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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 …
Article • November 5, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Missouri Jury Awards $113.7 Million to Prison Guards Required to Work Without Pay by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 14, 2018, a Missouri state court issued an amended final judgment in a class-action lawsuit brought by Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC) guards who alleged they were required to …
Article • November 5, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Muslim Civil Rights Group Files Discrimination Suit Over Virginia Jail’s “God Pod” by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In November 2018, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on behalf of four Muslim prisoners at the Riverside Regional Jail in North Prince George, Virginia. The …
Article • November 5, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Whistleblower Lawsuit Exposes Violence, Cover-ups at Rikers Island Jail by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell A former guard at the Rikers Island jail complex in New York City has filed a lawsuit in state court exposing misconduct and cover-ups by staff. A subsequent report by the city’s Department of Investigation …
Article • November 5, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Prison’s Refusal to Allow Wiccan Services Must be Reviewed for Compelling Governmental Interest by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Mario Sentelle Cavin, incarcerated at the Macomb Correctional Facility in Michigan, filed an appeal in the Sixth Circuit after a federal district court ruled that his religious freedoms had not been …
Article • November 5, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Conditions Lawsuit Against Indiana County Jail Certified as a Class Action by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss An Indiana federal district court held that a former jail detainee, Adam Bell, had presented sufficient evidence to allow certification of a class comprised of all persons currently confined, and who will be …
Article • November 5, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Fifth Circuit Terminates Consent Decree for Muslim Services in Texas Prisons by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 2, 2019, a strongly divided three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion terminating the consent decree in Brown v. Collier, which allowed Muslim prisoners in the …
Article • November 5, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Oregon Prisoner’s Use of Another Prisoner’s Phone PIN Constitutes Identity Theft by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson The Oregon Court of Appeals held on March 13, 2019 that a prisoner was guilty of the crime of identity theft because he used the personal identification numbers (PINs) of two other prisoners …
Article • November 5, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Sex Offenders Excluded from Florida Shelters During Hurricane by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter As Florida was preparing for Hurricane Dorian in August 2019, government officials told registered sex offenders to seek shelter in county jails. “It was such a traumatic experience to be incarcerated. I’m not going …
Article • November 5, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Pennsylvania’s Buck County Liable for Illegally Disclosing Criminal Records by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter A federal jury awarded $1,000 to each person who was subjected to a privacy violation due to Buck County’s willful violation of Pennsylvania’s Criminal History Record Information Act (CHRIA). Up to 66,799 people …
Article • November 5, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Alaska Supreme Court Rules Against Muslim Prisoner on Correspondence Ban by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Unlike most state prison systems, Alaska’s Department of Corrections (DOC) usually allows prisoners to correspond by mail with prisoners in other units. In February 2014, prison officials adopted a policy that prohibited prisoners assigned …
Al-Kadi v. Ramsey County, MN, Settlement Agreement, Religious Discrimination, 2019
Brief • November 5, 2019
Filed under: Brain Injury
Collins v. County of San Diego, CA, Amended Judgment on Jury Verdict, Brain Damage After Arrest, 2019 1 5 Robert F. Vaage, Esq. (SBN 106437) Elizabeth H. Teixeira, Esq. (SBN 259788) LAW OFFICES OF ROBERT VAAGE 110 West A Street, Suite I 07 5 San Diego, CA 92 IO 1 …
Brief • November 5, 2019
Filed under: Employee Litigation
Salas v. County of Los Angeles, CA, Request for Dismissal, Breach of Contract, 2019 Dept. 68 2 0.... (D a M a CT) .,.... a N 1..D --a .,.... --.,.... "D Q) ,;:: Q) CIV-110 ATTORNEY OR PARTY WITHOUT ATTORNEY: STATE BAR NO: 225686 NAME: Abel P. Nair FIRM NAME: …
Article • November 4, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Judge Orders Federal Prisoner with Cancer Released Due to Poor Medical Care by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In June 2019, a U.S. District Court ordered that a prisoner held at the Federal Correctional Institution in Aliceville, Alabama be released due to the poor medical care she received from the …
Article • November 4, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Eleventh Circuit: Tasing of Inert Detainee is Excessive Force by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 9, 2019, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals answered in the affirmative whether it is “excessive force to tase for a second time a man who, as a result of an …
Article • November 4, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Filed under: Malpractice
Appellate Court Holds Louisiana Prisoner’s Medical Malpractice Claim May Proceed by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter Louisiana’s First Circuit Court of Appeal held on May 23, 2019 that a prisoner who filed grievances and a lawsuit concerning his medical treatment “exercised reasonable diligence to the best of his …
Article • November 4, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
How High-Priced Drugs Cripple Prison Health Care – and Reform by Priti Krishtel by Priti Krishtel, The Crime Report In a deeply divided political electorate, prison reform is one of the few issues that attracts bipartisan support. Yet there’s something missing from the current conversation about criminal justice reform: the …
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