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Article • August 7, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Cook County Commissioners Approve $1.5 Million Settlement for Jail Beating by Chad Marks by Chad Marks Irene Nash, suffering from bipolar disorder, found herself on the wrong side of the law when she returned to her former childhood home. She entered the house and drank a bottle of wine. It …
Article • August 7, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Tennessee Adopts Alternative Sentencing for Primary Caregivers of Minor Children by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon  Study after study has shown that children of incarcerated parents often suffer, sometimes catastrophically. Children with an incarcerated parent have higher incarceration rates as adults themselves than children who never had a parent behind …
Article • August 7, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Oklahoma County Settles Lawsuit Over Jail Prisoner’s Suicide for $350,000 by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On February 20, 2019, Tulsa County, Oklahoma agreed to pay $350,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the estate of a man who committed suicide while incarcerated in the county’s jail. The suit accused …
Article • August 7, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Filed under: Settlements
Former BOP Official Pays $50,000 to Settle Anti-Kickback Claims by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer Last year, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it had accepted a $50,000 settlement from Cary J. Hudson, a former Bureau of Prisons financial administrator, to resolve allegations that he took kickbacks from …
$500,000 Settlement in Lawsuit Over Alcohol Withdrawal Death of Indiana Jail Prisoner by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In February 2019, LaPorte County, Indiana agreed to pay $500,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the estate of a jail prisoner who died of seizures caused by alcohol withdrawal. The suit …
Article • August 7, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Filed under: Pardons/Clemency
President Trump Pardons Conservative Political Allies by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In a continued pattern of granting clemency to conservative political allies, on May 15, 2019, President Trump pardoned former newspaper mogul Conrad M. Black, who served 42 months in federal prison after being convicted of fraud and obstruction …
Article • August 7, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
$50,000 for Missouri Jail Prisoner Who Suffered Injuries Caused by Broken Plumbing by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Nicholas Ayers was a pretrial detainee at the Jackson County Detention Center in Missouri in 2015 and 2016. On January 1, 2016, a water pipe to Ayers’ cell broke so the water …
Article • August 7, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Ninth Circuit Rejects Lawsuit by California Prisoners Over Exposure to Valley Fever by Chad Marks by Chad Marks On February 1, 2019, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of lawsuits filed by current and former California prisoners who alleged that state prison officials had violated their Eighth …
Article • August 7, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Federal Court Caps Attorney Fees in Suit Over Teen Girl Raped in Oklahoma Jail by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In March 2019, a federal district court held that attorney fees in a lawsuit filed by a teenage girl who was repeatedly raped by a guard at the David L. …
Article • August 7, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Filed under: Video Visitation
Tennessee Prisoners File Lawsuit Challenging Video Visitation Policy at County Jail by Chad Marks by Chad Marks In April 2014, then-Sheriff James “J.J.” Jones implemented a video visitation system at the Knox County, Tennessee jail through a contract with Securus Technologies. The video system coincided with the elimination of in-person …
Article • August 7, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Increasing Number of Walkaways from California Early-Release Programs by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon  In 2018, almost half of California’s 50 prison escapees walked away from early-release programs where they were finishing their sentences – more than double the number of “walkaways” in 2014, the first year the programs were …
Article • August 7, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Allegation that Prisoner was Beaten after Guard Outed Him as Sex Offender Stated Eighth Amendment Claim by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney A federal district court in the Western District of Virginia held that a prisoner who alleged he was beaten after a jail guard informed other prisoners of his …
Article • August 7, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Thomas Silverstein, America’s Most Isolated Prisoner, Dies at Age 67 by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Instead of being “The Man in the Iron Mask,” federal prisoner Thomas “Tommy” Silverstein spent decades in prison as the man in a concrete box. On May 11, 2019, he was released from that …
Article • August 7, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Death Rate of Prisoners in Michigan Much Higher than Reported by Kevin W. Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss An investigation by the Detroit Free Press into the Michigan Department of Corrections’ (MDOC) reporting of prisoner deaths revealed major discrepancies.  Since 2013, the total number of deaths reported by the MDOC …
Article • August 7, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
$185,000 Settlement in Beating of Florida Jail Prisoner; Guard Convicted by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter Florida’s Broward County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO) has paid $185,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging a jailer assaulted a pretrial detainee. Audra West was booked into the North Broward Detention Facility on April …
Kickback publication • August 7, 2019
KY DOC Inmate Access to Telephones 2013 501 KAR 6:020 Policy Number KENTUCKY CORRECTIONS Policies and Procedures Total Pages 16.3 Date Filed Effective Date October 12, 2012 Authority/References February 1, 2013 Subject ACA Standard 4-4497 4-4497-1, 4-4275, 2-CO-5D-01 KRS 196.035, 197.020 CPP 15.2 I. 2 INMATE ACCESS TO TELEPHONES DEFINITIONS …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Filed under: Visiting
UK Using Facial Recognition Technology on Prison Visitors ... is the U.S. Next? by Chad Marks by Chad Marks After more than 23,000 packages containing drugs and cell phones were seized in UK prisons in 2018 – compared to just 4,000 the year before – officials with Her Majesty’s Prison …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Filed under: Corizon
Arizona Federal Court Levies Sanctions Against Corizon Health by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Corizon Health, headquartered in Brentwood, Tennessee, is the nation’s largest private prison and jail healthcare provider. The company has, for many years, been mentioned in Prison Legal News – usually in connection with misconduct by Corizon …
Steep Cost for Sending Hawaii Prisoners to Mainland Facilities by Hawaii has long been considered a tropical paradise, but those who run afoul of the law on the islands stand a good chance of being exiled. Over a third of Hawaii’s prisoners are shipped to a privately-operated facility in Arizona …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Filed under: JPay, Inc.
Preliminary Settlement in Lawsuit Against JPay Over Prison Video Calls Ending Early by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer Oumer Salim, a resident of Colley­ville, Texas, wanted to communicate with his brother, who was in an Ohio state prison. The facility used JPay for video calling, at a cost of $9.90 …
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