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Article • January 9, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
Filed under: Medical
Prisoner Co-payments for Health Care Services Eliminated in California by Chad Marks by Chad Marks In 1994, California lawmakers passed a bill that charged prisoners a $3.00 fee when they visited the infirmary for medical or dental care in city and county jails. Twenty-five years later, on September 10, 2019, …
Article • January 9, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
Filed under: Wrongful Death
Deaths at Georgia Jail Spur Investigations, Lawsuit by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Shali Tilson, 22, had struggled with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia since he was eight years old. His conditions were managed by medication, though due to their adverse side effects he stopped taking them during high school. He …
Article • January 9, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
Filed under: Release and Reentry
Oklahomans Pay for Release of Woman Whose Case Helped Start Marijuana Reform Movement by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke When she received a 12-year prison sentence for selling $31 worth of marijuana to a police informant in December 2009 and January 2010, first-time felony offender Patricia Spottedcrow, then-25, thought she …
Article • January 9, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
Criminal Justice Reformers Apologize for Not Vetting Conference Speaker by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter Organizers of the Smart on Crime Innovations conference – an annual gathering of community leaders, elected officials, organizers, researchers, journalists and lawyers aimed at reforming the criminal justice system – tweeted an apology …
Article • January 9, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
Missouri County Votes to Eliminate Jail Fees, Wiping Out $3.4 Million in Debt for Former Prisoners by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In August 2019, a half-dozen 10-year-old jail fees were eliminated by the county council in St. Louis, Missouri, wiping out nearly $3.4 million in debt for unpaid fees …
Article • January 9, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
California Jail Prisoner’s Broken Leg Nets $550,000 Settlement by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Nevada County, California and Correctional Medical Group Companies (CMGC) – now known as Wellpath – agreed to pay $550,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a former jail prisoner who alleged his leg was broken by …
Article • January 9, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
Filed under: Hepatitis
First Major Loss in Recent Challenges to Hep C Treatment for Prisoners by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter The Tennessee Department of Correction’s (TDOC) chronic Hepatitis C (HCV) treatment policies “are not perfect,” a federal district court found, but they do not violate the Eighth Amendment rights of …
Article • January 9, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
Securus Technologies Rebrands as Aventiv by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss On October 8, 2019, a corporate reorganization listed Aventiv Technologies as the parent company of Securus Technologies, Inc., JPay and AllPaid (formerly known as GovPayNet). Securus has a long history of providing prison and jail phone services, and price …
Article • January 9, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
Rikers Prisoner Smuggles DNA Evidence of Rape Out of Jail; $500,000 Settlement by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell A female Rikers Island prisoner who was raped by a guard had to sneak DNA evidence of the sexual assault out of the jail to get anyone to believe her story. As …
Article • January 9, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
New York Court of Claims Orders DOCCS to Turn Over OSI Report, Guards’ Personnel Files by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The New York Court of Claims ordered the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) to produce records in two cases where prisoners filed claims alleging excessive force by …
Article • January 9, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
Rhode Island’s Civil Death Law Bars Prisoners from Filing Lawsuits in State Court by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Most people have heard about the death penalty. But how many have heard of someone being declared “civilly dead” and stripped of their civil rights after receiving a life sentence, even …
Article • January 9, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
New York Closes Two More Prisons, Scaring Corrections Workers by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss New York legislators and Governor Andrew M. Cuomo agreed that the state’s 2019-2020 budget will include provisions to shut down two prisons, the Lincoln Correctional Facility in Manhattan and the Livingston Correctional Facility in Sonyea, …
Article • January 9, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
Filed under: Settlements, Restitution
Government Wants Federal Prisoner’s $250,000 Settlement to Pay Restitution by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell A federal prisoner who won a $250,000 settlement against the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), following an injury that required surgery and a month-long hospital stay, is fighting government lawyers who want that money to …
Article • January 9, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
Billionaire and Co-Defendant Agree to Donate $1 Million to Stay Out of Jail by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Broadcom co-founder Henry Nicholas III and his friend, Ashley Fargo, entered Alford pleas in Nevada’s Clark County District Court on October 2, 2019, to two counts of felony drug possession. The …
Article • January 9, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
Missing Property and Overtime Abuse in Illinois Prisons Cost Taxpayers Millions by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell An audit released on September 18, 2019 found, among other issues, that missing property and abuse of overtime in Illinois’ prison system cost taxpayers millions of dollars a year. The two-year audit reported …
Article • January 9, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
Filed under: Wrongful Death
Oregon Prisoner’s Preventable Death Reveals Culture of Systemic Indifference by Mark Wilson  by Mark Wilson Michael Barton was sentenced to a six-year prison term by the Jackson County Circuit Court in April 2017, for second-degree robbery of a bank. Surveillance video immediately called his mental state into question when it …
Article • January 9, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
Filed under: Allergy
Lawsuit Filed by Prisoner with Food Allergy is Dismissed by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter A Michigan federal district court has dismissed a civil rights action alleging a prisoner was repeatedly and deliberately exposed to peanut butter and fish, which were known to cause serious allergic reactions. The …
Article • January 9, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
Filed under: Wrongful Death
San Diego County Jails Still No. 1 in Prisoner Deaths by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On July 3, 2009, the first day that Sheriff Bill Gore assumed operational control of San Diego County’s jail system, a prisoner killed himself. In October 2019, Don Jon Ralph became the 14th person …
Article • January 9, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
Filed under: Juveniles
Felony Murder Charges Should Not be Used on Juveniles by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss In September 2019, Michael Nerheim, State’s Attorney for Lake County, Illinois, dropped felony murder charges against four juveniles and one 18-year-old following pressure from activists. The charges against the “Lake County Five” stemmed from a …
Article • January 9, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
Genesco CEO Denied Term on CoreCivic’s Board of Directors, but Board Refuses His Resignation by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer Robert J. “Bob” Dennis, CEO of Gen­esco, a Nashville shoe and boot retailer, was first appointed to the board of directors of CoreCivic, the private prison company formerly known as …
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