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Brief • May 13, 2022
Filed under: Breach of Contract
Mapp v. Westmoreland County, PA, Complaint, Breach of Confidentiality, 2022 Case 2:22-cv-00718-PLD Document 1 Filed 05/13/22 Page 1 of 5 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA JAMES MAPP Plaintiff, v. WESTMORELAND COUNTY, Defendant. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Docket No. 2:22-cv-718 JURY …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A state Department of Corrections (DOC) guard in Birmingham was arrested on March 9, 2022, for allegedly beating a prisoner to death, according to the Alabama Political Reporter. As PLN previously reported, prison officials at first insisted no foul play was suspected in the death of Victor …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: Wrongful Death
Pittsburgh Jail Records 13 Deaths in Two Years, Only One From COVID-19 by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott In the two years since the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020, deaths have more than doubled at the Allegheny County Jail (ACJ) in downtown Pittsburgh, even as the jail …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
$8.5 Million Paid by Pennsylvania DOC for Death of Asthmatic Prisoner Improperly Pepper-Sprayed by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 18, 2021, a federal court in Pennsylvania approved an $8.5 million settlement reached the prior month between the state Department of Corrections (DOC) and the family of an asthmatic …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
$100,000 Paid by Pennsylvania DOC to Family of Pro Se Prisoner Litigant Who Committed Suicide by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss A Pennsylvania prisoner’s long and contentious history with the state Department of Corrections (DOC) came to a bitter end on September 29, 2021, with an agreement by the state …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News In Brief by Arizona: After two escaped prisoners were recaptured and returned to the Arizona State Prison in Florence on January 31, 2021, Phoenix station KNXV reported that at least part of the blame for their escape was assigned to short-staffing of guards at the state Department of Corrections …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Filed under: PLRA, Dismissal
Third Circuit Says Mixed Dismissal of Civil Rights Action Not a Strike Under PLRA by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In a ruling on September 27, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that a “mixed dismissal” of a Pennsylvania prisoner’s civil rights action does …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: In Mobile on January 21, 2022, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Alabama announced that an 18-month federal prison sentence for bribery had been handed down by a federal court to Lakerdra Shanta Snowden, 31, a former guard at the Escambia County …
Article • February 26, 2022
Armored Car Company Victim of Multiple ‘Highway Robberies’ by Cops Files Federal Lawsuit for Recovery of Seized Cash by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott  Armored car company Empyreal headquartered in Pennsylvania says “we’re not going to take it anymore” as police departments in Kansas and California have used …
Brief • February 17, 2022
Filed under: Breach of Contract
Mapp v. Westmoreland County, PA, Minutes, Breach of Confidentiality, 2022 February 17, 2022 Pledge of Allegiance Industrial Development Corporation Agenda General Agenda Minutes of the Regular Meeting held January 27, 2022 Correction to the Minutes of November 18, 2021, item 18(D) for Westmoreland Manor, correcting the name to Complete Healthcare …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: According to Birmingham Real-Time News, a kidnapper was recaptured after being erroneously released from jail in Jefferson County, Alabama, on December 17, 2021. The prisoner, Matthew Burke, 35, was apprehended during a traffic stop after being released from the Jefferson County Jail on Dec. 11 …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
$7,500 Settlement for Pennsylvania Prisoner Assaulted by Guards And Denied Medical Care by On March 23, 2021, an agreement was executed paying $7,500 to settle three complaints a former pretrial detainee had brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, alleging …
Brief • January 21, 2022
Filed under: Excessive Force
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Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Filed under: Censorship
Third Circuit Revives Pennsylvania Prisoner’s Lawsuit Over Censorship of Incoming Mail Containing Key Evidence by Matthew Clarke, Dale Chappell by Matt Clarke and Dale Chappell On August 9, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reversed the dismissal of a prisoner&rsquo;s lawsuit alleging his due-process and access-to-courts …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: On November 17, 2021, a former Alabama state prison guard was sentenced in federal court in Birmingham to 87 months in prison. As reported by the Birmingham News, a search found the guard, Gary Charles Dixon, Jr., 36, with 497 grams of methamphetamine when he …
Brief • December 16, 2021
Wright v. Westmoreland County, PA, Minutes, Excessive Force, 2021 December 16, 2021 Invocation Rev. Bob Ross of Heritage Baptist Church, Jeannette Pledge of Allegiance Salary Board Agenda Industrial Development Corporation Agenda General Agenda Minutes of the Regular Meeting held November 18, 2021, as presented Notice of Executive Session November 29, …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A 20-year-old guard at the Lauderdale County Detention Center in Florence, Alabama, was arrested on October 29, 2021, on charges that he attempted to smuggle methamphetamine into the jail. According to a report by Huntsville TV station WHNT, the guard, Matthew Moran, faces one count …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Federal Prisons’ Switch to Scanning Mail Is a Surveillance Nightmare by Lauren Gill The Bureau of Prisons has piloted a program that can give authorities &ldquo;huge secret intelligence into the public sender of postal mail.&rdquo; by Lauren Gill, originally published by The Intercept, September 26, 2021 In a Pennsylvania&nbsp;federal prison, …
Pennsylvania Supreme Court: Illegal Juvenile LWOP Sentence Undermined Validity of Later Conviction by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney&nbsp; The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania held that an illegal mandatory sentence of life without parole (&ldquo;LWOP&rdquo;) imposed upon a juvenile undermined the validity of a later conviction for assault by a life …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Filed under: Public Records
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Upholds Sanctions and Award of $118,458 in Attorney Fees Against DOC for Withholding Documents Requested Under Right-to-Know Law by On December 22, 2020, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld a decision of a lower court finding the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) acted in bad faith in responding …
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