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Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Filed under: Transfers, COVID-19
Legal Noose Tightens Around Necks of CDCR Officials Whose Botched Transfer Sparked San Quentin COVID-19 Outbreak by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On October 13, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower court’s denial of qualified immunity (QI) to officials with the California Department …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Ninth Circuit Refunds Filing Fee to “Struck-Out” California Prisoner Denied Indigent Status Under PLRA by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 11, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit determined it was illegal to collect court filing fees from a prisoner denied indigent status to proceed …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Filed under: Guard Misconduct
Southern California Jail Guard Arrested With 104 Pounds of Fentanyl by The federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) announced on April 24, 2024, that a months-long California operation targeting the Mexican drug cartel once run by the man known as “el Chapo” had resulted in the arrests of 15 people allegedly …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
California Law Extends Involuntary Commitment and Detention to Substance Abusers by For years, California has struggled with a growing homeless population, reaching 171,000 in late 2023. Though that’s less than one-half of 1% of state residents, lawmakers responded with reforms to the state’s mental health system in SB 43, which …
Ninth Circuit Affirms Class Action Consent Decree at California’s Alameda County Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On October 6, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a consent decree in a class-action lawsuit filed over solitary confinement of mentally ill detainees at the …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Filed under: Prison/Jail Murders
Prisoner-on-Prisoner Violence at California Prison Leaves One Dead, Another Stabbed by One California prisoner was killed, another wounded and three others charged in two separate prisoner-on-prisoner assaults—one of them fatal—at Kern Valley State Prison, most recently on October 6, 2023. That’s when the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) …
San Diego Jury Deadlocks on Charges Against Jail Doctor in Detainee’s Death, Nurse Acquitted by On February 11, 2024, a San Diego jury deadlocked on involuntary manslaughter charges against Dr. Friederike Von Lintig over a 2019 death at the county’s Las Colinas Detention Facility. Nurse Danalee Pascua, 38, was acquitted …
In re Complaint of Judicial Misconduct (Hon. Roger T. Benitez), CA, Order, Judicial Misconduct, 2024 Page 1 JUDICIAL COUNCIL OF THE NINTH CIRCUIT FILED MAY 1 2024 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK U.S. COURT OF APPEALS IN RE COMPLAINT OF JUDICIAL MISCONDUCT Before: I. Nos. 23-90037 and 23-90041 ORDER MURGUIA, Chief …
Lawsuit By California Youth Alliance Prompts County Probation Chiefs to Dissolve Secretive Nonprofit by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On June 23, 2023, a group consisting of 55 of the 58 California county probation chiefs quietly disbanded the nonprofit they formed out of the public’s eye to provide …
Shocking Video Footage Reveals Rampant Violence and Neglect in Los Angeles County Jails by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman   A collection of graphic videos reported by the Los Angeles Times on June 24, 2023, pulled back the curtain on rampant violence and chaos inside Los Angeles County jails. The …
$175,000 Awarded to Former California Detainee Whose Suit Prompted DOJ Investigation and Settlement Requiring Structural Changes at Jail by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In June 2021, former San Luis Obispo County Jail detainee Steven J. York was awarded $175,000 to settle a lawsuit that also prompted an investigation of …
Article • April 26, 2024
Filed under: Employee Litigation
$155 Million Settlement for 10,000 California Prison Guard Supervisors in Wage Lawsuit by David Reutter by David Reutter A California Superior Court on December 9, 2022, preliminarily approved a $155 million settlement for about 10,000 current and retired supervising state prison guards in a long-running lawsuit alleging the California Department …
Enyart v. Cnty. of San Bernardino, CA, Summary Judgment Order, Wrongful Death, 2024 Enyart v. Cnty. of San Bernardino United States District Court for the Central District of California April 22, 2024, Decided; April 22, 2024, Filed 5:23-cv-00540-RGK-SHK Reporter 2024 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 74108 * Frances Enyart et al. v. …
Brief • April 2, 2024
KQED, Inc v. CDCR, CA, Ruling on Petition for Writ of Mandate-Motion for Production Schedule Order, Public Records, 2024
NaphCare: More Proof That Privatized Healthcare Deals Death and Misery to the Incarcerated to Enhance Profits by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A settlement approved by the federal court for the Eastern District of California on January 16, 2024, recalls an all-­too familiar jail story. A wheelchair-­bound detainee named …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
$11.6 Million Settlement Reached in HRDC Debit Release Card Case in Washington; California Victory Remanded by On December 19, 2023, the federal court for the Western District of Washington granted final approval to an $11.6 million settlement between Rapid Investments, Inc. and a class of prisoners released from over 1,500 …
Grand Jury Slams Sacramento County for Delaying Jail Improvements Mandated in Consent Decree by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Delays in improvements mandated in a 2020 consent decree resulted in at least six preventable detainee deaths at Sacramento County jails, according to a grand jury investigative report on June 2, …
Ninth Circuit Says Federal Prisoner in California May Have Bivens Claim for Delays in Medical Care Allegedly to Cover Up Assault by BOP Guard by by David M. Reutter On August 15, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed dismissal of an Eighth Amendment deliberate indifference …
One Detainee Dying Every Week in L.A. County Jails by As of December 31, 2023, Los Angeles County jails had recorded 34 detainee deaths in seven months—over one every week, far more than New York City’s notorious Rikers Island complex, which recorded seven deaths during the same period. Overcrowding is …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
California Adds Statewide Detention Monitors Overseeing Local Jails by Quietly, on October 4, 2023, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed into law a measure to boost transparency in the state’s local jails, also adding a layer of oversight vested in a new statewide “detention monitor”—who will act much like an …
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