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Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Filed under: Telephone Rates
Massachusetts Makes Calls Free From Prisons and Jails by Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey (D) signed H. 1796 on November 15, 2023, making hers the fifth state in the nation to eliminate fees for prison and jail phone calls. When the law took effect on December 1, 2023, the state joined Connecticut, …
“There you go, Agent Orange!” Former South Carolina Sheriff Federally Indicted for Assaulting Jail Detainee by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Charles B. Lemon, the former Sheriff of South Carolina’s Marlboro County, pleaded not guilty on February 6, 2024, to federal civil rights charges laid out in an indictment unsealed …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Second Circuit Grants New York Officials Qualified Immunity for Prisoner’s Stolen Sentence Credits by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On October 12, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the grant of summary judgment to Defendant officials with New York’s Department of Corrections and Community …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
BOP Shrugs Off Month-Long Leavenworth Lockdown by Promising a “return to normal operations status as soon as possible” at the U.S. Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, the federal Bureau of Prisons insisted on March 28, 2024, that the 1,837 prisoners held there still have access to food, water and medical care …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
California Law Extends Involuntary Commitment and Detention to Substance Abusers by For years, California has struggled with a growing homeless population, reaching 171,000 in late 2023. Though that’s less than one-half of 1% of state residents, lawmakers responded with reforms to the state’s mental health system in SB 43, which …
Ninth Circuit Affirms Class Action Consent Decree at California’s Alameda County Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On October 6, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a consent decree in a class-action lawsuit filed over solitary confinement of mentally ill detainees at the …
HRDC Wins Summary Judgment in North Carolina Prison Censorship Case by On March 27, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina granted in part and denied in part the Human Rights Defense Center’s (HRDC) motion for summary judgment in a civil rights action it filed …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Escapes
Pennsylvania Detainee Found Four Months After Jail Escape, Five Guards Fired by Almost four months after escaping Blair County Prison, jail detainee Isaiah Tilghman, 33, was arrested on March 22, 2024, while headed into a Planet Fitness gym near Philadelphia, over 200 miles from the western Pennsylvania lockup he fled …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
$32,000 Settlement for Failure to Provide Insulin to Diabetic Wisconsin Prisoner by In federal court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin on October 6, 2023, state prisoner Carl F. Self stipulated to dismissal of his medical neglect claims against the state Department of Corrections (DOC), after he accepted a $32,000 …
Over 5,000 Prisoners Federally Sentenced Every Month by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In the nine months ending on June 30, 2023, there were 47,931 sentences for federal crime, driving more than 5,000 prisoners into custody of the federal Bureau of Prisons every month, according to data released by the …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
$7,500 Settlement Reached After Georgia Prisoner’s Retaliation Claim Survives Summary Judgment by Just 10 days after the federal court for the Middle District of Georgia denied them summary judgment on July 31, 2023, officials with the state Department of Corrections (DOC) settled a prisoner’s retaliation claim for $7,500. The case …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Filed under: Public Records Act
$6,500 Paid to Illinois Prisoner After Denied Records Request by On June 20, 2023, the Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) signed an agreement paying state prisoner Jared M. Staake $6,500 to settle his claims over denied public records requested under the state Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 ILCS 140/1, …
$125,000 Settlement for Wisconsin Prisoner’s Claim That Guards Set Him Up For Stabbing by David Reutter
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Filed under: Prison/Jail Murders
Prisoner-on-Prisoner Violence at California Prison Leaves One Dead, Another Stabbed by One California prisoner was killed, another wounded and three others charged in two separate prisoner-on-prisoner assaults—one of them fatal—at Kern Valley State Prison, most recently on October 6, 2023. That’s when the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Regarding Death Penalty, Biden’s Actions Don’t Align with His Mouth by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In an 1829 letter, Pres. Andrew Jackson (D) told the Creek Nation of Indigenous Americans that he was speaking “straight, and not with a forked tongue” when he promised those who evacuated from Alabama …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Three-Year Sentence for One of Four BOP Employees Charged With Ignoring Fatally Ill Federal Prisoner in Virginia by On November 28, 2023, a federal judge in Virginia sentenced a former lieutenant with the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to a three-year term for failing to intervene in a prisoner’s preventable …
San Diego Jury Deadlocks on Charges Against Jail Doctor in Detainee’s Death, Nurse Acquitted by On February 11, 2024, a San Diego jury deadlocked on involuntary manslaughter charges against Dr. Friederike Von Lintig over a 2019 death at the county’s Las Colinas Detention Facility. Nurse Danalee Pascua, 38, was acquitted …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
$25.2 Million Settlement for Two Connecticut Prisoners Exonerated After 35 Years by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A unanimous vote by Connecticut’s House Committee on Judiciary on March 1, 2024, all but assured state lawmakers would approve an agreement made in August 2023 by state Attorney General William Tong …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Filed under: Restraints, Dogs
$15,000 to Virginia Prisoner Mauled by DOC K-9 by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke On December 14, 2023, the state of Virginia confirmed that it had agreed to pay $15,000 to settle a state prisoner’s lawsuit alleging retaliation and excessive use of force by officials with the state Department …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Fired Alabama Guard Reinstated Despite Excessive Force Used on Prisoner Who Died by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On October 24, 2023, the Alabama Personnel Board (APB) reinstated Capt. Timothy McCorvey, a guard dismissed by the warden at Ventress Correctional Facility in 2023 for using excessive force against a …
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