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Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Settlement Reached Over COVID-19 Measures, Home Confinement Releases at FCC Lompoc by On October 11, 2022, the federal court for the Central District of California approved a settlement resolving a suit over COVID-19 precautions and releases filed by prisoners at the Federal Correctional Complex (FCC) in Lompoc, California, in May …
CoreCivic Fails to Defeat California’s Anti-SLAPP Law at Ninth Circuit, Must Pay $45,630 in Attorney Fees by In November 2022 the federal court for the Northern District of California shot down a suit by private prison giant CoreCivic which sought to weaponize anti-defamation law against one of the company’s more …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
New York Jailhouse Lawyer Wins Resentencing, Release by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart At 28 years old, drug addicted and semi-homeless, Kelly Harnett was nobody’s idea of a model citizen. So when implicated along with boyfriend Thomas Donovan in a July 2010 murder in a public park in Queens, New …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
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From the Editor by Paul Wright By Paul Wright The modern era of prison reform began in 1971 with the Attica Rebellion. Many Americans were horrified when New York state police and prison guards stormed the prison 52 years ago, in the process killing dozens of prisoners and hostages and …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Wexford Faces Liability for Indiana Prisoner’s Delayed Specialist Referral by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 3, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana only partly granted a motion for summary judgment filed by prison medical profiteer Wexford Health Sources, Inc. and its employees …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
After Ninth Circuit Refuses to Compel Arbitration, National Class Certified in HRDC’s Challenge to Jail and Prison Debit Card Fees by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson In a federal suit challenging excessive fees on jail and prison “debit release” cards, the federal court for the District of Oregon on July …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Convicted Sex Offender Now a Licensed Attorney in Washington State by A divided Washington Supreme Court beat back prejudice with a November 2022 decision admitting a convicted sex offender to the state bar. Zachary LeRoy Stevens was charged as a teenager with four counts of sexual exploitation of a minor …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
$110,000 Paid By Tennessee Jail to Women Allegedly Forced to Stage “Sex Shows” for Guard by On October 26, 2022, the federal court for the Eastern District of Tennessee granted dismissal to a complaint filed by two former detainees at the Grainger County Jail, after they accepted $110,000 to settle …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Unable to Post Bail, Detainee Starves to Death in Arkansas Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A lawsuit filed in federal court for the Western District of Arkansas on January 13, 2023, makes a stunning claim: That a man was left to starve to death in jail because …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
$1 Million Settlement for California Prisoners Used to Bait Guard Charged with Sexual Misconduct by PLN previously reported a remarkably poor decision by prison officials at the California Institution for Women (CIW) in Chino in 2017, who used two prisoners as “honey trap” bait to snare a male guard accused …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
$30,000 Paid by Pennsylvania to Prisoner Who Alleged Guards Beat and Tortured Him by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On December 8, 2022, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania agreed to pay state prisoner Warren Easley $30,000 to settle claims that guards and medical staff at the State Correctional Institution (SCI) in …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Louisiana Prison Guard Helps Pregnant Prisoner and Learns That No Good Deed Goes Unpunished by When she met a pregnant young prisoner struggling with drug addiction, a guard at Louisiana’s Transition Center for Women (TCW) offered to care for the baby when it was born. On May 17, 2023, the …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Seventh Circuit Revives Illinois Prisoner’s Claim Over Knee Surgery Delayed 29 Months by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On September 19, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed a lower court’s grant of summary judgment to Illinois prison officials accused of violating a state prisoner’s civil …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
400 Prisoners Relocated After Fire at Texas State Penitentiary by A fire erupted at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville early on August 25, 2023, forcing the state Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) to evacuate 655 prisoners – 400 of whom had to be relocated to other prisons due to …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Texas Death Row Prisoners Challenge Blanket Policy of Automatic Solitary Confinement by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On January 26, 2023, Texas death-row prisoners Mark Robertson, George Curry, Tony Egbuna Ford and Rickey Cummings filed suit in federal court for the Southern District of Texas on behalf of themselves and …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Colorado Lawmakers Shut Down Sheriff’s Participation in ICE 287(g) Program by On February 22, 2023, Colorado state court judge Scott A. Sells held that Teller County Sheriff Jason Mikesell had legal authority to participate in an controversial agreement with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) – despite a 2019 state …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
JPay Denied Motion to Compel Arbitration in Suit Over Debit Release Cards by On March 1, 2023, prison financial services profiteer JPay hit a legal wall in a challenge to fee-laden debit cards issued to prisoners on release. As PLN has reported, former California state prisoner Adam Cain — represented …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Prisoner Health Update: Hemorrhoids by Eike Blohm, MD by Eike Blohm, MD Hemorrhoids are a very common problem that people do not like to talk about because of their intimate location. Hemorrhoids are both preventable and treatable, but can become significant health problems if ignored. What exactly is a hemorrhoid? …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Despite Prior Settlement Agreement, Sick Michigan Prisoners Still Forced to Wait for Medication in Cold and Rain by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Owing in part to the diligent efforts of Michigan prisoner Mark White and a suit he filed in March 2023, it appears that employees of the state …
Nearly 5,000 Sexual Victimizations Counted in Three Years in U.S. Prisons and Jails by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On January 31, 2023, the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics released a report counting 4,895 sexual assaults on U.S. prisoners and detainees in just three years. From 2016 through 2018, the …
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