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Article • May 3, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
New Mexico Court Denies Motion to Dismiss Lawsuit Over Policy of Denying Transport to Medical Appointments During Lockdowns by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On December 7, 2018, a New Mexico federal district court denied a warden’s motion to dismiss a claim that his policy of denying transportation to off-site …
Article • May 3, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Filed under: Mental Health, Suicides
Judge Initially Plays Pass-the-Buck with Proposal to Hire Suicide Prevention Expert by Eight prisoners have committed suicide at Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County Jail (ACJ) since 2016. In response, prisoner advocate Marion Damick asked the county’s nine-member Jail Oversight Board (JOB) to hire a nationally known expert on suicide prevention. “It’s ... …
Article • May 3, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Filed under: Private Prisons, Corizon
Kansas Slaps Corizon Health with Millions in Fines for Contract Violations by Chad Marks by Chad Marks “They don’t care who dies, how they die or what they do to you.” That’s what former Kansas prisoner Sarah Loretta Cook said about Corizon Health, the state’s prison medical care provider. With …
Article • May 3, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Florida Fleeces Prisoners with High Canteen Prices by Kevin W. Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss The Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) has expanded the use of private contractors in the state’s prison system. With an annual budget of about $2.4 billion, the FDOC is increasingly shifting the burden of those …
Article • May 3, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Eleventh Circuit Agrees Prosecutor is Entitled to Qualified Immunity in Retaliation Case by Chad Marks by Chad Marks Douglas Echols was convicted of a 1986 kidnapping and rape in Georgia despite his protestations of innocence. After serving seven years of a 15-year sentence, a DNA test revealed that semen recovered …
Article • May 3, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Filed under: Prison Labor
“Free” Prisoner-Made Furniture Gets Ohio Prison Industry Officials in Hot Water by Chad Marks by Chad Marks After an anonymous complaint was submitted to the Ohio Inspector General (OIG) in June 2017, the agency opened an investigation into misconduct by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) and Ohio …
Article • May 3, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
New York: 58-Month Prison Sentence for Former Jail Union Boss Who Took Bribes by Chad Marks by Chad Marks Norman Seabrook, 58, who served as the head of the union representing New York City jail guards for over 20 years, once reportedly said, “It’s time for Norman Seabrook to get …
Article • May 3, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Lack of Outdoor Recreation for D.C. Jail Prisoners “Dehumanizing” by Kevin W. Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss A round 60 protestors gathered in Washington, D.C. on Valentine’s Day 2019. The protest centered around two D.C. jails – the Central Treatment Facility (CTF) and Central Detention Facility (CDF). Family members and …
Article • May 3, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Filed under: halfway houses
Private Halfway Houses Plagued with Escapes, Drugs, Sex and Violence by Chad Marks by Chad Marks Halfway houses run by for-profit prison companies CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America) and GEO Group, which are supposed to provide reentry programs and substance abuse treatment for soon-to-be-released prisoners, have been plagued with …
Article • May 3, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
$625,000 Settlement for Virginia Jail Prisoner’s Death from Untreated Ulcer by A $625,000 settlement was reached in the death of a pretrial detainee due to an untreated, ruptured ulcer at Virginia’s Hampton Roads Regional Jail (HRRJ). The August 6, 2016 death of Henry Clay Stewart, Jr., 60, came almost a …
Article • May 3, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Oklahoma: Sovereign Immunity Prohibits Lawsuits Over Prisoner Medical Care by Oklahoma’s Supreme Court held on December 4, 2018 that the state is entitled to sovereign immunity to all tort suits, including violations of constitutional rights, arising out of the “operation or maintenance of any prison, jail or correctional facility.” That …
Article • May 3, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
New York: Liability Established in Claim Over Assault by Prison Guard by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke  On November 28, 2018, a New York Court of Claims found the state liable in a claim filed by a prisoner over an assault by a prison guard. Roy Harriger, 71, who walked …
Article • May 3, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Filed under: Suicides
$301,000 Awarded in Lawsuit Over Suicide at Illinois Jail by Kevin W. Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss In December 2018, a federal jury awarded Dwayne White $301,000 in a wrongful death claim filed on behalf of his brother, Bradley C. Scarpi, against St. Clair County, Illinois. Represented by attorney Vanessa …
Article • May 3, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Cell Phones Sold in Commissary at South Carolina Jail by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer There is a surprising item for sale in the commissary at the Union County Jail in South Carolina: cell phones. The $100 phones can be used to text and make calls between the hours of …
Oregon: Knowledge of Injury and Defendants’ Causal Role Required for Accrual of § 1983 Claims by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson A unanimous Oregon Supreme Court held on January 17, 2019 that a claim that prison officials were deliberately indifferent to the risk of sexual abuse by a guard at a …
Article • May 3, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Search for Mental Health Care Ends Tragically at Florida Jail by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter County jails are ill equipped to care for people with mental health issues. That fact was not known to Vicki Futch, 80, when she called Florida’s Putnam County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) for …
Article • May 3, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
New Jersey Prisoner Who Suggested Date to Nurse Has Disciplinary Action Reversed by In an unpublished ruling, the Appellate Division of New Jersey’s Superior Court reversed a disciplinary action against a prisoner who had contacted a prison nurse to suggest a date. Shakey Norman was found guilty by a disciplinary …
Article • May 3, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Illinois Agrees to Sweeping Prison Health Care Reforms by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke  In a consent decree filed in federal district court on January 3, 2019, Illinois agreed to overhaul medical care in its Department of Corrections (DOC). The resolution of the nine-year-old litigation was prompted by repeated reports …
Article • May 3, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Filed under: PLN Litigation, Censorship
HRDC Files Censorship Suit Against Tennessee County Jail by On March 7, 2019, the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), PLN’s parent organization, filed suit in federal court against Marshall County, Tennessee, Sheriff Billy Lamb, Jail Administrator Sabrina Patterson and other defendants, raising claims of unconstitutional censorship at the county jail. …
Prisoner’s Death from Methadone Over-Prescription Results in Summary Judgment, Settlement by David Reutter by David Reutter In a November 30, 2018 decision, the Seventh Circuit upheld a summary judgment order in favor of county defendants in a lawsuit alleging they were deliberately indifferent to the medical needs of a pretrial …
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