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In-the-News Article • September 13, 2015
contractors such as GEO Group — cannot censor publications just because they don't like what they say." ...
In-the-News Article • September 23, 2015
the sheriff’s office is supposed to monitor what goes on at the CCA jail. “I was very surprised,” said Tony Wilkes, chief of corrections at the sheriff’s department ...
Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Filed under: Lockdowns, Mental Health
recreation. Thus, prisoners classified as minimum- or medium-security were being treated as if they were close custody simply because they were seeking mental health treatment. “Essentially, what ...
Article • July 1, 2020 • from PLN July, 2020
to determine what “was happening at KDOC facilities as it related to the improper censorship and rejection of its publications.” The court overruled some of KDOC’s objections and sustained ...
Article • July 1, 2020 • from PLN July, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19, Education
to me, and a lot of what helped me sustain my transformation to return back to a productive citizen of society.” Armstrong suggests that the pandemic has redefined the role of the prison educator ...
Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021
forth a more comprehensive bill, which would address compassionate release and other pandemic-related issues. “There needs to be a coming together to actually talk about what we’re doing, why ...
Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021
Filed under: COVID-19
to encompass broader issues. As Fernández stated, “Mumia is not alone: This is what medical care looks like in American prisons.” Calls for his release have therefore been accompanied ...
Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021
on the evidence and not concern themselves with what happened afterward. “It’s a wrong that they need to correct,” said Samuels. As of late last year, only eight Fishback prisoners had been ...
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
to be drug overdoses. Three of the dead have not been publicly named. The lack of details is striking. What is known is that LCC was the second-largest prison holding people for the state Department ...
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
.  “A $500,000 award under the circumstances of this case shocks the conscience and grossly exceeds what was required to serve the needs of deterrence and punishment,” Judge Connolly said ...
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
Filed under: Medical, Settlements
Seventh Circuit Trims What Indiana Prisoner Owes Jail Doctor in Lost Lawsuit by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On July 21, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit modified ...
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
was suddenly denied. Savage resigned in protest in April 2022. Robinson followed her out the door the following June. “It’s like they didn’t hear what we were saying,” Savage recalled ...
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
staff have accidental contact with mail.” He added that symptoms reported by staffers were “usually the exact opposite of what opioids or fentanyl would do.”  Unsurprisingly, drug ...
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
in charge, with many guards recruited to smuggle contraband for them. Since guards pick and choose what rules they enforce and against whom, visitations may be cancelled without reason or warning. Attorneys ...
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
need to hear the good, the bad and the ugly,” new BOP Director Colette Peters said. “We cannot have any surprises. We have to know what is happening inside our agency so we can help.&rdquo ...
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
was sent with it was not in the envelope. In his accompanying letter, Ammerman said that as an inexperienced litigator, he settled “mostly because I do not know what I was doing,” adding ...
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
. The unnamed nurse told investigators, “I thought I was going to have a panic attack and die right there, because I didn’t know what his intentions were.” Guard Daniel Wells resigned in June ...
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
. “What we’re giving up amounts to almost a half-­million dollars,” Smart estimated. “But we’ll be negotiating a new contract, so hopefully that number will come down a lot ...
the settlement agreement. The Court granted that motion on July 12, 2024, and on August 16, 2024, ordered the City to pay a fine of $25 million—an amount roughly equal to what PDP had saved on its unfilled ...
in early June 2024, showing the last hours before 19-year-old Isaiah Trammell died in custody in March 2023. As PLN reported, he died three days after transport to a hospital with what Sheriff Rob Streck ...
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