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Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Kansas Supreme Court Revives Prisoner’s Challenge to Loss of Parental Rights by Matthew Clarke On September 6, 2024, the Supreme Court of Kansas held that a prisoner’s due process rights were violated when he was able only to observe his parental rights termination hearing via videoconferencing and was unable to …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
North Carolina Court of Appeals Reinstates Parolee’s Parental Rights, Says Parole Conditions Barred Him from Visiting Minor Daughter by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 5, 2023, the Court of Appeals of North Carolina reinstated a parolee’s parental rights that had been stripped for lack of contact with his …
Article • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023
Parents Losing Children Because They Can’t Repay Foster Care Costs Incurred During Incarceration by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott When parents are incarcerated, their children are often placed in foster care. A little-noticed federal law from the “tough on crime” Reagan era requires states to bill those parents …
Article • June 1, 2021 • from PLN June, 2021
Law Passes Requiring Parents in New York Prisons to be Housed Close to Their Children by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss New York state Senator Velmanette Montgomery sponsored a bill passed by both houses in August 2020 and signed into law by Governor Andrew Cuomo that will require the Department …
Dansby v. County of Los Angeles, CA, Dismissal, Unlawful Arrest and Detention, 2020 Case 2:18-cv-05866-SJO-m u r~tf~rf~ Df~'r~f8-f0c6B R'rage 1 of PricPriijle ID # :2~ LlS-6 CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA CIVIL MINUTES - GENERAL CASE NO.: CV 18-05866 SJO (SKx) TITLE: DATE: nd Se Enter Closed JS-5/JS-6 Scan Only February …
Dansby v. County of Los Angeles, CA, Stip. for Dismissal, Unlawful Arrest and Detention, 2020 Case 1 2 3 4 :18-cv-05866-SJO-SK Document 50 Filed 02/06/20 Page 1 of 3 Page ID # :262 Mark D. Rutter (SBN 058194) Scott J. Camenter (SBN 253339) CARPENTER, ROTHANS & DUMONT 500 S. Grand …
Dansby v. County of Los Angeles, CA, Settlement Agreement, Unlawful Arrest and Detention, 2019 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE This Settlement Agreement and Release ("Settlement Agreement") is made by Plaintiffs, Jolie Dansby, J.R., a minor by and through guardian ad litem Jolie Dansby and T.R., a minor by and through guardian …
Article • April 2, 2019 • from PLN April, 2019
Filed under: Parental rights
Iowa: Prisoners Entitled to Full Hearing on Termination of Parental Rights by David Reutter by David Reutter The Iowa Supreme Court held on November 30, 2018 that an incarcerated parent is entitled to participate in the entire hearing for termination of parental rights. The Court announced the new procedure in …
Publication • October 1, 2018
GEO Group shareholder resolution, Geo Group, 2018 RESOLUTION RESOLVED: That the stockholders of the Company (GEO Group) request that the Board of Directors adopt the following policy, to be implemented no later than December 31, 2019: 1. GEO Group shall adopt a policy of not accepting immigrant detainee children (persons …
Dansby v. County of Los Angeles, CA, Complaint, Unlawful Arrest and Detention, 2018 C 1 e 2:18-cv-05866-SJO-SK Document 1 Filed 07/04/18 Page 1 of 22 Page ID #:1 DONALD W. COOK, CSB 116666 ATTORNEY AT LAW 2 3 3435 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 2910 Los Angeles, CA 90010 (213) 252-9444 / …
Brief • June 26, 2018
Ms. L, et al. v. U.S. Immigration, order granting plaintiffs' motion for classwide preliminary injunction, 2018 Case 3:18-cv-00428-DMS-MDD Document 83 Filed 06/26/18 PageID.1724 Page 1 of 24 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 Ms. L.; et al., …
Ms. L, et al. v. U.S. Immigration, order on class certification, 2018 Case 3:18-cv-00428-DMS-MDD Document 82 Filed 06/26/18 PageID.1706 Page 1 of 18 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 Ms. L.; et al., Case No.: 18cv0428 DMS …
Publication • June 18, 2018
Understand Your Legal Issue-Florida Manual for Incarcerated Parents, Florida Institutional Legal Services, 2018 Understand Your Legal Issue Solve Your Legal Problem www.floridalawhelp.org Florida Manual for Incarcerated Parents Authored By: Florida Institutional Legal Services, Inc This Manual is designed to help parents who are incarcerated in Florida prisons and jails understand …
Article • April 11, 2018
Double Punishment: After Prison, Moms Face Legal Battles to Reunite With Kids by Victoria Law by Victoria Law, Truthout | Report This story is the first in a new Truthout series, Severed Ties: The Human Toll of Prisons. This series will dive deeply into the impact of incarceration on families, loved …
Article • November 6, 2017 • from PLN November, 2017
Washington Supreme Court Reverses Prisoner’s Parental Termination Order by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton In January 26, 2017, a divided Washington Supreme Court held that a trial court could not terminate the parental rights of an incarcerated father without considering the facts of his incarceration as required by legislative amendments …
Article • October 24, 2017
Ohio Supreme Court Declares Poor Relative Not Suitable to Adopt Her Nephew by Christopher Zoukis By Christopher Zoukis The Ohio Supreme Court has upheld a lower court ruling that an imprisoned mother's sister was not a suitable placement for the mother's sheltered child because she was poor. Brittany J. gave …
Article • March 14, 2017
Decision to Terminate Parental Rights of Incarcerated Father Vacated After His Conviction Overturned on Appeal by On July 7, 2016, the Rhode Island Supreme Court reversed a Family Court order terminating the parental rights of a man locked up for first degree murder after that conviction was reversed while the …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Texas Court of Appeals Upholds Termination of Prisoners’ Parental Rights by In January 2016, in separate cases, the Texas Court of Appeals upheld the termination of two prisoners’ parental rights after they used drugs and were incarcerated multiple times while child-removal actions were pending. Jade, a fictitious name given to …
Arkansas Prisoner’s Parental Rights Terminated by The Arkansas Supreme Court affirmed the termination of a prisoner’s parental rights. George Blumley was in prison on October 7, 2012, when the biological mother of his nine year old son, G.B., was arrested on several charges relative to a domestic violence incident.  The …
Face-to-Face Family Visits Return to Some Jails by By Mindy Fetterman, Stateline The jailhouse scene from 2014 remains vivid in Rebecca Shlafer’s mind. A 3-year-old girl came to the Washington County Jail in Stillwater, Minnesota, to see her dad. “She ran down the hall, jumped up in a chair and …
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