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Article • April 27, 2023
Filed under: Death Penalty
Pennsylvania Politicians Push to Abolish Death Penalty by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On April 17, 2023, Democratic lawmakers in both chambers of Pennsylvania’s General Assembly filed bills to repeal the state’s death penalty. HB999 was introduced in the House and SB600 in the senate two months and one day …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: WBAM in Birmingham reported that a guard at the Blount County Jail was taken into custody and fired on January 31, 2023. Joseph Snow, 43, was charged with second-degree assault for injuring a detainee during an incident captured on surveillance video. Sheriff Mike Moon called …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Third Circuit Unbothered by Pennsylvania’s Discrimination Against Sex Offenders in Denying Parole to Halfway Houses by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In a precedential ruling displaying galling cowardice, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ordered summary judgment on November 9, 2022, against a group of sex …
Article • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by News in Brief Alabama: On January 9, 2023, the Montgomery Police Department (MPD) arrested a guard at the city jail for an alleged off-duty assault, the Birmingham News reported. It’s unclear who filed the misdemeanor complaint against Reba Foulks, 36; MPD didn’t begin its investigation until …
Article • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023
Filed under: Jail Misconduct
Pennsylvania County Commissioner Barred from DA’s Email After Own Prison Record Is Purged and Jail Key Copied by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss On January 3, 2023, when Debi Domenick was re-appointed to serve as Vice-Chairwoman for the Board of Commissioners of Pennsylvania’s Lackawanna County, she chided her colleagues …
Article • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023
Filed under: Excessive Force, Discovery
Pennsylvania Guards and Their Attorneys Spanked for Discovery Abuse in Prisoner’s Excessive-Force Suit by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 18, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania imposed sanctions for discovery abuse upon defendant state prison guards and their counsel, in a lawsuit …
Article • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023
Hypothermia Kills Prisoner in Cold Pennsylvania Jail Cell, One of 17 Deaths Since 2019 by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott When Richard A. Carter, died in Pennsylvania’s Dauphin County Prison (DCP) on Christmas Eve 2022, officials released key details that showed they had not neglected him. A nurse …
Article • February 2, 2023
Fired Pittsburgh Jail Guard Wins Over $850,000 in Retaliation Case by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barret In October 2022, a jury in the federal Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania awarded $400,000 in compensatory damages to former Allegheny County Jail (ACJ) guard Jeffery Kengerski in his federal employment rights …
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
$959,000 Paid by Pennsylvania County in Deaths of Two Detainees, Plus at Least $750,000 from PrimeCare by Ashleigh Dye by Ashleigh N. Dye For the 2018 deaths of two detainees at Pennsylvania’s Bucks County Correctional Facility (BCCF), the county has agreed to pay a total of $959,000. Its privately contracted …
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
Federal Judge in Pennsylvania Rules BOP Must Honor Transgender Prisoner’s Legal Name Change by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian On July 19, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania granted the motion of a transgender federal prisoner and compelled the U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) …
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: WHNT in Huntsville reported on December 16, 2022, that a Morgan County Jail detainee was charged with assaulting a guard. Ashley Nicole Taymon, 36, had gotten into an altercation at the Community Corrections Office five days earlier and was taken to a hospital. There she …
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
Former Judges in Pennsylvania ‘Kids for Cash’ Scandal Must Pay $206 Million in Damages by Ashleigh Dye by Ashleigh N. Dye On August 18, 2022, a federal judge in Pennsylvania ordered two former state judges to pay $206 million in damages for taking $2.8 million in kickbacks to shut down …
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
$60,000 Paid by Pennsylvania County to Jail Detainee Savagely Beaten by Cellmate While Guards Allegedly Ignored Cries for Help by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart On July 15, 2022, Pennsylvania’s Bedford County agreed to pay $60,000 to a former detainee in the county jail, settling claims that guards purposefully failed …
Brief • January 10, 2023
Filed under: Excessive Force
Talbert v. Pennsylvania State Police, PA, Complaint, Excessive Force, 2023 Case 3:23-cv-00039-MEM-DB Document 1-1 Filed 01/10/23 Page 1 of 40 EXHIBIT A Complaint Case 3:23-cv-00039-MEM-DB Document 1-1 Filed 01/10/23 Page 2 of 40 - \ o l'he. C'ororoc()li~e.G\\'n Co\1, \ <S_t '.-?e~s\.~~t\'fi,~ - Lllll ·Nov - I PH I : …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: On November 2, 2022, a former state prison guard at the William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility near Birmingham pleaded guilty to federal contraband smuggling charges. The Birmingham News reported that Wilson Brian Clemons, 32, was arrested on November 23, 2021, on state counts of marijuana …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
Third Circuit Agrees With Pennsylvania Prisoner’s Access-to-Courts Claim, But Grants Defendants Qualified Immunity by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On June 15, 2022, in a precedential ruling that might help the next prisoner plaintiff, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that &ldquo;a prisoner has a …
Publication • December 29, 2022
Filed under: Prisoners' Rights
Pennsylvania DOC-Inmate Pay Increases, Dec. 2022 ~ pennsylvania ~ DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS TO: All Inmates FROM: George M. Little Secretary of Corrections DATE: December 29, 2022 SUBJECT: Pay Scale Increase As we celebrate this holiday season, it is refreshing to look back over the past year and see how far …
Brief • December 1, 2022
Filed under: Failure to Treat
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Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A detainee assaulted aguard at the Calhoun County Jail on August 6, 2022, the Anniston Star reported. Sheriff Matthew Wade blamed an ongoing staffing shortage, which has typically left three guards on duty to supervise 300 detainees. One of them, Jacob Hammett, was out of …
Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022
Pennsylvania County Retakes Control of Jail From GEO Group by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On April 6, 2022, Pennsylvania&rsquo;s Delaware County assumed control of its jail for the first time in 24 years, after terminating its contract with the Florida-based GEO Group. Prior to that, the 1,800-bed George W. …
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