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Article • May 3, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Filed under: Searches, Exposure to Cold
New York: $775,000 Judgment for Prisoners Searched in Freezing Weather by On August 14, 2018, a ruling by the New York State Court of Claims addressed ten consolidated claims that arose from an incident in which 15 to 20 prisoners were searched outdoors in windchill temperatures between -10 and -13 …
Article • May 3, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Filed under: Education
Cancellation of Illinois Prison Debate Class Debated in Court by Kevin W. Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss In August 2018, Katrina Burlet brought suit in federal court against John Baldwin, director of the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC), and Assistant Director Gladyse Taylor. The complaint, filed on behalf of Burlet …
Article • May 3, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Filed under: Medical, Medication, Pain
Washington State: Jury Awards $549,000 to Prisoner Denied Pain Medication by Chad Marks by Chad Marks Etienne L. Choquette, incarcerated in a Washington State prison, suffered from multiple sclerosis. A neurologist prescribed gabapentin – used to control pain and seizures – to address his condition, but Dr. Cris DuVall recommended …
Article • May 3, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
States Rack Up Tens of Millions of Dollars in Prison Guard Overtime Pay by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke  The pressures of mass incarceration, low pay and a tight job market are forcing states to pay tens of millions of dollars in overtime to prison guards – some of whom …
Article • May 3, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Private Prisoner Transport Firm Closes After Escape; Problems Continue to Plague Industry by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In February 2019, Texas Prisoner Transportation Services (TPTS) informed its customers that it would cease operations that same month. CEO Ryan Whitten blamed the closure on new insurance rates that meant the …
Article • May 3, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Beating of Michigan Jail Prisoner Results in $36.6 Million Verdict,$12.9 Million Settlement by Chad Marks by Chad Marks In 2010, William Jennings was booked into Michigan’s Genesee County Jail on a DUI charge. According to surveillance video footage, within hours he was brutally beaten by sheriff’s deputies – slammed to …
Wisconsin Pays Largest Civil Rights Settlement in State’s History –$18.9 Million – for Juvenile Offender’s Suicide Attempt by Chad Marks, Derek Gilna by Chad Marks and Derek Gilna Sydni Briggs was 16 years old in July 2015 when she was remanded to a Wisconsin state youth prison for breaking into …
Article • May 3, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Unlicensed Interns to Perform Psych Tests on Utah Prisoners by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer According to October 2018 news reports, Utah’s Department of Corrections wants to pay unlicensed interns to “train” at the Draper prison by administering psychological and IQ tests to prisoners in mental health and sex offender …
Article • May 3, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Filed under: Medical
Hospice Programs Provided in Pennsylvania Prisons by Ruth Hoskins by Ruth Hoskins, Ph.D., H.H.S., LCSW Nine people were granted compassionate release in Pennsylvania from 2010 to today. – Public Source Roundup Prisoners have the same concerns about death as everyone else. What will it be like to die? Will I …
CoreCivic Creates Nonprofit Foundation, Ostensibly to Reduce Recidivism by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke  Private prison companies are known for their cynical motives. They lobby and give money to politicians to expand the for-profit prison industry, and have provisions in their contracts that guarantee minimum occupancy levels at many of …
Fifth Circuit Vacates Dismissal of Suit by Civilly Committed Sex Offender by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In December 2018, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a civilly committed Texas sex offender against Tarrant County, Tarrant County Sheriff Dee Anderson and Avalon …
Article • May 3, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Claim Denied; No Proof New York Prison Guards Acted Within Scope of Their Employment by On June 13, 2018, the New York Court of Claims in Saratoga Springs found in favor of prison guards accused of assaulting a prisoner without provocation. Although it was undisputed that the prisoner had been …
Article • May 3, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Inspector General: California Prison Guards Violate Use of Force Policies Half the Time by Steve Horn by Steve Horn A report released in July 2018 by California’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found that with respect to use of force incidents reported by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation …
Brief • May 3, 2019
Memorandum Opinion for the Attorney General, Steven A. Engle, FDA Jurisdiction, over Articles Intended for Executions, 2019 (Slip Opinion) Whether the Food and Drug Administration Has Jurisdiction over Articles Intended for Use in Lawful Executions May 3, 2019 Articles intended for use in executions carried out by a State or …
Article • May 2, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Staffing Shortage at Ohio Legislative Oversight Committee has Interns Inspecting Prisons by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke An administrative staffing shortage at the Ohio legislature’s bi-chamber, eight-member Correctional Institution Inspection Committee has left unpaid interns responsible for inspecting 27 adult prisons and three juvenile facilities.  Five years ago, the Committee …
Article • May 2, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Filed under: Medical
Humane Treatment for Terminally Ill Prisoners by Kevin W. Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss “No prisoner dies alone.” That’s the motto of a group of prisoners, pastoral care workers and other volunteers at the California Medical Facility’s (CMF) hospice program, one of only two licensed prison hospices in the state. …
Article • May 2, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Filed under: Prison Reform
The Uphill Road to Prisoners’ Rights by F.T. Green by F.T. Green, The Crime Report In the fall of 2010, a 12-year-old was in a fight at her middle school in northern Mississippi. The police officer assigned to the school as a School Resource Officer arrested her for simple assault …
Article • May 2, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Virginia Court Improperly Denied Transgender Prisoner’s Name Change by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke  On December 13, 2018, the Supreme Court of Virginia held that a state circuit court improperly denied a transgender prisoner’s application for a name change.  Federal prisoner Brian Allen Leonard filed an application in Virginia state …
Article • May 2, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Filed under: Attorneys, Attorney Client
Attorney-Client Privilege Under Attack in Jails Across the Nation by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney As previously reported in PLN, the constitutional rights of prisoners at the Leavenworth Detention Center (LDC) in Kansas were violated by CoreCivic, the private operator of the facility for the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), …
Article • May 2, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Incarceration Decrease? Drop in Prison Numbers Called “Anemic” by Ted Gest by Ted Gest, The Crime Report Although the U.S. prison population has declined over six years, after increasing for nearly four decades, a new analysis by researcher Malcolm C. Young, published by the Center for Community Alternatives, concludes that …
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