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$900,000 Settlement Reached With Ohio Jail in Detainee’s Fatal Seizure by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In October 2023, an attorney representing the estate of an Ohio pretrial jail detainee who suffered a fatal seizure after her June 2018 incarceration said the parties had reached a $900,000 settlement agreement. …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Redemption Songs: The Forgotten History of American Prison Music by Maurice Chammah Maurice Chammah One morning in 2019, Kenyatta Emmanuel Hughes was released from Fishkill Correctional Facility in Beacon, New York, and traveled 70 miles south to Carnegie Hall. That night, he stood before a crowd—flanked by a horn section, …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
With Guard Arrests at Georgia Jail, Sheriff Asks, “What Are We Doing Wrong?” by As much as he works to maintain a highly trained and ethical staff, Sheriff Richard Roundtree of Georgia’s Richmond County finds the goal elusive. As of August 2023, 33 deputies had been arrested over the last …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Filed under: Primecare Medical, Suicides
Unsealed Settlement Reveals PrimeCare Medical Paid $337,500 After Pennsylvania Prisoner’s Suicide by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On July 12, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania unsealed the settlement agreement between PrimeCare Medical and the Estate of Charles Freitag. As PLN reported, Freitag, 57, …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Alabama Conducts First Nitrogen Hypoxia Execution by Alabama killed condemned prisoner Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, on January 25, 2024, the first execution conducted using nitrogen hypoxia, a controversial method that suffocates victims with nitrogen gas and robs them of oxygen. The risks of the procedure are so unknown that the …
“Unethical At Best”: Hawaii Budget Director Charged With Financing New Prison is Former CoreCivic Lobbyist by it would prefer not to run a new Hawaiian lockup, private prison giant CoreCivic is pushing instead to build and lease it—and the firm has a high-placed ally in state Budget and Finance Director …
Eighth Circuit Remands ADA Claims—But Not Constitutional Claims—of Paralyzed Arkansas Jail Detainee by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On August 15, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed dismissal of a paraplegic Arkansas jail detainee’s deliberate indifference and conditions of confinement claims, while reviving claims …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Filed under: Prison/Jail Murders
Serial Killer Murdered by Cellmate at Texas Lockup by Texas prisoner Billy Chemirmir, 50, was serving two life without parole sentences for murder when cellmate Wyatt Ellis Busby killed him on September 19, 2023, during an altercation in their cell at the H.H. Coffield Unit in Tennessee Colony. Chemirmir was …
Texas Fights Fetal Rights After Forcing Prison Guard to Stay At Work Until She Delivered Stillborn Baby by by Matt Clarke On August 18, 2023, the federal court for the Western District of Texas granted defendant officials with the state Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) only partial dismissal of a …
MTC Returns $5.125 Million to Mississippi for “Ghost Workers” at Private Prisons by Utah-based Management & Training Corporation (MTC) announced on September 18, 2023, that it returned $5.125 million to the Mississippi Department of Corrections (DOC), after a state investigation found the private prison operator understaffed lockups operated for DOC. …
Wellpath Held in Contempt in Suit at California Jail by On September 26, 2023, the federal court for the Northern District of California found “clear and convincing evidence” that private for-profit prison and jail healthcare provider Wellpath, Inc., had violated the terms of a settlement agreement in a long-running case …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Senators Grill BOP Chief—Then Say They’ll Toss Her More Money by A little over a year after becoming director of the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Colette Peters faced questions on September 13, 2023, from members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who hammered her about transparency, unfulfilled promises and missing …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Filed under: Medication, Pain, Injunctions
New York Prisoners with Chronic Pain Win Injunction to Receive Denied Medication by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On November 22, 2023, the federal court for Southern District of New York granted a permanent injunction to a class of prisoners held by the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision …
Sick Georgia Prisoners Forced to Choose Between Treatment and Early Release by As reported by The Appeal on September 25, 2023, a Georgia prisoner with Hepatitis C was forced to pass up placement in a work-release program in order to maintain his medical care, which was not available to him …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Lawsuit Claims Seattle’s King County Jail Shows Little Improvement in Quarter Century Since “Hammer Agreement” by On February 24, 2023, the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington (ACLU-Wash.) filed suit accusing King County of violating a longstanding settlement agreement governing conditions at the county jail (KCJ) in Seattle. In 1998, …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Filed under: Government Misconduct
No Jail Time for Former Arizona Prisons Director After Armed Standoff With Cops by Charles Ryan, former Director of Arizona’s Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (DCRR), was sentenced on February 9, 2024, for an armed and drunken standoff with cops at his Tempe home in January 2022. However, there …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Colorado Sheriff Resigns After Deputies Fatally Shoot Motorist by On August 3, 2023, Rick Albers resigned as Sheriff of Colorado’s Clear Creek County, caving to pressure from county commissioners who accused him of failing to accept responsibility after his deputies fatally shot mentally ill motorist Christian Glass, 22, in June …
Pennsylvania County Found Skimming Prisoner-Designated Funds from ViaPath Kickbacks by After a Pennsylvania newspaper’s investigation revealed that Dauphin County officials diverted money intended for prisoners earned from jail phone call kickbacks—spending it instead on staff perks and private contractors—state lawmakers began looking at ways to stop them. On September 7, …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Massachusetts Becomes the Fifth State to Make Prison Phone Calls Free by Until December 1, 2023, Massachusetts prisoners and their families paid 12 cents per minute for phone calls, 14 cents in jails, though the first 10 minutes there every month were free. That added up to about $25 million …
Eighth Circuit Issues Primer on Informal Due Process Procedures to Missouri Prisoner by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On April 24, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed a lower court and granted qualified immunity (QI) to officials with Missouri’s Department of Corrections (DOC) in …
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