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Article • April 3, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
NY State Prisoner Settles Case Over DOC’s Denial of Hepatitis C Treatment by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Adam Corris, incarcerated at the Gouverneur Correctional Facility in New York, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in 2015 claiming that he had been diagnosed with hepatitis C but prison staff wrongfully …
Article • April 3, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
New York: $67,000 Jury Award in Rikers Island Prisoner’s Suit by The Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a $67,000 jury verdict in a civil rights action brought by a former Rikers Island prisoner. It also remanded for further proceedings on a malicious prosecution claim that had been improperly dismissed. …
Article • April 3, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
Exonerated Illinois Prisoner Wins $22 Million Verdict Against City of Chicago by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Nathson Fields, convicted of a 1984 double homicide in Chicago, served eighteen years in prison – including 11 on death row – before his convictions were overturned. He was released in 2003 after …
Article • April 3, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
Filed under: PLN Litigation, Censorship
$155,000 Settlement in Lawsuit Over California Jail’s Censorship of PLN by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke On July 5, 2016, a California federal district court signed off on a consent judgment in a suit filed against Tulare County, California over censorship of Prison Legal News at the county’s jail. To …
Article • April 3, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
$50,000 Jury Award in South Carolina Prisoner’s Failure to Protect Suit by A South Carolina federal jury awarded $50,000 to a prisoner in a civil rights action alleging a guard failed to intervene when he was attacked by other prisoners. Lavadre D. Butler, 35, claimed that while incarcerated at the …
Article • April 3, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
$16,650,000 Settlement in D.C. Wrongful Conviction Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke The District of Columbia agreed to pay $16.65 million to settle a lawsuit brought by a former prisoner wrongfully convicted of rape and murder. On September 16, 1982, Donald Eugene Gates, then 30, was convicted of raping …
Article • April 3, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
Oregon: Muslim Prison Visitor Receives $40,000 for Discrimination, Retaliation by The Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) agreed to pay a female Muslim visitor $40,000 for religious discrimination and retaliation by state prison guards. Myell Thompson, who converted to the Islamic faith, wears a traditional head covering known as a hijab. …
Article • April 3, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
Two Alabama State Court Judges Disciplined by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Almost 35 years after the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed “debtors’ prisons” – in which defendants are threatened with jail if they fail to pay fees and fines – courts continue to struggle to follow the ruling. The …
Article • April 3, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
Pennsylvania: Compassionate Release Reforms Fail to Achieve Aim by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Despite a 2008 change in state law intended to make it easier for Pennsylvania prisoners to be granted compassionate release, it is still rare for such releases to be granted. In 1971, shortly after turning …
Article • April 3, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
Site of Gruesome Prison Riot Becomes New Mexico Tourist Attraction by Joe Watson by Joe Watson New Mexico corrections officials said “the possibilities are endless” for a dilapidated prison that has become a tourist attraction and occasional movie studio 35 years after it was the site of one of the …
Article • April 3, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
Report Presents Bleak Analysis of BOP Medical Bureaucracy by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is arguably a failed institution, and that fact is no more obvious than in the substandard medical care it provides to the prisoners in its custody. Although the BOP’s bloated …
Article • April 3, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
Stock Prices for Private Prison Firms Surge After Trump Elected President by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Donald Trump was declared the winner of the 2016 presidential election early on the morning of November 9, 2016. Before that day was over, the stock prices for private prison companies GEO Group …
Article • April 3, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
State Sentencing Reforms Doing Little to Reduce Nation’s Prison Population by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton With almost 7 million people under some sort of correctional supervision, including probation and parole, the United States continues to lead the world in terms of tough-on-crime policies and incarceration rates. Although there have …
Article • April 3, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
Work Release Programs Reduce Recidivism in Louisiana – At a Cost by The Louisiana Department of Corrections (LDOC) Transitional Work Program has been having a positive effect on reducing recidivism in Louisiana, though it has not been without its faults and criticisms. A recent audit of the program called for …
Article • April 3, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
Filed under: Medication, Death Row
Arizona DOC Invites Attorneys to Provide Execution Drugs for Their Clients by On February 15, 2017, The Guardian reported that the state of Arizona had unveiled a controversial new death penalty plan. A provision of the state’s execution protocol now invites attorneys representing death row prisoners to provide prison officials …
Article • April 3, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
California Prisoners Provide Cheap Labor to Fight Dangerous Wildfires by Joe Watson by Joe Watson As a five-year drought has turned California into a tinderbox, wildfires are being fought with the help of a decades-old program that supplies cheap prison labor. Proponents of statewide prison firefighting crews – including many …
Article • April 3, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
Filed under: Tuberculosis
New Treatment Regimen for Latent TB Shows Promise by Prisoners constitute less than one percent of the nation’s population, yet according to statistics published by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), they account for up to 6% of tuberculosis (TB) cases reported in the United States. [See: PLN, Aug. 2007, …
Article • April 3, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
Your Kid Goes to Jail, You Get the Bill by Eli Hager by Eli Hager, The Marshall Project In dozens of one-on-one meetings every week, a lawyer retained by the city of Philadelphia summons parents whose children have just been jailed, pulls out his calculator and hands them more bad news: …
28 Days in Chains by Christie Thompson and Joseph Shapiro by Christie Thompson and Joseph Shapiro, The Marshall Project On February 3, 2011, corrections officers at Lewisburg federal penitentiary in rural Pennsylvania arrived outside Sebastian Richardson’s cell door. With them was a man looking agitated and rocking back and forth. He …
Article • April 3, 2017
Detroit's Hidden Crack Casualties by Aaron Miguel Cantú by Aaron Miguel Cantú, The Intercept Clara Hill is certain the boys didn’t kill anybody. She has known since she was 14 years old – almost three decades ago. But when she tried to tell police the truth, she says, they hurt …
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