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Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Ninth Circuit Says Arizona DOC Policy Cannot Be Used to Censor Prisoner’s Free Expression by David Reutter by David Reutter  An Arizona prisoner’s civil rights claim is headed to trial in June 2023, after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reinstated it, saying his prison’s policy on …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Minnesota Supreme Court: Prisoner Abused with Overtight Handcuffs Need Only Show Deliberate Indifference, Not Malicious Intent by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clark On December 14, 2022, the Minnesota Supreme Court took up a state prisoner’s claim that he was left with permanent nerve damage from restraints guards misused during a …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Federal Courts Throw Out Smart Communications’ Mail-Scanning Patent by Robert Schaeffer by K. Robert Schaeffer On October 7, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee granted judgment on the pleadings to Rutherford County and VendEngine, Inc., the contractor that digitizes prisoner mail in its jail, in …
Publication • June 12, 2023
UCLA School of Law-How Prisoners' Rights Lawyers Do Vital Work Despite the Courts, 2023 UCLA School of Law Public Law & Legal Theory Research Paper No. 23-07 HOW PRISONERS' RIGHTS LAWYERS DO VITAL WORK DESPITE THE COURTS BY SHARON DOLOVICH PROFESSOR OF LAW Electronic copy available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4476714 \\jciprod01\productn\U\UST\19-2\UST210.txt unknown …
Article • June 7, 2023
Suit Filed to Stop California County From Digitizing Jail Mail by Gregory Teixeira by Gregory P. Teixeira A decision by California’s San Mateo County to ban physical mail from county jails – enforcing a digital-only communication system – drew a legal challenge in state Superior Court on March 9, 2023. …
Publication • 2023
How Prisoners' Rights Lawyers Do Vital Work Despite the Courts, 2023 \\jciprod01\productn\U\UST\19-2\UST210.txt unknown Seq: 1 28-MAR-23 15:25 SYMPOSIUM KEYNOTE HOW PRISONERS’ RIGHTS LAWYERS DO VITAL WORK DESPITE THE COURTS SHARON DOLOVICH* Thanks to Professor Sisk and to the symposium organizers for inviting me to speak to you today. It is …
Publication • 2023
The Perspective of Incarcerated Persons (Panel Discussion) \\jciprod01\productn\U\UST\19-2\UST211.txt unknown Seq: 1 28-MAR-23 15:26 SYMPOSIUM REMARKS THE PERSPECTIVE OF INCARCERATED PERSONS (PANEL DISCUSSION) ORAY FIFER, RUDY MARTINEZ & PAUL WRIGHT; MODERATED PROFESSOR GREGORY SISK* BY Professor Gregory Sisk: When academics and lawyers get together and have conferences like this, we talk …
From Crisis to Care-Ending the Health Harm of Women's Prison-Feb. 2023 February 2023 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report aims to center the experiences of people incarcerated in California women’s prisons, which remain a serious and entrenched public health crisis. According to data from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), …
Guards Filmed Walking Away from Burning Mexican Detention Center Where 38 Migrants Died by Jordan Arizmendi, Chuck Sharman by Jordan Arizmendi and Chuck Sharman A huge fire inside an immigration detention facility in Ciudad Juarez, just across the Mexican border from El Paso, killed 38 men on March 28, 2023. …
Article • May 1, 2023 • from PLN May, 2023
Eighth Circuit Affirms Over $278,000 Awarded to Minnesota Jail Detainee Held on Bad ICE Referral Policy by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On November 30, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed a $30,001 jury award and a fee award over $248,000 to a Minnesota …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Suspended Colorado Work Release Program Exposes Companies’ Reliance on Low-Wage Labor by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart Human resources manager Jeanette Carmack called them “really, really good guys”: nine prisoners from the Colorado Department of Corrections (DOC) who filled positions in the Public Works and Parks, Recreation and Golf departments …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Federal Judge Tells BOP Officials They “Are Not Above the Law” by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian On October 4, 2022, Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. of the federal court for the Middle District of Florida excoriated officials with the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and its Seagoville Federal …
$35,000 Awarded to Federal Prisoner in Kentucky Who Accused Guards of Using Excessive Force by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart In July 2019, Jonathan Lee Smith was a prisoner at the U.S. Penitentiary near Kentucky’s Big Sandy River, when he got in a fight with another prisoner and guards responded. …
Carty v. Bryan, VI, Order, Inhumane Prison Conditions, 2023 Case: 3:94-cv-00078-RAM-RM Document #: 1385 Filed: 03/15/23 Page 1 of 1 IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS DIVISION OF ST. THOMAS AND ST. JOHN LAWRENCE CARTY, et al., Plaintiff, v. ALBERT BRYAN, et al., Defendant. ) ) ) ) …
Carty v. Bryan, VI, Order Appointing Glenn Corbett as the Fire Expert, Inhumane Prison Conditions, 2023 Case: 3:94-cv-00078-RAM-RM Document #: 1386 Filed: 03/15/23 Page 1 of 1 IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS DIVISION OF ST. THOMAS AND ST. JOHN LAWRENCE CARTY, et al., Plaintiff, v. ALBERT BRYAN, …
Carty v. Bryan, VI, Order Appointing Michael Gatling as Security Environmental Safety Expert, Inhumane Prison Conditions, 2023 Case: 3:94-cv-00078-RAM-RM Document #: 1387 Filed: 03/15/23 Page 1 of 1 IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS DIVISION OF ST. THOMAS AND ST. JOHN LAWRENCE CARTY, et al., Plaintiff, v. ALBERT …
Article • March 9, 2023
Alabama Prisoner’s Deliberate Indifference Claim Dies for Lack of Proper Affidavits by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On November 11, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed dismissal of an Alabama prisoner’s civil rights action that alleged overlong delays in treatment for hernias and post-surgery …
Brief • March 8, 2023
Alvear v. The Salvation Army, GA, Opinion and Order, Fair Labor, 2023 Case 1:22-cv-00979-SEG Document 102 Filed 03/08/23 Page 1 of 34 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA ATLANTA DIVISION RAYMON ALVEAR, JR., ROBERT MASSEY, DAVID STOUGH, and ANDREW KEIGANS, on behalf of themselves and all other similar …
Brief • March 3, 2023
Filed under: Prison Classification
Harper v. Arkesteyn, MI,Settlement, Prison Classification, 2023 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DIVISION WILLIE E. HARPER, JR. #932428, Plaintiff, NO. 2:19-cv-11106 v HON. GEORGE C. STEER DAVID ARKESTEYN, ADRIANE FOSTER, BRENDA STEVENSON, KELECHI EGBUCHULAM, RACHEL THOMPSON, MICHAEL EAGIN, MELISSA JENNINGS, JEROME WARFIELD SR., ANTHONY KING, SUE …
Article • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023
Filed under: Access To Courts
Tenth Circuit Revives Kansas Prisoner’s Claim That He Was Denied Access to Court by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso On April 18, 2022, the U.S Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit reversed dismissal of a suit filed by Kansas prisoner Kenneth D. Leek, holding that he met the …
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