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Detainee Dies After Two Days in Florida Jail Where Armor Correctional Allegedly Denied Heart Transplant Rejection Meds by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Dexter Barry, 54, waited 12 years to receive a new heart. He even moved to Jacksonville to receive the life-saving transplant in 2020. In just …
Article • June 22, 2023
Millionaire Florida Child Porn Convict’s Escape Thwarted by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott April 12, 2023, would have been Independence Day for Florida millionaire and child porn collector John Manchec – if only someone had not ratted him out, according to Indian River County Sheriff Eric Flowers. Manchec, …
Article • June 22, 2023
Arizona Exploiting Prisoner Labor for Profit by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss A new constitutional amendment proposed to Congress in June 2023 would remove the exception for prisoners to the U.S. ban on slavery. The effort follows a report from Arizona in December 2022, which found that private firms …
Article • June 22, 2023
Filed under: Escapes
Ohio Prisoner Escapes in Dumpster, Drowns River by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott An escapee from Ohio’s Allen Oakwood Correctional Institution in Lima was able to get almost 300 miles away by first hiding in a dumpster then fleeing in a stolen car. His escape ended badly then …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Almost $42,500 Awarded to Illinois Prisoner for Denial of Physical Therapy by Wellpath Nurse by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian On May 31, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois awarded attorney’s fees and costs totaling $17,449.90 to a state prisoner who earlier convinced a …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
State Prison Systems Failing to Provide Meaningful Programming by Casey Bastian By Casey J. Bastian There are around 1.25 million prisoners in state prison systems. Prior to incarceration, most were poor, uneducated, disadvantaged or marginalized. But wait-lists for prison education and other programming indicate prisoners desire to better themselves. Yet …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Eighth Circuit Greenlights Arkansas Execution Protocol by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett Despite finding a “paucity of reliable scientific evidence concerning the effect of large doses of midazolam on humans,” the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit didn’t halt its use in Arkansas’s three-drug execution protocol. To the …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Arizona: A private prison guard in Arizona was picked up on drug charges in California on April 18, 2023, as he made his way back from Mexico with his wife and kids – along with almost 53 pounds of meth and heroin stashed in the gas …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Second Circuit Upholds Connecticut Prison Porn Ban, Sets Up Circuit Split Over “Vagueness” Test by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett On October 3, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to issue a writ of certiorari to hear an appeal by a group of Connecticut prisoners, who lost a challenge to …
Louisiana Sheriff Coughs Up $2.75 Million After Falsely Claiming Detainee Died From Accidental Fall by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett On October 18, 2022, officials in Louisiana’s Bossier Parish agreed to pay $2.75 million to settle a federal suit filed over the 2017 death of a detainee in the parish …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Nevada Pays Over $568,000 for Denying Prisoner Cataract Surgery, Ends “One Good Eye” Policy by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett On July 15, 2022, the federal court for the District of Nevada awarded $560,587.50 in fees to attorneys representing a state prisoner who earlier settled his medical neglect claim against …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Four Michigan Jail Guards Guilty in Detainee Death, Family Paid $2.4 Million by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Just weeks before their trial was to begin on charges of involuntary manslaughter in a detainee’s death, four guards at Michigan’s Muskegon County Jail pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of Willful …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Former Mississippi Sheriff Indicted for Bribery After Allegedly Allowing Detainee Rape at County Jail by Jordan Arizmendi by Jordan Arizmendi Three years after retiring, and 16 years after the first rape allegations surfaced at Mississippi’s Noxubee County Jail (NCJ), former Sheriff Terry Grassaree has been indicted on federal charges. On …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Filed under: Settlements, Public Records
$3,000 Awarded to Ohio Prisoner for Denied Public Records by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Supreme Court of Ohio issued a writ of mandamus to a state prisoner on December 15, 2022, awarding $3,000 in statutory damages for records he was denied in violation of the state Public …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
New York Finding Closed Prisons a Tough Sell by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Since its peak nearly two decades ago, New York’s prisoner population has fallen by half. Added to the millions of dollars it cost the state Department of Corrections and Community Services (DOCCS) to build the prisons …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Ninth Circuit Says Arizona DOC Policy Cannot Be Used to Censor Prisoner’s Free Expression by David Reutter by David Reutter  An Arizona prisoner’s civil rights claim is headed to trial in June 2023, after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reinstated it, saying his prison’s policy on …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
“Night of Terror” in Indiana Jail Sees Detainees Assaulted by Fellow Prisoners Who Purchased Cell Keys From Guard by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss An Indiana jail guard and a jail detainee are headed to trial in the summer of 2023 on charges that the guard sold the detainee …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Minnesota Supreme Court: Prisoner Abused with Overtight Handcuffs Need Only Show Deliberate Indifference, Not Malicious Intent by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clark On December 14, 2022, the Minnesota Supreme Court took up a state prisoner’s claim that he was left with permanent nerve damage from restraints guards misused during a …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Study Shows COVID-19 Drove Prison Death Rates 50% Higher by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders The COVID-19 pandemic is over but not forgotten. Highlighting the virus’s deadly toll on American prisoners, an analysis published by the New York Times on February 19, 2023, tracked the impact of the disease during …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Wellpath Subsidiary Out of Australian Women’s Prison After Indigenous Prisoner’s Death by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On January 19, 2023, Corrections Minister Enver Erdogan announced that the Australian state of Victoria is booting the private healthcare contractor from the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre (DPFC). Effective July 1, 2023, Wellpath …
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