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Mississippi Department of Corrections Lifts Smoking Ban at its Prisons
Article • March 1, 2021 • from PLN March, 2021
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Smoking
Mississippi Department of Corrections Lifts Smoking Ban at its Prisons by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders Mississippi joined 28 other states by removing a tobacco ban at the state’s prisons. As of February 1, 2021, both prisoners and staff are allowed to smoke outdoors in designated areas determined by each …
Successive Corruption Scandal Rocks Mississippi Prison System
Article • March 1, 2021 • from PLN March, 2021
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Jail Misconduct
Successive Corruption Scandal Rocks Mississippi Prison System by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon "We are the ones who are supposed to be protecting society from the criminals, not be the criminals,” the commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) said at a September 18, 2020 press conference. “So we …
Centurion Opts Out of Mississippi Prison Medical Contract
Article • March 1, 2021 • from PLN March, 2021
Filed under: Centurion
Centurion Opts Out of Mississippi Prison Medical Contract by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Citing Mississippi’s refusal to invest in prison facilities and staff, private medical vendor Centurion pulled out of its contract with the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) to provide medical and mental health care to prisoners. …
News in Brief
Article • March 1, 2021 • from PLN March, 2021
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Arizona: In January 2021, two women who worked at an Arizona state prison operated by Florida-based GEO Group pleaded guilty to having sex with inmates there. Melony Petrovffsky, 50, ran the commissary for the private contractor at a prison in Golden Valley, where she was allegedly …
No-Show Prison Workers Cost Mississippi Taxpayers Millions
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Filed under: Cost of Prison Systems, Staffing
No-Show Prison Workers Cost Mississippi Taxpayers Millions by Joseph Neff, Alysia Santo Prisoners, guards face danger from chronic understaffing by MTC by Joseph Neff and Alysia Santo, The Marshall Project This article was published in partnership with The Clarion-Ledger, Mississippi Today and The Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting. When Darrell …
Experts Find “Deplorable” Conditions at Mississippi’s Parchman Prison
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Filed under: Systemic Medical Neglect, Conditions of Confinement
Experts Find “Deplorable” Conditions at Mississippi’s Parchman Prison by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The conditions under which residents exist at Parchman are subhuman and deplorable in a civilized society,” wrote Dr. Marc Stern, a correctional health-care consultant hired by lawyers representing Parchman prisoners, in a report to federal …
News in Brief
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
News in Brief by Alabama: On August 21, 2020, Sylvester Hartley became the seventh prisoner to die of complications from COVID-19 at Alabama’s St. Clair Correctional Facility, according to a report in the St. Clair News-Aegis. The 60-year-old, who was serving a life-without-parole sentence for three counts of first-degree kidnapping, …
Woman Sues Mississippi Parole Board for Discrimination and Retaliation
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
Filed under: Gender Discrimination -- Women, Retaliation for Filing Grievances, Probation, Parole & Supervised Release
Woman Sues Mississippi Parole Board for Discrimination and Retaliation by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso On March 27, 2020, a lawsuit filed in a county court the previous year against the Mississippi Parole Board (MPB) by state prisoner Anita Krecic was refiled in federal court, alleging MPB has discriminated …
Teen Spends 17 Months in Mississippi Jail Without Indictment
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
Filed under: State Actors
Teen Spends 17 Months in Mississippi Jail Without Indictment by Daniel A. Rosen by Daniel A. Rosen A 16-year-old in Mississippi has spent almost a year and a half in an adult jail without being indicted, according to a July 30, 2020, article in The Appeal. And his case is …
Former Angola Warden Burl Cain Appointed Head of Mississippi Prison System
Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Jail Misconduct, Government Misconduct
Former Angola Warden Burl Cain Appointed Head of Mississippi Prison System by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Former Louisiana State Penitentiary Warden Burl Cain’s 21-year tenure running the prison complex at Angola was both long and controversial. His critics accused him of religious bias, blatant racial prejudice and excessive use …
Lawsuit Over Hellish 9-Day Prisoner Transport Reinstated
