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Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Failures Brought to Light in Arizona Prison System’s COVID-19 Response by The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Re-entry (DCRR) has faced bitter criticism for the healthcare provided to state prisoners, which a federal judge in 2022 called “plainly, grossly inadequate,” as PLN reported. [See: PLN, Dec. 2022, p.1.] So …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Identities Stolen From Virginia Jail Detainees For $341,205 COVID-19 Fraud by As of October 3, 2024, guilty pleas had been entered for all but one of 17 people indicted for defrauding the federal government of COVID-­19 benefits. In all, the group received $341,205 in benefits to which they were not …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Ninth Circuit Provides Cover to Oregon Governor for Prioritizing Guards Over Prisoners for COVID-19 Vaccine by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney After the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled against a class of Oregon prisoners suing over the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal court …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Filed under: Transfers, COVID-19
Legal Noose Tightens Around Necks of CDCR Officials Whose Botched Transfer Sparked San Quentin COVID-19 Outbreak by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On October 13, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower court’s denial of qualified immunity (QI) to officials with the California Department …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Wyoming Supreme Court Grants Immunity to DOC in Prison COVID-19 Vaccine Mix-Up by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On October 26, 2023, the Supreme Court of Wyoming held that the federal Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act shielded the state from liability in a lawsuit alleging a nurse …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
$2,000 Paid to Former Arkansas Jail Detainees Given Horse Dewormer for COVID-­19 by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On September 7, 2023, five former detainees at Arkansas’ Washington County Detention Center (WCDC) informed the federal court for the Western District of Arkansas that they had accepted payment of $2,000 each …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
North Carolina Prison Official Pleads Guilty to COVID-19 Program Fraud by On August 15, 2023, the Associate Warden for Programs at North Carolina’s Bertie Correctional Institution pleaded guilty to COVID-19 program fraud. The state Department of Adult Correction (DAC) confirmed that Sean Tracy Dillard, 55, admitted scamming the North Carolina …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Oklahoma Prisoner Uses COVID-19 Stimulus Check to Overturn Conviction by In June 2023, a judge in Oklahoma’s Sequoyah County overturned the murder conviction of Ricky Dority, 65, after the state prisoner spent his COVID-19 stimulus check to hire a private investigator, who then got a key witness to recant his …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Deaths While Incarcerated Up 18% in Louisiana by A June 2023 report by Loyola University College of Law found that annual deaths behind bars in Louisiana jumped over 18% to an average of 187.5 in the period 2020-21. That’s up from an average of 158.6 between 2015 and 2019. Of …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Another Report Verifies That Prison Deaths Soared During COVID-19 Pandemic by A mortality study released on December 1, 2023, found that the death rate in U.S. prisons spiked 77% during 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, not all the increase was directly attributable to the disease. The …
Brief • December 29, 2023
Filed under: COVID-19
Diaz v. Polanco, USA, Petition for Writ of Certiorari, Covid-19, 2023 No. ______ In the Supreme Court of the United States ———————— RALPH DIAZ, et al., Petitioners, v. PATRICIA POLANCO, et al., Respondents. ———————— RALPH DIAZ, et al., Petitioners, v. MICHAEL HAMPTON, et al., Respondents. ———————— RALPH DIAZ, et al., …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
California Court of Appeal Reinstates Lawsuit by San Quentin Prisoner Over Botched Transfer That Sparked COVID-19 Outbreak by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On March 13, 2023, the California Court of Appeal for the First Appellate District reinstated a putative class-action lawsuit brought by a prisoner at San Quentin State …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Filed under: COVID-19, Consent Decrees
COVID-19 Consent Decree Terminated at Florida’s Broward County Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On August 14, 2023, the federal court for the Southern District of Florida issued its latest ruling in a long-running case brought by detainees at the Broward County Jail exposed to a risk of …
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) …
Brief • October 26, 2023
Filed under: COVID-19
Bird v. The State of Wyoming, WY, Opinion, Covid-19, 2023 THE SUPREME COURT, STATE OF WYOMING 2023 WY 102 OCTOBER TERM, A.D. 2023 October 26, 2023 CHESTER L. BIRD; RYAN A. BROWN and RICHARD B. DAGUE, Appellants (Plaintiffs), S-23-0011 v. THE STATE OF WYOMING, Appellee (Defendant). Appeal from the District …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Settlement Reached Over COVID-19 Measures, Home Confinement Releases at FCC Lompoc by On October 11, 2022, the federal court for the Central District of California approved a settlement resolving a suit over COVID-19 precautions and releases filed by prisoners at the Federal Correctional Complex (FCC) in Lompoc, California, in May …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Number Held in U.S. Prisons and Jails Dipped in Pandemic’s Second Year by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney According to a report released by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS Report) in December 2022, “the number of persons under the jurisdiction of state or federal correctional …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
COVID-19 Increased Racial Disparities in Prisons and Jails by As the COVID-19 pandemic spread its cloud of death and misery in 2020, the one silver lining was a dip in the number of Americans incarcerated, which decreased by 17% – the fastest drop in history. However, the same racial disparities …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Former BOP Guard Gets Light Sentence for COVID-19 Fraud by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On February 17, 2023, a former guard at the Federal Correctional Complex in Yazoo City, Mississippi, got a light sentence for defrauding the U.S. of $12,586 in loans she swindled from the COVID-19 Paycheck Protection …
Brief • September 14, 2023
Floreal-Wooten v. Washington County Detention Center, AK, Settlement, Medical Treatments-Covid, 2023 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE OF ALL CLAIMS For and in consideration of the payment of the total and final sum of TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS ($10,000.00), to be paid in the following manner: TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS I ($2,000.00) paid to …
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