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Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
Kansas DOC Underestimates Cost of New Prison by $51 Million by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The Lansing Correctional Facility, located in the Kansas City area, is crying out for a wrecking ball and a bulldozer. Parts of the facility were built in the 1860s, and the Kansas DOC has …
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
$27,000 Settles California Prisoner Pro Se Civil Rights Suit by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna California state prisoner Ronald Martinez filed suit in 2011, asserting that his Eighth Amendment rights had been violated by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). He eventually obtained a $27,000 settlement from the …
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
Filed under: Immigration
DHS Report Shows “Significant Prison Population of Incarcerated Aliens” by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The proportion of federal prisoners likely born outside the United States is nearly twice as large as among the general population. That was a key finding of a report published by the U.S. Department of …
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
Kansas DOC Raids Inmate Benefit Fund for $6.7 Million by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Since 2004, the Kansas Department of Corrections (DOC) has drained over $6.7 million from the prison system’s Inmate Benefit Fund (IBF), and spent it on goods and services prohibited by state law. The IBF is …
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
Indictment Alleges Prison Healthcare Company Bribed Texas State Senator by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In May 2017, federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment accusing Texas state Senator Carlos Uresti of accepting substantial bribes from a company that provides healthcare to prisoners at the Reeves County Detention Center (RCDC) in West …
Oregon Jail 'Tortures' Mentally Ill Prisoners by The people who work there are for the most part good people trying to do the best they can,” said Dr. Wil Berry, a psychiatrist who completed a six-month rotation at the Multnomah County Detention Center (MCDC). “However, the product of the system …
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
Statute of Limitations for Oregon Child Sex Abuse Claims Expires at Age 40, Not 24 by The Oregon Court of Appeals held in August 2017 that a lower court had improperly determined that civil claims filed by a child sexual abuse victim were time-barred. While the statute of limitations in …
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
Two Georgia Prison Transport Guards Slain by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On June 13, 2017, a pair of Georgia prisoners being transported from the Baldwin State Prison near Milledgeville to the state’s Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson breached a partition on the prison bus. Within seconds they …
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
Alabama Sheriff Fights to Keep Extra Funds Meant to Feed Prisoners by After being held in contempt, the sheriff in Morgan County, Alabama has obtained approval from a federal judge to let her keep any proceeds left over in her jail’s food fund. While a controversial 1939 state law has …
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
Despite Suicides, Jails Replace In-person Visitation with Video Screens by Mike Ludwig by Mike Ludwig, Truthout  The Jefferson Parish Correctional Center in Gretna, Louisiana replaced in-person visitation through a glass partition with video calls in October 2017. Three suicides had occurred at the jail since August, raising concerns about the mental health …
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
Filed under: Medical, Parole
Georgia Toddler Initially Denied Kidney Due to Father’s Parole Violation by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin Officials at Emory Healthcare canceled a planned October 2017 surgery to harvest a kidney from an Atlanta toddler’s father, who had volunteered to be a living donor. According to news reports, the hospital postponed …
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
Florida Prisoners with Disabilities to Receive Accommodations Under Settlement by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In July 2017, Disability Rights Florida, the state’s federally-funded Protection and Advocacy organization that advocates for disabled individuals, settled a historic lawsuit against the Florida Department of Corrections over the FDOC’s systematic failure to …
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
Alaska: Jurors’ Explanation of Negligence Verdict Doesn’t Warrant New Trial by In May 2017, the Alaska Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s denial of a prisoner’s motion for a new trial based on juror comments about the rationale for their verdict. Alaska prisoner Richard A. Mattox was watching television with …
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
Illinois Sheriff Settles Federal Class-action Suit Over Strip Searches by by Derek Gilna A federal civil rights lawsuit filed in 2012, later certified as a class-action, alleged abuses in the strip-search policy at a jail in Kankakee County, Illinois. The case settled on July 19, 2017; under the terms of …
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
Summary Judgment Reversed for Delay in Treating Prisoner in Extreme Pain by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed summary judgment in favor of a guard and a nurse in a civil rights action alleging they were deliberately indifferent to a prisoner’s serious medical needs and unnecessarily prolonged his suffering. …
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
First-time Burglary Offender Eligible for Pennsylvania DOC’s Recidivism Program by The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has held that a first-time offender convicted of burglary was entitled to participate in the Recidivism Risk Reduction Incentive (RRRI) Act. The decision came in an appeal filed by Sean Cullen-Doyle, who pleaded guilty to several …
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
Report Finds Texas Death Row Conditions Violate Basic Human Rights by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In April 2017, the University of Texas School of Law’s Human Rights Clinic published a report that found living conditions on death row in Texas violate “basic human rights as well as a number …
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
Filed under: Suicides
Idaho DOC Uses Prisoner Volunteers for Suicide Watches by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Some prisoners in the Idaho Department of Correction (DOC) who exhibit suicidal tendencies end up with other prisoners as companions, charged with engaging with them and helping to prevent self-harm. The DOC has a population of …
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
$125,000 Settlement After Failure to Protect Verdict in Virginia by Following a July 2017 federal jury verdict that found guards had failed to protect a prisoner from an attack by another detainee at the West Virginia Regional Jail (WVRJ), the parties agreed to settle the case for $125,000. The suit …
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
Illinois Prisoner’s Petition Challenging Disciplinary Report States Cause of Action by The Illinois Fourth District Court of Appeals held in July 2017 that a prisoner had stated a cause of action on several claims in his petitions for writ of mandamus, declaratory relief and common law writ of certiorari. Prisoner …
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