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Two-Week Lockdown at BOP Women’s Prison in Minnesota After Nine Overdoses, Two Deaths by The Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Waseca, a women’s prison on the former campus of a University of Minnesota technical school, was locked down for over two weeks after a mass drug overdose sent prisoners to …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Paternity Questions Dog Miami Jail Birth by A South Florida woman gave birth to a baby girl at Miami-Dade County’s Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center (TGK) on June 19, 2024. But it remained unclear how Daisy Link, 29, became pregnant or who the child’s father is. Link is accused of …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
One of Eight Prisoners Now Released is a Woman by David Reutter by David Reutter As resources are stretched by millions of people released annually from U.S. prisons and jails, advocates struggle to obtain accurate information about the scope of the need. The nonprofit Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) responded with …
Wilson-Brady, State of Iowa, IA, Verdict, Retaliation, 2024 E-FILED 05771 LACL153625 - 2024 MAY 03 01:15 PM POLK CLERK OF DISTRICT COURT Page 1 of 2 IN THE IOWA DISTRICT COURT FOR POLK COUNTY JENNIFER WILSON-BRADY, Case No. LACL153625 Plaintiff, V. STATE OF IOWA, IOWA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS VERDICT FORM …
Brief • March 1, 2024
Stone v. Mahoning County, OH, Settlement, Sex Based Employment Discrimination, 2024 SETTLEMENT RELEASE The following is a Release of all Claims between Plaintiff, Mary Stone (Pseudonym), and Defendants, Mahoning County, Ohio, William Cappabianca, Kenneth Kountz, and Joseph Hood in Mary Stone (Pseudonym), v. Mahoning County, et al., Northern District of …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Report Details “Abuse-to-Prison Pipeline” for Young Women by On April 10, 2023, two advocacy groups for gender equality and justice released a new report arguing that young women—especially young women of color—continue to be punished for violence they endure as victims of sex trafficking. In Criminalized Survivors: Today’s Abuse to …
Brief • November 9, 2023
Patterson v. Virginia Department of Corrections, VA, Complaint, Gender Discrimination-Strip Search, 2023 Case 3:23-cv-00757-DJN Document 1 Filed 11/09/23 Page 1 of 23 PageID# 1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA Richmond Division MALLORY PATTERSON, EMILY COMER, and CARLA MCDOWNEY, on behalf of themselves and …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Louisiana Prison Guard Helps Pregnant Prisoner and Learns That No Good Deed Goes Unpunished by When she met a pregnant young prisoner struggling with drug addiction, a guard at Louisiana’s Transition Center for Women (TCW) offered to care for the baby when it was born. On May 17, 2023, the …
Brief • September 18, 2023
Stone v. Mahoning County, OH, Complaint, Sex Based Employment Discrimination, 2023 Case: 4:23-cv-01138-JRA Doc #: 15 Filed: 09/18/23 1 of 33. PageID #: 146 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO EASTERN DIVISION Mary Stone (Pseudonym) c/o The Chandra Law Firm LLC The Chandra Law …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Menstruation Weaponized Against Women in Prison by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss Writers Victoria Law and Rachel Kauder Nalebuff penned a Time magazine article on March 29, 2023, collecting accounts from female prisoners about difficulties dealing with menstruation while in prison. They found the current criminal justice system has …
Brief • April 26, 2023
Craig v. McFadden, NC, Complaint, Discrimination, 2023 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA CHARLOTTE DIVISION FILE NO. 3:23-cv-00246 CHANDLER CRAIG Plaintiff, : : : : : GARRY McFADDEN, in his Official : capacity as Sheriff of Mecklenburg County : PLATTE RIVER INSURANCE : COMPANY, JOHN …
Alabama County Ends Controversial Policy Using Women’s Pregnancies to Jail Them by Ashleigh Dye by Ashleigh N. Dye In the state of Alabama, it is a felony to expose a child to an environment in which controlled substances are manufactured, ingested, or distributed. Called Chemical Endangerment, the crime can land …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
OIG Report Defers Claims That ICE Detainees in Georgia Had Forced Hysterectomies by Ashleigh Dye by Ashleigh N. Dye Did 19 women detained for federal Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at a Georgia jail have forced hysterectomies? [See: PLN, Dec. 2020, p.60.] A whistleblower complaint said so. That led to …
Over $237,000 Awarded in Wisconsin Prisoner’s Suit Accusing Guard of Unwanted Sexual Advances by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss On June 16, 2022, the federal court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin ordered a state prison guard to pay $110,042.38 in legal costs and fees for a former state …
Alabama Reporter Barred from Execution For Too-Short Skirt by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On July 28, 2022, news reported Ivana Hrynkiw Shatara had to borrow pants and change her shoes to attend the execution by lethal injection of a state prisoner, after officials with the Alabama Department …
Brief • August 5, 2022
Wilson-Brady, State of Iowa, IA, Complaint, Retaliation, 2022 E-FILED 2022 AUG 05 2:45 PM POLK - CLERK OF DISTRICT COURT IN THE IOWA DISTRICT COURT FOR POLK COUNTY JENNIFER WILSON-BRADY, Plaintiff, CASE NO. PETITION AT LAW AND JURY DEMAND vs. STATE OF IOWA, IOWA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Defendant. COMES NOW …
Article • July 19, 2022
Maine State Prison Guard Awarded $400,000 in Sex Discrimination Settlement by Ashleigh Dye by Ashleigh N. Dye A sex discrimination suit against filed by a female guard at the Maine State Prison against the state Department of Corrections (DOC) was settled for $400,000 in June 2022. The guard, Autumn Dinsmore, …
Brief • May 20, 2022
Dinsmore v. State of Maine, ME, Settlement, Discrimination, 2022 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE Autumn N. Dinsmore ("Dinsmore") of Rockland, Maine; the State of Maine and the Maine Department of Corrections (the "Employer"); Joel Parsons of Edgecomb, Maine; and Dale Tobey, Jr., of Pittston, Maine (the "Individuals''), (collectively the "State …
Brief • February 11, 2022
Dinsmore v. State of Maine, ME, Complaint, Discrimination, 2022 Case 1:21-cv-00194-JAW Document 21 Filed 02/11/22 Page 1 of 48 PageID #: 332 United States District Court District of Maine Autumn Dinsmore, ) ) Plaintiff ) ) v. ) ) State of Maine, Department of ) Corrections; Joel Parsons; and ) …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Do County Jails Treat Black Women Worse Than Other Prisoners? by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Black women in pretrial detention were treated worse than any other group of detainees due to the inherently racist, sexist, and economically prejudiced practices in the criminal justice system, according to an Al Jazeera …
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