Fourth Circuit Holds Prisoner’s Indefinite Period of Solitary Confinement at Virginia Supermax May Amount to Atypical and Significant Hardship by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 10, 2020, the FourthCircuit Court of Appeals vacated a district court’s granting of summary judgment to Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) officials in …
Reyes v. Clarke, VA, Settlement, Solitary Confinement, 2021 Case 2:19-cv-00035-JPJ-PMS Document 164-1 Filed 01/15/21 Page 1 of 6 Pageid#: 1720 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE This Settlement Agreement and Release, dated as of January_15_, 2021, is entered into by the parties in Reyes v. Clarke et al., Case No. 2:19-cv-0035-JPJ-PMS, currently …
Urban Redo: Lorton, Virginia Prison Recreated as Liberty Village by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Developers in Fairfax County, Virginia, are remaking the Lorton Reformatory historical landmark into a suburban village. County officials are using the prime real estate just off I-95 with good roads to D.C. and a growing …
COVID-19 Hits Fairfax, Virginia Juvenile Detention Center by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss An outbreak of COVID-19 began September 29, 2020, at the Juvenile Detention Center (JDC) in Fairfax County, Virginia, with eight staff and six juveniles testing positive over the next 10 days for the novel coronavirus that causes …
$40,000 Settlement for Corizon’s Breach of Contract by Corizon Health paid $40,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging it beached a contract with Nursefinders. The February 26, 2016, settlement resolved a lawsuit Nursefinders filed in a Virginia state court, but which was removed to a federal court, on March 20, 2015. …
Lee v. Virginia DOC, VA, Settlement Agreement, Solitary Confinement, 2020 Case 2:20-cv-00006-JPJ-PMS Document 81-2 Filed 11/12/20 Page 1 of 6 Pageid#: 662 Exhibit 2 Case 2:20-cv-00006-JPJ-PMS Document 81-2 Filed 11/12/20 Page 2 of 6 Pageid#: 663 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE This Settlement Agreement and Release, dated as of October 29, …
News in Brief by Alabama: The Birmingham News reported that an Alabama prison guard had been arrested for drug trafficking after a search of his vehicle when he arrived for work at the St. Clair County prison turned up 138 grams of methamphetamine and 16 grams of heroin. Ivan Caldwell, …
Young v. Newton, VA, Order, Religious Freedom, 2020 Case 1:18-cv-00851-AJT-JFA Document 123 Filed 10/16/20 Page 1 of 59 PageID# 3604 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA Alexandria Division MITCHELL YOUNG, et al., ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Plaintiffs, V. JEFFERY …
Prison Postcard: Life in the Time of COVID, Correctional Center, Virginia by Daniel A. Rosen by Daniel Rosen I’m here at the Greensville Correctional Center in southern Virginia. This place holds up to 3,000 inmates. On August 7, we went on lockdown for the second time in four months. There …
Williams & Connolly, HRDC Win Censorship Case Against Virginia Regional Jail, $210,000 in Attorney Fees by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Williams & Connolly LLP of Washington, D.C. and the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), parent organization of Prison Legal News (PLN), have won a federal civil rights judgment against …
Human Rights Defense Center v. Southwest Virginia Regional Jail Authority, et al., opinion and order, attorney fees and costs, 2020 Case 1:18-cv-00013-JPJ-PMS Document 140 Filed 08/24/20 Page 1 of 27 Pageid#: 4233 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA ABINGDON DIVISION HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, …
Prison Postcards: “I feel as though I was either in a car accident or beaten by a baseball bat.” by Ken Silverstein by Ken Silverstein We’re now nearly six months into the COVID-19 pandemic and geographically the coronavirus epicenter has shifted from its origins in the United States in New …
OSIG Report on the Virginia Parole Board, 2020 Provided Under Code of Virginia 2.2-313 B (Please do not further disseminate this report to preserve the integrity of the investigation) (Virginia Parole Board) FWA Hotline Case #18647 Issued 07282020 This request applies to the Chief of Staff, Speaker, Majority Leader, and …
Riddick v. Franklin, VA, Complaint, Excessive Force, 2020 Case 7:20-cv-00081-TTC-PMS Document 12 Filed 05/26/20 Page 1 of 37 Pageid#: 185 For Clerk's Office Use Judge I a.aw~ATOfAOANOKe, rice u.~. DIST. CQUifl VA *** AMENDED COMPLAINT*** Fll..EO Rec'd MAY 2 6 2020 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN …
Health Care Services Killing Women at Virginia Prison by David Reutter by David M. Reutter With four deaths in five months at Virginia’s Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women (FCCW), a federal district court began moving its focus from care for individual prisoners to systematic change in July 2019. The Virginia …
Virginia Governor Suspends Policy After Eight-Year-Old Strip Searched During Prison Visit by Bill Barton by Bill Barton On December 6, 2109, Governor Ralph Northam suspended a Virginia Department of Corrections (DOC) policy that authorized strip searches of minors. An 8-year-old girl had been subjected to a strip search November 24, …
USA v. Hector, 4th Circuit, Motion to Dismiss Appeal, COVID-19 Release, 2020 USCA4 Appeal: 20-4183 Doc: 18-1 Filed: 03/27/2020 Pg: 1 of 3 Total Pages:(1 of 5) UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Appellee, v. LEILA VARETTA HECTOR, Appellant. ) ) ) ) …
HRDC v. SVRJA, VA, Opinion re Injunction, Censorship, 2020 Case 1:18-cv-00013-JPJ-PMS Document 129 Filed 03/25/20 Page 1 of 11 Pageid#: 3867 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA ABINGDON DIVISION HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, Plaintiff, v. SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA REGIONAL JAIL AUTHORITY, ET AL., Defendants. ) …
Major Prison Health Care Companies Funnel Campaign Contributions to Sheriffs, Get Rewards by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter Campaign contributions from private medical provider Wellpath to Virginia’s Loudoun County Sheriff Mike Chapman may be legal under Virginia law but are raising ethical questions. Wellpath is already under federal …
Jury Awards Former Virginia Prisoner Over $1 Million After Finding of Medical Malpractice against Prison Doctor by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On July 19, 2019, a federal jury in Richmond, Virginia awarded former prisoner John Kinlaw $708,671 in compensatory damages plus $625,000 in punitive damages after finding in his …
