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Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Washington Fined Over $100 Million for Delays in Competency Evaluations and Restoration by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On July 7, 2023, Judge Marsha J. Pechman of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington found the state Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) in material breach …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Filed under: Public Records Act
Ohio Prisoner Has Now Collected $5,700 for Denied Public Records Requests by On July 26, 2023, the Ohio Supreme Court affirmed a lower court’s award of $700 in damages to state prisoner Kimani E. Ware for a public records request denied by the Hamilton County court clerk’s office. However, the …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Almost $950,000 Paid by Inmate Services Corp. for Hellish Prisoner Transports by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On September 30, 2023, the federal court for the Eastern District of Arkansas gave final approval to a settlement agreement under which for-profit prisoner transport firm Inmate Services Corp. (ISC) agreed to …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
South Carolina Pays $200,000 to Jail Detainees Exposed to Toxic Fumes by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In June 2023, the South Carolina Insurance Reserve Fund paid $8,700 to each of 23 former detainees at Berkeley County’s Hill-Finklea Detention Center (HFDC)—a total of $200,100—to settle claims they were exposed to …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Australia: Love was in the air at Clarence Correctional Centre on the last day of 2023, when a prisoner left his cell and climbed two fences to reach another cell where his girlfriend was held, and the two welcomed the new year together. Perth Now reported …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright The financial exploitation of prisoners and their family is nothing new for readers of PLN. In the 34 years we have been publishing we have seen it spread across pretty much every interaction prisoners have with the outside world. But perhaps …
Commissary and Food Service Privatization Strands Florida Prisoners in ‘Food Desert’ by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Much has been made of the “food desert” where America’s poorest citizens live: inner-city ghettos and rural backwaters where no grocery store is found, forcing impoverished residents—most lacking a car—to shop for …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Nine Guilty So Far in Sprawling California Aryan Brotherhood Case by On January 3, 2024, California state prisoner and Aryan Brotherhood (AB) member Patrick “Big Pat” Brady, 53, pleaded guilty in federal court for the Northern District of California to murdering a fellow prisoner at High Desert State Prison (HDSP). …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
First Prisoners Released Two Years After Illinois Passed Law to Revisit Excessive Sentences by When Charles Patton, 54, rolled out of Dixon Correctional Center in his wheelchair on July 19, 2023, he was the first Illinois prisoner freed under SB 2129, a re-sentencing measure passed two years earlier. The second …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Subclass Certified and Settlement Proposed to Address ADA Violations at Long-Plagued San Diego County Jails by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On June 21, 2023, Judge Anthony J. Battaglia of the federal court for the Southern District of California signed an order in a suit alleging violations at San Diego …
Seventh Circuit Finds Jail Guard May Be Liable for Delayed Response to Illinois Detainee’s Fatal Heart Attack by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On July 20, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed a district court’s dismissal of a suit alleging delayed medical care caused the …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Record Temperatures in Southern Prisons Called Cruel and Unusual Punishment by On the last day of July 2023, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced that Earth had just endured the hottest three-week period ever recorded, noting that “for vast parts of North America, Asia, Africa and Europe—it is a cruel …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Eleventh Circuit Refuses to Reimpose Death Sentence for Intellectually Disabled Alabama Prisoner by Over two decades ago, in Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002), the Supreme Court of the U.S. (SCOTUS) barred capital punishment for intellectually disabled prisoners—typically those with an IQ of 70 or below. Courts still wrestle …
Eighth Circuit Affirms Denial of Qualified Immunity to Minnesota Jail Guard Accused of Grabbing and Squeezing Detainee’s Penis by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On August 24, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed denial of qualified immunity (QI) to a Minnesota jail guard in a …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Rikers Island Guard Accidentally Records Himself Planting Shiv in Prisoner’s Cell by Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark and New York City Department of Investigation (DOI) Commissioner Jocelyn E. Strauber announced on October 27, 2023, that a guard at the city’s Rikers Island jail complex had been indicted for evidence …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Fifth Circuit Says Both Texas Prisoner’s Dismissed Suit and His Lost Appeal Count as “Strikes” by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On July 10, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit dismissed Texas prisoner Anthony Prescott’s appeal, once again explaining the requirement of 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g) that …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Seventh Circuit Reinstates Claim of Illinois Prisoner Held 18 Months After Release for Refusing to Sign Incomplete Form by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke “Justice delayed is justice denied,” as former British Prime Minister William Gladstone famously said. On August 7, 2023, a former Illinois prisoner finally got a measure …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Writing on the Prison Wall: How Prisons Suppress Prison Journalism by On June 15, 2023, Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) published a report on suppression of prison journalism from the inside. The bottom line? Practicing journalism while imprisoned in most states is “extremely difficult and sometimes risky.” News reporting by prisoners …
Sixth Circuit Revives Suit by Pregnant Mentally Ill Michigan Detainee Allegedly Kicked in Her Womb by Jail Guard, Losing Baby by On July 17, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit deemed testimony by a pregnant mentally ill detainee no less credible than that of her Michigan …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Fifth Circuit: Texas Jail Guard’s Use of Taser on Compliant Detainee Unconstitutional by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On July 24, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit concluded that “precedents conclusively establish that the use of a taser on a non-threatening and cooperative subject is …
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