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Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Federal Judge Calls BOP Brooklyn Lockup Too Deplorable to House Defendant by The Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), a massive federal jail in Brooklyn, New York, is known for its harsh conditions. So harsh that on January 4, 2024, U.S. District Court Judge Jesse M. Furman refused to send a convicted …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
$275,000 Settlement for Wisconsin Jail Detainee’s Death from Untreated Heart Infection by As the bankruptcy of private jail medical provider Armor Correctional Health Services, Inc. wound down on October 23, 2023, the firm sold off its one remaining asset, a contract to provide medical services to prisoners at Texas’ Nueces …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
1,200 Washington Prisoners Lose Laptops After One Shows Up on eBay by By March 2, 2024, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) had collected laptops from some 1,200 state prisoners who had been issued them for course work in college programming—throwing a huge monkey wrench into their plans to work …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Report Finds Exploitative Disciplinary Fines in One-Third of U.S. Prison Systems by "In yet another example of how the criminal legal system extracts wealth from the poorest families, at least one-third of prison systems nationwide charge fees as a punishment for a rule violation.” So begins a report released by …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Arrested for Stealing Snacks, Baltimore Diabetic Dies in Jail by Louis Maurice Mason, a 67-­year-­old struggling with diabetes and a four-­decade cocaine addiction, died on March 8, 2024, in Baltimore’s jail system. Despite his deteriorating health, a judge had set his bail unaffordably high, effectively signing his death warrant. Mason’s …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Fourth Circuit Chides Virginia Magistrate for Assuming Prisoners Proceed IFP by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held on November 15, 2023, that a lower court erred in assuming that a group of Virginia prisoners proceeded in forma pauperis (IFP) when they …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Arizona Agrees to $40,000 Settlement in Suit Over Mentally Ill Prisoner’s Suicide by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney After a federal court found its provision of healthcare and mental health care to all state prisoners was “plainly, grossly inadequate,” Arizona settled a suit over one prisoner’s suicide on November 11, …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Illinois Prisoner Succumbs to Heat Wave by The death of Illinois prisoner Michael Broadway, 51, during a heatwave on June 19, 2024, has focused attention on squalid conditions at Stateville Correctional Center. Windows remained unopened and no working fan was provided at the un-­air-­conditioned lockup, according to family attorney Terah …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Filed under: Prison Labor, Advocacy
California Prisoner’s Generosity for Gaza Rewarded With Over $100,000 by As of February 29, 2024, a GoFundMe campaign had raised $102,172 for a soon-to-be-paroled California prisoner to transition from incarceration. Filmmaker Justin Mashouf, who started the page, then shut down contributions at the request of his incarcerated friend, known as …
“Too brutal, too disgusting”: Prison Guards Flee as Working Conditions Worsen by The nonprofit Marshall Project reported on January 10, 2024, that dire prison staffing shortages nationwide have left the number of people working in state prisons at the lowest level in over two decades. The resulting thinning of supervision …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
New Mexico Jail Sued Again After Paying $787,500 In-Custody Death Settlement by New Mexico’s Santa Fe County was hit with another suit in October 2023 over a detainee’s drug-­related death at the county jail, just over a year after agreeing to pay $787,500 to the father of a young woman …
$7.5 Million Settlement in Suit Over California Jail Death by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On February 29, 2024, the federal court for the Central District of California approved a settlement under which Riverside County paid $7.5 million to the survivors of a county jail detainee who died in custody. …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Unintended Consequence of Texas Prisoner Tablets: Retaliation from Fellow Prisoners by As prisons and jails make services available to prisoners via electronic tablets, they report generally positive results, especially the easy access to information that the systems provide. But in an essay published by Prison Journalism Project on March 19, …
Florida Jail Chief’s Firing Upheld, Retaliation Lawsuit Headed to Trial by On February 2, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida scheduled trial to begin two years later on the claim of former Volusia County Corrections Director Mark Flowers, 60, that he was fired in retaliation …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
BOP is Holding 12,000 Prisoners in Solitary Confinement by David Reutter by David Reutter A report released by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) on February 6, 2024, found that the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) was holding about 8% of its population—nearly 12,000 prisoners—in Special Housing Units (SHUs), the …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Massachusetts Prison Closure Reflects Success of Criminal Justice Reforms by On January 24, 2024, the Massachusetts Department of Correction (DOC) announced it was closing the Massachusetts Correctional Institution (MCI) in Concord, and a report released the same month by a pair of local nonprofits celebrated the decision for reflecting the …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Filed under: Guard Misconduct
Fifth Savannah Jail Employee Arrested for Smuggling in Just Over a Year by A guard at Georgia’s Chatham County Detention Center (CCDC) in Savannah was arrested on March 5, 2024, after she admitted taking bribes to smuggle drugs to detainees. Sheriff John Wilcher said he then fired Megan Barbee for her …
First Circuit Tolls Claim for Maine Jail Death from Date of Detainee’s Injury, Rather Than When He Died by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Of the many hurdles prisoners and jail detainees face, the statute of limitations for a civil rights claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 is among the first. …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Tennessee Sheriff Indicted for Massive Prisoner Work-Release Fraud by On June 12, 2024, the Sheriff of Tennessee’s Gibson County was arrested and booked on a $25,000 bond into Nashville’s Davidson County Detention Center on a pair of indictments with a total of 22 counts related to his alleged scheme to …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Fourth Circuit Revives Claim Over North Carolina Jail Suicide by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In an important decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled on December 8, 2023, that pretrial detainees no longer need show that a detention official “knew of and disregarded a substantial …
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