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Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Filed under: Bail/Pretrial Release
Maryland County Wins Fight to Let Bureaucrats Make Pretrial Release Decisions by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   There’s something rotten with bail decisions in Prince George’s County, but as of March 29, 2024, the federal court for the District of Maryland isn’t going to do anything about it. …
Third Circuit Denies Qualified Immunity to Pennsylvania Jail Guards and PrimeCare in Detainee’s Overdose Death by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   On December 6, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed denial of qualified immunity (QI) to defendant officials with Pennsylvania’s Harrisburg Police Department …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Ninth Circuit: Alleged Denial of Hepatitis C Treatment to Federal Prisoner in Washington Presents Valid Bivens Claim by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   In a decision issued on December 11, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said that the claim of a federal prisoner …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Sixth Circuit Revives Ohio Prisoner’s Retaliation Claim That Guards Got Him Kicked Out of Religious Group by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   On December 13, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed dismissal of an Equal Protection Clause claim by Ohio prisoner Lyle Heyward …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
In New Jersey, Yet More Privileged Phone Calls Between Prisoners and Attorneys Recorded and Used by Prosecutors by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney   A New Jersey prisoner filed a putative class-action lawsuit on December 19, 2023, alleging that privileged telephone communications with his attorney were recorded by the jail …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Colorado Jail Guard Must Stand Trial for Opening Accused Sex Offender’s Cell, Subjecting Him to Assault by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   On December 13, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado denied summary judgment to a jail guard who allegedly failed to protect a …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Cleveland Jail Warden Dismissed After Asking for More Reentry Assistance for Detainees by According to a report on December 7, 2023, when Warden Jeremy Everett sounded the alarm two months earlier over insufficient reentry assistance at Cleveland’s Cuyahoga County Jail, the administration of County Executive Chris Ronayne demanded Everett resign.   …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
North Carolina’s Largest City Elects First Ex-Prisoner to Council by On December 3, 2023, Tiawana Brown became the first ex-prisoner sworn in to serve on the city council of Charlotte, North Carolina. In September 2023, the self-described “survivor of incarceration” won the Democratic primary in the city’s District 3, her …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Wrongfully Convicted Michigan Prisoners Wait for Compensation by Seven years after Michigan lawmakers adopted the Wrongful Imprisonment Compensation Act (WICA)—and 17 years after state Sen. Steve Beida (D-Warren) began working to get it passed by a legislature then dominated by Republicans and signed by then-Gov. Rick Snyder (R)—a group of …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Colorado Program Employs Prisoners as Professors by David Carrillo, 49, was released from prison on January 31, 2024, a month after Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) commuted his sentence. Polis praised Carrillo for completing a GED, a bachelor’s degree and a master’s in business administration while in prison. Carillo is …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Filed under: Telephone Rates
Washington, Virginia Advance Bills to Make Prison Calls Free by Lawmakers on both coasts of the U.S. sponsored legislation in January 2024 to make telecommunications free to state prisoners and their families. This follows a national trend to ease the financial burden on families with incarcerated loved ones and reduce …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
“You Just Broke My Neck”: Ohio Detainee Sues Jail Where Guards Are Accused of Multiple Assaults by Calling it “one of the most blatant and outrageous uses of excessive force” he’s ever seen, Cleveland attorney Nick DeCello of Spangenberg Shibley & Liber LLP filed suit in federal court for the …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Filed under: Escapes
Two Who Escaped from Arkansas Jail Recaptured by Two detainees were back in custody a week after breaking out of W.C. “Dub” Brassell Adult Detention Center in Arkansas’ Jefferson County on January 22, 2024. Noah Roush, 22, and Jatonia Bryant, 23, cut a hole in the ceiling of a shower, …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Minnesota Jailers Shrug Off Detainee’s Agony from Fatal Perforated Bowel as Withdrawal Symptoms by Arriving at the Hennepin County Jail in July 2022, Lucas Bellamy, 41, warned staffers at the Minneapolis lockup that he had ingested a bag of drugs. Yet when he died three days later of a perforated …
Mentally Ill Detainee Allegedly Tasered and Starved to Death At South Carolina Jail by A suit removed to federal court for the District of South Carolina on December 15, 2023, accuses Bamberg County and its jailers of Tasering a 51-year-old mentally ill detainee and starving him to death the year …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Virginia Legislature Tables “Second-Look” Bills by Virginia’s General Assembly tabled a pair of bills that would have provided a path to early release for state prisoners after serving at least 15 years with good behavior, with Senators continuing S.B. 427 to next year’s session on February 28, 2024, and the …
Two Prisoners Removed from Texas Death Row Due to Intellectual Disability by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals resentenced death row prisoner Tomas Raul Gallo, 49, to life imprisonment on April 5, 2024, approving an agreement by prosecutors that Gallo’s intellectual disability (ID) …
$2 Million Settlement in Death of Mentally Disabled Detainee Stripped of Anti-Seizure Device at Colorado Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   On May 1, 2023, following an order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit that reversed a grant of summary judgment to a …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor By Paul Wright One of the realities of covering and reporting on prison systems is that, not surprisingly, the bigger systems with more prisoners tend to generate more news, especially the bad news. Generally speaking, the dearth of news by and …
Brief • July 1, 2024
Evelyn v. Jenkins, MA, Complaint, Restrictive Housing, 2024
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