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Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Identities Stolen From Virginia Jail Detainees For $341,205 COVID-19 Fraud by As of October 3, 2024, guilty pleas had been entered for all but one of 17 people indicted for defrauding the federal government of COVID-­19 benefits. In all, the group received $341,205 in benefits to which they were not …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Florida DOC Failed to Investigate Background of Guard Convicted in Mass Shooting by On June 26, 2024, a Florida jury recommended the death penalty for former state prison guard Zephen Xaver, 27, who was convicted of the execution-­style murders of five women at a Sebring bank in 2019. The slayings …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
California Changes Prisoner Property Policy After Suit Filed Alleging Gender Discrimination Against Men by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Over seven years after California prisoner David Scott Harrison sued the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), the prison system removed some, though not all, of the gender-­based personal property …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Milwaukee County Pays $1.05 Million Judgment for Bankrupt Armor Correctional Health to Former Jail Detainee by Miami-­based Armor Correctional Health had virtually no experience in providing medical care to prisoners when Dr. Jose Jesus Armas started the firm in 2004, but over the next few years it amassed millions of …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
$1.2 Million Settlement Reached in HRDC Censorship Suit Against North Carolina Prison System by On September 25, 2024, North Carolina’s Department of Adult Correction (DAC) settled a federal civil rights suit filed by the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC) over censorship of PLN and HRDC’s other monthly publication, Criminal Legal …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Fifth Circuit Reinstates Former Federal Prisoner’s Suit Over Assault By Guards at Louisiana Lockup by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke On April 24, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed dismissal of a former federal prisoner’s Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) claim for an injury …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Fired Missouri Guards Charged with Murder in Prisoner’s Suffocation Death by Five former Missouri prison guards were charged on June 28, 2024, in the death of prisoner Othel Moore, Jr. at Jefferson City Correctional Center in December 2023. Four guards were charged with second-­degree murder and a fifth with accessory …
Eighth Circuit Upholds Denial of Qualified Immunity to Minnesota Guard Accused of Assaulting Restrained and Compliant Prisoner by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke On May 6, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld a district court’s denial of qualified immunity (QI) to a Minnesota Department …
“Like Being Back in Jail”: Wisconsin Returns Released Sex Offenders to Lifetime GPS Monitoring by On April 1, 2024, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) signed SB 874 into law, effectively nullifying a state Supreme Court ruling issued the previous year that directed the state Department of Corrections (DOC) to remove …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
NYC Rehires Former Head of Rikers Island Lockup Where Guard Assault Left Detainee Quadriplegic by On May 11, 2024, the New York City Department of Correction (DOC) rehired Ned McCormick, the former official in charge of a Rikers Island lockup where a massive guard pile-­on exactly one year earlier left …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Filed under: Settlements, Grievances
$500 Jury Verdict for Pennsylvania Prisoner After Federal Court Clarifies DOC Grievance Procedures by On February 29, 2024, a jury in federal court for the Western District of Pennsylvania awarded $500 to a state prisoner for his excessive force claim against a state Department of Corrections (DOC) guard. Along the …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Filed under: Lie Detector Tests
California Prisons Ban High-Tech Lie Detector by On August 16, 2024, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s (CDCR) announced a ban on use of the Computer Voice Stress Analyzer (CVSA). The controversial technology analyzes voice tremors that supposedly betray when a prisoner is lying. But it has been found …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Two More West Virginia Jailers Plead Guilty in Detainee’s Homicide by Guilty pleas from two former guards at West Virginia’s Southern Regional Jail were filed on August 8, 2024, for their roles in the fatal beating of detainee Quantez Burks, 27, in May 2022. As PLN reported, two other former …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
California Throws Prisoners Under the Bus to Adopt New Heat Rules by In a desperate bid to get new heat-­related workplace safety rules adopted before summer arrived, California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) agreed on April 18, 2024, to drop prisons and jails from the measure. Two temperature …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
$23,138 Plus Out-Of-State Transfer for Virginia Prisoner Who Accused Guards of Excessive Force and Altering Video by On March 25, 2024, Virginia prisoner Steven Allen Riddick, 50, agreed to accepted $23,138 from the state Department of Corrections (DOC) to settle claims made in several civil rights cases filed in federal …
Brief • November 11, 2024
Estate of Lucas Bellamy v. Omweri, Proposed Order for Distribution of Wrongful Death Proceeds, Wrongful Death-Medical Neglect, 2024 CASE 0:24-cv-00170-DWF-TNL Doc. 49 Filed 11/11/24 Page 1 of 5 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA Louis Bellamy, as Trustee for the next of kin of Lucas John Bellamy, Deceased, Plaintiff, …
In-the-News Article • November 5, 2024
Lawsuit alleges N.M. prison mail policy violates inmates’ First Amendment rights Nov. 5, 2024 Articles about PLN Litigation corrections1.com In 2021, N.M. DOC began redirecting inmate mail to a Florida vendor for scanning, giving inmates photocopies instead of originals to reduce contraband in prisons By Phaedra Haywood The Santa Fe …
Brief • October 31, 2024
Filed under: Disabled Prisoners
Wilson v. Dixon, FL, Complaint, Denial of Disability Accomodations, 2024 Case 1:24-cv-24253-KMW Document 1 Entered on FLSD Docket 10/31/2024 Page 1 of 63 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA MIAMI DIVISION CASE NO. 1:24-cv-24253 DWAYNE WILSON, TYRONE HARRIS, and GARY WHEELER, individually and on behalf of those similarly …
In-the-News Article • October 30, 2024
Prison Phone Co. GTL Gets OK On $17M Price-Fix Deal Oct. 30, 2024 Articles about PLN Litigation Law360.com Prison phone company Global*Tel Link Corp will pay $17 million to escape claims that it colluded with two other companies to inflate the cost of calls made from inside U.S. prisons after …
In-the-News Article • October 30, 2024
Texas Justices Quiz Sales Tax Break For Private Prison Co. Oct. 30, 2024 Articles that mention PLN Law360.com By Michael Nunes Texas Supreme Court justices questioned Wednesday whether a private prison operator is eligible to receive a sales tax exemption granted to governmental entities, mulling over whether the company functions as an …
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