Article • October 1, 2020 • from PLN October, 2020
Filed under: Transfers, Contractor Misconduct, Contractor Liability
Lawsuit Over Hellish 9-Day Prisoner Transport Reinstated by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On April 29, 2020, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a grant of summary judgment to Inmate Services Corp. (ISC), allowing to continue a civil rights action alleging a pretrial detainee’s constitutional rights were violated …
Beyond Harsh: 86 Mississippi Prisoners Serving Life Without Parole for Nonviolent Offenses
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Filed under: U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, Three Strikes
Beyond Harsh: 86 Mississippi Prisoners Serving Life Without Parole for Nonviolent Offenses by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In a resurgence of “tough-on-crime” sentencing reforms that swept the nation in the 1990s, many states enacted “three-strikes” laws mandating life sentences for those convicted of three felony offenses. Mississippi was among …
News in Brief
Article • July 1, 2020 • from PLN July, 2020
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Arizona: A Maricopa County grand jury indicted Daniel Davitt, 60, on January 14,  2020 on charges of second-degree murder in the death of Lower Buckeye Jail guard Gene Lee on October 30. Buckeye Jail video shows Davitt talking to Lee on October 29, then suddenly grabbing …
Mississippi Prisons in Crisis
Article • July 1, 2020 • from PLN July, 2020
Filed under: Prison Gangs, Cost of Prison Systems, Overcrowding, Staffing
Mississippi Prisons in Crisis by David Reutter Prisons beset with gang-related violence, overcrowding, understaffing and weak funding. by David M. Reutter Between late last year and early April 2020, more than 30 Mississippi prisoners died due togang violence, suicide or illness – over 10 times the average of 3.4 prisoner …
Rappers Jay-Z and Yo Gatti Help Prisoners in Mississippi Sue State Over “Inhumane and Unconstitutional Conditions”
Article • July 1, 2020 • from PLN July, 2020
Filed under: Cost of Prison Systems, Conditions of Confinement, Staffing
Rappers Jay-Z and Yo Gatti Help Prisoners in Mississippi Sue State Over “Inhumane and Unconstitutional Conditions” by Bill Barton by Bill Barton Lawyers representing music stars Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter and Mario “Yo Gotti” Mims, along with Carter’s entertainment company, Team Roc, filed a federal lawsuit in the Northern District of …
Mississippi Jail to Stay Open Despite Massive “Financial Trouble”
Article • June 1, 2020 • from PLN June, 2020
Filed under: Cost of Prison Systems
Mississippi Jail to Stay Open Despite Massive “Financial Trouble” by Chad Marks by Chad Marks On December 12, 2019, the Board of Supervisors of Mississippi’s Issaquena County granted an eleventh-hour reprieve to the Issaquena County Regional Jail just five days before it was set to close and over 300 prisoners …
Suit: Mississippi Man Sentenced to Two Days Hangs Himself After Jail Kept Him 52 Days Longer
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Filed under: Overdetention, Suicides
Suit: Mississippi Man Sentenced to Two Days Hangs Himself After Jail Kept Him 52 Days Longer by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney After he lost work and was unable to pay a fine, Robert Wayne Johnson was sentenced to the Keller Neshoba Regional Correctional Facility (KNRCF) in rural Kemper County, …
Krecic v. Pickett, MS, Notice of Removal and Complaint, Parole Board Retaliation, 2020
Brief • March 27, 2020
Filed under: Racial Discrimination, Retaliation, Eighth Amendment, Parole Liability, Fourteenth Amendment, rights, 42 U.S. Code § 1983, civil action for deprivation of rights
Krecic v. Pickett, MS, Notice of Removal and Complaint, Parole Board Retaliation, 2020 Case 3:20-cv-00210-HTW-LRA Document 1 Filed 03/27/20 Page 1 of 4 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI NORTHERN DIVISION ANITA KRECIC PLAINTIFF 3:20-cv210-HTW-LRA CIVIL ACTION NO. _____________________ VS. THE MISSISSIPPI STATE PAROLE …
Amos v. Hall, MI, WHO statement, Covid19, 2020
Brief • March 16, 2020
Filed under: Contagious Disease -- Misc., COVID-19
Amos v. Hall, MI, WHO statement, Covid19, 2020 Case: 4:20-cv-00007-DMB-JMV Doc #: 59-1 Filed: 03/16/20 1 of 4 PageID #: 946 EXHIBIT A World Health Organization Director – General’s Brief on COVID19 (Mar. 11, 2020) Case: 4:20-cv-00007-DMB-JMV Doc #: 59-1 Filed: 03/16/20 2 of 4 PageID #: 947 WHO Director-General's …
Amos v. Hall, MI, Standing Order, Covid19, 2020
Brief • March 16, 2020
Filed under: Contagious Disease -- Misc., COVID-19
Amos v. Hall, MI, Standing Order, Covid19, 2020 Case: 4:20-cv-00007-DMB-JMV Doc #: 59-4 Filed: 03/16/20 1 of 4 PageID #: 956 EXHIBIT D Standing Order In Re: The Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), 3:20MC-9, U.S. District Court for the N.D. of Miss. dated 3/16/2020 Case: 4:20-cv-00007-DMB-JMV Doc #: 59-4 Filed: 03/16/20 2 …
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