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Article • October 10, 2014 • from PLN October, 2014
Filed under: Protests
Pennsylvania Activists Arrested for Protesting Construction of New Prison Complex by Pennsylvania Activists Arrested for Protesting Construction of New Prison Complex Seven members of Decarcerate PA, a grassroots coalition working to end mass incarceration in Pennsylvania, were arrested while protesting the construction of a new two-prison complex in that state. …
Brief • March 13, 2014
Schoeckert v. City of New York, NY, Complaint, Occupy Wall Street Excessive Force & Arrest, 2014 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ---------------------------------------------------------------)( PAUL SCHOECKERT, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) -against) ) THE CITY OF NEW YORK; POLICE OFFICER) MICHAEL GISBERT, Shield No. 7705; JOHN ) DOE …
Article • February 15, 2014 • from PLN February, 2014
Reflections on the No More Jails Campaign in Champaign County, Illinois by James Kilgore When we began our campaign to stop jail construction in Champaign County, Illinois in early 2012, I thought we were doomed. The grand plan to spend $20 million on this project seemed like a done deal. …
Brief • December 23, 2013
Filed under: Protests, First Amendment
Russell v NYPD, NY, Complaint, organizing Occupy Movement, 2013
Brief • March 27, 2013
Brown v. City of New York et al, NY, Complaint, NYPD false arrest Occupy Wall Street protest, 2013 Case 1:13-cv-02058-NRB Document 1 Filed 03/27/13 Page 1 of 14 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK -----------------------------------------------------------------x GABRIEL BROWN, COMPLAINT AND DEMAND FOR A JURY TRIAL Plaintiff, INDEX NO. …
Florida Town Rallies to Stop CCA Immigration Detention Facility by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Residents in a South Florida community near a proposed 1,500-bed privately-operated immigration detention center waged a successful yearlong opposition campaign that culminated in the cancellation of the project in June 2012. Corrections Corporation of …
Remembering Attica Forty Years Later by Dennis Cunningham by Dennis Cunningham, Michael Deutsch & Elizabeth Fink This year, September 9 will mark the 40th anniversary of the rebellion at Attica State Prison in upstate New York. As one of the prisoner leaders, L.D. Barkley, announced to the world, the rebellion …
Article • June 15, 2011 • from PLN June, 2011
Filed under: Organizing, Protests
Anarchists Claim Attack on NC Department of Correction by On November 24, 2010, the tires of six vehicles belonging to the North Carolina Department of Correction (DOC) were slashed in a parking lot in Asheville, North Carolina, and an adjacent building housing a DOC office was defaced. The total damage …
Article • May 15, 2011
Arrested Anti-Arpaio Agenda Protestors Settle for $500,000 by On July 8, 2010, a group of seven activists who were arrested or cited by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) settled their individual suits for wrongful arrest and malicious prosecution for a total of $500,000. The arrests and citations occurred during …
Article • October 15, 2010 • from PLN October, 2010
$13 Million Settlement in DC Mass Arrest of Protestors by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The District of Columbia agreed to pay $13,302,500 to settle a class-action lawsuit related to the illegal arrest of 680 people. Those people were arrested on April 15, 2000 in connection with the protest …
Article • July 15, 2010
Topless Protesters Get $150,000 Settlement by On October 29, 2008, the California Highway Patrol (CHP) agreed to settle a false arrest suit for $150,000. The suit, filed by Sheba Love and Sherry Glaser, members of Breasts Not Bombs, alleged that Love and Glaser were unlawfully arrested for protesting topless in …
Tear Gas: Chemical Cops Tear Gas and Pepper Spray Can be Deadly by Terry J. Allen Tear Gas: Chemical Cops Tear Gas and Pepper Spray Can be Deadly by Terry J. Allen, In These Times, May 29, 2000 The tons of tear gas and pepper spray munitions Seattle police used …
Denial of Medical Care Causes Two Riots at GEO Group Texas Prison by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On December 12, 2008, a riot erupted at the GEO Group-run Reeves County Detention Center (RCDC) in Pecos, Texas, which houses federal immigration detainees. The uprising was triggered by the death of …
Brief • January 25, 2010
Vodak et al v. City of Chicago et al, IL, Plf Objection to Def Bill of Costs, police protest settlements, 2009 Order Form (01/2005) Case 1:03-cv-02463 Document 608-1 Filed 01/25/10 Page 1 of 4 United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois Name of Assigned Judge or Magistrate Judge Virginia …
LULAC Returns CCA Donation by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke As the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) prepared for a June 20, 2009 protest in Williamson County, Texas outside the T. Don Hutto Family Residential Facility, a secure immigration detention center run by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), …
LA Agrees To Pay $12,550,000 To Settle Police Brutality Suit by The City of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $12,550,000 to settle a class action suit brought by protesters who were injured and intimidated by the LAPD during a May 1, 2007, march protesting the treatment of immigrants and …
Vodak v. City of Chicago, IL, Motion for Stay of Execution, Police Excessive Force, 2009 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION KEVIN VODAK, et al, individually and on behalf of others similarly situated, ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Plaintiffs, …
Article • July 15, 2009 • from PLN July, 2009
Prisoner’s Right to Mail Announcement of Peaceful Demon-stration Trumps Purported Prison Security Claims by Marvin Mentor On October 21, 2008, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California upheld a state prisoner’s First Amendment right to send mail after his letters to several media agencies were blocked by …
Strip-Searched Iowa Bush Protesters Awarded Damages at Trial, Re-Trial by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 4, 2008, a federal jury in Iowa awarded $750,000 to two political protesters who were arrested at the direction of the Secret Service, taken to jail and unlawfully strip-searched. After the court ordered …
Article • April 15, 2009
Filed under: Protests, Immigration, Media
VICTORY AT PASSAIC COUNTY JAIL by Flavia Alaya What Do We Do Now? Flavia Alaya Sunday night, January 8, the 2000 odd inmates of the County jail in Paterson NJ were in total lockdown. There’d apparently been a screaming melee involving a number of prisoners and guards during the day. …
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