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“Fatal Neglect” Report Faults ICE Health Care for Deaths of Detained Immigrants by Derek Gilna The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Detention Watch Network (DWN) and National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) issued a joint report, “Fatal Neglect: How ICE Ignores Deaths in Detention,” that describes case studies of deficient medical …
Article • April 1, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Ninth Circuit: Freezing Prisoner’s Funds Requires Pre-deprivation Process by Mark Wilson Prison officials must provide a pre-deprivation hearing before freezing substantial prisoner assets, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held on April 6, 2015. Under Oregon’s “pay-to-stay” law, prisoners are fully liable for their incarceration costs. The Oregon Department of …
Second Circuit Allows Muslim Prisoners’ Bivens Claims to Proceed by Derek Gilna Although Muslim prisoners held at the harsh U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have received more publicity, conditions of confinement for prisoners of Middle-Eastern descent in domestic prisons have also been abusive. So abusive, in fact, that …
DOJ Settlement to Improve Conditions at Mississippi Juvenile Facility by The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has reached a settlement to address conditions at Mississippi’s Leflore County Juvenile Detention Center (LCJDC). The settlement agreement is the culmination of a DOJ investigation and a March 31, 2011 findings letter from the …
Article • April 1, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Colson Task Force Report Highlights BOP Issues, Makes Recommendations by Derek Gilna According to the Charles Colson Task Force on Federal Corrections, named after the former top advisor to President Richard Nixon who served a stint in federal prison before dedicating his life to prisoner rehabilitation and spiritual growth, “the …
Article • April 1, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Book Review: "Illegal to Legal: Business Success for (ex)Criminals, by R.L. Pelshaw" by Christopher Zoukis Illegal to Legal: Business Success for (ex)Criminals, by R.L. Pelshaw (The Pelshaw Group, 2014). 241 pages, $17.50 paperback Book review by Christopher Zoukis Criminal justice reform is an issue that has gained significant political and …
Lawsuit Claiming CMUs Lack Due Process on Appeal to D.C. Circuit by Derek Gilna The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) first instituted Communication Management Units (CMUs) in 2006 at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, then added another unit to the supermax in Marion, Illinois in 2008. CMUs were designed …
Article • April 1, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Delayed Washington Competency Evaluations and Treatment Violate Due Process by Mark Wilson “The state has consistently and over a long period of time violated the constitutional rights of the mentally ill – this must stop,” declared a Washington federal district court. “The in-jail wait time” before transferring incompetent criminal defendants …
Article • April 1, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Sacramento County Settles Former Jail Prisoner’s Lawsuits for $3,800 by Matthew Clarke In February 2015, Sacramento County, California agreed to settle three pro se federal civil rights actions filed by a former Sacramento County jail prisoner alleging theft of his mail, opening of his legal mail outside his presence and …
Privately-operated Texas Prison Rebounds by Matthew Clarke Despite years of controversy that included sitting vacant for months after it was built and staff members being arrested for smuggling contraband and having sexual relationships with prisoners, the Jack Harwell Detention Center in Waco, Texas has rebounded. It now houses more prisoners, …
Article • April 1, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Transparent Jumpsuit for Prison Transport May Violate Eighth Amendment by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held last year that a prisoner stated a claim when he alleged he was forced to wear a see-through jumpsuit that exposed his genitals and buttocks while being moved from a county jail to …
Article • April 1, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Ninth Circuit: Improper ICE Detainer Constitutes Article III Injury by Mark Wilson The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court’s dismissal of a false imprisonment suit based upon an improper immigration detainer, as the district court incorrectly held that it lacked Article III standing. In June 2007, Bernardo …
Article • April 1, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Filed under: Voting, Release and Reentry
The Will of the People: Ex-prisoners Voted into Public Office by Joe Watson What happens when voters elect a public official once deemed a public threat by the criminal justice system? From Connecticut to Virginia, Michigan to New Hampshire and Oregon to Oklahoma – just a few of the places …
Article • April 1, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
California: Strip Searches of Prison Visitors No Longer Allowed by After just over a year of increased scrutiny for prison visitors, presumably to stem the flow of drugs and other contraband into California’s 35 state correctional facilities, prison officials announced in January 2016 that they would end the controversial practice …
In-the-News Article • April 1, 2016
Injunction entered in PLN censorship suit against Livingston County, MI jail April 1, 2016 Articles about PLN Litigation Detroit News Judge: Livingston jail must tell sender if mail blocked Associated Press10:59 a.m. EDT April 1, 2016   Howell — A federal judge says the Livingston County Jail must notify senders when …
Publication • April 1, 2016
Letter to Seattle Mayor re detention facility environmental concerns - April 2016 Human Rights Defense Center DEDICATED TO PROTECTING HUMAN RIGHTS April 1, 2016 Mayor Ed Murray City of Seattle 600 4th Ave., 7th Floor Seattle, WA 98104 Re: Children and Family Justice Center MUP Permit Dear Mayor Murry, We …
Assessing Inmate Cause of Death, DOJ, 2016 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics TECHNICAL REPORT April 2016, NCJ 249568 Assessing Inmate Cause of Death: Deaths in Custody Reporting Program and National Death Index Zhen Zeng, Ph.D., Margaret Noonan, and E. Ann Carson, Ph.D., BJS …
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Exonerated New York Prisoner Recovers $21.9 Million in Damages by An exonerated former New York prisoner received $21.9 million as a result of settlements and a jury verdict in a federal lawsuit claiming that law enforcement officials were responsible for his wrongful convictions for rape and homicide. Jeffrey Deskovic, 16, …
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
California Supreme Court Voids Ex Post Facto Sex Offender Residency Restrictions by Derek Gilna Proposition 83, passed in 2006 by California voters and popularly known as Jessica’s Law, had the stated aim of protecting children from sex offenders. It was later codified at Pen. Code § 3003.5(b), but on March …
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Texas: $400,000 Settlement Award to Mentally Ill Jail Prisoner by On June 2, 2015, the Harris County Commissioners Court awarded $400,000 to Terry Goodwin, a mentally ill prisoner, to settle a civil lawsuit stemming from his extreme neglect while housed at the Harris County Jail in Houston. “I have never …
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