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Fifth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Federal Prisoner’s Bivens Action Challenging Due Process in 280-Day SHU Stay and Alleging Retaliation

Article • September 1, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021

Filed under: Retaliatory Segregation, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Dismissal

Fifth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Federal Prisoner’s Bivens Action Challenging Due Process in 280-Day SHU Stay and Alleging Retaliation by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 2, 2021, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a federal prisoner’s claims of insufficient due …

Moore v. Lasalle Management, LA, Appeal, Wrongful Death, 2021

Brief • August 27, 2021

Filed under: Wrongful Death

Moore v. Lasalle Management, LA, Appeal, Wrongful Death, 2021 Case: 20-30739 Document: 00515998529 Page: 1 Date Filed: 08/27/2021 Case No. 20-30739 IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT ERIE MOORE, JR.; TAMARA GREEN; TIFFANY ROBINSON, Plaintiffs-Appellants v. LASALLE MANAGEMENT COMPANY, L.L.C., Incorrectly named as LaSalle Corrections …

News in Brief

Article • July 1, 2021 • from PLN July, 2021

Filed under: News in Brief

News in Brief by Alabama: According to a report by the Alabama Political Reporter, a state prisoner was fatally stabbed by another man incarcerated with him at Fountain Correctional Facility in Atmore on May 4, 2021—just one day before his scheduled release, which would also have been his twenty-fourth birthday. …

Moore v. Lasalle Management, LA, Opening Brief, Wrongful Death, 2021

Brief • June 14, 2021

Filed under: Wrongful Death

Moore v. Lasalle Management, LA, Opening Brief, Wrongful Death, 2021 Case: 20-30739 Document: 00515899422 Page: 1 Date Filed: 06/14/2021 No. 20-30739 IN THE United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ERIE MOORE, JR.; TAMARA GREEN; TIFFANY ROBINSON, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. LASALLE MANAGEMENT COMPANY, L.L.C., INCORRECTLY NAMED AS LASALLE CORRECTIONS, …

Adequacy of Healthcare Provided in Louisiana State Prisons, 2021

Publication • 2021

Filed under: Inadequate Health Care Facilities

Adequacy of Healthcare Provided in Louisiana State Prisons, 2021 PREPARED FOR THE LOUISIANA STATE LEGISLATURE HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 91 (2020) ADEQUACY OF HEALTHCARE PROVIDED IN LOUISIANA STATE PRISONS STUDY BRIEF MAY 2021 LOYOLA UNIVERSITY NEW ORLEANS NEW ORLEANS 2 CONTENTS I HEALTHCARE NEEDS FOR INCARCERATED PEOPLE 2 II ACCESSING HEALTHCARE …

Imani v. City of Baton Rouge, LA, Expert Report, Protest, 2021

Brief • May 13, 2021

Filed under: Protests

Imani v. City of Baton Rouge, LA, Expert Report, Protest, 2021 171 SE 14th Street Pompano Beach, FL 33060 Robert R. Pusins & Associates, Inc. Police Practices & Procedures Experts May 13, 2021 David J. Lanser, Esq. Most & Associates 201 St. Charles Ave., Ste. 114, #101 New Orleans, LA …

News in Brief

Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021

Filed under: News in Brief

News in Brief by Alabama: In February 2021, Huntsville TV station WHNT reported a delay in the trial on theft and ethics charges of Mike Blakely, sheriff of Limestone County, Alabama. According to the report, retired Colbert County Circuit Judge Pride Tompkins, who had been appointed to hear the case …

News in Brief

Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021

Filed under: News in Brief

News in Brief by Alabama: Two Alabama jail guards were arrested in just two months for allegedly smuggling cellphones to inmates. In February 2021, 27-year-old D’Mario Jones was fired and charged with two counts of promoting prison contraband at the Lee County Detention Center in Opelika where he worked. According …

After 36 Years in a Louisiana Prison for a Rape He Didn’t Commit, Archie Williams Wins Freedom — and a TV Show Spotlight

Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021

Filed under: Wrongful Conviction, TV/Movies

After 36 Years in a Louisiana Prison for a Rape He Didn’t Commit, Archie Williams Wins Freedom — and a TV Show Spotlight by Casey Bastian by Casey Bastian The story of Archie Williams shocks and inspires. A Black man spent 36 years in a Louisiana prison for the rape …

Lewis Jr. v. Cain, LA, systemic ADA and RA violations, deaths, Angola, 2021

Brief • March 31, 2021

Filed under: Medical, Eighth Amendment, Americans with Disabilities Act, Rehabilitation Act, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

