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Article • December 11, 2019 • from PLN December, 2019
Kansas Federal Court Holds U.S. Attorney’s Office in Contempt by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 13, 2019, federal judge Julie Robinson issued a 188-page order holding the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Kansas in contempt of court for its pattern of misrepresentation, obfuscation and lack of cooperation during a …
Article • December 11, 2019 • from PLN December, 2019
Filed under: Civil Commitment
Summary Judgment Affirmed Against Publication in Civil Commitment Facility by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter n August 21, 2019, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a grant of summary judgment to officials who had banned a civil commitment detainee’s newsletter and placed page limits on the copying …
Article • December 11, 2019 • from PLN December, 2019
Filed under: Food
Food Survey Reveals Washington State Prisoners’ Concerns and Complaints by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke It might be classified as “better late than never,” but a March 2019 report on a food survey of prisoners at the Washington State Penitentiary (WSP), undertaken by the state’s Office of the Corrections Ombuds, …
Solitary Confinement for Former Death Row Prisoner Held Unconstitutional by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter A Connecticut federal district court held on August 27, 2019 that a former death row prisoner who was kept in solitary confinement had been subjected to cruel and unusual punishment. The court issued …
Article • December 11, 2019 • from PLN December, 2019
Filed under: War on Drugs, Probation
New York Stops Testing Probationers for Marijuana Use by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The New York City Council voted in April 2019 to stop testing probationers for marijuana use. The move was a step toward reducing re-incarceration of probationers and parolees, and may be a foreshadowing of the legalization …
Article • December 11, 2019 • from PLN December, 2019
Filed under: Release and Reentry
Pennsylvania Prisoner Acquitted of Murder After 13-Year Battle – by Defending Himself in Retrial by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Representing himself during a fourth trial on a murder charge, Hassan Bennett was acquitted and released following a 13-year legal fight – an extraordinary feat. Bennett, 36, was serving a …
Article • December 11, 2019 • from PLN December, 2019
Filed under: False Arrest
Ohio Mother Loses Children and Job Due to False Arrest by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon On April 11, 2019, Ohio police executed an arrest warrant for heroin trafficking in a Target parking lot in Hamilton County. Their target was Ashley Foster, who was in the lot not with a …
Article • December 11, 2019 • from PLN December, 2019
Project Hope Fights to End the Death Penalty ... from Death Row by Bill Barton by Bill Barton The executive director of Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty, Esther Brown, is a former psychiatric social worker who has been called “the most loyal person I’ve ever met” by a …
Brief • December 11, 2019
Cole et al. v. Collier, et al., TX, memorandum and order, failure to report high prison temperatures per settlement, 2019 Case 4:14-cv-01698 Document 1504 Filed on 12/11/19 in TXSD Page 1 of 8 United States District Court Southern District of Texas ENTERED UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS …
Brief • December 11, 2019
Allen v. Inyo County, CA, Claim Form, Failure to Protect, 2019 //o/ 7- /2- COUNTY OF INYO CLAIM FOR DAMAGES Name of Claimant: Danielle Allen Home Address : 2893 West Line Street, Bishop, California 93514 Business Address: NIA Telephone Numbers : Home : Business 760-920-5 495 ~ Address to which …
Colorado Prisoner Dies as Nurse Watches Videotape; $2.45 Million Settlement by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon In September 2019, the final signature of an Arapahoe County, Colorado official was affixed to a $2.45 million settlement agreement in a civil rights lawsuit over the death of prisoner Jeffrey Scott Lillis. Lillis …
Article • December 10, 2019 • from PLN December, 2019
Georgia Prison System Ordered to Amend Policy to Allow Three-Inch Beards by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter A Georgia federal district court has held that a policy limiting prisoners’ beard length to half an inch without religious exemptions violates the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA). …
Article • December 10, 2019 • from PLN December, 2019
Filed under: Release and Reentry
FAMM, Washington Lawyers’ Committee, NACDL Launch Compassionate Release Clearinghouse by The First Step Act paves the way for a massive pro bono effort to represent sick, dying and elderly prisoners in court. WASHINGTON – Thousands of sick, dying and elderly federal prisoners who are eligible for early release will now …
Article • December 10, 2019 • from PLN December, 2019
BJS Report Finds Sex Offenders Among Former Prisoners Least Likely to Re-Offend by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer In May 2019 the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) issued a report, titled “Recidivism of Sex Offenders Released from State Prison: A 9-Year Follow-Up (2005-14),” that examined 67,966 former prisoners over a …
Article • December 10, 2019 • from PLN December, 2019
Judicial Abuse and Law Enforcement Corruption on Trial in Meek Mill Case by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss A Pennsylvania appellate court granted Meek Mill (born Robert Rihmeek Williams) a new trial with a different judge following a motion alleging the police officer who testified against him, Reginald Graham, had …
Article • December 10, 2019 • from PLN December, 2019
Filed under: Hernias, Appeals
Illinois Prisoner Wins Partial Victory on Appeal in Hernia Treatment Suit by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon On July 26, 2019, a panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed in part and reversed in part a district court’s judgment as a matter of law against Illinois prisoner Gregory …
Article • December 10, 2019 • from PLN December, 2019
Filed under: Sentencing
Many “Violent Offenders” Actually Committed Non-Violent Crimes by Bill Barton by Bill Barton The conservative Heritage Foundation said in December 2018 that “our federal prisons house thousands of low-level offenders and America must do better.” According to a survey of laws in all 50 states by The Marshall Project, there …
Article • December 10, 2019 • from PLN December, 2019
Eighth Circuit Reverses District Court’s Order Requiring Halal Meals by Chad Marks by Chad Marks Abdulhakim Muhammad, a state prisoner in Arkansas, filed suit under the First and Fourteenth Amendments and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000 cc-1 to 2000 cc-5. He argued …
Article • December 10, 2019 • from PLN December, 2019
Over Three Decades Later, Turner v. Safley Still Controls Many Prisoner Lawsuits by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Nebraska officials have prevented a couple from marrying for seven years. Both are state prisoners, and they have filed a lawsuit to force the prison system to let them wed. Oddly enough, …
Article • December 10, 2019 • from PLN December, 2019
Filed under: Three Strikes
Life Sentence for Joyriding Overturned in California by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer Kenneth Oliver, 52, was only 29 when he received a life sentence under California’s “three strikes” law for repeat felons. He was arrested while joyriding in a stolen car as a passenger, and a stolen handgun was …
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