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Article • January 9, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
Filed under: Mail
Maine Constitution Mandates “Prisoner Mailbox Rule” by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On July 24, 2018, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court held the state’s constitution requires adoption of a modified version of the “prisoner mailbox rule” when filing petitions for judicial review of prison disciplinary orders. Maine prisoner Charles M. …
DOJ Launches Investigation into Abuse at Florida Women’s Prison by Prompted by claims of sexual abuse highlighted in a 2015 Miami Herald news report, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched an investigation into Florida’s Lowell Correctional Institution (LCI), the largest prison for women in the state and the …
Article • January 9, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
Filed under: Hunger Strikes, Food
Washington State Prisoners Protest Poor Food by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon During April 2018, prisoners in six housing units at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla participated in a hunger strike that lasted up to 10 days. Over 1,300 prisoners reportedly took part – around half the facility’s …
Article • January 9, 2019
Prison Work Programs: “Cost-Effective Labor Pool” or “Slave Labor of Yesterday”? by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis According to a 2017 survey by the Prison Policy Initiative (PPI), of the more than 2.2 million people incarcerated in state and federal prisons and local jails across the United States, 61 percent …
Class-Action Suit Against CoreCivic ICE Detention Center Allowed to Proceed by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis A lawsuit alleging that private prison operator CoreCivic violated the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) by forcing immigrant detainees to work at one of the company’s detention centers will proceed in federal court. The …
Article • January 9, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
Audit Criticizes Milwaukee County Jail’s Contracted Medical Services by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna In August 2018, a comprehensive audit report revealed that the private healthcare provider at Wisconsin’s Milwaukee County Jail and House of Correction (HOC) was not in compliance with the terms of a court-ordered consent decree requiring …
Article • January 9, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
Colorado County Pays $800,000 for Latest Excessive Force Settlement by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Philippa Grace McCully, a 21-year-old college student and cancer survivor arrested in 2014 for erratic driving that she blamed on a reaction to various prescription psychiatric drugs, was taken to a jail in El Paso, …
Article • January 9, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
Harvard Student Group Advocates for Prison Education, Reform by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin The Harvard Organization for Prison Education and Advocacy, a student-led group known as HOPE, was established in the 1950s as part of Harvard University’s Phillips Brooks House Association. Since its inception the organization has provided tutoring …
Shareholder Resolutions Would Stop Private Prison Firms from Housing Separated Immigrant Families by In November 2018, shareholder resolutions were filed with CoreCivic, formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America, and The GEO Group – the nation’s two largest private prison companies – that would prohibit them from housing immigrant detainee …
Article • January 9, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
Filed under: Release and Reentry
Trump Establishes Federal Interagency Council on Crime Prevention and Improving Reentry by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin On March 7, 2018, President Trump issued an executive order that launched the Federal Interagency Council on Crime Prevention and Improving Reentry. The order revoked a presidential memorandum that had established a similar …
Article • January 9, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
$5 Million Settlement in Lawsuit Over Preventable Death of New Mexico Jail Prisoner by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In January 2018, Cibola County, New Mexico agreed to pay $5 million to settle a lawsuit over the death of a jail prisoner who was repeatedly denied medical treatment despite vomiting …
Article • January 9, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
Seventh Circuit: Illinois Prisoner Entitled to Retrial After Appointment of Counsel Denied by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna On August 20, 2018, the Seventh Circuit granted a new trial to a prisoner whose multiple motions for appointment of counsel were denied in a federal lawsuit against guards employed by the …
Article • January 9, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
Second Circuit: Prisoners Have the Right Not to Snitch by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has held that the First Amendment protects both a prisoner’s right not to snitch and his or her right not to provide false information to prison …
Article • January 9, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
Filed under: Appeals, Religious Diet
New York Prisoner Entitled to Vegetarian, Dairy Tolerant, Kosher Diet Under RLUIPA by On July 10, 2018, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals held the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) had violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) by refusing to accommodate …
Article • January 9, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
Filed under: Settlements
Book Seller Sued for Defrauding Federal Prisons by In June 2018, the U.S. Attorney’s Office reached a $75,689 settlement with a couple accused of trying to scam the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) into buying textbooks it had not ordered. The civil complaint alleged John P. Ryan and Marie Motz …
Article • January 9, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
Virginia DOC Called Out for Use of Solitary Confinement by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss After releasing a 67-page investigative report in May 2018 on the use of solitary confinement by the Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) and the effects of solitary on prisoners, especially those with mental health …
Brief • January 9, 2019
Sustaita v. IDOC, IL, Merit Review, Excessive Force, 2019 4:18-cv-04174-SEM-TSH # 8 Page 1 of 7 E-FILED Wednesday, 09 January, 2019 03:27:59 PM Clerk, U.S. District Court, !LCD UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE CENTRAL DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS ANTONIO SUSTAITA, Plaintiff, v. IDOC, et al., ) ) ) ) ) …
First Step Act Passes – Includes Federal Sentencing, Prison Reforms by Steve Horn by Steve Horn On December 21, 2018, President Donald Trump signed into law the 56-page First Step Act (S. 756), a bill that will usher in an array of reforms within the federal criminal justice system. The …
Article • January 8, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
Guards Face Federal Charges for Smuggling Drugs, Cell Phones Into Idaho Prisons by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The FBI arrested seven people, including five Idaho Department of Correction (IDOC) guards, for conspiring to smuggle drugs, tobacco and cell phones into state prisons. In January 2017, an undercover FBI agent …
Article • January 8, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Food
Alabama Sheriff Pockets Excess Jail Food Funds, Buys Beach House, Loses Re-election Bid by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss In June 2018, Sheriff Todd Entrekin withdrew from his re-election campaign in Etowah County, Alabama, conceding to his only opponent, Rainbow City Police Chief Jonathon Horton. Entrekin will serve out …
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