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Lujan v. Wetzel, NM, Settlement, Religious Freedom, 2017 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT, RELEASE, AND COVENANT OF NON-DISCLOSURE For the consideration of the sum of EIGHT THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED AND 0/100 DOLLARS ($8,500.00), paid by CORRECTIONS CORPORATION OF AMERICA, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, MONICA LUJAN does hereby release, …
Article • March 13, 2017
Another Oregon Guard Arrested for Sex with Prisoner by An Oregon prison guard faces eleven felony sex abuse charges and a misdemeanor official misconduct charge for having sex with a female prisoner, according to court documents and the Oregon State Police. Edgar P. Mickles, 50, began working at the Coffee …
Hand v. Scott, FL, Class Action Complaint, Disenfranchised Former Felons, 2017 Case 4:17-cv-00128-MW-CAS Document 1 Filed 03/13/17 Page 1 of 77 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA TALLAHASSEE DIVISION JAMES MICHAEL HAND, ) JOSEPH JAMES GALASSO, ) HAROLD W. GIRCSIS, JR., ) CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL SMITH, ) …
Brief • March 13, 2017
Burley v. Miller, MI, Opinion, Inhumane Conditions, 2017 Case Number 15-12637 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DIVISION Burley v. Miller 241 F. Supp. 3d 828 (E.D. Mich. 2017) Decided Mar 13, 2017 Case Number 15–12637 DAVID M. LAWSON, United States District Judge 03-13-2017 Edward BURLEY, Plaintiff, …
Jackson v. Roddrick, IL, Merit Review, Excessive Force, 2017 1:17-cv-01071-SLD # 7 Page 1 of 3 E~FILED Monday, 13 March, 2017 02:52:03 PM Clerk, U.S. District Court, ILCD UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS KAIZMEN JACKSON, Plaintiff, v. ) ) ) ) ) ) 17-CV-1071 ) ) RODDRICK, …
Jones v. Estes, IL, Merit Review, Failure to Protect, 2017 Case 3:16-cv-00835-SMY-RJD Document 32 Filed 03/13/17 Page 1 of 6 Page ID #105 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS JOSEPH JONES, Plaintiff, v. C/O ESTES, et al., Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) ) …
Hope v. Welty, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2017 Case 3:16-cv-00327-NJR-MAB Document 65 Filed 03/17/17 Page 1 of 20 Page ID #512 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS GREGORY HOPE, N50178, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) ) TAMMY WELTY, ) KIM WOODS, PATRICK RIGGS, ) …
Garcia v. CoreCivic, NM, Settlement, Failure to Protect, 2017 SETTLEMENTAGREEMENT,RELEASE, AND COVENANTOF NON-DISCLOSURE For the consideration of the sum of FORTY-SIX THOUSAND AND 00/100 ($46,000.00), paid by CORRECTIONS CORPORATION OF AMERICA, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, HENRY GARCIA does hereby release, acquit, and forever discharge CORRECTIONS …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
Ohio Pays More Than $9.6 Million to Three Men Wrongfully Convicted in 1975 Murder by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton On February 22, 2016, the State of Ohio and two men imprisoned for decades for a murder they did not commit agreed to a settlement totaling more than $5.9 million. …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Federal Transgender Prisoner Allowed to Wear Feminine Clothing at Video Trial by When Jeremy (Grace) Pinson was struck in the head by a white supremacist while imprisoned at FCI Terre Haute, she suffered a traumatic brain injury and was left partially blind. Retaliatory attacks followed that forced a lockdown of …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
New Jersey: Jail Time for Unpaid Littering Fine Results in Civil Suit by Anthony Kneisser flicked a cigarette butt out of his car window on the New Jersey Turnpike and found himself jailed when he appeared in court in 2014 for the littering offense, as he couldn’t pay the $200 …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Filed under: Appointment of Counsel
Fifth Circuit Holds Court May Compel Attorney to Represent Indigent Prisoner by Matthew Clarke In a November 13, 2015 ruling, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held a district court may compel a lawyer to represent an indigent prisoner challenging prison conditions. Mario Naranjo was incarcerated at the Reeves County …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Texas Court of Appeals Upholds Termination of Prisoners’ Parental Rights by In January 2016, in separate cases, the Texas Court of Appeals upheld the termination of two prisoners’ parental rights after they used drugs and were incarcerated multiple times while child-removal actions were pending. Jade, a fictitious name given to …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Colorado: Demonstrators Clash with Police over Seizure of Jury Nullification Pamphlets by Joe Watson Occupy Denver and other local activists have been engaged in a long-term campaign of jury nullification education outside Denver’s Second Judicial District courthouse. The activists’ attempts to exercise their First Amendment rights have resulted in repeated …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Filed under: Statistics/Trends, Suicides
Prisoner Suicides and Attempts Increasing in Texas by Matthew Clarke The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) reported a 40% increase in suicides between 2008 and 2014. As of September 2015, the average number of suicide attempts in Texas prisons each month had jumped 28% from 81.7 attempts per month …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Attorneys with Disciplinary Records Part of Flaw in Pennsylvania’s Death Penalty System by David Reutter In February 2015, just a month into his term as Pennsylvania’s Governor, Tom Wolf imposed a moratorium on capital punishment in the state, calling it “error prone, expensive and anything but infallible.” [See: PLN, Feb. …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Louisiana’s High Incarceration Rate Economically Motivated by David Reutter It’s a well-known fact that the United States has around five percent of the world’s population but incarcerates approximately 25% of the world’s prisoners. Within that disturbing statistic is Louisiana, which has the highest per capita incarceration rate in the nation …
Fifth Circuit: Staff Misleading Prisoner about Grievance Process Excuses Failure to Exhaust by Matthew Clarke On August 17, 2015, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a Texas prisoner’s failure to fully exhaust administrative remedies was excused because jail staff had misled him about grievance procedures. Grady Allen Davis …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
New Jersey Appellate Court Modifies Use of Polygraphs for Paroled Sex Offenders by On January 21, 2016, a New Jersey appellate court upheld the State Parole Board’s requirement that sex offenders take polygraph examinations but modified how the results could be used, prohibiting evidentiary use that could result in the …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Filed under: Police Misconduct
Local Police Department Disbanded in Wake of Speed Trap Embezzlement Scheme by Christopher Zoukis Although the short stretch of I-75 that runs near Arlington Heights, Ohio is toll-free, many unwitting motorists have paid for the privilege of passing through that area. The small village of 800, referred to as a …
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