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Article • January 8, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
Report Highlights Shortcomings of New York’s Parole Board by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis An investigative report issued in August 2018 by two advocacy groups, Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP) and the Parole Preparation Project (PPP), found significant problems with the New York State Board of Parole’s (BOP) policies, …
Article • January 8, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
$3.279 Million in Costs and Fees Awarded in Wrongful Death Suit Involving Epileptic Prisoner by R. Bailey by R. Bailey Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1988, a federal district court was asked to resolve an attorney fees dispute as part of a settlement in a prisoner’s wrongful death case. Robert …
Article • January 8, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
Settlement in HRDC Suit Against Solitary Confinement of Juveniles at Florida Jail by On November 15, 2018, the Human Rights Defense Center, PLN’s parent organization, as well as the Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County, Florida and the law firm of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, announced a settlement …
Article • January 8, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
Thurgood Marshall, Jr.’s Controversial Position on Board of Private Prison Firm by Steve Horn by Steve Horn He’s the descendant of a slave and the son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, who was the lead attorney in the landmark 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education, which desegregated …
Ohio County Jail Faces Increased Liability Due to Numerous Lawsuits by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon The Montgomery County Jail in Dayton, Ohio faces liabilities exceeding $10 million, as lawsuits continue to multiply. Former chief deputy Scott Landis testified to having no memory of any of the incidents that gave …
Article • January 8, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
Seventh Circuit Remands Lawsuit Over Book Confiscation at Cook County Jail by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna In an August 23, 2018 opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed in part and remanded a district court’s dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a former Cook County, …
Article • January 8, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
Filed under: Immigration
Alaskan Native American Company Profits from Immigrant Detention by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Under contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), guards at the Port Isabel Detention Center in Los Fresnos, Texas are provided by Ahtna Support and Training Services – a subsidiary of Ahtna, Inc., which is one …
Article • January 8, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
Connecticut Passes Law to Protect Women, Transgender Prisoners by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell In May 2018, Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy signed into law SB-13, a bill that will bring fairness and dignity to women and transgender prisoners, his office said. The bill, which received unanimous votes in both …
Article • January 8, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
$550,000 Settlement for Detainee Rendered Quadriplegic by Guard’s Excessive Force by The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee agreed to pay $550,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging a guard at the Davidson County Male Correctional Development Center (CDC) used excessive force on a pretrial detainee, leaving him a …
Lawsuits Filed Over South Dakota Replacing Prison Law Libraries with Tablets by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Two federal lawsuits were filed by South Dakota prisoners in May and June 2018 against the state Department of Corrections (DOC) over the introduction of tablet computers to replace prison law libraries and …
Article • January 8, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
Filed under: Environmental Law
Prisoners File Environmental Lawsuit Against Proposed Federal Prison in Kentucky by Panagioti Tsolkas by Panagioti Tsolkas More than three years after a controversial environmental review process for a new federal prison, conducted by the federal Bureau of Prisons and its consulting firm Cardno, attorneys filed suit in November 2018 on …
Alabama DOC Ordered to Remedy Overcrowded, Understaffed Prisons in Mental Health Suit by Kevin W. Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss A U.S. District Court has ordered the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) to come up with an acceptable solution to address deplorable living conditions in the state’s prison system before …
Article • January 8, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
$32,000 Settlement in Excessive Force Case Involving Mentally Ill Alabama Prisoner by A settlement was reached in a civil rights action alleging guards at Alabama’s Madison County Jail (MCJ) used excessive force on a mentally ill prisoner during a cell extraction. Haraesheo Rice, 31, was well known to MCJ staff, …
A Jailbreak of the Imagination: Seeing Prisons for What They Are and Demanding Transformation by Mariame Kaba, Kelly Hayes by Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes, Truthout.org Our current historical moment demands a radical re-imagining of how we address various harms. The levers of power are currently in the hands of …
$750,000 Settlement for Family of Man Who Died in Illinois Jail by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter Illinois’ Whiteside County Jail (WCJ) agreed to pay $750,000 to settle a civil rights action alleging jail officials failed to treat Walter E. Divers, Jr. for severe alcohol withdrawal, resulting in …
Article • January 8, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright Prison Legal News published its first issue in May 1990. The month before that, Washington became the first state in the nation to enact a civil commitment process for sex offenders and to create a sex offender registry. Those laws were …
Article • January 8, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
Seventh Circuit Vacates ADA Summary Judgment Against Cook County Sheriff by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna On July 30, 2018, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a partial summary judgment order issued by a district court that found the Sheriff of Cook County, Illinois liable for various violations of …
Sex Crimes and Criminal Justice: Formerly Incarcerated Sex Offenders Say Civil Commitment Programs Deny Proper Rehabilitation by Barbara Koeppel by Barbara Koeppel, The Washington Spectator Responding to several highly-publicized sex crimes and public fears, legislatures across the country have adopted statutes that allow the continued imprisonment of sex offenders after …
Article • January 8, 2019
Secret Settlement Resolves Unlikely Lawsuit Against Northwestern Innocence Project by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna In a strange twist to a case that eventually led to the abolishment of the death penalty in Illinois, Northwestern University’s Innocence Project and other defendants have settled on undisclosed terms a $40 million federal …
In-the-News Article • January 8, 2019
CoreCivic, GEO object to family separation shareholder resolution Jan. 8, 2019 Articles with PLN Quotes Associated Press Companies argue against proposal not to house separated kids By TRAVIS LOLLER -   1/8/19   NASHVILLE, Tenn. — An activist shareholder wants to pre-emptively block the nation’s two largest private detention companies from housing …
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