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Article • October 12, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Colorado Accused of Failing to Comply with Settlement in Mental Health Care Suit by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna On June 13, 2018, attorneys representing mentally ill defendants held in Colorado jails moved to reopen a 2012 class-action settlement in which the state agreed to cease “warehousing” mentally ill prisoners …
Article • October 12, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
California Attorney Specializes in Representing Prisoners Victimized by Fraud by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin Peter Borenstein graduated from law school in 2014 with a burning passion for criminal justice reform ignited by his 20-year pen-pal relationship with a federal prisoner who had been a client of his father’s. He …
Article • October 12, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Angola Prison Lawsuit Poses Question: What Kind of Medical Care do Prisoners Deserve? by Amanda Aronczyk, Katie Rose Quandt by Amanda Aronczyk & Katie Rose Quandt, WNYC Radio In 2005, Francis Brauner was a quarter of the way through a 20-year prison sentence at the Dixon Correctional Institute in Louisiana, when …
Article • October 12, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Pro se Texas Prisoner Wins $250,550 Default Judgment in Use of Force Case by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon William Gerald Fitzgerald was a pre-trial detainee at a jail in Harris County, Texas when, on May 18, 2013, he was attacked from behind by jailer Myron Nelson. Nelson struck Fitzgerald …
Humanism to be Recognized as Approved Faith in North Carolina Prisons by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss On March 28, 2018, a federal district court entered a summary judgment order that held Humanism was in fact a faith group that must be recognized by the North Carolina Department of Public …
Article • October 12, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Filed under: Discrimination, HIV/AIDS
Louisiana Jail Settles with DOJ Over HIV Discrimination by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The Union Parish Detention Center (UPDC) in Farmerville, Louisiana reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in March 2018 to stop discriminating against HIV-positive prisoners, plus the parish agreed to pay $27,500 to …
Article • October 12, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Filed under: Court Access
Rhode Island: Life-sentenced Prisoner is “Civilly Dead,” Cannot Pursue Tort Claim by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The Rhode Island Supreme Court, citing an antiquated law that declares life-sentenced state prisoners legally “dead in all respects,” affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of a prisoner’s negligence claim for damages suffered when …
Florida ICE Detention Center Restricts Detainees’ Observance of Ramadan by Steve Horn by Steve Horn In the midst of Ramadan, the holiest month of the year for those of the Islamic faith, the Glades County Detention Center in Florida implemented a policy that banned some Muslim prisoners from participating in …
Article • October 12, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Filed under: Staffing
Low Pay, High Staff Turnover Drive Texas Prison Guard Shortage by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke Of the 26,000 guards who work in Texas’ 104 state prisons, 28 percent left their jobs in 2017 – an increase from the prior year’s 22.8 percent turnover rate and “the highest in recent …
Article • October 12, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Nebraska County, Jail Medical Provider Settle Suit Over Medication Denial for $10,000 by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In April 2018, Saunders County, Nebraska and Advanced Correctional Healthcare, Inc. (ACH) agreed to pay $10,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a former jail prisoner who was denied medication for a …
Article • October 12, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Iowa Prison Guard Wins $2 Million on Retaliation, Disability Accommodation Claims by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Kristine Sink began working as a guard at the old Iowa State Penitentiary in 2003. She was initially assigned to a Clinical Care Unit that housed mentally ill prisoners, sex offenders and prisoners …
New York: $100,000 to Settle Suit over Rape of Trans Prisoner Held in Men’s Prison by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) agreed to pay $100,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a male-to-female transgender prisoner who was raped while housed …
Article • October 12, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Lawsuit Over Prisoner Assault at Tennessee Jail Results in Settlement, Dismissal by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss A civil rights complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee on behalf of a pretrial detainee who was severely beaten by his cellmate at the Rutherford County …
Ninth Circuit Modifies Deliberate Indifference Analysis for Pretrial Detainees’ Inadequate Medical Care Claims by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On April 30, 2018, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held it was error to apply a subjective standard to a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim alleging inadequate medical care that …
Article • October 12, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Landmark Stanford Prison Experiment Criticized as a Sham by Steve Horn by Steve Horn It’s a study widely taught in high school and college psychology textbooks as a prime example of how, as Lord Acton put it, “Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” It’s also a study whose …
Article • October 12, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Escapes
U.S. Marshals Capture Fugitive Former Prison Guard After 10 Years on the Run by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin William F. Lawrence, a former Utah Department of Corrections guard, apparently thought that hiding out in a tropical paradise would spare him from a prison term after he pleaded guilty to …
Article • October 12, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Kentucky Reluctantly Returns to Prison Privatization by Overcrowding in Kentucky’s corrections system has spurred renewed interest in private prisons. Despite abandoning privately-operated prisons five years ago due to a number of problems, including sexual abuse of female prisoners by private prison guards, Kentucky officials have returned to privatization to relieve …
Article • October 12, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
New Jersey County Pays $95,000 to Female Lawyer “Wanded” Between Legs at Jail by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Bonita Bourke is a 56-year-old attorney and former president of the Warren County, New Jersey Bar Association. She regularly visits clients at the Sussex County jail, and as with all visitors …
Article • October 12, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Federal Jury Awards $6 Million to Epileptic Colorado Prisoner, but New Trial Ordered by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke On March 7, 2018, a Colorado federal jury awarded $6 million to a prisoner in a lawsuit over his mistreatment by a guard while he was experiencing an epileptic seizure. Jayson …
$10 Million Class-action Lawsuit Against Virginia Jail Results in $725,000 Settlement by R. Bailey by R. Bailey A class-action complaint against the Central Virginia Regional Jail (CVRJ) has ended with a $725,000 settlement. The lawsuit alleged that jail staff violated detainees’ Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights and subjected them to …
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