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Lawsuit Alleges Black ICE Detainee Subjected to Racial Slurs, Choked in Restraint Chair at Pennsylvania Jail by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke   According to a federal civil rights action filed by Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project attorneys Matthew A. Feldman and Evangeline Wright on November 15, 2023, a Black …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Filed under: Environmental Law, Water
Contaminated Water a Longstanding Problem at Nebraska Women’s Prison by “Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink,” goes the line from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. As Coleridge dramatized, water is essential to life, yet most people take it for granted. For those incarcerated, their access to drinking …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: Four months after a judge found no probable cause to prosecute former Mobile Metro Jail guard Kimberly A. Henderson, 32, for contraband smuggling, charges were reinstated in a new indictment that resulted in her rearrest on March 22, 2024, WPMI in Mobile said. As PLN …
His Appeal Lost for 28 Years, Texas Prisoner Finally Off Death Row by When sentenced to Texas’ death row in 1988 for a murder committed the year before, Syed Rabbani was a healthy 23-year-old. Now 57, he is psychotic and blind, left almost entirely unable to move or speak by …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Filed under: Bankruptcy, housing
Bankruptcy Threatens $500,000 Settlement in Suit Alleging Housing Discrimination Against Former Prisoners in New York City by Formerly incarcerated residents of New York City appeared to land a punch in their fight to secure housing in the city’s notoriously tight real estate market on August 14, 2023, when the Fortune …
Contemporary Slavery: The Not-So-Secret Practice of Forced Labor Inside U.S. Prisons by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney   “If we refused to work we had to stand on top of a wooden box in the sun. It was called ‘doin’ the scarecrow’ and some guys passed out from the heat”—Florida …
Other Jails Study Miami Diversion Program to Keep Mentally Ill from Repeated Incarceration by Faced with repeated jail admissions of people suffering from schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses (SMI), the city of Miami has developed one of the nation’s most comprehensive diversion programs, focusing on treatment and community integration …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Filed under: Police/Govt Misconduct
Far-Right Claremont Institute Awards Extremist California Sheriff by The Claremont Institute, “nerve center of the American right,” honored Sheriff Chad Bianco of California’s Riverside County on November 9, 2023, with its annual Sheriff Award for being a “longtime patriot and tireless defender of America’s founding principles.” For $450 a plate, …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
After Takeover from CoreCivic, Oklahoma Prison Even More Short-Staffed by Five days after the Oklahoma Department of Corrections (DOC) took over a state prison from private operator CoreCivic on October 1, 2023, a ceremony was held to rename the former Davis Correctional Facility. On the same day, October 6, 2023, …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Virginia Sheriff Sued After “Catfishing” Deputy Kills Family of California Teen Victim by A lawsuit filed on November 26, 2023, lays out the bizarre story of a Virginia Sheriff’s deputy who “catfished” a California teen and murdered her family before abducting her and then turning his gun on himself as …
Missouri DOC Models Re-entry Program on Norwegian Prisons by Dressed in maroon shirts—not prison jumpsuits—three prisoners joined the “Dynamo” program at Missouri’s Northeast Correctional Center in November 2023. That brought total enrollment to 17 since the state Department of Correction (DOC) launched the initiative in April 2023, modeling it after …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Executions Rise in 2023, Number on Death Row Falls by The number of American prisoners awaiting execution continued a decrease that began at the turn of the century, dropping to 2,331 in 2023, a 4.3% decline from 2022. Yet even though just five states executed prisoners during the year— Texas, …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
BOP Lifts Maximum Age for New Guards to 40 by On October 1, 2023, the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) implemented a temporary policy raising the maximum age for guard candidates to 40. The previous upper age limit was 37. The new policy is aimed at solving a staffing crisis …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Memphis Jail Accused of Routine Over-Detention in Suit Over Detainee’s Murder by A lawsuit filed on November 18, 2023, accused the Shelby County Jail in Memphis of routinely and deliberately denying release to eligible detainees. That’s how Marcus Donald’s family alleged the 38-year-old was still in the jail despite a …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Vermont Court Orders Centurion to Cough Up Records in HRDC Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke   On November 7, 2023, a Vermont court ruled in favor of the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), publisher of PLN and Criminal Legal News, in its request for records from Centurion of …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Filed under: Suicides
Florida County Pays $300,000 to Settle Jail Suicide Suit by Matthew Clarke On October 17, 2023, the estate of a detainee who committed suicide in Florida’s Escambia County Jail accepted $300,000 to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit. Lukas MacKenzie Snelson, 24, was arrested on December 30, 2021, for second …
$700,000 Jury Verdict for Wisconsin Prisoner Denied Due Process in Disciplinary Hearing by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   On November 27, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin denied state prison officials’ motion for new trial. That left standing a jury verdict finding that …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Filed under: Malpractice, State Actions
New York Court of Appeals Lets DOCCS Skate from Liability for Doctor’s Malpractice on State Prisoner by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney   On December 14, 2023, the New York Court of Appeals refused to hold officials with the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) liable for malpractice …
$7 Million Settlement for Mentally Ill Detainee’s Death in California’s Santa Rita Jail by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke   In a settlement agreement effective October 23, 2023, California’sAlameda County agreed to pay $7 million to the estate and progeny of a detainee who died while incarcerated at the county’s …
U.N. Panel Finds Rampant Racism in U.S. Criminal Justice System by In what will surprise few prisoners, a report by an appointed panel of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (HRC) released on September 26, 2023, found “shocking” human rights violations and “staggering” racial disparities in U.S. criminal justice …
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