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Article • January 9, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
Filed under: Aramark
Prisoners, Guards, Students Protest Aramark by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In November 2019, an employee of private food service provider Aramark Correctional Services at Indiana’s Correctional Industrial Facility in Pendleton was captured on surveillance video delivering a package and $300 in cash to a prisoner. Kevin Lake, 26, admitted …
Brief • January 9, 2020
Wright v. Westmoreleand County, PA, Complaint, Excessive Force, 2020 Case 2:20-cv-00040-MPK Document 1 Filed 01/09/20 Page 1 of 8 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA CIVIL ACTION DAROB WRIGHT, Plaintiff, v. Civil Action No. 2:20-cv-40 WESTMORLAND COUNTY, JOHN WALTON, and CORRECTIONS OFFICER DOE, JURY …
Publication • January 9, 2020
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Office of the State Auditor, 2020 Official Audit Report – Issued January 9, 2020 Massachusetts Department of Correction For the period July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2018 State House Room 230  Boston, MA 02133  auditor@sao.state.ma.us  www.mass.gov/auditor January 9, 2020 Ms. Carol Mici, Commissioner …
Article • January 8, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
Pennsylvania Prisoner Given Belt, Then Punished for Having It by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania found it lacked jurisdiction in a case brought by a prisoner who was issued a belt and then later punished for possessing it. Dissenting judges called the disciplinary …
Article • January 8, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
Filed under: Qualified Immunity
Fifth Circuit Reverses Denial of Qualified Immunity to Prison Officials by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon  On September 9, 2019, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a Louisiana district court’s denial of qualified immunity to three of four defendants in a prisoner’s civil rights suit. State prisoner Clarence Jason …
Article • January 8, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
Filed under: Corizon, Medical
New Mexico: Third-Party Settlement Agreements Resulting from Medical Care Provided by Corizon are Public Documents Subject to Disclosure by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The New Mexico Court of Appeals held that third-party settlement agreements, resulting from medical care provided by Corizon Health under a contract with the state, are …
Article • January 8, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
Filed under: Prison Gangs
California AB Prison Gang Members, Others Indicted by Feds by A 143-page federal indictment filed on May 21, 2019 described criminal violations allegedly committed by Ronald Yandell, Daniel Troxell, William Sylvester, Travis Burhop, Brant Daniel, Donald Mazza, Pat Brady, Jason Corbett, Matthew Hall, Samuel Keeton, Michael Torres, Jeanna Quesenberry, Kevin …
Article • January 8, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
Filed under: Settlements, PLN Litigation
HRDC Obtains Settlement, $16,000 in Fees and Costs, Against BOP in FOIA Case by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer On June 7, 2019, the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), the parent organization of Prison Legal News, entered into a settlement agreement in a public records case involving the federal Bureau …
Article • January 8, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
How a 13th Amendment Loophole Created America’s Carceral State by Flores A. Forbes by Flores A. Forbes, The Crime Report While I was serving a six- to-eight year sentence in the California Department of Corrections for felony murder, I became a participant in what was then the Pell Grant college …
Article • January 8, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
Texas Convict-Leasing Burial Ground Uncovered by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke  The first prison ever closed in Texas was the Central Unit in Sugar Land, which had originally been a leased convict labor camp known as the Imperial Sugar Company State Prison Farm. When the facility was established in 1867, …
Article • January 8, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
Filed under: Escapes
Tennessee Prisoner Captured After Killing Prison Employee, Escaping by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter After five days of searching, authorities apprehended escaped Tennessee prisoner Curtis Ray Watson. He was then sent to the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville. Watson was serving a 15-year sentence for especially aggravated …
Article • January 8, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
Florida Women’s Prison Under Scrutiny After Rape by Guard by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter Anquanette Woodall’s third child was born in 2016 – during her third year of a 15-year sentence for burglary and robbery – after she was raped by Florida prison guard Travis Hinson in …
Article • January 8, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
Filed under: Prison Labor
California’s Firefighting Prisoners in Short Supply by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke California has a history of using prisoners to fight wildfires that dates back to World War II. But that practice is being questioned after 2018 was one of the worst fire seasons ever recorded, and several prisoners were …
Article • January 8, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
Filed under: Prison Gangs
Arizona Court Equates Prison Gang Dropouts with Confidential Informants to Require Redaction of STG Files by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The Arizona Court of Appeals held on September 25, 2019 that the possibility of information about gang members who had dropped out or were not in “good standing” falling …
Article • January 8, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
Oregon Passes Historic Juvenile Justice Reform Bill but Refuses to Apply it Retroactively by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On July 22, 2019, Oregon joined 22 other states and the District of Columbia in eliminating life without parole sentences for prisoners who committed their offenses as juveniles. The state enacted …
Article • January 8, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
South Carolina Prison Industries Employee Fired for Writing Tell-All Book by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer Daryle Starks is a retired chief pet­ty officer of the U.S. Navy, with 24 years in the service. He was working at South Carolina’s Tyger River Correctional Institution, supervising prisoners as they made hardwood …
Article • January 8, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
Filed under: Voting
Are Re-Enfranchised Florida Felons More Likely to Vote Republican? by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter During the recent campaign to reinstate the voting rights of 1.4 million disenfranchised Florida felons, Republicans rallied against a constitutional amendment out of fear that former prisoners would vote as Democrats. Jared Kushner, …
Article • January 8, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
Filed under: Settlements, Money/Property
Virginia Circuit Court Awards $197.55 to Prisoner in Property Tort Claim by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On June 28, 2019, the Grayson County Circuit Court awarded $197.55 to state prisoner Gary Brown following a bench trial in which he proceeded pro se on a tort claim against the Commonwealth …
Article • January 8, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
Lawsuit Alleging Denial of Warmth and Sufficient Sleep States Eighth Amendment Claim by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter On August 14, 2019, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the dismissal of a federal prisoner’s civil rights complaint that alleged he was confined in a cold cell with …
Article • January 8, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
Filed under: Three Strikes
New York District Court Erred in Applying “Three Strike” Rule to Dismissals by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss The Second Circuit Court of Appeals held on September 12, 2019 that William Escalera, Jr. was not barred from proceeding in forma pauperis and filing a complaint after a New York district …
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