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News in Brief
Article • August 1, 2022 • from PLN August, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: On June 3, 2022, a guard was arrested for having sex with a prisoner at Alabama’s Pickens County Jail, according to a report by WTVA in Tupelo, Mississippi. The guard, Marquita Booker, 28, was fired after her arrest, which followed an investigation that earlier in …
Reinstating Suit by Louisiana Detainee’s Mother Over His Jail Suicide, Fifth Circuit Schools Lower Court in Meaning of “Standing”
Article • August 1, 2022 • from PLN August, 2022
Filed under: Standing, Suicides
Reinstating Suit by Louisiana Detainee’s Mother Over His Jail Suicide, Fifth Circuit Schools Lower Court in Meaning of “Standing” by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On February 14, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reinstated the claim of a woman whose son fatally hanged himself in …
News in Brief
Article • July 15, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by   Alabama:The Birmingham News reported that a jail guard in Mobile was arrested on May 17, 2022, for smuggling adult movies intoMobile County Metro Jail. The guard, Fredrick Johnson, 37, was charged with 21 counts of promoting contraband that included a camera, phone chargers, and flash drives, …
$405,000 Paid to Prisoner Disabled and Left Untreated at LaSalle-Managed Louisiana Jails
Article • July 13, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, LaSalle Management Company, Systemic Medical Neglect, Failure to Treat
$405,000 Paid to Prisoner Disabled and Left Untreated at LaSalle-Managed Louisiana Jails by Anthony W. Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso A man disabled in a Louisiana jail privately operated by LaSalle Corrections has settled claims of neglect and mistreatment he suffered there and at another lockup the firm ran, accepting …
Private Prison Space in Louisiana Contracted But Unused by ICE Costing Taxpayers $8 Million a Month
Article • June 27, 2022
Filed under: Cost of Prison Systems, Immigration Law/Offenses
Private Prison Space in Louisiana Contracted But Unused by ICE Costing Taxpayers $8 Million a Month by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott In 2021, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) revealed just how expensive the federal immigration detention system is for the American taxpayer, reporting that the year …
Fifth Circuit Reinstates Louisiana Prisoner’s Excessive-Force Claim Despite Prison Disciplinary Conviction Issued for the Same Incident
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
Filed under: Disciplinary Litigation, Guard Brutality/Beatings
Fifth Circuit Reinstates Louisiana Prisoner’s Excessive-Force Claim Despite Prison Disciplinary Conviction Issued for the Same Incident by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In its decision 28 years ago in Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994), the U.S. Supreme Court held that a prisoner’s claims affecting the duration of his …
Fifth Circuit Reinstates Louisiana Prisoner’s Suit Dismissed on Heck Grounds, Holds Related Disciplinary Convictions Don’t Absolutely Bar Excessive Force Claims
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
Filed under: Evidentiary Ruling (Disciplinary Hearings), Guard Brutality/Beatings
Fifth Circuit Reinstates Louisiana Prisoner’s Suit Dismissed on Heck Grounds, Holds Related Disciplinary Convictions Don’t Absolutely Bar Excessive Force Claims by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On November 17, 2021, the same day it explained that a Louisiana prisoner’s civil rights claims are not necessarily barred by related prison disciplinary …
Settlement Relieves Death Row Isolation in Louisiana: Four Hours Daily Out of Cell, Five Hours Per Week in New Yard
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Filed under: Settlements, Death Penalty/Death Row, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement
Settlement Relieves Death Row Isolation in Louisiana: Four Hours Daily Out of Cell, Five Hours Per Week in New Yard by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins In recent years, courts have begun to recognize that extended periods of solitary confinement are detrimental to the physical and mental health of prisoners. …
Federal Judge in Louisiana Issues Sweeping Opinion Finding Numerous Eighth Amendment, ADA and RA Violations at Angola
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Filed under: Eighth Amendment, Americans with Disabilities Act, Rehabilitation Act
Federal Judge in Louisiana Issues Sweeping Opinion Finding Numerous Eighth Amendment, ADA and RA Violations at Angola by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Louisiana State Prison (LSP) in Angola, Louisiana, was found “deliberately indifferent” to the Eighth Amendment rights of its nearly 6,400 prisoners to receive competent medical care, according …
Fifth Circuit Refuses to Reinstate Louisiana Federal Prisoner’s Suit Challenging Disciplinary Sanction for Breaking CPAP Machine
Article • March 28, 2022
Filed under: Medical, Disciplinary Hearings, Money/Property
