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Brief • December 14, 2016
Filed under: Settlements
Jenkins v. City of Jennings, MO, Order, Approving Class Action Settlement, 2016 Case: 4:15-cv-00252-CEJ Doc. #: 40 Filed: 12/14/16 Page: 1 of 5 PageID #: 540 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI EASTERN DIVISION SAMANTHA JENKINS, EDWARD BROWN, KEILEE FANT, BYEON WELLS, MELDON MOFFIT, …
Publication • December 14, 2016
PLN comment to TN Office of Open Records Counsel re public records policy - Dec 2016 PRISON LEGAL NEWS Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights www.prisonlegalnews.org afriedmann@prisonlegalnews.org Please Reply To: Direct Dial: 615-495-6568 5331 Mt. View Rd. #130 Antioch, TN 37013 December 14, 2016 Comptroller of the Treasury Office of Open …
Repurposing - New Beginnings for Closed Prisons POLICY BRIEF: REPURPOSING PRISONS Repurposing: New Beginnings for Closed Prisons Since 2011, at least 22 states have closed or announced closures for 94 state prisons and juvenile facilities, resulting in the elimination of over 48,000 state prison beds1 and an estimated cost savings …
The New Slave Revolt by By Chris Hedges, TruthDig A nationwide prison work stoppage and hunger strike, begun on Sept. 9, the 45th anniversary of the Attica uprising, have seen over 20,000 prisoners in about 30 prisons do what we on the outside should do—refuse to cooperate. “We will not only …
In-the-News Article • December 12, 2016
PLN quoted on phone calls at immigration detention centers Dec. 12, 2016 Articles with PLN Quotes International Business Times Report: Immigrants held in detention centers nationwide lack ability to make phone calls   INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES 12 DEC 2016 AT 11:12 ET       December 12, 2016 Chris Riotta  Posted …
Arrieta v. Wexford, IL, Settlement, Medical Neglect, 2016 U.S. DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS, EASTERN DIVISION JOSEPH ARRIETA, Plaintiff, V. WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCES, INC, et al. No. 14-cv-00003 Defendants. RELEASE AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT This Release and Settlement Agreement (the "Agreement") is made and entered into by and …
Coker v. Ryan, AZ, Settlement, Failure to Protect, 2016 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE This Settlement Agreement and Release ("Settlement Agreement") 1s entered into, on, by, and among LESLIE COKER individually (the "Plaintiff'); and the STATE OF ARIZONA ("the State") on behalf of Arizona Department of Corrections ("ADC") employee GILDARDO SANTA …
Sanders v. NMCD, NM, Settlement, Wrongful Death, 2016 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT, RELEASE IN FULL AND COVENANT OF NON-DISCLOSURE FOR THE SOLE AND ONLY CONSIDERATION OF One Million Five Hundred Thousand and No/100 dollars ($1,500,000.00), Maureen A Sanders, as personal representative of the Estate of Katherine Paquin, a/ldaKathy A. Paquin, and Cheri …
Brief • December 9, 2016
Payne v. County of Cook, IL, Judgment, Illegal Police Search, 2016 1:15-cv-03154 ILND 450 (Rev.Case: 10/13) Judgment in a Civil ActionDocument #: 155 Filed: 12/09/16 Page 1 of 1 PageID #:1075 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS Orangelo Payne, Plaintiff(s), Case No. 15 cv …
In-the-News Article • December 9, 2016
PLN editor Paul Wright profiled in hometown paper Dec. 9, 2016 Articles about PLN Palm Beach Post How a Lake Worth ex-convict became a national prisoner rights advocate By Sonja Isger - Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Posted: 7:00 a.m. Friday, Dec. 9, 2016   Once a year, Paul Wright …
Brief • December 9, 2016
Filed under: Wrongful Death
Lopez v. Pinzine, IL, Complaint, Wrongful Death, 2016 Case: 1:16-cv-11232 Document #: 1 Filed: 12/09/16 Page 1 of 9 PageID #:1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION MERARY LOPEZ, as Administrator of the Estate of Johnny Lopez, Deceased, Plaintiff, v. CHICAGO POLICE …
“This Man Will Almost Certainly Die” by Dozens of men have died in disturbing circumstances in privatized, immigrant-only prisons. The Bureau of Prisons itself says there’s a problem. And yet the privatization scheme continues. by Seth Freed Wessler, The Nation Where Claudio Fagardo-Saucedo grew up, on the colonial streets of …
Missouri County Settles Suit Over Jail Prisoner’s Suicide for $260,000 by Last year, Lincoln County, Missouri agreed to pay $260,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of a jail prisoner who committed suicide in 2011. On August 21, 2011, police from the City of Troy responded to a …
Article • December 8, 2016 • from PLN December, 2016
Heck Satisfied if Ruling Fails to Address Issues but Reverses Conviction by The Third Circuit Court of Appeals held an order vacating a sentence imposed by a lower court constitutes a favorable termination of proceedings under Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994) [PLN, Sept. 1994, p.12], despite the fact …
Reforms at New Orleans Jail Slow to Materialize; Death Reporting Problematic by David Reutter Federal monitors overseeing implementation of a consent decree concerning conditions at the Orleans Parish Prison (OPP) in New Orleans said they were “very concerned” about the lack of progress in implementing the agreement’s provisions. Forty-nine prisoners …
Michigan Prison Guards Fired Following Suicide Bet by Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) guards Dianna Callahan and Kory Moore were suspended and subsequently fired on March 10, 2016 following the suicide of prisoner Janika Nichole Edmond, 25, at the Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility in November 2015. David S. Steingold, …
Article • December 8, 2016 • from PLN December, 2016
Pennsylvania: DA Apologizes for Undisclosed Gifts by Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams belatedly reported $160,050 in gifts from political and legal connections, raising conflict of interest concerns and prompting an August 19, 2016 apology from the prosecutor to his staff. In an email, Williams apologized for any “distractions” created by …
Private Jail Contractor’s Insurance Excludes Coverage of Detainee’s Death by The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that an insurance company is not required to defend or indemnify a private prison contractor in the death of a pretrial detainee at a Texas jail. Mario Garcia was confined at the Brooks …
South African Prison Evacuated Due to Squalor; Two Prisoners Die from Rat-Borne Disease by Christopher Zoukis As bad as it gets in some U.S. prisons, conditions at the notorious Pollsmoor Prison in Cape Town, South Africa are so abysmal that the government was forced to temporarily close the facility and …
Photo of Prisoner Beaten by Georgia Gang Members Posted Online by Prisons are designed to be closed institutions, cut off from the rest of the world. Contraband cell phones, however, are opening them up and exposing the reality of what happens behind the walls. When Demetria Harris saw a photo …
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