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Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Alabama Denied Summary Judgment in Prisoner’s Suit Over Knifepoint Rape by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke On August 22, 2023, the federal court for the Middle District of Alabama declined to dismiss all but a few claims against officials with the state Department of Corrections (DOC) that were made …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Filed under: Transfers, COVID-19
Legal Noose Tightens Around Necks of CDCR Officials Whose Botched Transfer Sparked San Quentin COVID-19 Outbreak by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On October 13, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower court’s denial of qualified immunity (QI) to officials with the California Department …
Fourth Circuit Moves North Carolina Prisons Closer to Recognizing Nation of Gods and Earths by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On December 13, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that a group of North Carolina prisoners can be treated like adherents of a religion even …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Ninth Circuit Refunds Filing Fee to “Struck-Out” California Prisoner Denied Indigent Status Under PLRA by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 11, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit determined it was illegal to collect court filing fees from a prisoner denied indigent status to proceed …
BOP Rolls Out Veterans-Only Housing at Federal Prison in Texas by In an article published by the Vanguard at Berkeley on October 15, 2023, a new program was reported at the Federal Correctional Institution in Seagoville, Texas: A dorm exclusively for prisoners who are veterans of the U.S. military. Federal …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright This month’s cover story is the latest installment on the prison profiteering industry monetizing how prisoners are fed. Perhaps not surprisingly, the cost of feeding prisoners is one of the lowest operating costs involved in caging people, with staffing being 80% …
Migrants at New Mexico CoreCivic ICE Detention Center Forced to Clean Up Sewage with Bare Hands by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney When raw sewage flooded two cell blocks at New Mexico’s Torrance County Detention Facility (TCDF) on November 14, 2023, guards working for its private operator, CoreCivic, ordered some …
“Third Time Is Not the Charm” For Texas Jailers Barred by PLRA from Enforcing Prior Settlement Agreement Against Prisoner in New Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On January 12, 2024, the federal court for the Western District of Texas refused a motion by Williamson County Correctional Facility (WCCF) …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Virginia Supreme Court Denies New Sentence Credits to State Prisoner Serving “Mixed” Sentence by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney To paraphrase Job 1:21, the Supreme Court of Virginia did not giveth but taketh away on October 12, 2023, with a ruling on prisoner sentence credits that were extended by a …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Fourth Circuit Reinstates HRDC’s RICO Claim Against Securus and ViaPath by On June 4, 2023, a request for a rehearing en banc before the entire U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit was denied in a suit accusing prison telecom providers Securus Technologies and Global Tel*Link (GTL)—now known as …
Two West Virginia Jail Guards Plead Guilty in Detainee Death, Six More Charged by Six guards at West Virginia’s Southern Regional Jail were charged on November 30, 2023, in the fatal beating of pretrial detainee Quantez Burks, 37, less than a month after two fellow guards pleaded guilty to federal …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Dismissal Affirmed of Florida Prisoner’s Claim for Exposure to Human Waste by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On December 11, 2023, the Supreme Court of the U.S. declined to issue a writ of certiorari to hear a Florida prisoner’s appeal to a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Seventh Circuit Lets Illinois Prisoner Proceed In Forma Pauperis, Despite Trust Account Balance Exceeding Filing Fee by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On October 10, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued an opinion offering guidance to judges deciding whether to grant a prisoner’s motions to …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Families of New Jersey Jail Suicide Victims Still Waiting for Settlement Payouts by Families who lost loved ones to suicide in New Jersey’s Cumberland County Jail (CCJ) were still waiting in early March 2024 for payouts from settlements reached two years ago or more. The delay is blamed on their …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Filed under: HIV/AIDS, Statistics/Trends
HIV and Incarcerated People: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In June 2023, Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) reviewed data from the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics on HIV and people in America’s prisons, finding that infection rates for the virus—which has no cure—remain …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Federal Watchdog Slams BOP for Lapses in Epstein Death, Pushes Back Against Rumors It Wasn’t Suicide by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On June 27, 2023, the Office of U.S. Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz (OIG) released a report corroborating a New York City medical examiner’s conclusion that …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Class-Action Challenge to Medical Care at Tennessee Jail Results in $3.8 Million Settlement by For years, prisoners at the Bradley County jail in Tennessee received poor medical care or none at all. Former prisoner Darrell Eden, who was denied treatment for pre-arrest injuries sustained during a car accident, including seven …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Eighth Circuit Says Lower Court “Tilted the Scales Too Far” for Jailers in Missouri Detainee’s Fatal Overdose by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On October 19, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed denial of qualified immunity (QI) to officials at St. Louis’ “Workhouse” jail …
“Sugar Daddy” Pennsylvania Constable Accused of Recruiting “Sugar Babies” at Jail by Perhaps Timothy Raye “Timbo” Heefner was confused over his role in life. On one hand he was an elected Pennsylvania State Constable—part of the law enforcement community. He was also a self-described pimp and “sugar daddy,” and according …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
$10 Million Reimbursed for Vacated Washington Drug Possession Convictions by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In September 2023, just two months into a program to rebate fines and fees for vacated drug convictions, Washington state courts had paid out more than $9.4 million. That’s nearly 20% of a $50 …
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