Fifth Circuit Refuses to Reinstate Louisiana Federal Prisoner’s Suit Challenging Disciplinary Sanction for Breaking CPAP Machine by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett Holding that explicit intent is not necessary to find a prisoner guilty of misconduct, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a concerning decision on …
Fletcher v. Whittington, LA, Complaint, Wrongful Death, 2022
Brief • March 24, 2022
Filed under: Wrongful Death, Medical Neglect/Malpractice
Fletcher v. Whittington, LA, Complaint, Wrongful Death, 2022 Case 5:18-cv-01153-SMH-KDM Document 215-3 Filed 03/24/22 Page 1 of 35 PageID #: 5296 DEVON M. JACOB, ESQUIRE PA Bar Number: 89182 JACOB LITIGATION P.O. Box 837, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055-0837 717.796.7733 | djacob@jacoblitigation.com (Plaintiffs’ Trial Attorney) SARAH R. GIGLIO, ESQUIRE La. Bar No.: …
Bartie v. Lasalle Corrections, LA, Complaint, Wrongful Death, 2022
Brief • March 10, 2022
Filed under: Wrongful Death
Bartie v. Lasalle Corrections, LA, Complaint, Wrongful Death, 2022 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA JENNIFER BARTIE o/b/o HER DECEASED SON JAVON KENNERSON, Plaintiff, VERSUS LASALLE CORRECTIONS, L.L.C., LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONS, SECRETARY JAMES M. LEBLANC, CATAHOULA CORRECTIONAL CENTER, SHERIFF TONEY EDWARDS, SHERMAN FORD, JEREMY …
Federal Court Hears that Mental Healthcare in Louisiana Prison is “Almost Non-existent”
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Filed under: Failure to Treat (Mental Illness)
Federal Court Hears that Mental Healthcare in Louisiana Prison is “Almost Non-existent” by Matthew Clarke State’s “scorched-earth” strategy runs up $3 million legal tab by Matt Clarke A bench trial opened at a federal court in Louisiana on January 10, 2022, with dramatic testimony from a former state prisoner, who …
News in Brief
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: In Mobile on January 21, 2022, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Alabama announced that an 18-month federal prison sentence for bribery had been handed down by a federal court to Lakerdra Shanta Snowden, 31, a former guard at the Escambia County …
Covid-19 Pandemic Bumps Still Anemic Clemency Numbers
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Filed under: COVID-19, Pardons/Clemency
Covid-19 Pandemic Bumps Still Anemic Clemency Numbers by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, health and penology experts have urged state and federal governments to depopulate their prison systems. State governors remain under increasing pressure to use their executive clemency powers to achieve this …
News in Brief
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by California: A guard at San Quentin State Prison and one of two outside co-conspirators were arraigned on September 8, 2021, on federal charges they smuggled cellphones to an unnamed prisoner on death row at the California lockup. According to a statement by the U.S. Department of …
Louisiana Prisoners Used as Slave Labor During Hurricane Ida, Families Left in the Dark for Weeks
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Filed under: Prison Labor, Conditions of Confinement
Louisiana Prisoners Used as Slave Labor During Hurricane Ida, Families Left in the Dark for Weeks by Brian Dolinar by Brian Dolinar When Hurricane Ida made landfall this past summer, it was the deadliest and most destructive to hit Louisiana since Hurricane Katrina. In 2005, many prisoners were not evacuated …
Fifth Circuit Holds Confessed Medical Malpractice Does Not Insulate Prison Medical Providers From Finding of Deliberate Indifference
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Filed under: Medical Misconduct, Malpractice, Deliberate Indifference
Fifth Circuit Holds Confessed Medical Malpractice Does Not Insulate Prison Medical Providers From Finding of Deliberate Indifference by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 11, 2021, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that a confession of medical malpractice by prison health care providers does …
Moore v. Lasalle Management, LA, Reply Brief, Wrongful Death, 2021
Brief • October 1, 2021
Filed under: Wrongful Death
Moore v. Lasalle Management, LA, Reply Brief, Wrongful Death, 2021 Case: 20-30739 Document: 00516039541 Page: 1 Date Filed: 10/01/2021 No. 20-30739 IN THE United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ERIE MOORE, JR.; TAMARA GREEN; TIFFANY ROBINSON, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. LASALLE MANAGEMENT COMPANY, L.L.C., INCORRECTLY NAMED AS LASALLE CORRECTIONS …
Tellis v. Leblanc, LA, Class Action Certification, Conditions of Confinement - Extended Lockdown, 2021
Brief • September 20, 2021
Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Eighth Amendment, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement
Tellis v. Leblanc, LA, Class Action Certification, Conditions of Confinement - Extended Lockdown, 2021 Case 5:18-cv-00541-EEF-MLH Document 462 Filed 09/20/21 Page 1 of 28 PageID #: 23229 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA SHREVEPORT DIVISION ANTHONY TELLIS, ET AL. CIVIL ACTION NO. 18-541 VERSUS JUDGE ELIZABETH E. FOOTE …
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