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Gay Tennessee Prisoner Refuses to Out Himself in PREA Classification Hearings by In an essay for Filter Magazine published on February 10, 2025, openly gay Tennessee prisoner Tony Vick made a surprising admission: He consistently identifies himself as “straight” in annual classification hearings conducted under the Prison Rape Elimination Act …
Oregon Holds BLM Protestor in Solitary Confinement for 250 Days by On November 29, 2024, Malik Muhammad, 25, ended a nine-day hunger strike protesting nearly 250 days that he was held in solitary confinement at the Oregon State Penitentiary. His time in solitary exceeded the state Department of Corrections’ (DOC) …
Oregon Parole Board Ordered to Consider Sex-Offense-Free Time When Setting Sex Offender Notification Levels by On November 28, 2023, the Oregon Court of Appeals reversed a determination by the state Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision that denied a former state prisoner relief from registration as a sex offender without …
BOP Rolls Out Veterans-Only Housing at Federal Prison in Texas by In an article published by the Vanguard at Berkeley on October 15, 2023, a new program was reported at the Federal Correctional Institution in Seagoville, Texas: A dorm exclusively for prisoners who are veterans of the U.S. military. Federal …
Fifth Circuit Denies Qualified Immunity to Louisiana Prison Chief for Prolonging Prisoner’s Detention with Sex Offender Misclassification by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On July 17, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed denial of qualified immunity (QI) to Louisiana Department of Public Safety and …
Doctor Convicted of Sexually Abusing USA Gymnasts Is Stabbed in Prison Cell by One of the more notorious prisoners at a federal lockup in Florida was stabbed by a fellow prisoner on July 9, 2023. Larry Nassar, 59, survived and was recovering from the assault by 49-year-old Shane McMillan. The …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
$30,000 Paid by Michigan to Prisoner Wrongfully Classified as Sex Offender by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 6, 2023, a Michigan prisoner dismissed his complaint against officials with the state Department of Corrections (DOC) after agreeing to accept $30,000 to settle claims that he suffered the “stigmatizing …
Brief • March 3, 2023
Filed under: Prison Classification
Harper v. Arkesteyn, MI,Settlement, Prison Classification, 2023 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DIVISION WILLIE E. HARPER, JR. #932428, Plaintiff, NO. 2:19-cv-11106 v HON. GEORGE C. STEER DAVID ARKESTEYN, ADRIANE FOSTER, BRENDA STEVENSON, KELECHI EGBUCHULAM, RACHEL THOMPSON, MICHAEL EAGIN, MELISSA JENNINGS, JEROME WARFIELD SR., ANTHONY KING, SUE …
Fifth Circuit: No Liability for Texas County that Improperly Relied on Polygraph to Imprison Released Sex Offender Additional 13 Years by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart In a maddening decision issued on March 23, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit performed legal gymnastics to deny a …
Vermont Supreme Court Keeps State Prisoner’s Challenge Alive to DOC’s Use of Expunged Convictions in Classification Decision by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On January 21, 2022, the Vermont Supreme Court remanded a case to the state Department of Corrections (DOC) so that it could respond on the record to …
Mitchell Hamline School of Law-The Sex Offense Litigation and Policy, 2022 MITCHELL HAMLINE Sex Offense Litigation and Policy Resource Center SORNA 2022: A Guide for Practitioners to New Federal SORNA Regulations Effective January 7, 2022 The Sex Offense Litigation and Policy Resource Center (SOLPRC) at Mitchell Hamline School of Law …
California Supreme Court: CDCR Cannot Exclude Nonviolent Sex Offenders From Proposition 57 Parole Consideration by On December 28, 2020, the Supreme Court of California held that California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) regulations excluding nonviolent sex offenders with from parole consideration under Proposition 57, the Public Safety and Rehabilitation …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Civilly Detained Sex Offender Plaintiff Proceeding In Forma Pauperis Not a Prisoner Under PLRA by The Second Circuit Court of Appeals held that “an individual detained pursuant to civil sex offender confinement statute is not a ‘prisoner’ under the PLRA.” The court directed the clerk to reimburse the appellant all …
Brief • October 12, 2021
Filed under: Prison Classification
Harper v. Arkesteyn, MI, Complaint, Prison Classification, 2021 Case 2:19-cv-11106-GCS-DRG ECF No. 63, PageID.399 Filed 10/12/21 Page 1 of 21 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN WILLIE HARPER, JR. #932428, Plaintiff, No. 2:19-cv-11106-AJT-DRG v HON. ARTHUR J. TARNOW MAG. JUDGE DAVID R. GRAND DAVID ARKESTEYN, ADRIANE FOSTER, BRENDA …
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
Fourth Circuit Rules Prisoner Sex Offender has No Right to In-Person Visitation with His Minor Children by Douglas Ankney by Doug Ankney James Desper is a convicted sex offender incarcerated at the Augusta Correctional Center in Craigsville, Virginia. For six years, Desper received visits from his minor child without incident. …
Armstrong v. Newsom, CA, order to modify remedial orders and injunctions, class action prisoner ADA and RA rights, 2021 Case 4:94-cv-02307-CW Document 3217 Filed 03/11/21 Page 1 of 71 1 2 3 4 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 JOHN ARMSTRONG, …
Article • August 1, 2020 • from PLN August, 2020
Commitment to New Jersey’s “Special Treatment Unit” a Potential Death Sentence by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss Sex offenders who had completed their criminal sentences in the state of New Jersey were being civilly committed to a facility that had a higher death rate due to COVID-19 than any …
Deal v. Commissioner of Correction, MA, Appeal, Security Inmate Classification, 2017 NOTICE: All slip opinions and orders are subject to formal revision and are superseded by the advance sheets and bound volumes of the Official Reports. If you find a typographical error or other formal error, please notify the Reporter …