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Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
Filed under: Damages
; The Court agreed with the DOR that Quesnoy had not satisfied that burden because “no evidence in the record suggests what portion of [her] $35,000 damages award against the state was based on her &lsquo ...
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
was too busy to see what was happening in each cell. “There is no way in the jail not to watch your inmates,” countered Sonita Singh, who evaluates the Louisiana Department of Corrections ...
Article • June 7, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
;They house you like a criminal, they treat you like a criminal,” said former detainee Hidalgo. “There, you’re seen like a criminal, therefore what is that? A prison.” So when ...
Article • June 8, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
as a public record. Anna Brown, a 29-year-old homeless woman, visited two hospitals in September 2011 complaining of severe pain in her leg. She sought medical assistance but what she received was humiliation ...
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
not choose among different providers, and generally paid amounts far in excess of industry standards.” The plaintiffs claimed that what emerged was a state-sanctioned, unregulated monopoly that generated ...
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
and $75,000 in punitive damages, respectively. “People talk about [former Chicago police commander] Jon Burge, but what Guevara did, and the wrongful conviction he caused, really exceed anything ...
Federal Judge Orders Washington Prison Officials to Properly Feed Ramadan Participants by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis In what could be the fastest injunction ever granted ...
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Filed under: Telephone Rates
these calls free for people and their loved ones. Thousands of people in NYC jails are there solely because a court set money bail beyond what they could afford, 88% are Black and/or Latino, and nearly all ...
Article • August 4, 2016
went to jail uninjured and his body was returned covered with bruises. Mosely was schizophrenic and bipolar and, according to what he told Gordon during visits at the jail, being denied his medications ...
Article • August 23, 2016
District Attorney's Office." Needless to say, it raises privacy concerns when a jail prisoner's explanation to a loved one of what has happened to him or her becomes fodder for the prosecution. There is also ...
.  If these facilities are not failing, we don't know what kind of facility will ever fail an inspection." In addition to improving transparency and improving the quality of inspections, Valenzuela ...
Article • January 3, 2017
: “to invalidate or annul.” That is exactly what the court concluded in Evans v. U.S. Parole Commission, 78 F.3d 262 (7th Cir. 1996). This conclusion was called into doubt by Johnson v. United ...
New Study Documents Lower Pre-arrest Incomes for Prisoners by Derek Gilna A study released last year, prepared by the Prison Policy Initiative (PPI), documented what most criminal justice ...
,” said Celmiro De Almeida, a convicted murderer. Another prisoner, Darci Altair Santos da Silva, a sex offender, added, “I know what I did was very cruel. The tea helped me reflect on this fact ...
have to pay for the calls despite the interruption. At that point, as LCCC prisoner Chris Davison told the Empire, “the whole place kind of blew up, you know what I mean?” Alaska DOC ...
, used profanity and humiliated her; female prisoners were routinely asked what they thought about while they masturbated. If the women refused to participate they were deemed “uncooperative ...
Article • July 20, 2017
, provides a new look at "a growing body of work documenting and analyzing the experiences of LGBTQ in the criminal legal system," and doesn't like what it sees. The report states: "in 2011-2012, 7.9 ...
prisoners. “The DOC’s commitment to this change is a reflection of the parties listening to the experts about what makes sense from both penological and rehabilitative interests,” said ...
built prisons without climate-controlled cell blocks to intentionally subject prisoners to torturous conditions. What is even more amazing is that in 2017 there is still debate as to whether ...
Article • July 20, 2017
Filed under: Pardons/Clemency
in a concurring opinion. "It is not. And no amount of lexicological alchemy, no matter how well intentioned, permits the language to be stretched, manipulated, and tortured to reach what to some would be a 'correct ...
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