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Iowa Prison Officials Drop Disciplinary Sanctions in Controversial Case by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In 2009, Iowa state prisoner Joe Byrd was accused of participating in a prison gang rape along with four other prisoners. He not only asserted his innocence, but steadfastly maintained that the crime never happened. …
Article • May 7, 2018 • from PLN May, 2018
Federal Prisoner Shot in the Eye Awarded $80,000 by Jeremy Pinson by Jeremy Pinson On January 26, 2018, following a three-day bench trial, federal prisoner Oray Fifer was awarded $80,000 in a Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) suit by a district court in Phoenix, Arizona. In December 2011 and August …
Article • May 7, 2018 • from PLN May, 2018
Fifth Circuit Reinstates Denial of Medical Care Suit Against Texas County Jail by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 15, 2017, in an unpublished ruling, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated a lawsuit brought by a former jail prisoner alleging he was denied adequate medical care at the …
Article • May 7, 2018 • from PLN May, 2018
Massachusetts: State Court Officers May Not Enforce Immigration Detainers by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 24, 2017, a Massachusetts court held that state law provides no authority for court officers to arrest and hold an individual, solely on the basis of a federal civil immigration detainer, beyond the …
Article • May 7, 2018 • from PLN May, 2018
Tennessee: New Trial Ordered in Prisoner’s Wrongful Death Case by Steve Horn by Steve Horn On April 5, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled that a lawsuit over the death of 33-year-old Charles “Jason” Toll – a prisoner who died in 2010 after being forcibly …
Article • May 7, 2018 • from PLN May, 2018
Prison Mailbox Rule Applied to South Carolina Prisoner’s Late PCR Petition by In an August 16, 2017 ruling, the South Carolina Supreme Court held that if a petitioner presents a valid equitable tolling defense for filing a post-conviction relief (PCR) petition beyond the statute of limitations, the limitations period “shall …
ACLU Sues Nebraska Over Unconstitutional Prison Conditions by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 16, 2017, the ACLU of Nebraska, ACLU National Prison Project, Nebraska Appleseed, National Association of the Deaf and two law firms, DLA Piper and Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP, filed a federal class-action suit …
Article • May 7, 2018 • from PLN May, 2018
Filed under: Eulogies, Prisoner Media
San Quentin Newspaper Editor Arnulfo Garcia Leaves a Legacy by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Arnulfo Garcia, sentenced to 25 years to life in prison, turned his life around and received a second chance when he was released on July 24, 2017 after serving 16 years. Two months later he …
Article • May 7, 2018 • from PLN May, 2018
Prison Chaplain Wins Standoff with BOP Over Carrying Pepper Spray by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin Rev. Ronald Apollo, head chaplain at FCI Bennettsville, a medium-security federal prison in South Carolina, prevailed against the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) in his challenge to a 2015 order that effectively prevented him …
Judge Threatens Arizona Officials with Contempt Over Inadequate Prisoner Medical Care by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On October 10, 2017, a federal district court in Arizona issued an order requiring officials with the Department of Corrections (DOC) to show cause why they should not be held in contempt …
Article • May 7, 2018 • from PLN May, 2018
New York Law Gives Reformed Offenders an Opportunity to Seal Convictions by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna A 2017 New York law, CPL 160.59, gives certain nonviolent offenders an opportunity to have their state convictions sealed, according to attorneys Ed Kratt and Frank Rothman. One of their clients, Joel Figueroa, …
California: Defendants’ Repeated Discovery Obstruction Sanctioned in Guard Sex Abuse Case by On June 5, 2017, a California federal district court imposed sanctions against prison officials for destroying a warden’s personnel file and concealing or misrepresenting his involuntary termination and the existence of personnel file documents. The court granted the …
Article • May 7, 2018 • from PLN May, 2018
Mother-Son Team Sentenced for Tax Fraud, Obstruction of Justice by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Debra Skipper, a 61-year-old Ohio woman, was sentenced on October 31, 2017 in federal district court in Clarksburg, West Virginia to a split sentence of six months in jail and six months of home detention …
Article • May 7, 2018 • from PLN May, 2018
Filed under: Reviews
“Survivors Guide to Prison,” by Matthew Cooke, director (Gravitas Ventures, February 2018); 102 minutes by Steve Horn Movie review by Steve Horn A newly-released film that serves as an informative guide to surviving a stint in a U.S. jail or prison has hit the screens, and is streaming for a …
Article • May 7, 2018 • from PLN May, 2018
“Witness to Human Torture”: On Both Sides of the Prison Walls, Social Workers Confront Solitary Confinement by Valerie Kiebala by Valerie Kiebala, Solitary Watch Esther Lim, a social worker employed by the ACLU to monitor Los Angeles County jails, was meeting with an incarcerated man in an attorney meeting room …
Article • May 7, 2018 • from PLN May, 2018
PLN Censorship Suit Against Virginia Jail Headed to Trial by A lawsuit filed by Prison Legal News against censorship practices at the Northwest Regional Adult Detention Center (NWADC) in Winchester, Virginia has been scheduled for a jury trial later this year. The suit will proceed with NWADC and Superintendent James …
Article • May 7, 2018 • from PLN May, 2018
New Mexico Jail Sued by HRDC for Censoring Book Orders by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The Santa Fe County Correctional Facility in New Mexico, already cited by the U.S. Department of Justice for shoddy medical care and poor management, has been sued by the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), …
Governor Vetoes Nevada’s Anti-Private Prison Bill by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin Assembly Bill 303, introduced by Assemblywoman Daniele Monroe-Moreno, a former prison guard, would have granted the Nevada Department of Corrections a five-year period to renovate existing prison facilities before eliminating the state’s relationship with for-profit prison firms. The …
Article • May 7, 2018 • from PLN May, 2018
Rash of Security Breaches Plagues Nation’s Prisons and Jails by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis A review of recent news reports has revealed a recent spate of security breaches by both jail detainees and state and federal prisoners across the country. In October 2017 alone, escapes were reported in ten …
Article • May 7, 2018
Woman Forced to Give On-Duty Florida Officer Oral Sex Awarded $20,000 by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis    A Florida woman who claimed that an on-duty police officer forced her to give him oral sex was awarded $20,000 after suing him in Broward County Circuit Court.      On September 3, …
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