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Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
New York City Stops Reporting Rikers Island Deaths Amid Rampant Guard Misconduct by Kevin Bliss, Chuck Sharman, Benjamin Tschirhart by Kevin W. Bliss, Chuck Sharman and Benjamin Tschirhart On May 31, 2023, Luis Molina, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Correction (DOC), announced his agency would no longer …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
New York Prisoner Is Released After Conviction Is Vacated, Reinstated and Vacated Once More by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman After a wild legal ride, Norberto Peets was exonerated of attempted murder on May 9, 2023, and he was released from a New York prison after 26 years. Early on …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Seventh Circuit: Attorney’s Submission of Illinois Prisoner’s Grievance Exhausts Administrative Remedies by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on January 11, 2023, affirmed a district court ruling that when an Illinois prisoner’s attorney submitted his grievances to the appropriate administrative office …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
$142,500 Settlement After Pennsylvania Jail Guard Allegedly Knocked Out Detainee and Broke Her Jaw by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke On September 30, 2022, a lawsuit was dismissed against Pennsylvania’s Dauphin County, after a former pretrial detainee at the county lockup reached a $142,500 settlement on claims that a jail …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Georgia Prison Smuggling Ring Busted, Warden and Former Guard Arrested by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman After Georgia prisoner Nathan Weekes and three others were indicted for murder in April 2022, a smuggling ring they operated at Smith State Prison was busted. That has now led to the arrest of …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright The most striking thing about the American criminal justice system is its class-based nature. With one system of non-policing, lackluster prosecutions, lenient sentences and minimal consequences for the wealthy and another system of militarized policing, scorched earth prosecutions, draconian sentences and …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Pennsylvania Jail Hit With Over $1.5 Million in Overages for Guards, Healthcare by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss On April 24, 2023, the board of Pennsylvania’s Westmoreland County Prison unanimously recommended requiring extended shifts for five sergeants who supervise guards at the jail. That’s because after county lawmakers ended …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Filed under: Water, Sanitation, Settlements
$50,000 Settlement to Texas Prisoner for Feces-Covered Cell by On July 8, 2022, a Texas prisoner’s decade-long legal battle over grossly unsanitary conditions in his cell finally came to an end, when he stipulated to dismissal of his lawsuit against the state Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) after accepting a …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Filed under: Corizon, Centurion
New Jail Healthcare Provider Coming to Albuquerque – Again by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss New Mexico’s Bernalillo County is terminating the contract with its jail’s private healthcare contractor effective July 25, 2023. County Manager Julie Morgas Baca sent word to YesCare – the corporate descendant of Corizon Health …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Third Connecticut Prison Lockdown in Five Months by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss When an apparently intoxicated prisoner allegedly assaulted a guard at Connecticut’s largest prison on June 13, 2023, the lockup was put on lockdown. It was at least the third time this year that a state Department …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Fourth Circuit Revives Virginia Prisoner’s Challenge to Discipline for Allegedly Sexually Harassing Guard by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On February 3, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed a lower court’s grant of summary judgment to Virginia prison officials, in a civil rights complaint …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Georgia Prisoner Allowed to Proceed on Section 1983 Claim Seeking Execution by Firing Squad by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On January 30, 2023, a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit rebuffed Georgia Department of Corrections (DOC) officials who wanted to execute …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Filed under: Retaliatory Discipline
Iowa DOC Changes Policy After Ombudsman Calls Out Unfair Prisoner Discipline by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss In its Annual Report on December 15, 2022, the Iowa Ombudsman Office (IOO) called out the state Department of Corrections (DOC) for unfairly addressing abuse of K2 by prisoners and also failing …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
States Take Legislative Action to Address Family Separation by Incarceration by Jordan Arizmendi by Jordan Arizmendi When incarceration begins for a prisoner, a separate punishment also begins for his or her children. On February 27, 2023, Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) published its findings in How 12 States Are Addressing Family …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Filed under: Pardons/Clemency
Biden Granting More Pardons Than Trump, Fewer Than Obama by Jordan Arizmendi by Jordan Arizmendi A raft of Presidential pardons for federal marijuana-possession convictions ballooned the total number of clemencies extended to current and former prisoners by Pres. Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D). But even without those pardons, Biden had …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Bad Lawyering, Bankruptcy Torpedo Suit Over Delaware Prisoner’s Death by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins After a long run of bad news,formerDelaware prison health care contractor Connections Community Support Programs (CCSP) caught a break when a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit involving a prisoner’s withdrawal death after a CCSP nurse …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
California Appellate Court: Time Spent in Mental Hospital to Restore Competency is Time Served by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 28, 2023, the CaliforniaThird District Court of Appeals ordered a lower court to recalculate a prisoner’s custody credits for time spent in a facility to bring the …
FCC Requires Prison Telecoms to Provide Services for Deaf Prisoners by Jordan Arizmendi by Jordan Arizmendi Life in prison is difficult for anyone, but especially for deaf people. Without a video phone or teletypewriter (TTY), a deaf person cannot communicate with loved ones by phone. Under a new rule that …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
$1.325 Million Settlement after Virginia Detainee’s Opiate Withdrawal Ignored in Jail by David Reutter by David Reutter On January 31, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia approved a $1.325 million settlement in a suit brought by the estate of Darryl Terrell Becton against the Arlington …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Nebraska Parole Board Members Showing Up to Work More Often by Jordan Arizmendi, Chuck Sharman by Jordan Arizmendi and Chuck Sharman Attendance at parole hearings by all five members of the Nebraska Parole Board has improved, after a 43-month stretch from 2018 to 2021 when all five showed up for …
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