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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 …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Cook County Sheriff’s Office Pays $110,000 to Settle PLN Censorship Suit by On June 25, 2019, Cook County, Illinois finalized a settlement in a lawsuit filed by Prison Legal News, a project of the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), over the censorship of publications mailed to prisoners at the county …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright Prison Legal News has long reported on control units in general and the federal “super max” prisons in particular, first USP Marion in Illinois and then ADX in Florence, Colorado after it opened in 1995. Many of the worst human rights …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Force-Feeding is Cruel, Painful and Degrading – and American Prisons Won’t Stop by Aviva Stahl In a Colorado supermax facility, hunger-striking inmates have been force-fed and barred from sharing their ordeal with the outside world. A prisoner breaks his silence for the first time. by Aviva Stahl, The Nation It was …
Thompson v. Wexford, IL, Merit Review, Inadequate Health Care, 2019 Case 3:19-cv-00288-SMY Document 7 Filed 08/06/19 Page 1 of 11 Page ID #112 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS DENNIS THOMPSON, # B67474, Plaintiff, vs. WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCES, INC., JACQUELINE LASHBROO~ MOHAMMED SIDDIQUI, AND …
Brief • August 6, 2019
McCarvey v. County of Los Angeles, CA, Summons and Complaint, Negligence (Motor Vehicle), 2019 19AVCV00567 • ~ FILED by Superlo, Court of Calllomla, County 01 Loa Angeles on 08/00/2019 IM:38 PM S!eni R. CartM, Elceolliw Offlcen'OIO!l of Coun, by J. Zlegler,Oeputy Clerk . SUMMONS SUM-10[ '°' ~uu •"· .. 80Af; …
Sabata v. Nebraska Dept. Of Correctional Services, NE, Reply Brief in Support of Motion to Strike, Conditions of Confinement, 2019 4:17-cv-03107-RFR-MDN Doc # 378 Filed: 08/02/19 Page 1 of 18 - Page ID # 20763 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEBRASKA HANNAH SABATA, et al., …
Gregorian v. County of Los Angeles, CA, Complaint, Failure to Protect, 2019 Eleptronically F.ILED by V1' perior Court of California, County of Los Angeles on 08/02/2019 01 :58 PM Sherri R. Carter, Executive Officer/Clerk of Court, by R. Perez.Deputy Clerk 19STCV27117 Assigned for all purposes lo: Stanley Mosk Courthouse, Judicial …
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