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Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
HRDC Wins Motion to Compel North Carolina Prison Officials to Answer for Censorship Policy by On April 7, 2023, the federal court for the Eastern District of North Carolina granted a motion by PLN’s publisher, theHuman Rights Defense Center (HRDC), to compel the state Department of Public Safety (DPS) “to …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
New York Succeeds in Firing Fewer Than 10% of Guards Accused of Prisoner Abuse by A report published by The Marshall Project (TMP) on May 19, 2023, found that the disciplinary process in the New York Department of Corrections and Community Services (DOCCS) “fails to hold many guards accountable” in …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright By Paul Wright For almost a century the United States has waged its war on poor drug users, illegalizing alcohol, marijuana, opiates, cocaine, stimulants, hallucinogenic and other consciousness altering substances. I have never called this long running “war on drugs” either a failure or …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Prison Walls No Barrier to America’s Deadly Opioid Crisis by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney When Missouri prisoner Robert Hebert learned in January 2023 that he had less than two years remaining on his prison sentence, the father of six and his family shared in the excitement. He planned to …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
DOJ Reaches Consent Decree with New Jersey Jail to Improve Mental Health Care by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 17, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed both a federal civil rights complaint and a proposed consent decree to resolve allegedly unconstitutional conditions at New Jersey’s …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
North Carolina Prisoner Recovers $500 for Injuries in Shower Slip and Fall by On December 7, 2022, North Carolina prisoner Vinson Shane Hill prevailed in a negligence tort claim he filed with the state Industrial Commission (NCIC) over an injury he suffered while incarcerated at Scotland Correctional Institution in July …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Defining ‘Carceral Deference’ by David Reutter by David M. Reutter “Carceral deference is a powerful principle built on faulty premises and with troubling and destabilizing effects,” declared Danielle C. Jefferis, an Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska College of Law, in an article that appeared in the Fordham Law …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
The Gun of Incarceration by Cristian Farias by Cristian Farias New Jersey has been hailed for its approach to decarceration, including a bail reform law that some advocates see as a national model. And yet the state still supervises more than 120,000 of its residents under some form of probation …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
$12,000 Paid to California Prisoner Denied Back Surgery Despite Doctor’s Recommendation by On August 25, 2022, a California prisoner told the federal court for the Eastern District of California that he had reached an agreement with the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to settle a suit he filed …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
U.S. Probation System a “Quagmire” That Sets Defendants Up to Fail by An article published in Reason on January 26, 2023, cited numerous problems in probation systems nationwide, describing them as a “quagmire.” For the article, the magazine, a publication of the Libertarian California-based Reason Foundation, profiled Jennifer Schroeder, who …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Filed under: Settlements, Public Records
Ohio Supreme Court Awards Prisoner $700 From Sheriff Who Failed to Comply with Public Records Request by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On April 19, 2023, the Supreme Court of Ohio awarded prisoner Franklin Woods $700 in statutory damages against the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) for failure to comply …
South Carolina DOC Investigates Jail After 30 Detainee Injuries, Two Escapes and Five Guard Arrests by According to a report by the Charleston Post & Courier on July 31, 2023, the South Carolina Department of Corrections (DOC) had dispatched a team to inspect the Richland County jail, after a series …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Deadline Looms for Payouts Under California’s Forced or Involuntary Sterilization Compensation Program by December 31, 2023, will be the last day to file for reparations under California’s Forced or Involuntary Sterilization Compensation Program (FISCP). State lawmakers created it in 2021 to offer compensation to thousands of victims who were sterilized …
Tennessee Private Prison Gets State’s First LGBTQ+ Group by As reported in Filter Magazine on July 26, 2023, Tennessee’s South Central Correctional Facility (SCCF) has become the birthplace of “Be the Change” (BTC), the first known openly LGBTQ+ community in any of the state’s 14 prisons. A private medium-security prison …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
While Federal Prisoners Died of COVID-19 in Massachusetts, BOP Staff Used Up Vaccine Allotment on Themselves by On May 23, 2023, the health, medicine and life sciences journal STAT released a scathing report detailing the shabby care prisoners received early in the COVID-19 pandemic at the Federal Medical Center (FMC) …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Ninth Circuit Revives Former Nevada Prisoner’s Claim for Deprivation of Sentence Credit by by Douglas Ankney On April 25, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said a lower court erred by ignoring a former state prisoner’s claim that the Department of Corrections (DOC) violated his due …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Number Held in Solitary Confinement in U.S. Prisons and Jails Tops 122,000 by A new report released in May 2023 by Solitary Watch and Unlock the Box, groups dedicated to abolishing the use of solitary confinement, found that a lot more Americans are locked up in solitary confinement than previous …
Nine Memphis Jailers Indicted in Death of Psychotic Detainee by On September 20, 2023, Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner announced that nine of his deputies had been indicted in the death of Gershun Freeman, a 33-year-old Black man who died in custody at the Memphis lockup during a psychotic episode …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Alabama Prison Conditions Continue to Worsen as DOJ Trial Looms by U.S. District Judge David Proctor has told lawyers to be ready for trial in November 2024 in a suit filed by the federal Department of Justice (DOJ) in federal court for the Northern District of Alabama against the state’s …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Washington Kills the Death Penalty – Again by On April 19, 2023, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) signed SB 5087 into law, ending the death penalty in the state. The state’s Supreme Court had already ruled the death penalty unconstitutional in 2018 “because it is imposed in an arbitrary and …
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