Lewis Jr. v. Cain, LA, systemic ADA and RA violations, deaths, Angola, 2021 Case 3:15-cv-00318-SDD-RLB Document 594 03/31/21 Page 1 of 124 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA JOSEPH LEWIS, JR., ET AL. CIVIL DOCKET NO.: 3:15-CV-318 VERSUS JUDGE: SHELLY DICK BURL CAIN, ET AL. MAGISTRATE: RICHARD BOURGEOIS …

Imani v. City of Baton Rouge, LA, Expert Report-Rule 26 Disclosure, Protest, 2021

Brief • March 5, 2021

Filed under: Protests

Imani v. City of Baton Rouge, LA, Expert Report-Rule 26 Disclosure, Protest, 2021 171 SE 14th Street, Pompano Beach, FL 33060 robertpusins@att.net 954-303-2169 Robert R. Pusins & Associates, Inc. Police Practices & Procedures Experts www.robertpusins.com Robert R. Pusins RULE 26 DISCLOSURE TESTIMONY 2021 Terry Carraway, as Personal Representative of the …

News in Brief

Article • March 1, 2021 • from PLN March, 2021

Filed under: News in Brief

News in Brief by Arizona: In January 2021, two women who worked at an Arizona state prison operated by Florida-based GEO Group pleaded guilty to having sex with inmates there. Melony Petrovffsky, 50, ran the commissary for the private contractor at a prison in Golden Valley, where she was allegedly …

Eligible Louisiana Prisoners Get COVID Vaccine

Article • February 27, 2021

Filed under: COVID-19

Eligible Louisiana Prisoners Get COVID Vaccine by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins   National health experts were concerned early in the pandemic that prisons would prove to be superspreader sites for COVID-19. They were right. According to The Marshall Project, more than 20% of the incarcerated population nationwide had tested …

Giroir v. Leblanc, LA, Class Action Complaint, Overdetaining, 2021

Brief • February 19, 2021

Filed under: Detainers - Generally

Giroir v. Leblanc, LA, Class Action Complaint, Overdetaining, 2021 Case 3:21-cv-00108-JWD-SDJ Document 1 02/19/21 Page 1 of 21 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA JOEL GIROIR, on behalf of himself and all similarly situated individuals, Plaintiff, CIVIL ACTION NO. 21-cv-108 v. CLASS ACTION JAMES LEBLANC, in his official …

Louisiana’s COVID-19 Prisoner Furlough Panel Next to Useless

Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021

Filed under: Parole Board Misconduct, COVID-19, Compassionate Release

Louisiana’s COVID-19 Prisoner Furlough Panel Next to Useless by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon On June 5, 2020, as Louisiana entered the second phase of its reopening program following shutdowns ordered to counteract the COVID-19 pandemic, the state Department of Public Safety and Corrections (DOC) suspended a panel it had …

Cost of Communicating with Prisoners Breaking Family Budgets During Pandemic

Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020

Filed under: COVID-19, Telephone Rates

Cost of Communicating with Prisoners Breaking Family Budgets During Pandemic by David Reutter by David M. Reutter For those with loved ones in prisons, the coronavirus pandemic has increased the desire for communication to ensure the well-being of the imprisoned. The exorbitant cost of such calls is straining already-stretched budgets. …

$177,500 Settlement in Lawsuit Over Five Louisiana Prisoners Pepper-Sprayed While Handcuffed

Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020

Filed under: LaSalle Management Company, Pepper Spray/Tear Gas, Restraints, Settlements

$177,500 Settlement in Lawsuit Over Five Louisiana Prisoners Pepper-Sprayed While Handcuffed by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke  Thanks to a public records request by The Associated Press, news broke in March 2020 that Louisiana-based private prison firm LaSalle Management Company had settled for $177,500 a lawsuit over a 2016 incident …

News in Brief

Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020

Filed under: News in Brief

News in Brief by Alabama: Chanting “not one more,” about 30 carloads of protesters from “Alabamians Who Care” caravanned to the governor’s mansion in Montgomery on August 1, 2020, protesting a plan by Gov. Kay Ivey (R) to build three new “mega-prisons.” According to a report by Montgomery TV station …

Carter v. Derr, LA, Settlement, Lack of Medical Care, 2020

Brief • November 17, 2020

Filed under: Systemic Medical Neglect

Carter v. Derr, LA, Settlement, Lack of Medical Care, 2020

News in Brief

Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020

Filed under: News in Brief

News in Brief by Alabama: The Birmingham News reported that an Alabama prison guard had been arrested for drug trafficking after a search of his vehicle when he arrived for work at the St. Clair County prison turned up 138 grams of methamphetamine and 16 grams of heroin. Ivan Caldwell, …