the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), Greene County, Ohio agreed to settle the case for $45,000. Filed in the U.S. District …
Incorrigible: The First Step Act and the Carceral State by Marie Gottschalk by Marie Gottschalk With much fanfare, President Donald Trump signed the First Step Act into law in December 2018. New Jersey senator and presidential candidate Cory Booker hailed the legislation as a milestone that marked a “meaningful break …
Brief • April 2, 2019
Vargas v. Binnewies, CA, Settlement, Wrongful Death - Suicide, 2019 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND MUTUAL RELEASE OF CLAIMS This Settlement Agreement and Mutual Release of Claims (the "Agreemenf') is made and entered into as of April 10, 2019 (the "Effective Date") by and among the parties listed below to formalize their …
Fox v. Boyce, DE, Jury Verdict Form, Prisoner Assault and Battery, 2019 EFiled: Apr 03 2019 11:43AM EDT Transaction ID 63128739 Case No. N14C-01-214 CLS
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