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Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Filed under: PLN Litigation, Censorship
Arizona Court Grants Partial Summary Judgment to PLN in Censorship Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On March 18, 2019, an Arizona federal district court granted in part a motion for summary judgment filed by Prison Legal News in a lawsuit over censorship by the Arizona Department of Corrections …
Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Filed under: War on Drugs, Education
Study Finds that War on Drugs Kept Black Men from Higher Education by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer In April 2019 study by Universityof California, Berkeley professor Tolani Britton established a link between the so-called “War On Drugs,” embodied in the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, and college enrollment by …
Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Filed under: Parole
Maryland: Parole Changes Needed for Life-Sentenced Prisoners by Chad Marks by Chad Marks In Maryland, prisoners sentenced to life with the possibility of parole must serve 15 years before they can be considered for release. After serving the minimum 15-year term, they have an initial hearing before two commissioners. Once …
Man Mistakenly Released 13 Years Ago Won’t Have to Return to Prison by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Connecticut man arrested for his unintentional failure to serve a 13-year-old federal prison sentence was released from custody in March 2019. Philadelphia native Demetrius Anderson had not only remained free for those …
Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Filed under: Corizon, Medical
Allegheny County Settles Three Lawsuits Over Medical Care at County Jail by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Allegheny County, Pennsylvania has settled a lawsuit over lack of adequate care by Corizon Health, the medical contractor at the county’s jail, for failing to feed a prisoner, which led him to go …
Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Filed under: Sovereign Immunity
West Virginia Regional Jails Entitled to Sovereign Immunity by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter In May 2019, a circuit court held the West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority was entitled to sovereign immunity in a lawsuit seeking payment for prisoner medical bills. The suit was brought …
Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Filed under: Medical
Seventh Circuit: Failure to Provide Medical Accommodation is Deliberate Indifference by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held in a June 26, 2019 ruling that sufficient evidence existed for a reasonable juror to conclude that prisoner LeRoy Palmer’s congenital deformity constituted a serious medical condition, …
Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Three Deaths in Three Days at Illinois Prison Spur Calls for Greater Transparency by Chad Marks by Chad Marks In September 2018, three prisoners died on three consecutive days at the Menard Correctional Center in Illinois. Kevin Curtis, 31, who was on suicide watch, died on September 5. The next …
Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Filed under: Medical, Food
Missouri Sheriff Tells Judge that County Won’t Pay for Prisoners’ Food, Medical Care by Bill Barton by Bill Barton In April 2019, Clay County Sheriff Paul Vescovo sued the Missouri county’s three-member commission, claiming that it slashed his operating budget by over 40 percent “in retaliation for a criminal referral …
Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
No Fourth Amendment Violation for Abusive Group Strip Search of Female Prisoners by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon On July 16, 2019, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, in a two-to-one ruling, affirmed a district court’s dismissal of a Fourth Amendment claim prior to a jury trial, at which the …
Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Pattern of Abuse and Mismanagement at North Carolina Jail by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter The sheriff’s office in Cherokee County, North Carolina lost five veteran deputies to abrupt firings and resignations in just two months following an October 2018 news report that described allegations of staged fights …
Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Filed under: Settlements, Wrongful Death
$3.1 Million Settlement for Washington Jail Detainee’s Death by Douglas Ankney “Will You Get Back Up?” by Douglas Ankney In November 2017, Piper Travis was arrested for failure to appear on two misdemeanor counts of stealing a TV and a $3.48 bag of Easter candy from a Walmart in Washington …
Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Seventh Circuit: Non-Medical Prison Staff Entitled to Qualified Immunity by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On August 1, 2019, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that non-medical correctional staff were entitled to qualified immunity in a lawsuit alleging they had failed to provide a medical accommodation to a prisoner …
Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Filed under: Whistleblowing
New Jersey: Appellate Court Shoots Down $7.5 Million Verdict in Prison Whistleblower Case by Chad Marks by Chad Marks Lisa R. Easley was a longtime New Jersey prison employee. She began her career in February 1996 as a prison guard, and by 2009, after forking over some bribes, became an …
Filing • November 6, 2019
Prison Legal News v. Ryan, AZ, Order re Injunction, PLN Censorship, 2019 Case 2:15-cv-02245-ROS Document 305 Filed 11/06/19 Page 1 of 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 8 9 Prison Legal News, Plaintiff, 10 11 v. 12 …
Article • November 5, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Nevada Supreme Court Reverses Dismissal of Prisoner’s Native American Religion Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On May 10, 2019, the Nevada Supreme Court reversed a summary judgment order dismissing a prisoner’s claim that requiring him to prove tribal affiliation or otherwise demonstrate Native American association or ethnicity before …
Article • November 5, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Why Not Let Prisoners Vote While Incarcerated? by Bill Barton by Bill Barton During an Iowa event in March 2019, U.S. Senator and presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren spoke about felon disenfranchisement, saying that while giving former felons the right to vote is the correct thing to do, extending that right …
Article • November 5, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Ex-Offenders Work for Organization that Repairs and Sells Vehicles at Low Cost by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In 1999, Marty Schwartz started Vehicles for Change (VFC) – a nonprofit that repairs donated vehicles and sells them to low-income families for $700 to $850. The charity provides reliable vehicles to …
Article • November 5, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Court Declines to Seal Records in Michigan Prisoner’s Excessive Force Case by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter A Michigan federal district court initially held that a prisoner’s allegation that a guard’s use of a Taser constituted excessive force stated a viable claim. The court also denied the defendants’ …
Article • November 5, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
New York: Prisoners Have No Expectation to Privacy During Jail Phone Calls by Chad Marks by Chad Marks In 2012, Emmanuel Diaz found himself in the custody of the New York City Department of Correction (DOC). While housed at the Rikers Island jail complex on multiple counts of burglary and …
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