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IRS Audit Prompts New Mexico County to Convert Bonds Used for ICE Facility
Article • October 10, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
Filed under: Management and Training Corporation, Corrections Audits, Immigration
IRS Audit Prompts New Mexico County to Convert Bonds Used for ICE Facility by Joe Watson by Joe Watson An Internal Revenue Service audit of tax-free bonds used to develop an immigrant detention facility in New Mexico was closed once the bonds were converted to taxable status. Otero County issued …
Georgia Teen’s Suicide from Neglect Results in $1.7 Million Settlement
Article • October 10, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
Filed under: Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Suicides
Georgia Teen’s Suicide from Neglect Results in $1.7 Million Settlement by A settlement was reached last year in a lawsuit brought by the estate of a teenager who hanged himself at a Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) facility. The complaint described a chilling account of neglect of a child …
Profiting Off Mass Incarceration: Detroit Pistons Owner Buys Private Prison Phone Company
Article • October 10, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Statistics/Trends, Telephone Rates
Profiting Off Mass Incarceration: Detroit Pistons Owner Buys Private Prison Phone Company by Brian Dolinar by Brian Dolinar, Truthout The election of Donald Trump has already given an economic boost to those profiting from mass incarceration. The stock prices of the two biggest private prison builders – CoreCivic (formerly Corrections …
Private Probation Company Agrees to End Drug Testing Absent Court Order
Article • October 10, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
Filed under: Sentinel, Parole/Probation Searches, Drug Testing, Class Certification
Private Probation Company Agrees to End Drug Testing Absent Court Order by David Reutter by David Reutter In a preliminary consent order, Sentinel Offender Services, a private probation company, agreed to stop its practice of drug testing probationers without court approval. The order was entered in a class-action case challenging …
Corizon Loses Indiana DOC Medical Contract Amid Lawsuits
Article • October 10, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
Filed under: Corizon, Medical Misconduct, Private Contractors
Corizon Loses Indiana DOC Medical Contract Amid Lawsuits by David Reutter by David Reutter In 2005, at the urging of then-Governor Mitch Daniels, the Indiana Department of Correction (IDOC) awarded a contract to privatize medical care for prisoners. The winning bidder, Prison Health Services, merged in 2011 with Correctional Medical …
Family Files Wrongful Death Suit Against County Jail in New York
Article • October 10, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
Filed under: Correctional Medical Care, Medication, Medical Neglect/Malpractice
Family Files Wrongful Death Suit Against County Jail in New York by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The family of deceased prisoner Jimmy Richardson filed a federal lawsuit against the Schenectady County Jail in New York in April 2017, alleging that the facility and its medical contractor, Correctional Medical Care, …
Seattle Council Approves Protections for Renters with Criminal Records
Article • October 10, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
Filed under: Discrimination, Advocacy
Seattle Council Approves Protections for Renters with Criminal Records by Nathalie Graham by Nathalie Graham, Seattle Weekly Fifteen months in prison, three years of probation. A $30,000 fine. Sue Mason paid her debt to society long ago – 14 years, to be exact – yet, it feels like she’s still …
Louisiana Corrections Secretary: More Private Prisons Won’t Save Money
Article • October 10, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
Filed under: Private Prisons, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Cost of Prison Systems
Louisiana Corrections Secretary: More Private Prisons Won’t Save Money by Privatizing more prisons will not save Louisiana money now or in the long run, according to the state’s Public Safety and Corrections Secretary, Jimmy LeBlanc. LeBlanc is opposed to House Concurrent Resolution 30, proposed by state Rep. Jack McFarland, which …
Court Decision Favoring BOP Whistleblower Critical of BOP and OIG
Article • October 10, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
Filed under: Whistleblowing, Prison Industries, Prison Labor
Court Decision Favoring BOP Whistleblower Critical of BOP and OIG by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna A December 2, 2016 decision by the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, overturning a finding by the Merit Systems Protection Board, has cast in doubt the operations of the chief internal investigative body of …
State Closes Kentucky Jail for Failure to Properly Maintain Facility
Article • October 10, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
Filed under: Fire Hazards
State Closes Kentucky Jail for Failure to Properly Maintain Facility by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna After numerous failed inspections and failures to perform necessary maintenance, the jail in Estill County, Kentucky was forced to close by order of state correctional officials on March 31, 2017. Approximately two dozen prisoners …
