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$60,000 Settlement for Female Pennsylvania Prisoner in Sexual Assault Suit by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit claiming a female prisoner at Pennsylvania’s Lackawanna County Prison (LCP) was “repeatedly sexually harassed and assaulted by numerous corrections officers over the course of …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
$118,000 Attorney Fee Award in Pennsylvania DOC Public Records Case by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania awarded $118,458.37 in attorney fees in a public records suit brought by Uniontown Newspapers. The award followed the court’s finding that the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PDOC) …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Correlation Between Dyslexia and Criminal Behavior; First Step Act to Require Screening, Treatment by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney “When you can’t read, you see no other way out,” said actor Ameer Baraka. “As a kid, I used to ask God to make me a drug dealer, because I knew …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
New Jersey Jail to Pay $1.2 Million for Strip Searching Detainees by Kevin W. Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss Richard Wright and April Wedding were awarded $10,000 each as representatives in a class-action suit filed against Ocean County, New Jersey for its practice of strip searching everyone booked into the …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Filed under: Settlements
Final Settlement Entered in 1976 Class-Action Suit Against Florida Jail by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer In August 1976, a lawsuit was filed in a Florida federal district court alleging numerous constitutional violations at the Broward County jail, including overcrowding. Two years later the case was certified as a class …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Iowa Prisoners Say Law Banning Publications Containing Nudity Too Broad by Kevin W. Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss In February 2019, Polk County, Iowa District Court Judge Scott Rosenberg denied the state’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by prisoners at the Anamosa State Penitentiary (ASP) challenging the Iowa Department …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Filed under: Private Prisons
Should Private Companies Exploit Prisoners Through Exclusive Government Contracts? by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell A recent article in the journal Criminology & Public Policy posed the question of whether private, for-profit companies should be allowed to contract with government agencies to be the sole provider of criminal justice-related services, …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Arizona DOC Bans Book Critical of Justice System, Reverses Decision Following Criticism by Anthony W. Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso According to news reports, earlier this year the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) banned prisoners from receiving Chokehold: Policing Black Men, a 2017 book critical of the criminal justice system.  …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Lawsuit Proceeds Over Death of Prisoner at Privately-Run Jail by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer Michael Todd Sabbie, 35, died on July 22, 2015 at the Bi-State Jail, which sits astraddle the border between Texas and Arkansas. He left behind four children. U.S. Magistrate Judge Caroline Craven, in a 169-page …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Habeas Petition Granted Over Failing Roof, Unsanitary Conditions at California Prison by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On April 5, 2019, Robert Escareno, incarcerated at the California Substance Abuse Treatment and State Prison at Cocoran (SATF), submitted closing arguments in a Superior Court habeas action that alleged the failing roof …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
New York County Pays $35,000 to Settle Retaliation Claim Against Sheriff by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell  Officials in Rensselaer County, New York approved a settlement on January 8, 2019 to resolve a federal lawsuit against Sheriff Jack Mahar. Mahar was accused of retaliating against the county’s jail chief, who …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Filed under: Searches, Pat Searches
New California Law Bans Male Prison Guards from Pat-Searching Female Prisoners by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer On August 20, 2018, then-California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law Assembly Bill 2550, which prohibits male prison guards from going into areas where female prisoners are often undressed, such as showers, medical …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Report Shows How Private Equity Firms Profit from Mass Incarceration by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell A report released by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) in February 2019 spotlighted several major private equity firms that invest in and profit from the private prison industry, which the organization says continues …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Filed under: Transportation, Settlements
$2 Million Awarded to New Mexico Prisoner Left in Hot Transport Van by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Each year, throughout the duration of summer months, there are empathy-invoking news stories about children and pets left in unattended vehicles, sometimes resulting in deaths due to the scorching heat. A New …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Missouri County Agrees to $60,000 Settlement in Wrongful Death Case by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Ralph Caldwell, the father of Michael Kibbons, filed a lawsuit against St. Louis County, Missouri for deliberate indifference to his son’s mental health needs, resulting in his death. The suit alleged that jail staff …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Filed under: Visitor Searches, Visiting
Problems with Ion Scanners Used to Detect Drugs on Prison Visitors by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Ion scanners were initially installed in prisons in the early 1990s to detect controlled substances on visitors, whose hands and clothes are typically swabbed for testing. But visitors and prison staff who filed …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Illinois Prison Phone Rates are Lowest Following Grassroots Activism by Brian Dolinar by Brian Dolinar, Truthout “There were a lot of times my sons tried calling me,” recalled Annette Taylor, who regularly receives calls from her two sons in prison, “but there was no money on the account.” Those were some …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Kentucky Corrections, Parole Officials Fired by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon  Rodney Ballard served as commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Corrections (DOC) from March 2016 to May 2017. He then abruptly left that job with a $100,000-plus annual salary for the private sector, and was replaced by deputy commissioner …
CoreCivic Prisons in Tennessee Have Twice as Many Murders, Four Times the Homicide Rate as State-Run Facilities by On June 10, 2019, the Human Rights Defense Center and No Exceptions Prison Collective reported that from 2014 through June 2019, there were twice as many murders in the four Tennessee prisons …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Filed under: Strip Searches, Settlements
$30,000 Settlement in Pennsylvania Jail Excessive Strip Search Suit by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter Pennsylvania’s Lancaster County Prison (LCP) paid $30,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging a female pre-trial detainee was strip searched four times over her three-day stay at the facility. Rebecca Brown was arrested on …
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