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New York City Held in Contempt in Long-Running Rikers Island Class-Action by On November 27, 2024, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York held the city Department of Correction (DOC) in contempt of a consent decree and subsequent remedial orders entered in a long-running class …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Eleven Years After Consent Decree Entered, New Orleans Jail Still Not Compliant by In a monitoring report on October 6, 2023, the Compliance Director with operational control over Orleans Parish Prison (OPP) in New Orleans found continued problems at the jail, such as an increase in prisoner-on-prisoner violence, overdoses and …
Ninth Circuit Affirms Class Action Consent Decree at California’s Alameda County Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On October 6, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a consent decree in a class-action lawsuit filed over solitary confinement of mentally ill detainees at the …
Grand Jury Slams Sacramento County for Delaying Jail Improvements Mandated in Consent Decree by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Delays in improvements mandated in a 2020 consent decree resulted in at least six preventable detainee deaths at Sacramento County jails, according to a grand jury investigative report on June 2, …
Ninth Circuit Shuts Down Settlement Agreement in Long-Running California Prisoners’ Gang Affiliation Suit by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On August 24, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a district court’s orders granting California prisoners a pair of 12-month extensions to a Settlement Agreement …
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
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 • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
Amended Consent Decree Entered in 11-Year-Old Class-Action Challenging Prisoner Healthcare in Illinois DOC by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On June 24, 2022, U.S. District Judge Jorge L. Alonso of the Northern District of Illinois entered an amended consent decree in a class-action suit challenging prisoner healthcare in the state …
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
NYC Department of Corrections Continued Noncompliance to Consent Decree and Spending Nearly Half A Million Dollars Per Prisoner in 2020 by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss The Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Agency Watch List published by the New York City Office of the Comptroller listed the NYC Department of Corrections …
Article • June 1, 2021 • from PLN June, 2021
Filed under: Consent Decrees
New Hampshire Prisoner Sues to Enforce Conditions of Consent Decree by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The New Hampshire Supreme Court held a prisoner has standing to pursue a lawsuit alleging breach of contract for the failure to comply with a settlement in a prison conditions lawsuit. The court …
Article • December 10, 2019 • from PLN December, 2019
Filed under: Consent Decrees
Ninth Circuit: Prisoner’s Withdrawal of Consent for Magistrate Judge Improperly Denied by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on August 28, 2019 that a California prisoner’s motion to withdraw consent to have a magistrate judge hear his case was improperly denied, and that dismissal …
Article • November 5, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Fifth Circuit Terminates Consent Decree for Muslim Services in Texas Prisons by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 2, 2019, a strongly divided three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion terminating the consent decree in Brown v. Collier, which allowed Muslim prisoners in the …
Article • June 30, 2017 • from PLN July, 2017
Michigan Jail Sanctioned for Denying Access to Paralegals by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna On June 23, 2016, jail officials in Genesee County, Michigan entered into a federal consent decree that required them to provide detainees with bottled water to replace water at the jail that was contaminated by lead. …
Brief • March 15, 2017
Filed under: Consent Decrees
Afdahl v. Melgar, NJ, Consent Judgment, Sexual and Physical Assault, 2017 Marc D. Haefner Katelyn O'Reilly WALSH PIZZI O'REILLY FALANGA LLP One Newark Center l 085 Raymond Blvd., 19th Floor Newark, New Jersey 07102 11 I ·,~ ,. Attorneys.for Plaint([fs THERESE AFDAHL; TASHA CANADA; BARBARA CLARK; MICHELLE ELLIS; JOANN SATARIOUS; …
Settlement in Baltimore Prison Conditions Class-action Suit by The Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (MDPSCS) agreed to a settlement in a class-action suit challenging conditions of confinement and the provision of medical care at the Baltimore City Detention Center (BCDC). The case encompassed BCDC and the Women’s …
Brief • November 8, 2016
Young v. Pickell, MI, Order to Enforce Consent Decree, Contaminated Water, 2016 2:16-cv-12459-AC-SDD Doc # 20 Filed 11/08/16 Pg 1 of 6 Pg ID 102 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DIVISION TRACHELLE YOUNG, Plaintiff, vs. Case No. 16-12459 ROBERT J. PICKELL, HON. AVERN COHN Defendant. ________________________________________/ …
Filing • July 6, 2016
PLN v. Co. of Tulare, et al., CA, Consent Decree , censorship, 2016 Case 1:15-cv-01650-JAM-SAB Document 44 Filed 07/06/16 Page 1 of 5 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Kathleen Bales-Lange, #094765 County Counsel for the County of Tulare Kathleen A. Taylor, #131100 Chief Deputy County Counsel Kevin Stimmel, …
Brief • July 6, 2016
PLN v. Co. of Tulare, et al., CA, Consent Decree , censorship, 2016 Case 1:15-cv-01650-JAM-SAB Document 44 Filed 07/06/16 Page 1 of 5 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Kathleen Bales-Lange, #094765 County Counsel for the County of Tulare Kathleen A. Taylor, #131100 Chief Deputy County Counsel Kevin Stimmel, …
CB v. Walnut Grove Correction Authority, MS, Monitor Report Pursuant to Class Action Consent Decree, 2016 Case 3:10-cv-00663-CWR-FKB Document 188 Filed 05/05/16 Page 1 of 29 Case 3:10-cv-00663-CWR-FKB Document 188 Filed 05/05/16 Page 2 of 29 Case 3:10-cv-00663-CWR-FKB Document 188 Filed 05/05/16 Page 3 of 29 Case 3:10-cv-00663-CWR-FKB Document 188 …
Filing • March 7, 2016
Filed under: Consent Decrees
Prison Legal News v. Gusman, LA, Consent Judgment on Injunction, censorship, 2011 Case 2:11-cv-02277-JCZ-SS Document 32 Filed 12/02/11 Page 1 of 4 Case 2:11-cv-02277-JCZ-SS Document 32 Filed 12/02/11 Page 2 of 4 Case 2:11-cv-02277-JCZ-SS Document 32 Filed 12/02/11 Page 3 of 4 Case 2:11-cv-02277-JCZ-SS Document 32 Filed 12/02/11 Page 4 …
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