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Article • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023
Massachusetts High Court: Lawmakers Haven’t Stopped Sheriffs From Taking Kickbacks from Jail Phone Calls, and Neither Will We by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart On May 17, 2022, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled that sheriffs may continue the decades-old practice of collecting commissions from charges for phone calls …
Article • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023
Filed under: Medical
Elderly Prisoners Catch a Break on Medicare Part B by Eike Blohm, MD by Eike Blohm, MD A change in Medicare rules ends a years-long policy of forcing elderly prisoners to pay for benefits they are literally not free to use or else face life-long penalties. Americans 65 years and …
Article • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023
Filed under: Accidents
Another Prisoner Dies in Another Fire at Indiana Prison by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott  On January 14, 2023, a fire broke out just before 11:00 a.m. in a cell block at Indiana State Prison (ISP), killing prisoner Michael W. Smith, 48. He was the second prisoner to …
Second Hunger Strike Met With Pepper Spray at Washington GEO Group Lockup Where ICE Detainees Allege Widespread Sexual Abuse by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On February 4, 2023, a crowd of 50 people gathered outside the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) in Tacoma, Washington. They were there to support a …
Article • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023
Filed under: Settlements, Wrongful Death
$350,000 Settlement Reached in Florida Prisoner’s Murder by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Florida Department of Corrections (DOC) agreed on March 25, 2022, to pay $350,000 to resolve a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the estate of murdered prisoner Anthony Vidal. The lawsuit was filed after Vidal was …
Article • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023
Alabama Prisoner’s Deliberate Indifference Claim Dies for Lack of Proper Affidavits by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On November 11, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed dismissal of an Alabama prisoner’s civil rights action that alleged overlong delays in treatment for hernias and post-surgery …
Article • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023
Colorado’s Halfway Houses Returning Half of Residents to Prison by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On July 9, 2022, the Colorado Department of Corrections (DOC) rescinded a new policy that barred parole officers from getting arrest warrants for people who walk away from one of the state’s halfway houses. The …
Article • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023
Transgender Idaho Prisoner Who Won Gender Conforming Surgery Awarded Over $2.6 Million in Legal Fees by Eike Blohm, MD by Eike Blohm, MD On September 30, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho awarded $2,631,593 in attorneys fees and expenses to a former state prisoner, who successfully …
Article • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023
Parents Losing Children Because They Can’t Repay Foster Care Costs Incurred During Incarceration by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott When parents are incarcerated, their children are often placed in foster care. A little-noticed federal law from the “tough on crime” Reagan era requires states to bill those parents …
CoreCivic Still Accruing Fines for Short-Staffing Florida Jail Where Developmentally Disabled Teen Was Raped by Ashleigh Dye by Ashleigh N. Dye At its meeting on January 24, 2023, the Board of County Commissioners of Florida’s Citrus County voted to deduct $116,250 off its December 2022 bill from private prison operator …
Article • February 22, 2023
Eighth Circuit Holds Delaying Surgery for Reducible Hernia Not Deliberate Indifference to Missouri Prisoner’s Serious Medical Needs by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke What happens if you develop a hernia while jailed? One Missouri prisoner found the answer when he was forced to wait 16 months for surgical relief. Then, …
Article • February 22, 2023
Delaware Prison Guard Indicted for Death of His K-9 by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On January 31, 2023, a veteran Delaware prison guard was indicted by a state grand jury on a felony count of first-degree assault, for recklessly confining and causing the death of a law …
Article • February 22, 2023
Jury Awards $2 Million to Nurse in Sexual Harassment Case against Missouri Prison Officials by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On December 27, 2022, in Missouri’s 19th Circuit Court, Judge Jon Beetem ordered the state Department of Corrections (DOC) to pay $2 million in punitive damages to a …
Article • February 22, 2023
Florida Guard Arrested for Having Sex with Prisoner Allegedly Took Bribes to Smuggle Cigars in Her Vagina by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On January 13, 2023, a former prison guard from the Graceville Correctional Facility in northwest Florida near the Georgia state line was arrested and charged …
Article • February 7, 2023
Michigan Prisons Ban 1,000 Books, Most Would Be Considered Harmless by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott  After a review of public records from Michigan, online magazine and video channel Motherboard found that the state’s Department of Corrections (DOC) has restricted prisoner access to at least 1,000 books between …
Article • February 7, 2023
Welsh Prisoner Used Phone Hidden in Rectum to Snag Guards with “Flirty” Calls by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott A former guard and a former nurse at a prison in the United Kingdom – who both fell for “flirty” calls on a contraband cellphone from a “Romeo inmate,” …
Fifth Circuit Finds No Liability for Dallas DA Who Improperly Relied on Polygraph to Imprison Sex Offender for 13 Years by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart In November 2022, Dallas resident Christopher Arnone was charged with sexually abusing his son. He struck a deal and entered a plea of nolo …
Article • February 7, 2023
Two Prisoners Stabbed, One Overdosed: Just Another Day at Rikers Island by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On January 14, 2023, the violence at New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex began early, when a guard saw one detainee slashed by others. In a separate incident later that …
Article • February 2, 2023
Fired Pittsburgh Jail Guard Wins Over $850,000 in Retaliation Case by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barret In October 2022, a jury in the federal Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania awarded $400,000 in compensatory damages to former Allegheny County Jail (ACJ) guard Jeffery Kengerski in his federal employment rights …
Article • February 2, 2023
Florida Tops the Nation for Number of Books Banned in Prisons by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On December 21, 2022, after a year of records requests and research by criminal justice nonprofit The Marshall Project, a database of 54,000 banned books was compiled from prisons in 18 …
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