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Article • March 6, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Closed Since 2013, Tamms Prison Now “Rampant” with Mold by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke As previously reported in PLN, the Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) closed the Tamms Correctional Center as part of a cost-cutting consolidation of state prisons pushed by then-Governor Pat Quinn in 2013. [See: PLN, June …
Sabbie v. Southwestern Correctional, TX, Report and Recommendation, Wrongful Death, 2019 Case 5:17-cv-00113-RWS-CMC Document 122 Filed 03/06/19 Page 1 of 169 PageID #: 2492 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS TEXARKANA DIVISION TERESA SABBIE, individually, as personal § representative of the ESTATE OF § MICHAEL SABBIE, and as …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
HRDC Settles Lawsuit Against Mississippi Jail that Only Allowed Religious Reading Materials by On October 24, 2018, the Human Rights Defense Center – the parent organization of Prison Legal News – and the Mississippi Center for Justice filed suit on behalf of HRDC in federal court against Forrest County, Sheriff …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Indiana Prisoners Win Partial Summary Judgment in Jail Conditions Case by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon  The Vigo County jail in Terre Haute, Indiana has a well-documented history of constitutional violations. In 2002, the county entered into a consent decree to cap the jail’s population at no more than 268 …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Israeli Supreme Court Orders Increased Personal Space for Prisoners by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin  Researcher Lila Margalit, with the Israel Democracy Institute’s Amnon Lipkin-Shahak Center for Security and Democracy, published a blog entry on June 7, 2018 that detailed a landmark 2017 judgment entered by the Israeli Supreme Court. …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Filed under: Protests, Food
County Detainees Protest Food Served at New Hampshire Jail by Kevin W. Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss In mid-2018, prisoners at the Bristol County House of Correction (HOC) in Massachusetts participated in a hunger strike to protest inadequate food and medical care. Sheriff Thomas M. Hodgson said those were the …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Eighth Circuit Finds Verified Complaint Defeats Summary Judgment Motion in Failure-to-Protect Case by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 20, 2018, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected an appeal filed by officials at the Northeast Arkansas Community Corrections Center (NEACCC) in a lawsuit alleging they had failed to …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Filed under: Smoking
Missouri Prisoner Awarded $111,000 in Second-Hand Smoke Case, DOC Bans Smoking by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Ecclesiastical Denzel Washington, a former death row prisoner who is now serving a life sentence, won a jury verdict against the Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC) and various prison officials totaling $111,000. Following …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
U.S. Marshals Report: Ohio County Jail “One of the Worst in the Country” by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke  One week after the release of a report by the U.S. Marshals Service on November 21, 2018, which described Ohio’s Cuyahoga County jail system as “one of the worst in the …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Texas Accounts for Over Ten Percent of Nation’s Jail Deaths by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke There are over 1,000 prisoner deaths each year in U.S. jails, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, and one of every ten occurs in Texas. Over the nine-month period between October 1, 2017 …
Ohio Jail’s Private Healthcare Provider Denied Summary Judgment in Failure to Treat Prisoner’s Fractured Pelvis by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney A United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio denied motions for summary judgment filed by private healthcare provider NaphCare Inc. (NaphCare) and its employee Emergency Medical …
Adams v. NaphCare, VA, Settlement Agreement, Jail Death, 2019 Case 2:16-cv-00229-RBS Document 291 Filed 03/05/19 Page 1 of 1 PageID# 4148 NR - 5 2019 COWARD ^^ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW Virginia Beach Suffolk Chesa|j>eake wvAA'.pendercoward.com March 5, 2019 Jeff W.Rosen,Esq. jrosen@pendercoward.com Direct dial:(757)490-6253 Direct fax:(757)502-7351 222 Central Park Ave.,Suite …
Sims v. Pfister, IL, Amended Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2019 Case: 1:18-cv-03842 Document#: 26 Filed: 03/04/19 Page 1 of 14 PagelD #:251 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS - EASTERN DMSION BLANTON SIMS, Plaintiff, v. SHERWIN MILES, RANDY PFISTER, JEREMIAH DALY, TROY JOHNSON, MARLENE HENZE, GHALIAH OBAISI, …
Brief • March 1, 2019
Elhady v. Pew, MI, Opinion and Order, Misconduct by Customs and Border Protection Officers, 2019 Case 2:17-cv-12969-MAG-APP ECF No. 46 filed 03/01/19 PageID.670 Page 1 of 20 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DIVISION ANAS ELHADY, Plaintiff, Case No. 17-cv-12969 v. HON. MARK A. GOLDSMITH MATTHEW PEW, …
National Consumer Law Center - Commercialized (In)Justice - Consumer Abuses in the Bail And Corrections Industry, 2019 COMMERCIALIZED (IN)JUSTICE CONSUMER ABUSES IN THE BAIL AND CORRECTIONS INDUSTRY NCLC® March 2019 NATIONAL CONSUMER LAW CENTER ® © Copyright 2019, National Consumer Law Center, Inc. All rights reserved. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Brian …
Brief • February 28, 2019
Varela v. Kontagiannis, IL, Amended Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2019 Case: 1:18-cv-06818 Document #: 17 Filed: 02/28/19 Page 1 of 9 PageID #:50 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION VINCENT VARELA ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) ) LAKE COUNTY CORRECTIONAL OFFICER …
Sutton v. Nicholson, IL, Merit Review, Failure to Protect, 2019 A TR UE:,.G0P-¥,t\ TTEST 1 THOMi~{t?})~R • J1:,,~LERK By.fs( ;/•,QEL U.S. DJSTRl~, ll~fST IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR,~,. "•~ j z NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS \n1 ~ DarrylJ. Sutton(B-19389), ) ) V, ·. 1:;1, ,Sf,} • Case No. …
Allen v. A.E. New Jr, Inc, FL, Final Order Approving Settlement, Failure to Protect, 2019 f ' Filing# 85391222 E-Filed 02/22/2019 05:31 :21 PM IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COURT IN AND FOR ESCAMBIA COUNTY, FLORIDA CLARKE ALLEN, et al., Plaintiffs, A.E. NEW, JR., INC., et …
ICE-friendly Policies. A String of Jail Deaths. Why Does This Sheriff Keep Getting Elected? by Kyle C. Barry Advocates say Alameda County Sheriff Greg Ahern is an odd fit for the Bay Area, but mounting a challenge has proved daunting. by Kyle C. Barry, The Appeal When Barbara Doss went …
Brief • February 20, 2019
Cox v. Regalado, OK, Judgment, Wrongful Death, 2019 Case 4:11-cv-00457-JED-FHM Document 373 Filed in USDC ND/OK on 02/20/19 Page 1 of 2 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OKLAHOMA CAROLYN COX, as the Special Administrator of the Estate of Charles Jernegan, Deceased, ) ) ) …
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