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$3.25 Million Settlement Reached With Defendants Jailed in Missouri “Debtor’s Prison” for Unpaid Fines, Fees by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke On April 5, 2023, the federal court for the Eastern District of Missouri gave final approval to a $3.25 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit alleging the City of …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
San Francisco Jail First in Nation to Provide Detainees Tablets With Totally Free Content by The jail in San Francisco County is the first in the nation to provide its detainees with tablets and free access to content, such as legal resources, e-books and music. The county Sheriff’s Office (SFSO) …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Number Held in U.S. Prisons and Jails Dipped in Pandemic’s Second Year by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney According to a report released by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS Report) in December 2022, “the number of persons under the jurisdiction of state or federal correctional …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Fourth Circuit Reinstates North Carolina Prisoner’s Suit, Finding Grievance Procedure Availability an Open Question by Mark Wilson By Mark Wilson On December 27, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit vacated summary judgment issued against a North Carolina prisoner for failing to exhaust his administrative remedies, as …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
COVID-19 Increased Racial Disparities in Prisons and Jails by As the COVID-19 pandemic spread its cloud of death and misery in 2020, the one silver lining was a dip in the number of Americans incarcerated, which decreased by 17% – the fastest drop in history. However, the same racial disparities …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
$1.25 Million Settlement for California Jail Prisoner’s Loss of Limbs by David Reutter by David M. Reutter As PLN previously reported, a man arrested and taken to jail in California’s San Bernardino County in March 2018 ended up in a hospital eight days later in critical condition, suffering severe dehydration, …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Court Orders Preliminary Injunctive Relief for Transgender Massachusetts Prisoners by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In consolidated cases, the Massachusetts Superior Court for Suffolk County ordered preliminary injunctive relief on December 30, 2022, for a pair of transgender women incarcerated at the state’s Souza Baranowski Correctional Center (SBCC). Each woman …
Wrongly Imprisoned for Killing Oregon Prison Director, Frank Gable Finally Fully Freed by On May 12, 2023, the federal court for the District of Oregon dismissed the murder indictment against Frank Gable, who was wrongfully imprisoned nearly 30 years for the 1989 slaying of the state Department of Corrections (DOC) …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Naphcare’s Lack of Care Leads to $26.75 Million Verdict for Washington Jail Death by “The jury sent a strong message that Naphcare’s conduct was completely unacceptable,” said attorney Edwin Budge of the Seattle law firm of Budge & Heipt, PLLC. He was responding to a federal jury’s July 2022 award …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
$2,060,000 Awarded to Former New York Prisoner Left Quadriplegic After Assault by Guards by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On February 21, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York entered judgment in favor of a now-paroled prisoner against the state Department of Corrections and Community …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
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Colorado One of Four States Making Phone Calls Free for Prisoners by On June 7, 2023, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) signed House Bill (HB) 23-1133, requiring the state Department of Corrections (DOC) to provide, administer and – most importantly – not to profit from communications services used by prisoners. …
$1.85 Million Approved for Tampa Man Wrongfully Imprisoned for 37 Years by Robert DuBoise received the second most important call of his life on June 9, 2023, when a Tallahassee public policy firm phoned to let him know that the efforts to obtain $1.85 million in compensation for the 37 …
Sixth Circuit Revives Blind Tennessee Prisoner’s Suit Against DOC and CoreCivic by On March 22, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit revived a suit filed five years earlier by a Tennessee prisoner who is legally blind. In his March 2018 complaint, Corey Tarvin accused the state …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
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Suit Against Pennsylvania Jail and Controversial Trainer Down to Just Two Plaintiffs by With an order denying class certification on March 24, 2023, the federal court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania left just two plaintiffs to proceed with claims against York County Prison and a controversial training contractor it …
Almost $1.1 Million Awarded to One-Legged Pretrial Detainee Forced to Hop to California Jail Cell by David Reutter by David M. Reutter After a jury in the federal court for the Northern District of California awarded $504,000 in compensatory damages in the excessive-force case he brought against the San Francisco …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Florida Solitary Confinement Lawsuit Dismissed by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On December 14, 2022, the Florida Department of Corrections (DOC) successfully beat back a challenge to use of solitary confinement in its prisons, when prisoner/plaintiffs stipulated to dismissal of their claims. Not content with that victory, apparently, DOC …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Former BOP Guard Gets Light Sentence for COVID-19 Fraud by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On February 17, 2023, a former guard at the Federal Correctional Complex in Yazoo City, Mississippi, got a light sentence for defrauding the U.S. of $12,586 in loans she swindled from the COVID-19 Paycheck Protection …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Academics Find Prisoners Denied Access to Public Information by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On April 18, 2023, Loyola University’s College of Law published a paper detailing the ways prisoners are often denied access to public records that those not incarcerated can easily obtain. Professor Andrea Armstrong and Distinguished Professor …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Citing Improvements at Mississippi State Prison at Parchman, Rappers Drop Suit by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In January 2023, rappers Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter and Mario “Yo Gotti” Mims agreed to dismiss the lawsuit they had brought on behalf of 227 prisoners challenging conditions at Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman. …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Settlement Includes $78,000 in Damages Against Minnesota DOC for ADA Violations by On February 14, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a complaint in federal court for the District of Minnesota against the state Department of Corrections (DOC) concerning violations of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities …
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