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Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
A Colorado Jail Has Banned In-Person Visits Since the Pandemic by For more than four years, beginning during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Boulder County Jail in Boulder, Colorado has remained closed to in-person visitations. Although prisons have returned to allowing visitors, many jails have yet to re-instate in-person access. At …
Article • September 9, 2019 • from PLN September, 2019
Female Attorneys Denied Access to Clients at Missouri Jail Due to Bras by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon As of May 2019, a new policy at the Jackson County Detention Center in Missouri requires female attorneys to remove any brassieres with metal underwires before passing through a metal detector in …
Innovation Law Lab, Et Al. v. Nielsen, Et Al., OR, Order, Denied Immigration Lawyers, 2018 Case 3:18-cv-01098-SI Document 23 Filed 06/25/18 Page 1 of 22 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF OREGON INNOVATION LAW LAB and LUIS JAVIER SANCHEZ GONZALEZ by XOCHITL RAMOS VALENCIA as next …
Ninth Circuit Disfavors First Amendment Bivens Claim Against Private Reentry Center by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke On February 7, 2018, the Ninth Circuit court of appeals held that a federal prisoner could not pursue a claim that a privately operated reentry center's employees had violated his First and Fifth …
Publication • January 29, 2018
To What End, Assessing the Impact of the Knox County Jail's Ban on In-Person Visits To What End?: Assessing the Impact of the Knox County Jail’s Ban on In-Person Visits Face To Face Knox Knoxville, TN January 29, 2018 Introduction Since April 2014, the Knox County Sheriff’s Office has banned …
Publication • January 1, 2018
"It Makes Me Want to Cry" Visiting Rikers Island ‘It Makes Me Want to Cry’: Visiting Rikers Island NYC Jails Action Coalition January 2018 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 1 Section I: The Importance of Visits 1 Section II: Visiting Rikers Island 2 Section III: What Visitors Say About Visiting 3 …
State Bar of Texas Legal Services to the Poor in Criminal Matters Committee: Review of the Operations of State Counsel for Offenders, 2017 Review of the Operations of State Counsel for Offenders Report by the State Bar of Texas Legal Services to the Poor in Criminal Matters Committee1 Approved for …
Article • September 6, 2017
Prison Cannot Restrict Legal Visits by a Prisoner's Family Member/Attorney by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Michigan Department of Corrections Rule 607, which mandated that an attorney who is also a family member of a prisoner could not have legal visits with the prisoners, has been ruled unconstitutional. The Rule …
Article • June 14, 2017
Federal Court Orders California to Allow SHU Prisoner Contact Attorney Visits by On April 14, 2014, a California federal court ordered the California State Prison-Corcoran to allow Security Housing Unit (SHU) prisoner Andrew R. Lopez contact visits with attorney Robert Navarro and another attorney. In the instant action, Lopez filed …
Article • June 9, 2017 • from PLN June, 2017
Filed under: Medical, Attorney Visits
Arkansas Attorney Sues to Gain Access to Incarcerated Client by A lawyer in Little Rock, Arkansas was forced to file a lawsuit to gain access to his client in a criminal case. Attorney Patrick Benca, who represented Antoine Ramon Jackson on a capital murder charge, filed the six-page suit on …
CCA Prison Caught Recording Attorney-Client Meetings, Sharing Videos with Prosecutors by In March 2017, Special Master David R. Cohen filed a request with the U.S. District Court in Kansas, seeking to enlarge his investigation into whether the Leavenworth Detention Center (LDC) and the private contractor that operates the facility, Corrections …
ICE Bans Crayons in Family Detention Center Visiting Area by Prisoners who cause property damage in correctional facilities often receive swift punishment. It was no different for the very young prisoners held in one of the United States’ most controversial detention centers. Housed with their immigrant mothers in the GEO …
Courts Divided on Confidentiality of Attorney-Prisoner Email by Derek Gilna The fact that prosecutors and corrections officials read emails between prisoners and their lawyers comes as no surprise to most defense attorneys, many of whom find it ironic that the very public officials paid to enforce the laws do not …
Article • July 6, 2016 • from PLN July, 2016
California Jail Ordered to Restore Attorney-Client Contact Visits by Derek Gilna The Wayne Brown Correctional Facility in Nevada County, California changed its rules in 2013 to prohibit defense attorneys from having contact visits with their clients, allegedly due to security and cost concerns. Several prisoners filed suit, and a superior …
Picarella et al v. Johnson et al, PA, Order, denial of mail visition recreation counsel 8th Am, 2016
Picarella et al v. Johnson et al, PA, Amended Complaint, denial of mail visition recreation counsel 8th Am, 2015
Picarella et al v. Johnson et al, PA, Settlement Agreement, denial of mail visition recreation counsel 8th Am, 2015
Picarella et al v. Johnson et al, PA, Complaint, denial of mail visition recreation counsel 8th Am, 2014 Case 1:14-cv-01874-CCC-CA Document 1 Filed 09/26/14 Page 1 of 13 Case 1:14-cv-01874-CCC-CA Document 1 Filed 09/26/14 Page 2 of 13 Case 1:14-cv-01874-CCC-CA Document 1 Filed 09/26/14 Page 3 of 13 Case 1:14-cv-01874-CCC-CA …
Article • July 13, 2013
Irregularities Undermine Legitimacy of Second Version of 9/11 Trials by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke When the American government first determined that it would proceed with trials by military tribunal against the prisoners it held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the decision was met with skepticism by human rights advocates. The …
Article • March 15, 2013
Iowa Supreme Court Supports Prisoner Suppression Motion by Derek Gilna In a case of first impression, the Iowa Supreme Court has reversed an Iowa Court of Appeals decision denying a "limited statutory right to a custodial in-person consultation with an attorney," and suppressed an operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated …
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