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Connecticut Prisoner Survives DOC’s Summary Judgment Motion in Mental Health Suit by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon  Raudell Mercado initially entered the Connecticut Department of Correction (DOC) in 2013 as a youthful offender at the Manson Youth Institution. In March 2015, he was formally admitted to the DOC as a …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Santa Clara County Settles Lawsuit, Makes Jails Handicapped Accessible by Steve Horn by Steve Horn In November 2018, the parties in a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California agreed to settle the case in the form of a consent decree. The suit centered …
Illinois DOC Permanently Enjoined From Neglecting Prisoners’ Mental Health by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna On October 30, 2018, a federal judge entered a permanent injunction that enjoined the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) from violating the Eighth Amendment and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with respect to mental health …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Idaho Supreme Court Vacates Conviction After D.A. Seizes Jailed Defendant’s Legal Notes by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke  On November 30, 2018, in a substitute opinion, the Supreme Court of Idaho held that a trial court erred when it required a defendant to show he was prejudiced when the prosecution …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
JP Morgan Chase Bank Used Secretive Bonds to Finance Kansas Prison Construction by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Recently discovered evidence in a Thomson Reuters database revealed that, in June 2018, JP Morgan Chase Bank (JPMC) underwrote a $159.5 million bond to finance private prison operator CoreCivic’s construction of a …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Israeli Supreme Court Orders Increased Personal Space for Prisoners by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin  Researcher Lila Margalit, with the Israel Democracy Institute’s Amnon Lipkin-Shahak Center for Security and Democracy, published a blog entry on June 7, 2018 that detailed a landmark 2017 judgment entered by the Israeli Supreme Court. …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Filed under: RLUIPA, Religious Freedom
Eighteen Years After its Passage, Prisons and Jails Continue to Violate RLUIPA by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna After decades of complaints by prisoners that corrections officials frequently denied them the right to practice their religion, Congress took action and passed the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Alabama Prison Warden Lacks Authority to Make End-of-Life Decisions for Prisoners by The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals held on October 2, 2018 that an Alabama prison warden was not entitled to qualified immunity because his actions of requesting a do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order and decision to remove a prisoner from …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
$100,000 Settlement for Preventable Suicide in Virginia Department of Corrections by Kevin W. Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss Dai’yaan Qamar Longmire, a 19-year-old from Virginia Beach, was serving a four-year sentence at the Indian Creek Correctional Center (ICCC) in 2014 when he committed suicide in his cell using a sheet …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
In Memoriam: Jane Kahn (1954-2018) by Paul Wright by Paul Wright For the past 15 years, the San Francisco law firm of Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP has represented Prison Legal News and its parent organization, the Human Rights Defense Center, in censorship and public records cases in California, …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Report Shows 50 New York Prisoners Died from Inadequate Medical Care in Last Five Years by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell A 2018 report by a New York State medical review board charged with reviewing prisoner deaths determined that at least 50 state prisoners had died within the past five …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Washington County, School District Pay $265,000 for Holding Juveniles in Solitary by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell In August 2018, King County, Washington agreed to pay $240,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by four juveniles who were placed in solitary confinement at the county’s Regional Justice Center (RJC) in Kent. …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Filed under: New Trial Motions
Fifth Circuit Holds Magistrate Judge Has No Authority to Deem Motion for Reconsideration Withdrawn by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 21, 2018, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a federal magistrate judge had no authority to sua sponte deem a motion for reconsideration withdrawn in a …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Filed under: Protests, Food
County Detainees Protest Food Served at New Hampshire Jail by Kevin W. Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss In mid-2018, prisoners at the Bristol County House of Correction (HOC) in Massachusetts participated in a hunger strike to protest inadequate food and medical care. Sheriff Thomas M. Hodgson said those were the …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Filed under: Forfeiture
Philadelphia Robbing the Poor Through Civil Forfeiture by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon  In just the four zip codes of Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood, whose mainly black and Hispanic residents suffer high rates of poverty, civil asset forfeiture (CAF) proceedings netted 1,682 properties that were seized and sold by the District …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Eighth Circuit Finds Verified Complaint Defeats Summary Judgment Motion in Failure-to-Protect Case by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 20, 2018, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected an appeal filed by officials at the Northeast Arkansas Community Corrections Center (NEACCC) in a lawsuit alleging they had failed to …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
New Sheriff Ends Juvenile Solitary Confinement at North Carolina Jail by Kevin W. Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss Elected in May 2018 and sworn in seven months later, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina Sheriff Garry McFadden has already made good on campaign promises to restore in-person visits at the local jail …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Filed under: Smoking
Missouri Prisoner Awarded $111,000 in Second-Hand Smoke Case, DOC Bans Smoking by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Ecclesiastical Denzel Washington, a former death row prisoner who is now serving a life sentence, won a jury verdict against the Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC) and various prison officials totaling $111,000. Following …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Filed under: Strip Searches
Sixth Circuit Reverses Injunction Against Delousing and Group Strip Searches at Ohio Jail by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna On November 2, 2018, the Sixth Circuit reversed a permanent injunction and summary judgment order entered by a federal district court in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action filed by former …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Since 1996, U.S. Agriculture Department Gave Over $277 Million to Fund Local Jail Construction by Brian Sonenstein by Brian Sonenstein, Shadowproof The United States Department of Agriculture provided over $277 million in funding for county jail construction since 1996, according to documents obtained by Shadowproof. The funding came in the …
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