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Brief • November 16, 2023
Filed under: Failure to Treat
Eden v. Bradley County, TN, Settlement Approval Hearing Docket Sheet, Denial of Medical Care, 2023 ŖįŔįġŅŊŔŕœŊńŕġńŐŖœŕġŧŰųġŵũŦġņłŔŕņœŏġŅŊŔŕœŊńŕġŐŇġŕņŏŏņŔŔņņġŢŵġńʼnłŕŕłŏŐŐňłġ ġ ġ □ □ ✔ □ġġ ġġġ ġ ġ ġġ ġ ġ ġ ŎŐŕŊŐŏġʼnņłœŊŏňġ őœņŕœŊłōġńŐŏŇņœņŏńņġ ġ Őŕʼnņœġġ 1:18-CV-217 Eden Bradley Co. TN., et al ġ ńŢŴŦġŏŰġŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠġ ŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŷįġŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠġ ġ őœņŔņŏŕĻġ ġ ġ ʼnŰůŰųŢţŭŦġŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠġ ġ ġ …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: Three jail guards in the Yellowhammer State were hit with drug smuggling charges in August 2023 and another the month after. WAFF in Huntsville reported that Morgan County Jail guard Bobby Simmons, 19, was arrested on August 3, 2023, when he was charged with promoting …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Suit Against Delaware DOC Advances With 39 Prisoner Plaintiffs and 40 Defendants by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On August 17, 2023, lawyers for a group of 39 current and former prisoners at Delaware’s Sussex Correctional Center (SCC) largely beat back a motion brought by defendant prison officials to …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Arizona Governor Creates Independent Prison Oversight Commission by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On January 25, 2023, Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) signed Executive Order No. 6, establishing an Independent Prison Oversight Commission (IPOC). Created to address the “urgent need to provide transparency and accountability of Arizona’s corrections system,” Hobbs …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
California Bail Bondsman Accused of Faking Captures to Bilk Courts by A California bail bondsman was arrested on June 2, 2023, for allegedly using phony photos to defraud several county governments of $528,000 in bail refunds for defendants who in reality had never been apprehended. Fausto Alitano, 60, who was …
Eighth Circuit Affirms Denial of Qualified Immunity to Arkansas Guard Accused of Provoking One Prisoner to Attack Another by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On August 23, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed the judgment of a lower court in favor of Arkansas prisoner Deverick …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Filed under: Settlements, Suicides
Almost $2.4 Million in Settlements For Seven Suicides at New Jersey Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The families of two women and five men who committed suicide while held in pretrial detention between July 2014 and November 2018 at New Jersey’s Cumberland County Jail (CCJ) have received …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Filed under: Prison Labor
When Prison Workers Are Exploited for Cheap Sheets by An article published in The Nation on March 10, 2023, chronicled the experience of former New York prisoner Johnny Perez. He spent over four years in a factory making hundreds of bedsheets daily, before ascending near the top of the pay …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Report: “Mass Supervision” Driving Mass Incarceration by A May 2023 report by Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) counts nearly 3.7 million Americans on probation or parole – nearly twice the nation’s total imprisoned population. This “mass supervision” brings the total number under control of the nation’s criminal justice system to about …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
High Profile Escapes from Two Pennsylvania Jails Blamed on Staffing and Infrastructure Problems by After separate escapes from a pair of Pennsylvania jails, two detainees were recaptured during summer of 2023 – but not before making headlines, as one eluded authorities for nine days and the other for two weeks. …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
HRDC Wins Motion to Compel North Carolina Prison Officials to Answer for Censorship Policy by On April 7, 2023, the federal court for the Eastern District of North Carolina granted a motion by PLN’s publisher, theHuman Rights Defense Center (HRDC), to compel the state Department of Public Safety (DPS) “to …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
New York Succeeds in Firing Fewer Than 10% of Guards Accused of Prisoner Abuse by A report published by The Marshall Project (TMP) on May 19, 2023, found that the disciplinary process in the New York Department of Corrections and Community Services (DOCCS) “fails to hold many guards accountable” in …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright By Paul Wright For almost a century the United States has waged its war on poor drug users, illegalizing alcohol, marijuana, opiates, cocaine, stimulants, hallucinogenic and other consciousness altering substances. I have never called this long running “war on drugs” either a failure or …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Prison Walls No Barrier to America’s Deadly Opioid Crisis by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney When Missouri prisoner Robert Hebert learned in January 2023 that he had less than two years remaining on his prison sentence, the father of six and his family shared in the excitement. He planned to …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
DOJ Reaches Consent Decree with New Jersey Jail to Improve Mental Health Care by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 17, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed both a federal civil rights complaint and a proposed consent decree to resolve allegedly unconstitutional conditions at New Jersey’s …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
North Carolina Prisoner Recovers $500 for Injuries in Shower Slip and Fall by On December 7, 2022, North Carolina prisoner Vinson Shane Hill prevailed in a negligence tort claim he filed with the state Industrial Commission (NCIC) over an injury he suffered while incarcerated at Scotland Correctional Institution in July …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Defining ‘Carceral Deference’ by David Reutter by David M. Reutter “Carceral deference is a powerful principle built on faulty premises and with troubling and destabilizing effects,” declared Danielle C. Jefferis, an Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska College of Law, in an article that appeared in the Fordham Law …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
The Gun of Incarceration by Cristian Farias by Cristian Farias New Jersey has been hailed for its approach to decarceration, including a bail reform law that some advocates see as a national model. And yet the state still supervises more than 120,000 of its residents under some form of probation …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
$12,000 Paid to California Prisoner Denied Back Surgery Despite Doctor’s Recommendation by On August 25, 2022, a California prisoner told the federal court for the Eastern District of California that he had reached an agreement with the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to settle a suit he filed …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
U.S. Probation System a “Quagmire” That Sets Defendants Up to Fail by An article published in Reason on January 26, 2023, cited numerous problems in probation systems nationwide, describing them as a “quagmire.” For the article, the magazine, a publication of the Libertarian California-based Reason Foundation, profiled Jennifer Schroeder, who …
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