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Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
428 Georgia Prison Employees Criminally Charged in Five Years by On February 28, 2024, prisoner advocates held a press conference outside the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta, demanding that state lawmakers address twin afflictions in the state’s beleaguered Department of Corrections (DOC), whose 51,000 prisoners now represent its highest population …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Filed under: Guard Misconduct
Drunken “Karen” Jail Guard in Michigan Invades Former Home, Demands to Speak to Prosecutor When Cops Arrive by After a 20-­year veteran guard at Michigan’s Bay County Jail was caught drunk in the wrong home in July 2023, he tried to exert his privilege by demanding to speak to the …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Arizona Supreme Court Reverses Summary Judgment for Corizon Health in State Prisoner’s Death from Untreated Diabetes by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 11, 2023, the Supreme Court of Arizona reversed a grant of partial summary judgment to Corizon Health, the former private medical contractor for the state Department …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
North Carolina Court of Appeals Reinstates Parolee’s Parental Rights, Says Parole Conditions Barred Him from Visiting Minor Daughter by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 5, 2023, the Court of Appeals of North Carolina reinstated a parolee’s parental rights that had been stripped for lack of contact with his …
$33 Million Awarded to Family of Oklahoma Jail Detainee Mocked By Nurse and Guards As He Died Begging for Help by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On August 23, 2023, a jury in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma made a massive award of $33 million to …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
$9,000 Settlement in Wisconsin Prisoner’s Heat-­Related Illness Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 3, 2023, the Wisconsin Department of Justice sent a check for $9,000 to a state prisoner in settlement of his claims that he suffered a heat-­related illness, fell and injured himself after state Department …
Sixth Circuit Refuses Michigan Prisoner’s Excessive Force Claim Despite Guard’s Conviction for Battery by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On August 16, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed dismissal of a Michigan prisoner’s lawsuit with an outrageous-­sounding opinion that a guard “may have violated …
Maryland Compensates Exonerated Prisoner Over $340,000 by On September 20, 2023, the Maryland Board of Public Works approved over $340,000 in compensation to Demetrius Smith, who spent years unjustly incarcerated—more than a year of that time after his innocence had been established. Gov. Wes Moore (D), who chairs the three-­member …
Finding Indiana Grievance Process “Unavailable,” Federal Judge Grants Summary Judgment to 22 Prisoners on Same Day by In a remarkable series of rulings on August 15, 2023, U.S. District Court Judge Robert L. Miller, Jr. granted summary judgment in favor of 22 Indiana state prisoners who had filed separate lawsuits …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Exceptional Punishments by Kate Weisburd by Kate Weisburd No one should be made to give up their rights in exchange for being spared from prison. The same scene unfolds in criminal courtrooms across the country every day. After someone has been found guilty by a jury or pled guilty, a …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Missouri Moms Jailed After Kids Miss Too Much School by “Truancy” sounds old-­fashioned. But after two mothers were convicted of letting their kids miss too much school, the Missouri Supreme Court upheld their incarceration sentences for the misdemeanor on September 15, 2023. The Court’s ruling came in the consolidated appeals …
$8.5 Million Settlement After Pretrial Detainee Suffocated by Guards and Medical Staff at Virginia Psychiatric Hospital by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On September 19, 2023, the Commonwealth of Virginia, the County of Henrico and its Sheriff Alisa A. Gregory agreed to pay $8.5 million to settle claims arising …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Louisville Jail Records 15 Detainee Deaths, 16 Employees Fired by On September 26, 2023, Louisville Metro Corrections Department (LMCD) suspended guard Terry Henderson after he crashed his car into a vehicle driven by fellow guard Andrew Young. Responding Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) officers reportedly suspected Henderson was drunk, but …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
With Push to Empty North Carolina’s Death Row Comes Another to End Life Without Parole by Leaving office at the end of 2024, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) faces pressure from a coalition of 22 nonprofits to commute the sentences of all 136 prisoners on the state’s death row …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Colorado Prisoners Disciplined for Not Working Despite Ban on Prison Slavery by Although Colorado voters amended the state constitution in 2018 to ban slave labor inside state prisons, the state Department of Corrections (DOC) has continued to discipline prisoners for refusing to work—14,000 times just since 2019, according to a …
Ninth Circuit Says Federal Prisoner in California May Have Bivens Claim for Delays in Medical Care Allegedly to Cover Up Assault by BOP Guard by by David M. Reutter On August 15, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed dismissal of an Eighth Amendment deliberate indifference …
Parole and Probation Accused of Driving Prison Growth by David Reutter David M. Reutter One alternative to incarceration that criminal justice reformers clamor for is probation or parole. A May 2023 report by Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) counted nearly 3.7 million people in the U.S. under some form of community …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Filed under: Education, Art, Tapes/Music
Lights, Camera, Action! “Dead Man Walking” Comes to Sing Sing by When a new production of “Dead Man Walking,” the opera based on the 1993 memoir of Louisiana death penalty abolitionist Sister Helen Prejean, opened at New York City’s Metropolitan Opera in September 2023, there was a rare offsite performance—at …
One Detainee Dying Every Week in L.A. County Jails by As of December 31, 2023, Los Angeles County jails had recorded 34 detainee deaths in seven months—over one every week, far more than New York City’s notorious Rikers Island complex, which recorded seven deaths during the same period. Overcrowding is …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
HRDC Awarded Over $130,000 in Legal Costs and Fees for Defendant’s “Bad Faith” in Maine Records Lawsuit by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On January 16, 2024, Maine’s Superior Court for Kennebec County ordered state officials to pay $130,600.02 in attorney fees and legal costs to PLN’s publisher, the …
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