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Ninth Circuit Rules Sheriff May be Held Liable for Violence in Los Angeles County Jails by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held in a revised ruling that Los Angeles County Sheriff Leroy Baca could be held liable for his subordinates causing dangerous conditions in the Los Angeles County Jail …
Michigan’s Abu Ghraib? Teaching Anthropology inside a Women’s Prison, On the Edge of a $100 Million Sex Abuse Scandal by Brian McKenna Brian McKenna Every prison has a story. At the Robert Scott Correctional Facility, in Michigan, the women were not allowed to touch one another or risk a "major …
Settlement in Alabama Prison Overcrowding and Violence Suit by David Reutter A class-action lawsuit that alleged conditions at Alabama’s Donaldson Correctional Facility (DCF) placed prisoners “at a substantial risk of injury due to violence, lack of security, understaffing, corruption, and severe overcrowding” has concluded with a settlement agreement designed to …
Haitian Prison Conditions Deteriorate in Aftermath of Massive Earthquake by Holly S. Cooper by Holly Cooper On January 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake rocked the island nation of Haiti. Well-known are the catastrophic numbers of victims left in its wake, leaving hundreds of thousands of people entombed in rubble …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
$96,000 Settlement in Massachusetts Conditions of Confinement Suit by Following a Massachusetts Superior Court’s award of nominal damages and attorney fees in a prison conditions case, and with an appeal pending, the parties entered into a settlement agreement. The settlement resulted from a lawsuit that sought damages for “disgusting and …
Article • November 15, 2011
Traffic Tickets Lead to Kansas Jail Reform by The U.S. District Court of Kansas determined that the totality of conditions at the Sedgwick County Jail violated detainee’s Constitutional rights. Sedgwick County Jail was built in the early 1950s, and was designed to hold a maximum of 135 prisoners. The number …
Conditions at New York Juvenile Facilities Deficient; State and Federal Officials Settle Lawsuit by On July 14, 2010, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the State of New York settled a three-year investigation into conditions of confinement at four New York juvenile facilities. The DOJ began investigating conditions of …
California: Prisoners May Be Transferred Out of State To Alleviate Severe Prison Overcrowding by In 2008, the California Court of Appeal upheld the Governor's authority, under the California Emergency Services Act (Government Code, § 8550 et seq.), to proclaim a state of emergency because of severe overcrowding in the state's …
Article • November 15, 2011
Entire Tennessee Prison System Found Unconstitutional by Brandon Sample By Brandon Sample On August 23, 1978, the Chancery Court of Davidson County, Tennessee declared the entire Tennessee prison system to be unconstitutional. Under the Tennessee constitution, prisoners are entitled to “humane treatment” and to confinement in “safe and comfortable” prisons. …
Article • November 15, 2011
Tennessee Prison System Ruled Unfit for Human Habitation by The U.S. District Court of Tennessee determined the living conditions of Tennessee’s prisons were unfit for human habitation. Officials have known since 1937 what was necessary to correct prison housing problems, but failed to do so. The overcrowding exacerbated all other …
The Resistable Rise and Predictable Fall of the U.S. Supermax by Stephen Eisenman Stephen F. Eisenman In a recent article entitled “The Penal State in an Age of Crisis” (Monthly Review, June 2009), Hannah Holleman, Robert W. McChesney, John Bellamy Foster, and R. Jamil Jonna sought to account for the …
California’s Behavior Modification Programs – Abuse of Prisoners, Racism and Cover-Ups by Ill-conceived experiments in behavior modification by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) have led to allegations of racism, abuse of prisoners, retaliation and cover-ups, plus a state Senate inquiry. In 2005 and 2006, the CDCR initiated …
Federal Court Continues Oversight of Wyoming State Penitentiary by A Wyoming federal district court had entered an order that continues its supervision of the Wyoming State Penitentiary. That supervision began in October 2003 as the result of a class action civil rights action, alleging unconstitutional conditions of confinement that failed …
The Sun Never Sets On Torture in American Military Prisons by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke PLN has reported extensively on some of the issues surrounding the treatment of prisoners in the American military prisons which were set up to hold people suspected of committing or supporting terrorism. This …
Female Prisoners Removed from CCA Facility in Kentucky by Five years of staff-on-prisoner sexual abuse, inadequate medical care, security lapses and other problems finally forced Kentucky and Hawaiian officials to remove about 600 female prisoners from a privately-operated prison. Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest private-prison company, runs …
Illinois Federal Court Denies Prisoner Release Order at Cook County Jail by Derek Gilna In a per curium decision, on January 11, 2011 a three-judge panel of federal judges of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois denied a request by the Sheriff of Cook County for …
California: Court Monitoring of Conditions at Pelican Bay State Prison Terminated by On March 21, 2011, the Honorable Thelton E. Henderson, U.S. District Court Judge for the Northern District of California, issued an order terminating all remaining aspects of federal court monitoring of conditions at Pelican Bay State Prison. In …
U.S. Supreme Court Holds California’s Prison Overcrowding Violates Eighth Amendment, Must be Remediated by Population Reduction by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg In a landmark ruling upholding provisions of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) that permit specially convened three-judge federal court panels to order reductions in state prison …
Washington: Pierce County Jail Suit Ends After 15 Years by In a report and recommendation to partly deny the defendants’ motion to terminate a consent decree related to conditions of confinement at Washington State’s Pierce County Jail, U.S. Magistrate Judge J. Kelley Arnold cited conditions that contributed to the deaths …
Article • June 15, 2011 • from PLN June, 2011
The Incarceration Capital of the U.S. by Jordan Flaherty A Struggle Over the Size of New Orleans’ Jail Could Define the City’s Future by Jordan Flaherty New Orleans’ criminal justice system is at a crossroads. A new mayor and police chief say they want to make major changes, and the …
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