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Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19, Rural Prisons
Prioritizing Jails Over Hospitals Has Made Rural US More Vulnerable to COVID-19 by Jasmine Heiss, Jack Norton by Jasmine Heiss and Jack Norton, reprinted from Truthout Infrastructure development is a matter of life and death: This has always been true, and we are now in a clarifying moment. In the midst …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19
May Update: Protect Yourself and Your Facility from COVID-19 by Michael D. Cohen, MD by Michael D. Cohen, M.D. In the April issue of Prison Legal News, I discussed the nature of the disease called COVID-19 (COrona VIrus Disease-2019) and ways to protect yourself and your facility through personal cleanliness, …
Texas Prison Health Care Costs at Record High Despite Population Reduction by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Despite a reduction in the Texas prisoner population, state prisons are spending record amounts on prisoner health care. The reason is not an improvement in the health care afforded prisoners. Pending lawsuits allege …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19
ICE Diverts Needed Face Masks from Medical Professionals by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) placed a request for bids on its website in March 2020 for 45,000 N95 protective face masks for 26 of its enforcement and removal operation field offices. This came at a …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Lawsuit: Release Prisoners in Virus Tinderbox to Home Confinement by David Reutter Patrick Jones first federal prisoner to die after judge rejects plea by David M. Reutter A non-violent federal drug offender who pleaded for early release in the months prior to the COVID-19 pandemic hitting America died of the …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19
Prison Postcards: Prisoners Write About Fears, Incompetence, at Their Facilities by Ken Silverstein by Ken Silverstein On April 15, President Donald Trump announced that the coronavirus pandemic had peaked in the United States. That same day, nearly 2,300 people in the country died from COVID-19, the disease cause by the …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Filed under: Prison Labor, COVID-19
Rikers Island Prisoners Helped with Preparations to Bury the Coronavirus Dead by Prisoners jailed with a conviction at New York’s Rikers Island were offered $6 an hour to dig mass graves at Hart Island, where more than 1 million mostly indigent city residents are already buried. In a city with …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Federal Judge “Troubled” by Arizona Prison Director’s Response to Coronavirus; State Rep Calls it “Reckless” by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Court-appointed advocates filed a motion in federal court concerning the Arizona prison director’s response to the coronavirus, which federal Judge Roslyn Silver called “troubling,” writing that it “may reflect …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Connecticut Prisoners Win Lawsuit After Hepatitis Exposure by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon In May 2019, a final settlement agreement was approved for 15 prisoners who were exposed to Hepatitis C when a Correctional Managed Health Care (CMHC) nurse at MacDougall-Walker State Prison in Suffield, Connecticut, used the same needle …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
California Three-Judge Court Denies Emergency Motion to Reduce Prison Population During Pandemic by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis On April 4, 2020, a three-judge court in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California denied a motion seeking an order requiring the California Department of Corrections and …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
How Prepared Are State Prison Systems for a Viral Pandemic? by Emily Widra, Peter Wagner by Emily Widra and Peter Wagner, originally published April 10, 2020 at the Prison Policy Initiative website Since the Prison Policy Initiative’s first coronavirus briefing at the beginning of March, the organization has been tracking how federal, state, and local …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Undisclosed Settlement in Kentucky Case a Textbook Case of Negligent Privatized Prison Medical Care by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The provision of medical care is an expensive proposition regardless of whether a citizen or prisoner is in need of care. Tight budgets have pushed many jails and prisons …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19
Mass Incarceration, Meet COVID-19 Opportunity to release prisoners with little public safety risk is clear by Sharon Dolovich by Sharon Dolovich Most of America’s 2.3 million prisoners cannot practice social distancing. They are packed into overcrowded facilities, living, sleeping and bathing within feet—sometimes inches—of each other. What’s more, they often …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Women Advocate for the Release of COVID-19 At-Risk Prisoners in Indiana by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss A prisoner advocacy group in April began urging residents to call Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb and the state Department of Corrections (DOC) Commissioner Robert Carter to demand the release of nonviolent prisoners, the …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Filed under: Hearing, COVID-19
Arizona Court Denies Emergency COVID-19 Motion by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Arizona federal district court overseeing the Stipulation in a class action that challenged the medical care within the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADOC) denied an emergency motion to require ADOC to develop a comprehensive COVID-19 plan. …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19, Overcrowding
Ohio Prisoner’s Facebook Live a Plea for Help During COVID-19 Pandemic by "They’re literally leaving us in here to die,” said a prisoner live-streaming on Facebook in a plea for help April 3, 2020. The now-viral online video captures the desperation of prisoners during the coronavirus pandemic. The 31-year-old, wearing …
Brief • April 30, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19
Gayle v. Meade, FL, Report and Recommendation, COVID-19 Release, 2020 Case 1:20-cv-21553-MGC Document 76 Entered on FLSD Docket 04/30/2020 Page 1 of 12 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA Case No. 20-21553-Civ-COOKE/GOODMAN PATRICK GAYLE, et al., Petitioners, vs. MICHAEL W. MEADE, et. al., Respondents. _____________________________________/ ORDER ADOPTING IN …
Brief • April 29, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19
Swain v. Junior, FL, Motion for Preliminary Injunction, COVID-19 Release, 2020 Case 1:20-cv-21457-KMW Document 100 Entered on FLSD Docket 04/29/2020 Page 1 of 52 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA Case No.: 1:20-cv-21457-KMW ANTHONY SWAIN, et al., Plaintiffs, v. DANIEL JUNIOR, et al., Defendants. / ORDER GRANTING IN …
Brief • April 29, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19
Abrams v. Chapman, MI, Complaint for Class Certification, COVID-19 Release, 2020 Case 2:20-cv-11053-MAG-RSW ECF No. 1 filed 04/29/20 PageID.1 Page 1 of 56 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT IN THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DIVISION ELLIOTT ABRAMS, CRAIG SEEGMILLER, VINCENT GLASS, ROBERT REEVES, JERMAINE, CAMPBELL, and LAMONT HEARD, individually, and …
Brief • April 28, 2020
Fernandez-Rodriguez v. Licon-Vitale, NY, Class Action Petition, Covid Response, 2020 Case 1:20-cv-03315-ER Document 1 Filed 04/28/20 Page 1 of 29 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK CESAR FERNANDEZ-RODRIGUEZ, ROBER GALVEZ-CHIMBO, SHARON HATCHER, JONATHAN MEDINA, and JAMES WOODSON, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Petitioners, …
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