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Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Filed under: Visiting, Video Visitation
South Carolina Supreme Court Denies Prisoner’s Challenge to DOC Policy Restricting Visitors to People He Knew Before Incarceration by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On April 5, 2023, the South Carolina Supreme Court affirmed that denying a state prisoner visits from people he didn’t know prior to incarceration did not …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Alabama Sheriff Loses Appeal to Theft and Ethics Conviction by On May 22, 2023, the Circuit Court in Alabama’s Limestone County rejected an appeal by former Sheriff Mike Blakely to his conviction on charges of first-degree theft and using his public office for personal gain. After 38 years in office, …
No Hearing Required for Emergency Dose of Antipsychotic Medication for Mississippi Prisoner by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 4, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed dismissal of a Mississippi prisoner’s claim that his due process rights were violated when a doctor dosed …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Women Behind Bars, by the Numbers by On March 1, 2023, the Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) released Women’s Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2023, which found an astonishing number of U.S. women and girls – almost one million – are either incarcerated or on probation or parole. That included nearly …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
CDCR Facing Daily Fines in 33-Year-Old Suit Over Deficient Mental Health Care by For its entire three decades of publication, PLN has been reporting developments in a class-action suit brought by California state prisoners challenging grossly deficient mental health care provided by the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
SCOTUS Lets Ohio Detainee’s Suit Die Over Incarceration for Parodied Police Facebook Page by When Anthony Novak created a Facebook page that parodied the police department in Parma, Ohio, he may have been attempting satirical humor. But he wasn’t laughing when police officers searched his apartment, seized his phone and …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Eleventh Circuit Says Florida Prisoner Who Dismissed Complaint Cannot Be Assessed a “Strike” Under PLRA by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke The Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997e, raises several barriers for prisoner litigants, not least being a “three strikes” provision that prevents indigent prisoners from having …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
$1.05 Million Settlement for Oklahoma Prisoner’s Death from Untreated Appendix Rupture by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 23, 2023, the Oklahoma Legislature approved a $1.05 million settlement to resolve a lawsuit stemming from the preventable death of a state prisoner. The settlement followed an order by the …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
$24 Million for Motorist Detained and Killed by California Highway Patrol by In yet another case involving an unarmed, non-resisting suspect killed by the police, Edward Bronstein, 38, was five minutes from his home when he was pulled over by officers with the California Highway Patrol (CHP) on March 31, …
Fourth Circuit Rebuffs Federal Prisoner’s Attempt to Expand Bivens in North Carolina by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 3, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed dismissal of a federal prisoner’s civil rights suit, finding his Fifth Amendment claim did not fit within …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Fifth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Texas Prisoner’s Failure-to-Protect Claim by Texas state prisoner Richard Luna saw his claim revived against officials with the state Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) on February 6, 2023, when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit determined that a lower court erred when …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Filed under: Settlements
St. Louis City Jails Director Under Fire, County Jail Director Leaves After Nearly $2.7 Million in Legal Payouts by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart When you’re arrested in St. Louis, it doesn’t much matter whether you end up in the city’s jail or the lockup in adjacent St. Louis County; …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Condemned Arizona Prisoner Reprieved by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart On June 22, 2023, the chief prosecutor in Arizona’s Maricopa County dropped a suit filed to force the state to execute condemned prisoner Aaron Gunches. As previously reported by PLN, the state Supreme Court issued a death warrant on March …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Fourth Circuit: Dismissal of South Carolina Prisoner’s Complaint Cannot Prematurely Be Called a “Strike” Under PLRA by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On April 13, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled that a district court cannot dismiss a prisoner’s complaint and at the same time …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
After Spate of Deaths, Vermont Contracts Prisoner Healthcare to Wellpath – Again by Vermont’s Department of Corrections (DOC) announced in April 2023 that Wellpath LLC would replace VitalCore Health Strategies to provide healthcare in state prisons. Wellpath corporate predecessor Correct Care Solutions (CCS) held the contract from 2010 to 2015. …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Ohio Prisoner’s Suit Claims Exposure to Toxic Chemicals Released in Train Derailment by On May 31, 2023, the federal court for the Northern District of Ohio consolidated a state prisoner’s pro se suit into a class-action with almost 30 others that have been filed over exposure to toxic vinyl chloride …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Minnesota Makes All Calls Free in Prisons and Jails by On May 19, 2023, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) signed into law SF 2909, the Judiciary and Public Safety budget bill. Introduced by two Democratic state lawmakers, Sen. Clare Oumou Verbeten and Rep. Esther Agbaje, the measure made calls free …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Connecticut Lawmakers Punt on Limiting Prison Strip Searches by David Reutter by David M. Reutter During their 2023 session, Connecticut lawmakers took a pass on legislation to rein in routine prison strip searches, which advocates testified were “humiliating” and “intrusive.” There was, however, widespread interest in appearing interested in the …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
DNA Matches Dead Australian to Nebraska Prisoner Who Escaped 56 Years Ago by After his death in 2010 at age 69, John Vincent Damon’s family members would occasionally walk through Tamborine Mountain Cemetery in Queensland, Australia, just to stand at his grave. He left behind a wife and two adult …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Filed under: Cell Searches, Lockdowns
Two-Week Texas Prison Lockdown Ends With Puny Contraband Haul by After locking down almost 129,000 prisoners for nearly two weeks to search for contraband, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) announced on September 18, 2023, that “normal operations” had resumed at 64 of its 98 facilities. But prison officials …
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