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Article • September 15, 2011
is not a “judicial officer” for purposes of 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Life prisoner Lillian Simmons sued Commissioner Joan Fabian under § 1983 for injunctive relief, to wit, a new parole consideration review wherein ...
and was released in April 2007. He was 51 years old and had spent a total of 13 years, 7 months and 5 days in prison. The settlement in Good’s civil suit was comprised of $300,000 paid by an insurance company ...
Article • October 3, 2014
with life in prison without the possibility of release as the highest form of legal punishment in Connecticut," said Malloy after the signing ceremony. "Although it is an historic moment – Connecticut ...
NACDL Releases Report on U.S. Drug and Mental Health Courts by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In September 2009, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) released a 74 ...
Article • May 31, 2022
Filed under: COVID-19
COVID-19 “Wonderful” to Oklahoma County Jail by Kevin Bliss By Kevin W. Bliss Audio released on February 8, 2022, captured Oklahoma County Jail (OCJ) administrator Greg Williams and Oklahoma ...
years in prison and released on mandatory supervision two years later. As a condition of his release, the Parole Board imposed portions of Special Condition “X” (onerous parole conditions for sex ...
of international and national bodies, advocates, federal and state policymakers, and corrections practitioners have called for prisons and jails to reform their use of segregation, also known as solitary confinement ...
continued his violent ways after he was locked up. His discipline record shows that he repeatedly assaulted other prisoners and was caught with weapons. (His prison file also includes an earlier incident ...
Brief • 2008
Jail for medical and mental health problems. Defendants also have a duty to provide care and treatment for any prisoner at the jail who faces a substantial risk of serious harm without such care ...
of a crime. Additionally, jails typically aren’t required to release public information about people who die within their walls. The federal government publishes only generalized data years after deaths ...
Article • December 5, 2017 • from PLN December, 2017
Filed under: Gang Policies
– especially on the hands, face or neck. Prisoners with visible tattoos had a greater risk of behavioral problems while incarcerated and recidivism after release. A study by the Economist found ...
as a series of random, uncoordinated brawls. Six local police units responded, and order was restored after police and prison employees used chemical irritants and pepperball rounds to quell the fighting ...
Brief • January 12, 2017
Filed under: MHM Inc., Corizon, Staffing, Suicides
they have been evaluated as described in No. 4 below. 4. After a person’s initial placement on suicide watch and referral for mental health evaluation, each person will be evaluated using the MHM suicide risk ...
Brief • 2011
and/or strip searched by Kern County authorities after a Court ordered that you be released from custody, You may be a CLASS MEMBER and entitled to MONEY. pending a class action lawsuit in the United States ...
U.S. Prisons Filled with America’s Mentally Ill by Derek Gilna In April 2014, the National Sheriffs’ Association and Treatment Advocacy Center released a comprehensive joint report ...
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
prisoner deaths at the jail from January 2012 to June 2020, with three more dying during the investigation. For instance, in January 2017, a 36-year-old schizophrenic “died after spending 46 ...
In-the-News Article • September 18, 2023
experience I had in prison a decade ago while serving 23 months in prison after blowing the whistle on the CIA’s torture program.  I was doing my time at the Federal Correctional ...
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
Michigan’s Macomb County Jail Under Fire for Lack of Medical Care, Deaths by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Since 2012, at least eighteen prisoners have died at the Macomb County Jail (MCJ ...
Brief • September 19, 2016
not being referred to a surgeon for a surgical consultation and eventual surgery, or were being denied the consultation after it was requested by prison doctors. The Plaintiffs alleged that the Defendants had ...
Publication • November 2, 2015
Filed under: Overdetention, Immigration
Corporation (now GEO) fell significantly.17 After being bailed out by the now-defunct hedge fund Lehman Brothers, the private prison industry saw the government’s post-9/11 interest in expanding immigration ...
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