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Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
of less than two ounces of marijuana. Soon after being transferred to the Collin County Detention Center and placed in the custody of the Sheriff’s Office, Scott began to exhibit what guards ...
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: Attorney Fees (PLRA)
what happened to them from happening again. On June 21, 2019, a jury returned a modest verdict against the three guards totaling $5,000 for each prisoner, though the Court then granted judgment ...
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: Editorials
one of them! California alone had at least six. Today the number is much smaller, probably fewer than five around the country. What has changed is that there are now more nonprofit newsrooms covering ...
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: Settlements, Suicides
as to the County’s civil rights claim but granted as to claims under ADA and RA, with the Court’s reasoning not too dissimilar from what it employed in reaching a similar decision for Telecare. CFMG ...
. On December 4, 2017, she told guard James Lee Roy Igou she was about to hang herself and, according to a prisoner who was working in the area as an orderly, Igou taunted her, saying, “OK, what are you ...
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
in order to influence federal law and policy in their favor. “You can’t let subsidiaries get around what is illegal for the parent corporation to do,” argues Craig Holman, an ethics ...
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
. The child asked Peerman what being strip searched meant and Peerman said, “I told her, that means you have to take all of your clothes off or you’re not going to be able to see your dad ...
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
illness and risk of suicide, denying him much-needed psychotropic medications, and did not do what was necessary to ensure he would not harm himself, said the lawsuit. Bluehorse told staff that other ...
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
innocent” under Penal Code 851.8. Such was the case with Craig Richard Coley, who was authorized compensation totaling nearly $2 million after serving over 38 years in prison on what the Ventura County ...
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
it was due to heroin withdrawal. The jailers’ response, according to the suit Belden later filed, was: “That’s what happens when you’re a crackhead.” Surveillance video showed ...
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19
civil rights advocates have consistently questioned what DOC would do if ever there were a COVID-19 outbreak in its prisons. DOC Commissioner Nancy Dahlstrom said her agency had been “proactive ...
Article • September 1, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021
institutions raises the obvious question of what role the 191 COVID-19 deaths played in contributing to this excess.” While the study focused on Florida prisons, the authors believed its experience ...
Article • September 1, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021
Filed under: Environmental Law
, Case No. 8:21-cv-1521), which may have been what prompted the DEP’s own lawsuit. As the Human Rights Defense Center’s Prison Ecology Project has stressed since its inception in 2015 ...
Article • July 15, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
concluded that “New York’s policy requires indefinite incarceration for some indigent people judged to be sex offenders.” See: Ortiz v. Breslin, 142 S. Ct. 914 (2022). Here’s what ...
Article • July 15, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
published by the Electronic Frontier Foundation on September 7, 2021. It is reprinted here with permission.   Prison wardens and detention center administrators have, for years, faced what they believe ...
Article • July 15, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
damages to actual damages] is warranted.” Excluding what was improperly awarded the deceased father, the actual damages awarded totaled $8.5 million: $2.5 to the mother and $2 million each for three ...
Brief • March 16, 2020
would alleviate the relevant concern, and if so, what is the least amount of delay necessary. (3) After any notice given pursuant to subsection (1), the parties shall file a joint notice or joint motion ...
Brief • September 6, 2011
Filed under: Depositions, Wrongful Death
from deposition). Even this exercise around Chief Magnus’ deposition is driving up both sides’ fees and costs. In the time we have taken to meet and confer on what is usually an unremarkable deposition ...
In-the-News Article • September 12, 2019
has to disclose what the Department of Corrections must share under the state’s Public Records Act. An attorney for a human rights group argued that Correct Care Solutions (CCS) had ...
In-the-News Article • January 25, 2020
added the company still does not believe it is subject to the Inspection of Public Records Act and “plans to seek court review of the fundamental issue.” Asked what recourse ...
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