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Article • January 8, 2018
“Jenny’s Law” Passed after Texas Prosecutor Jails Rape Victim; District Attorney Voted Out by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A Houston television station reported that a prosecutor had a rape victim jailed for almost a month – just to ensure she would testify at trial. Devon Anderson, the district attorney …
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
Filed under: Jail Specific, Suicides
$500,000 Settles Illinois Jail Suicide Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On April 27, 2017, the County Board of Knox County, Illinois agreed to a $500,000 settlement in a federal lawsuit over the suicide of a pretrial detainee. Joey Corbin, 26, had a history of mental illness and was …
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
Filed under: Strip Searches
Cook County Strip-search Class-action Claimants to Receive Additional Payments by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna In May 2017, insurance companiesfor Cook County, Illinois preliminarily agreed to add $52 million to a previous settlement reached in 2010 concerning blanket strip searches of prisoners held at the Cook County Jail. The agreement …
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
Drug Addicts Suffer Preventable Deaths in U.S. Jails by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis There is a growing epidemic of opioid addiction in the United States. According to the federal Centers for Disease Control, over 33,000 opioid-related deaths occurred in 2015, representing a quadrupling of such fatalities since 1999. It …
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
Controversy Surrounds Angola Prison Warden’s Retirement, Indictment of Family Members by David Reutter by David M. Reutter One month after a November 2015 investigative report by the New Orleans Advocate, Louisiana State Penitentiary warden Burl Cain, 73, announced his retirement. He stepped down from his longtime position at the Angola …
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
Filed under: Age Discrimination
$840,000 to Wrongfully Terminated Pennsylvania Jail Official by A federal jury has awarded $842,119 to a former major at the Allegheny County Jail in Pennsylvania. The jury found that Walter Mikulan was fired in 2013 in an effort to get rid of older supervisors and because he was allegedly abusing …
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
Montana DOC Agrees to Modification of ADA Class-action Settlement by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna In March 2017, the Montana Department of Corrections (DOC) agreed to modifications to a class-action settlement originally entered into in 1994 to resolve medical, dental and mental health complaints stemming from a 1991 prison riot. …
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
Filed under: Visiting, Video Visitation
California Agency Addresses In-person Visits at Jails after Governor Vetoes Bill by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton Under new rules adopted by a state regulatory agency in February 2017, any California jail that offered in-person prisoner visitation at the beginning of 2017 may not limit visits to video calls. Further, …
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
Filed under: Racial Discrimination
New York Times Reveals Racial Bias Rampant in Upstate New York Prisons by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton In December 2016, New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo ordered an official probe into allegations of racial bias by guards in the state’s prison system. The governor’s announcement came shortly after the New York …
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
Eighth Circuit Vacates Summary Judgment Order in Detainee’s Wrongful Death Suit by In March 2017, the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit vacated a summary judgment order in favor of jail officials on claims stemming from a detainee’s death. On February 23, 2012, Jerome Harrell reported to the jail …
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault
$150,000 Settles Colorado Jail Prisoner’s Sexual Assault Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In January 2017, Otero County, Colorado paid $150,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a jail prisoner who was sexually assaulted by a former guard. Jennifer Hernandez, a mother of two, was booked into the Otero …
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
“Start by Believing” Initiative Creates Controversy by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke According to a December 15, 2016 news report, Debbie Moak, then-director of the Arizona Governor’s Office of Youth, Faith and Family, issued a letter of guidance recommending that criminal justice agencies not adopt policies supported by Start by …
Department of Justice Releases Reports on Prison and Jail Deaths by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In December 2016, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) released two reports on deaths in state and federal prisons and local jails, covering more than a decade of mortality data …
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
Attica Medical Experiments Exposed by Greg Dober by Greg Dober On November 19, 2017, Heather AnnThompson, a professor of history at the University of Michigan, wrote an op-ed for the New York Times in which she described medical experiments that took place at the Attica Correctional Facility in the early …
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
$3.6 Million: California Prisoner Killed by Guards by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Santa Clara County, California has agreed to pay $3.6 million to the family of a mentally ill man who was beaten to death by guards in the county’s San Jose jail. The three guards who killed him, …
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
Filed under: Jail Specific
$1.23 Million Settles Indiana Jail Conditions Suit by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Officials in Floyd County, Indiana agreed on July 24, 2017 to settle a federal class-action lawsuit that alleged jail officials kept prisoners in padded cells, “deprived [them] of clothing, bedding, and hygiene products,” and tased and pepper-sprayed …
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
Report Slams Takeover of Washington DOC Food Services by Correctional Industries by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton In October 2016 report by Prison Voice Washington detailed the adverse effects of a takeover of food services in Washington state prisons by Correctional Industries (CI). The report, titled “Correcting Food Policy in …
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
Pennsylvania Class-action Targets Company Providing Inaccurate Background Checks by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Helen Stokes, a 65-year-old Pennsylvania woman with no criminal record, was nonetheless continually denied credit due to inaccuracies in her background report that a property credit reporting company refused to correct. Consequently, she filed a class-action …
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
Arkansas Supreme Court: Religious Freedom Preliminary Injunction Requires Hearing by The Arkansas Supreme Court held on March 16, 2017 that a lower court abused its discretion by denying a prisoner’s motion for a preliminary injunction without holding a hearing. Arkansas prisoner Malik Muntaqim is a member of the Nation of …
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
Seventh Circuit: Court Erred in Dismissing Prisoner’s Suit for Failure to Include Trust Account Ledger by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On February 7, 2017, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that a district court erred when it dismissed a prisoner’s civil rights lawsuit that was brought in forma …
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