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Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Texas Prosecutor Gets Fine, Probated Bar Suspension After Jailing Woman for Abortion by On January 25, 2024, the Texas Bar Association issued a probated suspension to Starr County District Attorney Gocha A. Ramirez, after finding he “sought to pursue criminal homicide charges against an individual for acts clearly not criminal” …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Filed under: Abortion
Illinois Makes Abortion Care Free for State Prisoners by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman After a media investigation found Illinois prisoners were forced to pay for abortion procedures – even covering the wages of guard escorts to and from medical providers – Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) ordered the state Department …
Texas Prisoner Allegedly Punished by a Guard for Talking About Abortion by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott A Texas prisoner says she was punished for sharing abortion information with fellow prisoners at the Lane Murray Unit in April 2023. Kwaneta Yatrice Harris, 50, is serving a sentence for …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
Will Overturning Roe v. Wade Kill the Right to Abortion Under BOP Policy? by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Official policy of the federal Bureauof Prisons (BOP) provides cost-free abortion to any female prisoner whose pregnancy is the result of rape or incest, or which threatens the life of the …
Article • July 15, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
The Impact of Criminalizing Abortion on Prisoners and Mass Incarceration by Paul Wright by Paul Wright Over the course of its 233-year history, the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has reversed its prior decisions on occasion. Until now those reversals have generally been to expand constitutional rights for the populace, …
Article • June 27, 2022
The Impact of Criminalizing Abortion on Prisoners and Mass Incarceration by Paul Wright By Paul Wright Over the course of its 233-year history, the United States Supreme Court (USSC) has reversed its prior decisions on occasion. Until now those reversals have generally been to expand constitutional rights for the populace, …
Article • April 16, 2018
Filed under: Abortion, Immigration, Juveniles
Government Contractor Issues Gag Order on Its Lawyers About Abortion Rights by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell In fear of losing it $285 million contract with the government, a group that provides lawyers to immigrant children told its lawyers to stop telling minors about their rights to access abortion services. …
Article • May 16, 2017
She was Desperate. She Tried to End Her Own Pregnancy. She was Thrown in Jail by Nina Liss-Schultz by Nina Liss-Schultz, Mother Jones "I was a mess, I was crying, I didn't know what to do." One night in May 2009, Jocelyn packed a backpack and left the ramshackle house in …
Reproductive Health Care in Women’s Prisons “Painful” and “Traumatic” by Victoria Law By Victoria Law, Truthout It was Kim Dadou’s second day at New York’s Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. As part of the prison’s intake process, she was brought to the prison’s medical unit for a gynecological exam and pap smear. …
Article • May 15, 2009 • from PLN May, 2009
Eighth Circuit: Missouri Prisoner Has Right to Elective Abortion by The Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has held that the Missouri Department of Corrections’ (MDOC) blanket policy of prohibiting the transport of female prisoners to outside medical facilities for elective, non-therapeutic abortions violated the Fourteenth Amendment. An anonymous MDOC …
Article • November 15, 2008 • from PLN November, 2008
Incarcerated New York Women Denied Access to Reproductive Health Care by Gary Hunter Incarcerated New York Women Denied Access to Reproductive Health Care by Gary Hunter According to a March 4, 2008 study by the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) female prisoners in New York county jails consistently were …
Article • August 15, 2008
Ban on EFUs and Artificial Insemination for CA Lifers Upheld by California denies conjugal visits to persons sentenced to life without parole or to life without a parole date established by the parole board. The plaintiff is serving so much time that no parole date appears likely. The court declines …
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
Phoenix, Arizona Sheriff’s Policy Delaying Prisoners’ Elective Abortions Enjoined by John Dannenberg Phoenix, Arizona Sheriff's Policy Delaying Prisoners' Elective Abortions Enjoined by John E. Dannenberg Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio's policy that required a female prisoner seeking an elective abortion to first obtain a court order for this procedure …
Article • May 15, 2007
Injunctive Relief Granted For Pregnant NJ Jail Prisoners by Prisoners in the Monmouth County Correctional Institution, a New Jersey county jail, filed a class action suit on behalf of pregnant female prisoners alleging that they were being denied "essential" health care. The prisoners alleged, in particular, that the women were …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Medical, Abortion
Louisiana Jail Policy Banning Abortions Upheld by A policy requiring a prison inmate to obtain a court order and pay all attendant costs of a non- therapeutic abortion did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment. (The Sheriff said that this policy applied to all "elective surgery.") Under the Turner standard, the …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Medical, Abortion, Damages
Punitive Damages of 31 to 1 Upheld in Abortion Access Suit by The court approves punitive damages under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act against anti-abortion protesters who threatened the lives of abortion providers, in ratios to compensatory damages of up to 32 to 1. At 1063: "This …
Article • May 15, 2007 • from PLN May, 2007
Missouri Elective Abortion Ban Ruled Unconstitutional In Class Action by A federal court in Missouri held in a class action lawsuit that a prison policy barring elective abortions was unconstitutional and invalid. The Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC) and its medical provider, Correctional Medical Services (CMS), routinely transported women prisoners …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Medical, Abortion, Injunctions
Right to Elective Abortions by The court of appeals for the Third circuit upheld a lower court injunction requiring jail officials to provide female prisoners with elective abortions upon request. The suit was filed as a class action suit against the Monmouth County Correctional Institution in New Jersey over its …
Article • May 15, 2007
Right to Prison Abortions Unclear by The court of appeals for the Sixth circuit held that BOP officials J in Kentucky were properly granted qualified immunity for denying a prisoner an abortion after she requested one. Note that since this ruling other courts have held prisoners and pretrial detainees have …
Court Denies Certification to Class of Involuntarily Operated On Mental Patients by Court Denies Certification to Class of Involuntarily Operated On Mental Patients Developmentally disabled persons challenged the District's policy of allowing city officials to consent to elective surgical procedures on their behalf (in the named plaintiffs' cases, two involuntary …
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