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Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
Alabama Supreme Court Holds Miller Entitled to Retroactivity by On August 25, 2017, the Alabama Supreme Court held the decision in Miller v. Alabama, 132 S.Ct. 2455 (2012), which prohibits mandatory life-without-parole sentences for juvenile offenders, was “a substantive rule that is retroactive in cases on collateral review.” That ruling …
Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
Oregon Jailer Facing Sex Charges Improperly Denied Insanity Defense by The Oregon Court of Appeals held that a female jail employee who repeatedly let a prisoner out of his cell to have sex with him should have been allowed to present an insanity defense at trial. As previously reported in …
Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
Filed under: RLUIPA, Religious Diet
Indiana Prisoner Entitled to Kosher Meals Under RLUIPA by The Indiana Department of Correction (IDOC) must provide a kosher diet to a Muslim prisoner who said he believes “Islam prohibits rejecting food that Allah has given to humans – including certain types of animal meat.” Prisoner Roman Lee Jones, who …
Deadly Prison Riot in Delaware: 18 Prisoners Indicted, Slain Guard’s Widow Settles Suit for $7.55 Million by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna In October 2017, a New Castle County, Delaware grand jury indicted 18 prisoners from the maximum-security James T. Vaughn Correctional Center, 16 of whom were charged with the …
Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
Maine: Court Does Not Need Jurisdiction Over Prisoner to Issue Order to Protect Child by On August 29, 2017, the Maine Supreme Court affirmed the denial of a motion to dismiss a jeopardy order against the father of Emma B. Emma was a child living with her mother in Maine, …
Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
Missouri: $75,000 Settlement for Detainee’s Death Due to Untreated Ulcer by A $75,000 settlement was reached in a civil rights action alleging denial of medical care to a pretrial detainee who died from complications related to a peptic ulcer. The death of Robert Breeding, 32, came only five days after …
Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
Global Tel*Link Settles Mississippi Prison Bribery Case for $2.5 Million by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis As previously mentioned in PLN, Global Tel*Link Corp. (GTL), the largest provider of prison and jail phone services in the United States, has settled a lawsuit that accused the company of conspiring to bribe …
Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
New Mexico Prisoner Obtains Court Order to Allow Breastfeeding by In June 2017, a New Mexico state court issued a temporary restraining order that required the Department of Corrections (DOC) to allow a prisoner to breastfeed her baby during regular visitation hours, and to pump breast milk so her child …
Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
Colorado Federal Jury Awards $50,000 to Prisoner Assaulted by Deputy in Court by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On May 12, 2017, a Colorado federal jury awarded $50,000 to a former jail prisoner who was assaulted by a deputy while speaking with a judge in a Denver courtroom. According to …
Louisiana Prison Officials Sued for Trying to Block Investigation into Abuse of Disabled Prisoners by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Alleging a “culture of cover-up and excessive force,” the MacArthur Justice Center and the Advocacy Center of Louisiana (ACL) filed a class-action lawsuit in February 2018 against officials at …
Ninth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Deaf Former Prisoner’s ADA Claims by Jail officials “may not turn a blind eye to a deaf ear,” the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit fittingly declared in an August 31, 2017 ruling that reversed a summary judgment order in a lawsuit filed by …
Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
Prisons and Jails Impose More Restrictions on Mail, Visits to Curtail Contraband by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Citing a need to stop the smuggling of drugs and other contraband, some prisons and jails have placed new and stringent restrictions on both prisoner mail and visitation. Beginning in April 2017, …
Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
California Prisoners File Class-action Suit Seeking Hepatitis C Treatment by Greg Dober by Gregory Dober In 2013, the FDA approved two new life-saving hepatitis C (HCV) drugs known as simeprevir (brand named Olysio) and sofosbuvir (brand named Sovaldi). The drugs, a new class of medication called direct-acting antivirals (DAAs), were …
Colorado: Defendants Settle After Death of Prisoner Denied Medical Treatment by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The estate of a man who died in a Colorado jail of a treatable foot malady has settled a lawsuit alleging Corrections Corporation of America (now CoreCivic) and other defendants caused his death by …
Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
Filed under: Jail Specific
Ashes to Ashes: In Illinois, the Erasure of Incarcerated People Continues After Death by Sybil Drew by Sybil Drew, Truthout The mausoleum at the Oak Grove Cemetery in Hillsboro, Illinois holds a secret: Hidden away in the top shelf are more than a dozen containers of unclaimed ashes. They hold …
Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
Filed under: Totality of Conditions
As Wyoming State Penitentiary Falls Apart, Officials Rush Repairs by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Built just 17 years ago, but on unstable ground, Wyoming’s maximum-security penitentiary in Rawlins suffers from a sinking foundation, cracking walls and ceilings, and flooding from both a failing roof and broken, badly-installed pipes. In …
Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
Fifth Circuit: Louisiana Must Allow Prisoner to Wear Dreadlocks by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court’s judgment dismissing a lawsuit brought by a prisoner who sought an injunction requiring the Louisiana Department of Corrections (DOC) to allow him to wear dreadlocks. …
What’s Hidden Behind the Walls of America’s Prisons by Heather Ann Thompson by Heather Ann Thompson Few Americans fully appreciate just how many of their fellow citizens are ensnared in the criminal justice system. Some may have heard that there are about 2.3 million people behind bars, but that figure tells …
Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
New York: Former Rikers Guard Gets 30 Years for Civil Rights Violations, Conspiracy by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin PLN has previously reported on the December 2016 conviction of former Rikers Island jail complex guard Brian Coll, 47, for his role in the 2012 death of detainee Ronald Spear. In …
California: Mentally Ill Jail Prisoner Dies after Two Days in Restraint Chair; $5 Million Settlement by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis A 36-year-old California prisoner with a documented history of schizophrenia died in a jail cell on January 22, 2017, less than an hour after his release from a restraint …
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