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Brief • May 6, 2016
Rodriguez v. Swartz, 9th Cir, Amicus Brief - HRW, AZ shooting immigration, 2015 No. 15-16410 IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT ARACELI RODRIGUEZ, individually and as the surviving mother and personal representative of J.A., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. LONNIE SWARTZ, Agent of the U.S. Border Patrol, Defendant-Appellant. …
Alabama Forced to Confront Criminal Justice Reform by David Reutter “We’re at a fork in the road,” Alabama state Senator Cam Ward, chairman of the Prison Reform Task Force, said in June 2014. “We have two paths to choose from and neither one is easy. Those of us on the …
Article • May 5, 2016 • from PLN May, 2016
Low Pay, Long Hours Fuel Increasing State Prison Staffing Problems by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The slow decline in state prison populations cannot come soon enough for many Departments of Corrections, which are struggling to cover shifts in the face of rising staff turnover rates. States experiencing shortages of …
PLN Exclusive: Illinois Prisoner Exonerated, Released after Ten Years by Derek Gilna The lies of Chicago police officers, as well as the concealment of clearly exculpatory evidence, kept Jermaine Walker in Illinois prisons for ten years – but he never stopped proclaiming his innocence. Plainclothes officers contended that on February …
Article • May 5, 2016 • from PLN May, 2016
How Prison Phone Calls Became a Tax on the Poor by by Eric Markowitz, International Business Times On a recent sticky morning in a trailer park in Biloxi, Mississippi, Mary Jo Barnett switched on her 8-inch Samsung Galaxy tablet to speak with her 20-year-old daughter, Amber, who suffers from bipolar disorder …
ACLU Report: Women Uniquely Harmed by Solitary Confinement by Matthew Clarke In April 2014, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) released a report on the use of solitary confinement for women prisoners in the United States. The report concluded that while solitary was an extreme punishment that should not be …
Disputed PLRA Administrative Exhaustion Issues Properly Resolved in Bench Trial by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held on June 18, 2015 that disputed issues of fact regarding exhaustion under the PLRA may be resolved in a bench trial. The appellate court also found the plaintiff had failed to exhaust …
$8,000 Settlement for Medical Maltreatment by BOP; Court Finds Experts Not Required by Derek Gilna Federal prisoner Michael Alan Crooker filed suit under the Federal Tort Claims Act alleging “malicious prosecution, negligence, and medical maltreatment by the United States Marshal’s Service (USMS) and the United States Bureau of Prisons (BOP).” …
Article • May 5, 2016 • from PLN May, 2016
Corrections Agencies Use Obamacare to Pay for Prisoners’ Medical Care by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis and Matt Clarke The Affordable Care Act (ACA), President Obama’s signature piece of legislation, has resulted in an unintended windfall: a means to shift the cost of expensive hospital care for state and local …
L.A. County Audit Recommends More Contract Oversight for Probation Department by Derek Gilna The County of Los Angeles, like most governmental agencies, receives funding from a variety of sources and relies on outside contractors to perform many services – including correctional services. L.A. County’s Probation Department was the subject of …
Article • May 5, 2016 • from PLN May, 2016
Delaware Supreme Court Suspends Prosecutor for Misconduct by Christopher Zoukis On July 27, 2015, the Delaware Supreme Court suspended Deputy Attorney General R. David Favata for six months and a day, for prosecutorial misconduct involving the capital case of McCoy v. State, 112 A.3d 239 (Del. 2015). The case was …
Article • May 5, 2016 • from PLN May, 2016
Filed under: Malpractice, Damages
$15 Million Award for Prisoner Rendered Paraplegic Due to Medical Malpractice Affirmed by David Reutter The New York Supreme Court Appellate Division has affirmed a $15 million judgment awarded to a prisoner who became a paraplegic due to a prison doctor’s malpractice. Following the judgment by the Court of Claims, …
Florida’s Private Prison Movement Alive and Well by David Reutter With the promise of saving taxpayer dollars to house a growing prisoner population during a cyclical crime wave in the early 1990s, Florida decided to experiment with private prisons. From the start, those involved in the push to privatize were …
Article • May 5, 2016 • from PLN May, 2016
Filed under: Corrections Audits
Audits Expose Irregularities in Iowa Prison System Spending by Derek Gilna Over the five-year period ending June 30, 2014, officials in the 6th Judicial District of the Iowa Department of Correctional Services misspent $1.2 million, mostly for improper payroll costs to workers at the Community Corrections Improvement Association, a non-profit …
Article • May 5, 2016 • from PLN May, 2016
Seventh Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Ex-prisoner’s § 1983 Action Regarding Computer Disk by Derek Gilna Craig A. Childress was an Illinois state prisoner at the Big Muddy River Correctional Center who was released from custody to mandatory supervised release in 2010. At the time of his release, a prison official …
Lawsuit Claims Florida Teen Raped, Beaten in Prison Initiation Ritual by Florida’s correctional facilities for youthful offenders are part of the state’s adult prison system, and Florida incarcerates more minors than any other state in the nation. Approximately 140 juveniles are housed in detention centers on any given day, and …
Fourth Circuit Upholds Denial of Summary Judgment to Guards in Excessive Force Suit by In a May 19, 2015 decision, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a district court’s denial of summary judgment to prison guards in a lawsuit claiming excessive use of force during a cell extraction. Sammy …
BOP Pays $70,000 to Settle Lawsuit by Sexually Abused Transgender Prisoner by Derek Gilna Samantha Hill, a male-to-female transgender prisoner in the custody of the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), was raped at USP Florence in December 2013 – one of many sexual assaults the BOP failed to prevent through …
$30,000 Settlement for New York Prisoner Assaulted by Guard by A New York state prisoner received almost $30,000 to settle a civil rights action alleging he was assaulted by a guard at the Fishkill Correctional Facility. Prisoner Mayer Sadian, an orthodox Jew, approached a guard on May 14, 2011 in …
Article • May 5, 2016 • from PLN May, 2016
Filed under: Release and Reentry
California Supreme Court Rules in Prisoner’s Favor in Compassionate Release Denial by Gary Hunter California’s Supreme Court has held that prisoners who are denied early release under the state’s compassionate release statute have a right to appeal the denial, reversing an appellate court decision that found prisoners had no such …
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