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Record-Setting $7 Million Settlement Caps LaSalle’s Legacy at Texarkana Jail by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A $7 million settlement reached in April 2023 marked the latest chapter in a sordid tale of mismanagement at Bi-State Jail (BSJ) in Texarkana, Texas, by former private operator LaSalle Corrections. But the family-owned …
Long Waits for Montana Jail Detainees Needing Competency Restoration Services by As of June 30, 2023, an unnamed detainee at Montana’s Flathead County Jail (FCJ) had been held over nine months on a burglary charge, though she was not scheduled for trial. Instead the woman, who suffers from mental illness, …
West Virginia High Court Decides Medical Practice Liability Act Not Applicable to Prison System by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In June 8, 2023, the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia held that the Medical Professional Liability Act (MPLA), W. Va. Code §§ 55-7B-1 to 12, does not apply …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Seventh Circuit Slams Illinois Civil Commitment Program but Reverses Injunction by “Very weighty interests are at stake when a state institutes a program of civil commitment for sex offenders who, though never tried for or convicted of a crime, are found too dangerous for release.” So began a ruling by …
“Fuck Him, He Can Freeze”: Pennsylvania Detainee’s Death Detailed in Suit Against PrimeCare by A wrongful termination suit filed against jail healthcare profiteer PrimeCare Medical, Inc. on May 23, 2023, brought disturbing details to light in the death five months earlier of an elderly detainee at Pennsylvania’s Dauphin County Prison …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Eleventh Circuit Revives Claim Against NaphCare for Wrongful Death of Atlanta Jail Detainee by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney “This appeal arises from the tragic death of Antonio May,” began the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on June 7, 2023. As longtime PLN readers …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Civil Commitment: A Shadowy Limbo of Detainment that is Neither Safe, Fair nor Therapeutic by Civil commitment in the U.S. is not well-understood, beginning with what it is: A sentence to be served at a facility in order to receive treatment or therapy, though that itself is often scientifically questionable. …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
North Carolina Jail Deaths Double in 6 Years by In the early morning hours of May 3, 2022, Kyle Kepley, 35, used a bedsheet to hang himself at the Rockingham County jail. An electrician who worked part-time and struggled with bipolar disorder and drug addiction, he had been detained when …
Nebraska Watchdog Calls Use of Force Against Mentally Ill Prisoner Excessive and Unnecessary by On May 2, 2023, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (DCS) released its investigation into a disturbance at Tecumseh State Correctional Facility nearly two years earlier, during which …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Watchdog Report Attempts to Prove Epstein Suicide by Nearly four years after billionaire sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was found fatally hanged in his cell at a now-shuttered federal lockup in Manhattan, officials attempted to confirm it was a suicide in a report released on June 27, 2023, by Michael Horowitz, …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
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Almost $2.4 Million in Settlements For Seven Suicides at New Jersey Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The families of two women and five men who committed suicide while held in pretrial detention between July 2014 and November 2018 at New Jersey’s Cumberland County Jail (CCJ) have received …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Prison Walls No Barrier to America’s Deadly Opioid Crisis by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney When Missouri prisoner Robert Hebert learned in January 2023 that he had less than two years remaining on his prison sentence, the father of six and his family shared in the excitement. He planned to …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
DOJ Reaches Consent Decree with New Jersey Jail to Improve Mental Health Care by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 17, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed both a federal civil rights complaint and a proposed consent decree to resolve allegedly unconstitutional conditions at New Jersey’s …
Nine Memphis Jailers Indicted in Death of Psychotic Detainee by On September 20, 2023, Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner announced that nine of his deputies had been indicted in the death of Gershun Freeman, a 33-year-old Black man who died in custody at the Memphis lockup during a psychotic episode …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Seven Deaths in Seven Months at Dayton Jail by Though its population is relatively small, with just over 600 detainees, Ohio’s Montgomery County Jail lost seven of them in the first seven months of 2023. That’s more jail deaths than the combined total in the state’s five most populous counties. …
No Hearing Required for Emergency Dose of Antipsychotic Medication for Mississippi Prisoner by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 4, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed dismissal of a Mississippi prisoner’s claim that his due process rights were violated when a doctor dosed …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
CDCR Facing Daily Fines in 33-Year-Old Suit Over Deficient Mental Health Care by For its entire three decades of publication, PLN has been reporting developments in a class-action suit brought by California state prisoners challenging grossly deficient mental health care provided by the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). …
Dunsmore v. San Diego County Sheriff's Dept, CA, Order Granting Joint Motion for Class Certification and Approval of Proposed Class Action Notice Plan, Conditions of Confinement, 2023 Case 3:20-cv-00406-AJB-DDL Document 435 Filed 11/03/23 PageID.16793 Page 1 of 11 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT …
Dunsmore v. San Diego County Sheriff's Dept, CA, Notice of Class Action Certification, Conditions of Confinement, 2023 NOTICE OF CLASS ACTION CERTIFICATION Darryl Dunsmore et al. v. San Diego County Sheriff’s Department, et al.; S.D. Cal. No. 3:20-cv-00406-AJB-DDL On November 3, 2023, the United States District Court for the Southern …
Disability Rights Washington v. Washington State Dept of Corrections, WA, Complaint, Transgender-Denial of Medical-Mental Care, 2023 Case 2:23-cv-01553 Document 1 Filed 10/11/23 Page 1 of 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE 7 8 DISABILITY RIGHTS WASHINGTON, 9 Plaintiff, 10 …
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