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Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright By Paul Wright The abysmal state of detention facility healthcare has been a staple of PLN coverage since our inception in 1990. If anything, it has steadily gotten worse over the years, but one factor that has driven the decrease in care has been …
$7.75 Million Paid by San Diego County After Jail Detainee Severely Injured in Fall from Top Bunk by A lawsuit filed in federal court against San Diego County and various jail employees settled on March 20, 2023, for $7.75 million, following four years of litigation. The underlying facts unfolded the …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Maine Ends Prison Gerrymandering by Maine became the latest state to end prison gerrymandering on June 30, 2023, when Gov. Janet Mills (D) signed LD 1704/HP 1093 into law and joined 16 other states to count prisoners at their home address instead of the prison where they are incarcerated. The …
Fifth Circuit Revives Suit Against Texas Jailers Who Tasered Detainee Suffering Epileptic Seizure by Douglas Ankney On July 18, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed a district court’s grant of summary judgment to jailers who tasered a detainee suffering an epileptic seizure at the Pasadena …
West Virginia High Court Decides Medical Practice Liability Act Not Applicable to Prison System by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In June 8, 2023, the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia held that the Medical Professional Liability Act (MPLA), W. Va. Code §§ 55-7B-1 to 12, does not apply …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Seventh Circuit Slams Illinois Civil Commitment Program but Reverses Injunction by “Very weighty interests are at stake when a state institutes a program of civil commitment for sex offenders who, though never tried for or convicted of a crime, are found too dangerous for release.” So began a ruling by …
Eighth Circuit Says Arkansas Prisoner’s Medical Incapacity May Excuse PLRA Exhaustion Failure by As often reported in PLN, the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997e, imposes numerous requirements on incarcerated litigants—including exhaustion of administrative remedies before filing a lawsuit, by first filing a grievance and seeing it completely …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Deaths While Incarcerated Up 18% in Louisiana by A June 2023 report by Loyola University College of Law found that annual deaths behind bars in Louisiana jumped over 18% to an average of 187.5 in the period 2020-21. That’s up from an average of 158.6 between 2015 and 2019. Of …
Nevada Prisoner Wins Injunction Requiring DOC to Provide Exercise Despite Guard Shortage by by Matt Clarke On June 6, 2023, Judge Cristina D. Silva of the federal court for the District of Nevada renewed a preliminary injunction she issued on March 3, 2023, ordering state prison officials to provide prisoner …
Hear Us Now? Hearing Impaired Tennessee Prisoners Secure Injunction by Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. ch.126 § 12101 et seq., and the Rehabilitation Act, 29 U.S.C. § 701 et seq., prisoners who are deaf or hard of hearing are entitled to reasonable accommodations so they can communicate and …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Private Prisons Hold Almost 100,000 Prisoners, 8% of Total U.S. Prison Population by According to a report published by The Sentencing Project on June 15, 2023, the federal government and 27 states incarcerated 96,370 people in private prisons in 2021, amounting to 8% of America’s prison population. Private prisons are …
153 Killed in Custody in Salvadorian Gang Crackdown by A report by human rights group Cristosal on May 29, 2023, detailed how lethal El Salvador’s war on the Central American country’s gangs has been: 153 people have died in custody since Pres. Nayib Bukele’s campaign began in March 2022. Targeting …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Another Report Verifies That Prison Deaths Soared During COVID-19 Pandemic by A mortality study released on December 1, 2023, found that the death rate in U.S. prisons spiked 77% during 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, not all the increase was directly attributable to the disease. The …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
N.H.’s First Black Sheriff Charged With Embezzling $19,000 by On September 28, 2023, Sheriff Mark A. Brave of New Hampshire’s Strafford County was arraigned on charges he stole $19,000 in phony reimbursements for attending conferences he missed or which never occurred. He is also accused of perjury for lying about …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Despite “Ban the Box” Laws, Most Prisoners Still Unemployed a Year After Release by In July 2023, the U.S. unemployment rate stood at 3.6%, among the lowest levels seen in 60 years. With nearly two openings for everyone unemployed, all that most Americans need to get a job is to …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
George Floyd’s Killer Stabbed 22 Times in Federal Prison in Arizona by On November 24, 2023, Derek Chauvin, 47, the former Minneapolis cop convicted of murdering George Floyd—touching off nationwide protests against police brutality in summer 2020—was stabbed 22 times at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Tucson, Arizona, where …
Brief • December 29, 2023
Filed under: International Law
International Court of Justice-Republic of South Africa Proceedings Against the State of Israel, Dec 2023 INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE Peace Palace, Carnegieplein 2, 2517 KJ The Hague, Netherlands Tel.: +31 (0)70 302 2323 Fax: +31 (0)70 364 9928 Website X YouTube LinkedIn Press Release Unofficial No. 2023/77 29 December 2023 …
Brief • December 29, 2023
Filed under: Failure to Treat
Wright v. The State of New York, NY, Claim, Assault and Battery, 2023 NEW YORK STATE COURT OF CLAIMS CHARLES WRIGHT, Claimant, VERIFIED CLAIM -againstClaim No.: E23-5143 THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent. Claimant, Charles Wright, appearing through his attorneys at Barket Epstein Kearon Aldea & LoTurco, LLP, hereby alleges …
Brief • December 29, 2023
Taylor v. The State of New York, NY, Verified Claim, Assault and Battery, 2023 CLAIM NO. E23-5142 NYSCEF DOC. NO. 1 RECEIVED NYSCEF: 12/29/2023 NEW YORK STATE COURT OF CLAIMS EUGENE TAYLOR, Claimant, VERIFIED CLAIM -againstClaim No.: E23-5142 THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent. Claimant, Eugene Tay !or, appearing through …
Brief • December 29, 2023
Filed under: COVID-19
Diaz v. Polanco, USA, Petition for Writ of Certiorari, Covid-19, 2023 No. ______ In the Supreme Court of the United States ———————— RALPH DIAZ, et al., Petitioners, v. PATRICIA POLANCO, et al., Respondents. ———————— RALPH DIAZ, et al., Petitioners, v. MICHAEL HAMPTON, et al., Respondents. ———————— RALPH DIAZ, et al., …
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