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Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Rikers Island Detainees Given Pricey Weight-Loss Surgery but Little Follow-Up Care by From New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex, detainee David Mustiga, 43, was transported to the city’s Bellevue Hospital in February 2023, after a jail medical staffer told him he could trim his 300-pound weight with bariatric surgery. …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Filed under: Medication, Pain, Injunctions
New York Prisoners with Chronic Pain Win Injunction to Receive Denied Medication by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On November 22, 2023, the federal court for Southern District of New York granted a permanent injunction to a class of prisoners held by the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision …
Publication • February 21, 2024
BOC -City of New York-Statement on Chemical Agent Report -Feb. 2024 Dwayne C. Sampson, Chair DeAnna Hoskins, Vice Chair Rachael Bedard, M.D. Robert L. Cohen, M.D. Felipe Franco Jacqueline Miriam Pitts Joseph Ramos Jacqueline Sherman Jude Torchenaud BOARD OF CORRECTION CITY OF NEW YORK 2 LAFAYETTE STREET, SUITE 1221 NEW …
Second Report and Recommendations on 2023 Deaths in New York City Department of Corrections Custody, Feb. 2024 BOARD OF CORRECTION CITY OF NEW YORK Second Report and Recommendations on 2023 Deaths in New York City Department of Correction Custody1 February 9, 2024 Co-Authored by Director of Special Investigations Rahzeem Gray …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Rikers Island Guard Accidentally Records Himself Planting Shiv in Prisoner’s Cell by Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark and New York City Department of Investigation (DOI) Commissioner Jocelyn E. Strauber announced on October 27, 2023, that a guard at the city’s Rikers Island jail complex had been indicted for evidence …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Second Circuit Says New York Prisons Must Answer for Denying Court-Ordered Rehab by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On July 4, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed denial of qualified immunity (QI) to New York state prison officials who refused a prisoner’s judicially ordered …
Publication • February 1, 2024
NYC Board of Correction-An Assessment of the Use of Chemical Agents in NYC Jails - Feb 2024 . . . . . Boardof . .T . . Correction AN ASSESSMENT OF THE USE OF CHEMICAL AGENTS IN NEW YORK CITY JAILS February 2024 1 Table of Contents I. Executive Summary …
Second Circuit Revives N.Y. Prisoner’s Suit Over Sing Sing Fire, 11 Other Prisoners Split $220,000 Settlement by On July 17, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed a lower court’s dismissal of a prisoner’s suit filed in connection with the fire at Sing Sing Correctional Facility …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Nearly $75 Million Class-Action Settlement Reached For Delayed Releases from N.Y.C. Jails by On July 12, 2023, the federal court for the Southern District of New York granted final approval to a settlement in a class-action lawsuit alleging detainees in New York City jails were forced to wait three hours …
Brief • December 29, 2023
Filed under: Failure to Treat
Wright v. The State of New York, NY, Claim, Assault and Battery, 2023 NEW YORK STATE COURT OF CLAIMS CHARLES WRIGHT, Claimant, VERIFIED CLAIM -againstClaim No.: E23-5143 THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent. Claimant, Charles Wright, appearing through his attorneys at Barket Epstein Kearon Aldea & LoTurco, LLP, hereby alleges …
Brief • December 29, 2023
Taylor v. The State of New York, NY, Verified Claim, Assault and Battery, 2023 CLAIM NO. E23-5142 NYSCEF DOC. NO. 1 RECEIVED NYSCEF: 12/29/2023 NEW YORK STATE COURT OF CLAIMS EUGENE TAYLOR, Claimant, VERIFIED CLAIM -againstClaim No.: E23-5142 THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent. Claimant, Eugene Tay !or, appearing through …
Publication • December 20, 2023
Appendix XXX-Council Bill 549-A-Passed 12.20.23 Appendix XXX – Council Bill 549-A – Passed December 20, 2023 By the Public Advocate (Mr. Williams) and Council Members Rivera, Cabán, Hudson, Won, Restler, Hanif, Avilés, Nurse, Sanchez, Narcisse, Krishnan, Abreu, Louis, Farías, De La Rosa, Ung, Ossé, Gutiérrez, Richardson Jordan, Joseph, Brannan, Menin, …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: Within 48-hours of booking into the Morgan County Jail on August 29, 2023, Miles Rea Batson, 39, had two second-degree assault charges added to his public intoxication charge as well as another for disarming a law enforcement agent. WHNT in Huntsville reported that during booking …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Class Certified in Suit Alleging Overuse of Solitary Confinement in New York Prisons by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 11, 2023, class-action status was granted to a suit filed the previous April against the New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS), accusing the prison agency of …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
New York Adding Names to Tombstones of Dead Prisoners by “We recognize them as people, not just a number,” said Rev. Alfred Twyman. The chaplain with New York’s Department of Corrections and Community Services (DOCCS) was talking about corpses of people who died in a state prison, in a report …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Watchdog Report Attempts to Prove Epstein Suicide by Nearly four years after billionaire sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was found fatally hanged in his cell at a now-shuttered federal lockup in Manhattan, officials attempted to confirm it was a suicide in a report released on June 27, 2023, by Michael Horowitz, …
New York State Struggles to Hold Prison Guards Accountable for Abuse by An investigation published by The Marshall Project on May 19, 2023, examined the struggle by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) to hold its guards accountable for abusing state prisoners. Over a span …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Less is More Act Cuts Parole Population by 40% in New York by By March 1, 2023, more than 17,000 New York parolees had been discharged early since the Less is More (LIM) Act took effect a year earlier, cutting the number of people on parole statewide by nearly 40%. …
Brief • November 29, 2023
Filed under: False Arrest
Smith v. County of Nassau, NY, Judgment, False Arrest, 2023 Case 2:10-cv-04874-MKB-AYS Document 184 Filed 11/29/23 Page 1 of 1 PageID #: 2571 AO 450 (Rev. 11/11) Judgment in a Civil Action UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT for the Eastern MICHAEL SMITH Plaintiff v. COUNTY OF NASSAU, TIMOTHY SLEVIN, AND MARTIN …
Brief • November 29, 2023
Filed under: False Arrest
Smith v. County of Nassau, NY, Minute Entry, False Arrest, 2023 From: To: Subject: Date: ecf_bounces@nyed.uscourts.gov nobody@nyed.uscourts.gov Activity in Case 2:10-cv-04874-MKB-AYS Smith v. County of Nassau et al Jury Trial - Completed Wednesday, November 29, 2023 9:36:09 AM This is an automatic e-mail message generated by the CM/ECF system. Please …
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