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Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
Third Circuit Agrees With Pennsylvania Prisoner’s Access-to-Courts Claim, But Grants Defendants Qualified Immunity by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On June 15, 2022, in a precedential ruling that might help the next prisoner plaintiff, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that “a prisoner has a …
Publication • December 29, 2022
Filed under: Prisoners' Rights
Pennsylvania DOC-Inmate Pay Increases, Dec. 2022 ~ pennsylvania ~ DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS TO: All Inmates FROM: George M. Little Secretary of Corrections DATE: December 29, 2022 SUBJECT: Pay Scale Increase As we celebrate this holiday season, it is refreshing to look back over the past year and see how far …
Brief • December 1, 2022
Filed under: Failure to Treat
St Clair v. Lenkey, PA, Complaint, Failure to Provide Medical Treatment, 2022 Case 2:22-cv-00049-WSH-KT Document 72 Filed 12/01/22 Page 1 of 23 T\r\e. U"1\-~( S\£\.-\'e.S O\s\-ril!.\ lo_vr..\- __ _ For'i"~ _____.we..s~iLO.~.sx1 k\_o_Lee.(}_~s)f_\y~;f"--------------------- --c-------1---ek t:\C1_£...S.1-t.\.c..~---'"i'-'-t ' _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ …
Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A detainee assaulted aguard at the Calhoun County Jail on August 6, 2022, the Anniston Star reported. Sheriff Matthew Wade blamed an ongoing staffing shortage, which has typically left three guards on duty to supervise 300 detainees. One of them, Jacob Hammett, was out of …
Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022
Pennsylvania County Retakes Control of Jail From GEO Group by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On April 6, 2022, Pennsylvania’s Delaware County assumed control of its jail for the first time in 24 years, after terminating its contract with the Florida-based GEO Group. Prior to that, the 1,800-bed George W. …
Brief • November 23, 2022
Filed under: Excessive Force
Talbert v. Department of Corrections, PA, Complaint, Excessive Force, 2022 Case 2:22-cv-04189-MAK Document 10 Filed 11/23/22 Page 1 of 14 _ Ce_'o_e.r le~ e lb.eJ ~- _ __ _ ___il_ci_-le._ ~1e~e._~ ~\.'.5t~,-~ _~_e_, ~-b~, i\t ~ c.1 ~1-~ \\SI'S ~ o .. qe ~~,____ _ _ _ _ _ _(£\_ …
Article • November 5, 2022
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Abuse
Former Pennsylvania Jail Guard Sentenced for Shocking His Kids With Electric Dog Collar by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On October 24, 2022, a now-fired guard at Pennsylvania’s Somerset County Jail (SCJ) was sentenced for abusing his five children with a dog shock collar. John Wesley Bailey, 35, …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A convicted bank robber had 30 months added to his 17-year prison sentence on September 26, 2022, for bribing an Alabama jail guard to smuggle him a cellphone, K2 “spice” paper, and other contraband. According to a federal Department of Justice (DOJ) press release, while …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A jail guard in Chilton County, Alabama, was arrested on July 21, 2022, and charged with promoting contraband, the Clanton Advertiser reported. The guard, Tyler Ryan Couch, is accused of organizing an effort to smuggle drugs to detainees. Though jail policy forbids guards from transmitting …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Third Circuit Holds Consent of All Parties to Magistrate Judge Jurisdiction Required Before Judgment Against Pennsylvania Prisoners by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On February 10, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reversed a lower court’s dismissal of two Pennsylvania prisoners’ federal civil rights claims because …
Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022
Pennsylvania County Pays $147,500 to Jail Detainees Held in Solitary for Refusing To Cut off Dreadlocks by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On January 6, 2022, the Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project (PILP) announced a settlement had been reached in a lawsuit filed for a trio of its clients, who were …
Third Circuit: Federal Prisoner Exposed to Risk of Assault Cannot Collect Damages if One Didn’t Occur by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian On March 1, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a federal prisoner’s lawsuit, finding that even though a Bureau …
Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A federal prisoner in Birmingham was gunned down outside a privately-operated reentry facility on July 16, 2022. The Associated Press reported that the prisoner, Larry Taylor, 47, had just been released from the facility, which is operated under contract from the federal Bureau of Prisons …
Brief • August 16, 2022
Filed under: Labor Racketeering
Wallace v. Powell, PA, Memorandum, Racketeering, 2022 Case 3:09-cv-00286-CCC Document 1862 Filed 08/16/22 Page 1 of 40 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA FLORENCE WALLACE, et al., Plaintiffs v. ROBERT J. POWELL, et al., Defendants : : : : : : : : : …
Brief • August 16, 2022
Filed under: Sexual Assault
Wallace v. Powell, PA, Damages Appendix, Racketeering, 2022 Case 3:09-cv-00286-CCC Document 1862-1 Filed 08/16/22 Page 1 of 23 3:09-CV-286 - Damages Appendix Name Total Days Physical in Harm Detention Psychological Educational & Emotional Harm Harm ACRI, ASHLEY 300 No Yes Yes AGUILAR, MARK 545 No Yes Yes ALLABAUGH, PASQUALE 730 …
Article • August 1, 2022 • from PLN August, 2022
$177,500 in Settlements Reached with Detainees Assaulted by Guards at Pennsylvania Jail by Ashleigh Dye by Ashleigh N. Dye Settlement agreements totaling $177,500 were approved in the winter of 2021-22 by the Board of County Commissioners of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, resolving claims by a pair of former detainees at the …
Article • August 1, 2022 • from PLN August, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: On June 3, 2022, a guard was arrested for having sex with a prisoner at Alabama’s Pickens County Jail, according to a report by WTVA in Tupelo, Mississippi. The guard, Marquita Booker, 28, was fired after her arrest, which followed an investigation that earlier in …
Article • August 1, 2022 • from PLN August, 2022
After $10 Million Settlement in Pennsylvania Jail Mugshot Class-Action, Fewer-Than-Expected Claims Leave Windfall for Expungement Program by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In September 2021, after closing out a $10 million settlement in a class-action suit alleging its county jail violated the privacy rights of detainees by making their …
Article • August 1, 2022 • from PLN August, 2022
Seventh Circuit Affirms Use Of “Some Evidence” Standard in Reviewing Federal Prisoner’s Disciplinary Violations by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso In an opinion reached on December 6, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld a district court’s ruling that a federal prisoner’s disciplinary sanctions were …
Article • July 15, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
Filed under: COVID-19
COVID-19’s Impact on Prisoners Far Worse Than It Needed to Be by Kevin Bliss, Edward Lyon by Kevin Bliss and Ed Lyon In September 2021, a year and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic, the nonprofit research and advocacy group Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) gave a failing grade to 42 …
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