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$4 Million Settlement in Class Action Challenging Unconstitutional Conditions at West Virginia Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   West Virginia Division of Corrections (WVDC) officials agreed to pay $4 million on November 8, 2023, to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging unconstitutional conditions at the Southern Regional Jail …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Colorado Jail Guard Must Stand Trial for Opening Accused Sex Offender’s Cell, Subjecting Him to Assault by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   On December 13, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado denied summary judgment to a jail guard who allegedly failed to protect a …
Mentally Ill Detainee Allegedly Tasered and Starved to Death At South Carolina Jail by A suit removed to federal court for the District of South Carolina on December 15, 2023, accuses Bamberg County and its jailers of Tasering a 51-year-old mentally ill detainee and starving him to death the year …
Brief • June 5, 2024
Wall v. State of Oregon DOC, OR, Settlement, Failure to Protect, 2024 Case 6:22-cv-00943-SI Document 36 Filed 06/05/24 Page 1 of 7 ELLEN F. ROSENBLUM Attorney General DYLAN HALLMAN #173679 Assistant Attorney General Department of Justice 100 SW Market Street Portland, OR 97201 Telephone: (971) 673-1880 Fax: (971) 673-5000 Email: …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Filed under: Environmental Law, Water
Contaminated Water a Longstanding Problem at Nebraska Women’s Prison by “Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink,” goes the line from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. As Coleridge dramatized, water is essential to life, yet most people take it for granted. For those incarcerated, their access to drinking …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
After Takeover from CoreCivic, Oklahoma Prison Even More Short-Staffed by Five days after the Oklahoma Department of Corrections (DOC) took over a state prison from private operator CoreCivic on October 1, 2023, a ceremony was held to rename the former Davis Correctional Facility. On the same day, October 6, 2023, …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
BOP Lifts Maximum Age for New Guards to 40 by On October 1, 2023, the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) implemented a temporary policy raising the maximum age for guard candidates to 40. The previous upper age limit was 37. The new policy is aimed at solving a staffing crisis …
Private Prison Transport Guards Sentenced to Prison for Raping Detainees by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney   Two former guards with Inmate Services Corporation (ISC), a private contractor that provided prisoner transports across the U.S., have been sentenced to federal prison for raping detainees in their charge. Marquet Johnson, 45, …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Report Finds Current Path of Florida Prison System “Unsustainable” by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   Florida Department of Corrections (DOC) leaders have come before the state legislature repeatedly to warn that it is a system operating in crisis. In a presentation on November 15, 2023, by global consulting …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
$5 Million Settlement in Death of Georgia Prisoner Left by Guards in Cell on Fire by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   On November 16, 2023, the Georgia Department of Corrections (DOC) agreed to pay $5 million to the estate of Thomas Henry Giles, 31, a mentally ill prisoner …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Watchdog Finds “Alarming Conditions” at BOP Women’s Lockup in Florida by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   When confronted with prisoner complaints, officials often produce glowing inspection reports and blame prisoners for destroying prison infrastructure. All too often, though, inept supervision is to blame for failure to maintain facilities. …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Georgia Prisoner Stabs Warden by Georgia’s Telfair State Prison went on lockdown on March 21, 2024, after a prisoner stabbed Warden Andrew McFarlane with a homemade knife. McFarlane, 54, a 25-year veteran of the state Department of Corrections (DOC), was not seriously injured in the attack, according to DOC spokesperson …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Elderly Ohio Prisoner Beaten by Cellmate Despite Warning Guards, Who Cheered Attack by In a lawsuit filed in federal court for the Northern District of Ohio on March 18, 2024, state prisoner Darryl Smith accuses Mansfield Correctional Institution (MCI) guards of ignoring warnings he was being threatened by his cellmate, …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Eleven Years After Consent Decree Entered, New Orleans Jail Still Not Compliant by In a monitoring report on October 6, 2023, the Compliance Director with operational control over Orleans Parish Prison (OPP) in New Orleans found continued problems at the jail, such as an increase in prisoner-on-prisoner violence, overdoses and …
Idaho Continues To Cell “Dangerously Mentally Ill” Without Charges by On November 14, 2023, Idaho Gov. Brad Little (R) secured a budget recommendation from the state Permanent Building Fund advisory council for a new $25 million facility jointly operated by the state’s Department of Health and Welfare (DHW) and its …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Harris County Shipping Detainees from Overcrowded Jail to Mississippi CoreCivic Prison by On December 1, 2023, Harris County, Texas, began sending up to 360 detainees from the county’s jails to a prison in Mississippi, under a contract with its private operator, CoreCivic. The County Commissioners Court approved the $11.3 million …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Florida Prisons Playing “Whack-a-Mole” With Jailbroken Tablets by In an essay published in Slate on December 14, 2023, former Florida prisoner Ryan Moser said that officials with the state Department of Corrections (DOC) were “essentially playing whack-a-mole” in their efforts to combat an epidemic of “jailbreaking” prison-issued electronic tablets. The …
Georgia Prisoner’s Challenge to “Deplorable” Conditions Survives Motion to Dismiss by On October 3, 2023, the federal court for the Middle District of Georgia denied a motion to dismiss filed by defendant state prison officials in a prisoner’s challenge to isolation in conditions he called “deplorable.” While incarcerated at Georgia …
Publication • 2024
A Look Behind the Screens-Examining the Data Practices of Social Media and Video Streaming Services-FTC Sept. 2024 A Look Behind the Screens Examining the Data Practices of Social Media and Video Streaming Services Federal Trade Commission September 2024 A Look Behind the Screens Examining the Data Practices of Social Media …
Brief • May 3, 2024
Meehan v. State of New Hampshire Division of Health and Human Services, NH, Verdict, Failure to Protect, 2024 Clerk's Notice of Decision Document Sent to Parties on os10312024 Jury Verdict Form ·217-2020-CV-00026 STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE SUPERIOR COURT Rockingham, ss. DAVID MEEHAN V. STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, DIVISION OF HEALTH …
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