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Article • June 7, 2018
California Law Allows Transfer to Jail in Another County, But Prisoner Must First Exhaust Administrative Remedies, Court of Appeal Holds by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell In a case of first impression, the California Court of Appeal held that State law does allow a prisoner to request a transfer to …
Article • June 7, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
Federal Civil Rights Suit for California Jail Beating Settles for $100,000 by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna In September 2017, Derek Connor, incarcerated at the Placer County jail in Auburn, California, filed a federal lawsuit against the county and numerous deputies and jail employees over an unprovoked beating and other …
Article • June 7, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
Filed under: Settlements, Suicides
Ohio: $275,000 Settlement in Jail Detainee’s Suicide by A $275,000 settlement was reached in a lawsuit over the March 5, 2015 suicide of a pretrial detainee at Ohio’s Fairfield County Jail. It was the second settlement related to a suicide at the facility since 2009. Jesse Whitlatch, 32, was arrested …
Article • June 7, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
Ex-cons Turn Prison Workouts into Real Jobs, Transform Lives by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell When criminal defense attorney William Kroger visited his clients in California prisons, he noticed that just a few months behind bars seemed to whip many of them into shape. Because the state had removed all …
Article • June 7, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
California: A Prison by any Other Name is Still a Prison by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon The City of Adelanto in San Bernardino County, California owns a detention center – not a prison – according to Pablo Paez, a spokesman for the GEO Group, a private prison firm. “The …
Article • June 7, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
$100,000 Settlement in Suit Over Hawaii Guard’s Sexual Assault of Prisoner by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The State of Hawaii and a former prison guard have each agreed to pay $50,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a female prisoner who was sexually assaulted. Stormy Rae Smith was serving …
Cause of Action for Shaming Sex Therapy May Not Accrue Until after Release from Prison by On August 29, 2017, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held “it may be reasonable for an incarcerated individual who is told she must resurface past sexual trauma to overcome them to rely on …
Article • June 7, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
Who is in Private Prisons? New Study Provides Surprising Answers by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The election of pro-business and law-and-order candidate Donald Trump to the presidency has been a boon to companies that operate for-profit prisons and immigration detention centers. So perhaps now is a good time to …
Settlement in Federal Suit Over Treatment of Disabled Detainees in Northern California Jail by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis A class-action lawsuit brought by disabled prisoners held at the Shasta County Jail in California has settled, subject to judicial approval. The case was originally filed by Everett Joseph Jewett, a …
Protest Results in Three Arrests at CoreCivic’s Annual Shareholders Meeting by On May 10, 2018, drumbeats echoed and faux “blood” flowed through the parking lot at the Nashville, Tennessee headquarters of CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America), as activists staged dramatic street theater to represent the sorrow, suffering and deaths …
Article • June 7, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
Lawsuits Filed Against GEO Group for Wage Violations at Detention Facilities by Christopher Zoukis, Matthew Clarke by Christopher Zoukis and Matt Clarke Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a lawsuit in superior court against The GEO Group in September 2017, alleging the private prison contractor had violated the state’s …
Article • June 7, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
Tennessee: Jail Guard Charged with Taser Assault by A Tennessee grand jury returned an indictment on September 5, 2017 that charged a former deputy with the Cheatham County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) with using a stun gun to assault a pre-trial detainee at the county jail. Jordan E. Norris, 19, was …
Incorrect Cause of Tennessee Prisoner’s Death Reported by CoreCivic Employees by According to the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC), state prisoner Edward Ray Gilley, Jr., 54, died on November 5, 2016 at the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center, a facility owned and operated by CoreCivic – previously known as Corrections Corporation …
Brief • June 7, 2018
Mora-Villalpando v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Customs and Border Protection et al., WA, Amended Complaint, Failure to Comply with FOIA Request, 2018 1 2 3 4 5 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE 6 7 8 Maria Mora-Villalpando, No. 2:18-cv-655 9 Plaintiff, …
Brief • June 7, 2018
Porter v. Daggett County, UT, Complaint, Guard Torture, 2018 Case 2:18-cv-00389-JNP-EJF Document 3 Filed 06/07/18 Page 1 of 26 John Mejia (Bar No. 13965) Leah Farrell (Bar No. 13696) AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF UTAH FOUNDATION, INC. 355 N. 300 W. Salt Lake City, Utah 84103 Telephone: 801.521.9862 Facsimile: 801.532.2850 …
Brief • June 7, 2018
Restore Justice Foundation v. IDOC, IL, Complaint, Public Records Request, 2018 ELECTRONICALLY FILED 6/7/2018 2:03 PM 2018-CH-07241 CALENDAR: 11 PAGE I of 11 CIRCUIT COURT OF IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY ILLIN~ COUNTY, ILLINOIS ' . 'CT1ANCERYDIVISION COUNTY DEPARTMENT, CHANCERY DIVIISIO~LERK DOROTHY BROWN RESTORE JUSTICE FOUNDATION, ) ) …
Brief • June 7, 2018
Porter v. Daggett, UT, Complaint, Cruel and Unusual Punishment, 2018 Case 2:18-cv-00389-DBB-DAO Document 3 Filed 06/07/18 PageID.28 Page 1 of 26 John Mejia (Bar No. 13965) Leah Farrell (Bar No. 13696) AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF UTAH FOUNDATION, INC. 355 N. 300 W. Salt Lake City, Utah 84103 Telephone: 801.521.9862 …
In-the-News Article • June 6, 2018
Private Prisons Place Profits, Corporate Image Before Rehabilitation June 6, 2018 Letters to Editor or Editorials Prison Legal News     The below editorial is in response to this opinion piece by CoreCivic executive Joe Pryor, published by The Chattanoogan: http://www.chattanoogan.com/2018/6/5/369934/Working-Together-To-Reduce-Recidivism.aspx   Private Prisons Place Profits, Corporate Image Before Rehabilitation …
Brief • June 6, 2018
Gordon v. Pfister, IL, Merit Review, Conditions of Confinement, 2018 Case: 1:17-cv-07488 Document #: 14 Filed: 06/06/18 Page 1 of 5 PageID #:215 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS Donald Albert Gordon (K-64491), Plaintiff, v. John Baldwin, et al., Defendants. ) ) ) ) …
Article • June 5, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
Mentally Incompetent Detainees Stuck in California Jails Spark Class-action Lawsuit, Fines by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis California county jails are facing lawsuits and court-imposed fines over their handling of detainees who have been determined incompetent to stand trial due to mental illness. In Ventura County, the families of mentally …
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