Fourth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Prisoner’s Failure to Protect Claim
Article • October 10, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
Filed under: Eighth Amendment, Failure to Protect (Staff)
Fourth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Prisoner’s Failure to Protect Claim by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis In March 2016, the Fourth Circuit reversed a district court’s dismissal of a prisoner’s Eighth Amendment failure to protect claim in a case that subsequently settled. The prisoner, James Herman Raynor, was held at …
Seventh Circuit Upholds Jury Award for Illinois Prisoner Beaten by Guards
Article • October 10, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
Filed under: Guard Brutality/Beatings, Restraints
Seventh Circuit Upholds Jury Award for Illinois Prisoner Beaten by Guards by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Charles Murphy, an Illinois state prisoner housed at the Vandalia Correctional Center, raised the ire of several guards on July 25, 2011 when he refused to eat at a dining hall table and …
Eighth Circuit Greenlights Jail Detainee’s Excessive Force Claim, but Loss at Trial Affirmed on Appeal
Article • October 10, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
Filed under: Excessive Force (Police)
Eighth Circuit Greenlights Jail Detainee’s Excessive Force Claim, but Loss at Trial Affirmed on Appeal by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed a district court’s ruling that held a jail detainee’s excessive force and assault and battery claims could not go forward. …
$60,000 Settlement in GEO Group Employee’s Sexual Harassment Case
Article • October 10, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut, Staff-Staff Harassment
$60,000 Settlement in GEO Group Employee’s Sexual Harassment Case by The GEO Group -- one of the nation's largest private prison firms, which is frequently the subject of scandal arising from repeated human rights violations at its for-profit facilities – has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought against the company …
$200,000 Settlement for Restraint of Pregnant Prisoner after Ninth Circuit Vacates Summary Judgment
Article • October 10, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
Filed under: OB/GYN, Eighth Amendment, Restraints
$200,000 Settlement for Restraint of Pregnant Prisoner after Ninth Circuit Vacates Summary Judgment by The Ninth Circuit vacated a summary judgment order in favor of Arizona jail officials in a case that involved a pregnant prisoner who was restrained while she was in labor and after she gave birth. Miriam …
Virginia Governor Grants Full Pardons to the “Norfolk Four”
Article • October 10, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
Filed under: Sex Offender Registration, Pardons/Clemency
Virginia Governor Grants Full Pardons to the “Norfolk Four” by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Four former U.S. Navy veterans wrongly convicted of the rape and murder of an 18-year-old woman have been granted full pardons by Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe. Eric Wilson, Danial Williams, Derek Tice and Joseph Dick, …
Prisons, Jails Combat Smuggling by Shredding Mail, Requiring Fresh Underwear
Article • October 10, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
Filed under: Mail Regulations, Visiting
Prisons, Jails Combat Smuggling by Shredding Mail, Requiring Fresh Underwear by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The regional jail system in West Virginia receives and screens about 300,000 pieces of mail per year. Some letters contain illegal substances being smuggled into facilities for prisoners, particularly subuxone; in response, the West …
Waging War on the Poor: Unpaid Fines Lead to Jail
Article • October 10, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
Filed under: Government Misconduct, Money/Property
Waging War on the Poor: Unpaid Fines Lead to Jail by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Stung by a series of lawsuits filed across the nation challenging the practice of jailing people unable to pay court fees and fines, Texas legislators passed a law that requires judges to offer community …
Parsons v. Ryan, Contempt Order, 2017
Brief • October 10, 2017
Parsons v. Ryan, Contempt Order, 2017 Case 2:12-cv-00601-DKD Document 2373 Filed 10/10/17 Page 1 of 4 1 WO 2 3 4 5 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 8 9 Victor Antonio Parsons, et al., Plaintiffs, 10 11 v. 12 Charles L. Ryan, …
Kirkpatrick v. Chappell, CA, Death Penalty, Habeas, 2017
Brief • October 10, 2017
Filed under: Habeas Corpus, Death Penalty/Death Row
Kirkpatrick v. Chappell, CA, Death Penalty, Habeas, 2017 FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT WILLIAM KIRKPATRICK, JR., Petitioner-Appellant, v. No. 14-99001 D.C. No. 2:96-cv-00351WDK KEVIN CHAPPELL, Warden, California State Prison at San Quentin, Respondent-Appellee. OPINION Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central …
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