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Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Last Maine Parolee Released by Steven R. Clark, 68, the last prisoner eligible for parole since Maine abolished its parole system in 1976, was released after receiving approval from the state Parole Board on June 9, 2023. He had been denied parole in 2018 but had been granted parole previously …
“Fuck Him, He Can Freeze”: Pennsylvania Detainee’s Death Detailed in Suit Against PrimeCare by A wrongful termination suit filed against jail healthcare profiteer PrimeCare Medical, Inc. on May 23, 2023, brought disturbing details to light in the death five months earlier of an elderly detainee at Pennsylvania’s Dauphin County Prison …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Compensation Awarded to California Non-Profit and HRDC Officials for Efforts Reducing Prison Phone Rates by On June 9, 2023, the California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) approved a total compensation award of $113,362 for the Center for Accessible Technology (CAT), finding the organization had made a substantial contribution to PUC’s rulemaking …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Eleventh Circuit Revives Claim Against NaphCare for Wrongful Death of Atlanta Jail Detainee by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney “This appeal arises from the tragic death of Antonio May,” began the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on June 7, 2023. As longtime PLN readers …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
U.S. Prison and Jail Population On the Rise by A report published in June 2023 by the Vera Institute of Justice revealed that the number of people incarcerated in the U.S. has risen quickly from lows reached during the COVID-19 pandemic though it hasn’t yet reached pre-pandemic levels. Between 2019 …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Class Certified in Suit Alleging Overuse of Solitary Confinement in New York Prisons by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 11, 2023, class-action status was granted to a suit filed the previous April against the New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS), accusing the prison agency of …
Wrongfully Imprisoned for 26 Years, Chicago Brothers Sue Cop Who Framed Them by A year after their murder convictions were tossed and they were freed from an Illinois prison where they’d spent 26 years, a pair of brothers got a certificate of innocence from a state court on May 31, …
New Jersey Prisoner’s Suit Survives Seeking to Validate the Nation of Gods and Earth as a Religion by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On September 12, 2022, the federal court for the District of New Jersey denied a motion for summary judgment by the defendant New Jersey Department of …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright By Paul Wright As we close out the last issue of the year, our cover story on the Oregon prison nurse who was eventually convicted and sentenced to prison for raping women prisoners in his care illustrates the confluence of medical neglect and sexual …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Illinois Program a “Lifeline for Incarcerated Moms and Their Kids” by In the U.S. in 2023, there are about 172,700 incarcerated women and girls, according to research and advocacy group Prison Policy Initiative. Many are among those prisoners—both male and female—who together have an estimated 2.7 million to 3.6 million …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Civil Commitment: A Shadowy Limbo of Detainment that is Neither Safe, Fair nor Therapeutic by Civil commitment in the U.S. is not well-understood, beginning with what it is: A sentence to be served at a facility in order to receive treatment or therapy, though that itself is often scientifically questionable. …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
California Court of Appeal Reinstates Lawsuit by San Quentin Prisoner Over Botched Transfer That Sparked COVID-19 Outbreak by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On March 13, 2023, the California Court of Appeal for the First Appellate District reinstated a putative class-action lawsuit brought by a prisoner at San Quentin State …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Wexford Handbook Warns That Illinois Prisoners “Can Be Very Manipulative” by A “Provider Handbook” for “Physicians, Psychiatrists, Dentists, Nurse Practitioners, and Physician Assistants” employed in Illinois state prisons by Wexford Health Sources warns that “[i]nmates can be very manipulative,” so healthcare workers are advised to “[n]ever take anything from or …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Filed under: Censorship
The Surreal Prison Censorship Regime by Dylan Jeffrey by Dylan Jeffrey Society isn’t being done any favors keeping literature out of the hands of incarcerated people. Prison is horrible, violent and degrading and stagnant. Really the only good thing about it is that there’s plenty of time for reading. Prison …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Former Oregon Prison Nurse Gets 30 Years for Raping Prisoners by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson Five years after Oregon prison officials and state prosecutors abandoned them, a group of state prisoners sexually assaulted by a prison nurse finally secured a measure of justice from federal prosecutors. On October 17, …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
North Carolina Jail Deaths Double in 6 Years by In the early morning hours of May 3, 2022, Kyle Kepley, 35, used a bedsheet to hang himself at the Rockingham County jail. An electrician who worked part-time and struggled with bipolar disorder and drug addiction, he had been detained when …
Nebraska Watchdog Calls Use of Force Against Mentally Ill Prisoner Excessive and Unnecessary by On May 2, 2023, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (DCS) released its investigation into a disturbance at Tecumseh State Correctional Facility nearly two years earlier, during which …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Proposed Law Targets Medical Neglect in Federal Prisons by After his release from federal prison, doctors told Jeffrey Ramirez, 41, that there were no more options for treating his cancer that had been diagnosed—but belatedly treated—while he was still in custody of the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). So he …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
$20,000 Paid to Florida Prisoner After Eleventh Circuit Finds PLRA Inapplicable to Claims DOC Removed to Federal Court by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 17, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997 e, …
Tennessee Extends CoreCivic Contract Despite Deaths, Almost $18 Million in Fines by In a three-minute meeting on May 31, 2023, the State Building Commission of Tennessee approved a request from the Department of Correction (DOC) for budget revision, funding, and amendment to the existing CoreCivic contract to operate South Central …
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