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Article • February 19, 2022
$20,000 Paid by Santa Clara County to Settle Claims of Medical Neglect and Failure to Protect Disabled Prisoner Beaten by Gang Members in County Jail by Chuck Sharman By Chuck Sharman   A settlement was executed on August 27, 2019, by lawyers for Santa Clara County, California, agreeing to pay …
Brief • February 16, 2022
Filed under: Protests, Excessive Force
Epps v. City and County of Denver, CO, Supplemental Expert Report of Norman Stamper, Excessive Force- Protesting, 2022 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT OF THE DISTRICT COURT OF COLORADO Civil Action Nos. 1:20-cv-01878-RBJ & 1:20-cv-01922-RBJ-MEH (consolidated) ELISABETH EPPS, et al. Plaintiffs, v. CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, et al., …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
California Appeals Court Reverses Dismissal of Charges Against Prisoners Charged in Pelican Bay Riot by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On June 9, 2021, the California Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal to a decision handed down by the state’s First District Court of Appeal on March 29, …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
Activists Play Whack-a-Mole Closing ICE Detention Centers by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A Bloomberg Equality report published on January 11, 2022, gave little hope that the omicron variant behind a resurgence in the COVID-19 pandemic would spare immigrant detainees held for federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), with …
Brief • December 22, 2021
Filed under: Protests, Excessive Force
Epps v. City and County Denver, CO, Rebuttal Expert Report of Norman Stamper, Excessive Force-Protesting, 2021 CONTAINS REFERENCE TO MATERIALS DESIGNATED AS CONFIDENTIAL IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT OF THE DISTRICT COURT OF COLORADO Civil Action Nos. 1:20-cv-01878-RBJ & 1:20-cv-01922-RBJ-MEH (consolidated) ELISABETH EPPS, et al. Plaintiffs, v. CITY AND …
Brief • December 22, 2021
Filed under: Protests, Excessive Force
Epps v. City and County of Denver, CO, Rebuttal Expert Report of Dr. Edward R. Maguire, Excessive Force-Protesting, 2021 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT OF THE DISTRICT COURT OF COLORADO Civil Action Nos. 1:20-cv-01878-RBJ & 1:20-cv-01922-RBJ-MEH (consolidated) ELISABETH EPPS, et al. Plaintiffs, v. CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, et …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Report Highlights Force Feeding of Hunger Striking Asylum Seekers by ICE and GEO by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Regardless of what people without first-hand knowledge of prisons or detention centers believe, prisoners are generally not the blood-thirsty, brutal animals depicted in the media. In fact, especially in the face …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Massachusetts Prisons Pledge to End Solitary by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins The Massachusetts Department of Corrections (DOC) surprised many critics with a June 2021 announcement of its intent to eliminate solitary confinement as it currently exists in the state prison system. State Public Safety and Security Secretary Thomas Turco …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
First Prisoner Elected to Hold Public Office in Washington DC by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Joel Castón, 44, a prisoner of the District of Columbia Jail, may be the first incarcerated elected official in the nation. He won the special election June 15, 2021 for the Ward 7 Advisory …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Company Surveils Activists Opposing Construction of Prisons and Jails by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders As if building prisons were not enough, companies are now engaged in what are called “corporate counterinsurgency” measures designed to influence public opinion by monitoring and surveilling groups opposing the construction of new prisons and …
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
Pay-to-Play Lives in FEC Decision Not to Enforce Ban on Political Contributions by Boca Prison Contractor The GEO Group by Dan Christensen by Dan Christensen, Florida Bulldog, September 20, 2021 In a ruling that undermines an 81-year-old anti-corruption law prohibiting pay-to-play political contributions by federal contractors, an impotent Federal Election …
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
Filed under: Voting, Rural Prisons
New Connecticut Law Eliminates Prison Gerrymandering by On May 26, 2021, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed S.B. 753, Public Act 21-13, which created a new statute requiring the state to count most imprisoned persons as residents of the district where they were living before they were imprisoned for purposes of …
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
Hunger Strike, Ceiling Collapse, Lawsuit Spotlight Deteriorating Conditions at Women’s Prison in Illinois by Brian Dolinar, Panagioti Tsolkas by Brian Dolinar and Panagioti Tsolkas "I’ve been incarcerated since the age of 18, I grew up in the penal system,” shares Mishunda Davis. “I went from the Cook County jail, to …
Brief • September 20, 2021
City of New York v. Correction Officers Benevolent Association, NY, Complaint, Collective Bargaining & Strikes, 2021 CAUTION: THIS DOCUMENT HAS NOT YET BEEN REVIEWED BY THE COUNTY CLERK. (See below.) NYSCEF DOC. NO. 2 INDEX NO. UNASSIGNED RECEIVED NYSCEF: 09/20/2021 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF …
Article • September 8, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021
Filed under: Voting, Rural Prisons
Nominal Representation Without Actual Representation: One Person, No Vote by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon In the antebellum South, the Missouri Compromise allowed for every slave to count as four-fifths of a person for census and representative purposes. In our current, much more enlightened nation, every prisoner counts as an …
Thomas v. City of Chicago, IL, Settlement, Excessive Force Against Protestors, 2021 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION MARKEL THOMAS, Plaintiff, V. CITY OF CHICAGO, ET AL., Defendants. ) ) Case No. 21 C 421 ) ) Judge Sara Ellis ) ) …
Brief • September 7, 2021
Small v. New York City Department of Corrections, NY, Exhibit a - Verdict Form, Failure to Protect, 2021 Case 1:09-cv-01912-RA-SDA Document 377-1 Filed 09/07/21 Page 1 of 8 EXHIBIT A Case 1:09-cv-01912-RA-SDA Document 377-1 Filed 09/07/21 Page 2 of 8 Case 1:09-cv-01912-RA-SDA Document 350-8 Filed 06/03/21 Page 1 of 7 …
Article • September 1, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021
Modest Decline in Prison and Jail Populations in Spring 2021 by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In June 2021, the Vera Institute of Justice issued a report entitled People in Jail and Prison in Spring 2021, detailing the changes in jail and prison populations through the end of March 2021. …
Article • September 1, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021
Criminal Justice System Encourages Racism According to MIT Study by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Michigan Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Economics professor Peter Temin released a report last April titled “Mass Incarceration Retards Racial Integration.” He says that it was systemic racial prejudice which initiated the move toward …
Brief • August 30, 2021
Williams v. City of West Palm Beach, FL, Complaint, Panhandling, 2021 Case 9:21-cv-81537-XXXX Document 1 Entered on FLSD Docket 08/30/2021 Page 1 of 23 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA WEST PALM BEACH DIVISION Case No.: 9:21-cv-81537 ROSA WILLIAMS, GARY FRASHAW, and THOMAS HYLAND, Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF …
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