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Barnett v. Goldsmith, WI, settlement agreement, guard brutality, 2020
Article • December 1, 2020
$40,000 Settlement for Corizon’s Breach of Contract by Corizon Health paid $40,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging it beached a contract with Nursefinders. The February 26, 2016, settlement resolved a lawsuit Nursefinders filed in a Virginia state court, but which was removed to a federal court, on March 20, 2015. …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
North Carolina Case Involving Death of Black Prisoner: “I Can’t Breathe,” Revisited by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon In late July 2020, about 30 protesters stood all day in the rain in Bailey Park near the Forsyth County Detention Center (FCDC) in downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to demand answers and …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19, Telephone Rates
Cost of Communicating with Prisoners Breaking Family Budgets During Pandemic by David Reutter by David M. Reutter For those with loved ones in prisons, the coronavirus pandemic has increased the desire for communication to ensure the well-being of the imprisoned. The exorbitant cost of such calls is straining already-stretched budgets. …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
New Jersey Releases 2,258 Prisoners to Combat COVID-19 Spread by David Reutter by David M. Reutter After releasing almost 1,000 inmates from state prisons and 700 more from county jails in April 2020, New Jersey’s Department of Corrections (DOC) announced it would release another 2,258  prisoners on November 5, 2020, …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
Missouri Executes Prisoner During COVID-19 Crisis by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Whenever the subject of the death penalty comes up, people usually think of Texas, the capital of capital punishment in the United States. [PLN, November 2018, p. 15] However, even the death merchants in the nation’s most carceral, …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
Connecticut Prisoner Commits Suicide With COVID-19 Protective Mask by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Daniel Ocasio committed suicide on August 12, 2020 at the Corrigan-Radkowski Correctional Center in Uncasville, Connecticut by tying the strings of his protective mask around his throat. His death made national news because it is the …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
Filed under: Failure to Treat, COVID-19
The Latest on COVID-19: Will Vaccines be Available Soon? by Michael D. Cohen, MD by Michael D. Cohen, M.D. The U.S. is experiencing the most widespread COVID-19 epidemic so far. Daily new infections diagnosed are over 150,000. More than 70,000 are hospitalized on any given day. As PLN was going …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
Fifth Circuit Order Denies Texas Prisoners Hand Sanitizer and Cleaning Supplies by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stay of a Texas’ federal judge’s injunction compelling the Texas Department of Corrections (DOC) to provide hand sanitizer and cleaning supplies to prisoners at the …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
COVID-19 Deaths in Jails, Prisons Exceed Number of Deaths by Execution From 1990 to Present by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc in jails and prisons across the county. The number of virus-related prisoner deaths reached 1,453 on November 17, 2020. This number exceeds the 1,406 …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
California Appellate Court Orders 50% Reduction in San Quentin Population Over Fears of COVID-19 Spread by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On October 20, 2020, after finding the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) was deliberately indifferent to a prisoner’s COVID-19 risk, the state’s First Appellate District Court …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19, Education
COVID-19 Lockdowns in Prisons Affecting Post-Secondary Education by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Higher education in prisons is being negatively impacted by the COVID-19 quarantine. Prisons are finding their post-secondary programs evolving into correspondence classes or falling away completely. Advocates fear that this will affect every aspect of an offender’s …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19
COVID-19 in the Country’s Largest Female Prison by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Texas may have bragging rights for the largest state prison system in the United States, but California still has the single largest female prison in the country. According to attorney Alison Hardy of California’s Prison Law Office, …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
California Jail Prisoner Loses Limbs, but Faces Setback in Lawsuit Alleging Medical Neglect by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon On June 12, 2020, a former California prisoner suffered a setback in his legal battle to hold San Bernardino County accountable for the loss of his hand and legs due to …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19
COVID-19 Strikes Alaskan Prison by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss A major outbreak of COVID-19 has hit Alaska’s biggest prison. Nearly 300 prisoners out of about 1,300 inmates at the Goose Creek Correctional Center near Wasilla tested positive for COVID-19, the state Department of Corrections (DOC) reported in late November. …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
Seventh Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Illinois Prisoner’s Lawsuit Alleging Dental Care Negligence by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed June 18, 2020 the grant of summary judgment for defendants in a prisoner’s lawsuit alleging deliberate indifference to his dental infection. …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
New Documentary Released on Forced Sterilizations of Female Prisoners by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon When many people think about eugenics, visions of a former European fascist regime trying to build a master race or science fiction stories come to mind. Attempts to purge societies of humans whose existence trouble …
Whistleblower Claims Female Detainees at Privately Run Georgia ICE Facility Had Forced Hysterectomies by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell A whistleblower at a privately operated federal detention center in Georgia prompted a joint complaint filed in September 2020 with the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
Maine Superspreader: Few Masks at Wedding Lead to Big Problems at Prison by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins An August 2020 wedding in Millinocket, Maine, turned into the state’s largest super spreader event for the coronavirus. Within the next two months, over 170 cases and eight deaths could be traced …
Publication • December 1, 2020
Dept. of Justice - Bureau of Justice Statistics - Federal Deaths in Custody and During Arrest, 2016-2017 - Statistical Tables, 2020 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics December 2020, NCJ 252838 Connor Brooks and Kevin M. Scott, Ph.D., BJS Statisticians Anthony Whyde, former BJS …
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