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Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Harvey Weinstein Files Notice of Claim Over Rikers Island Detention by In a Notice of Claim filed against New York City and its Department of Correction (DOC) on November 26, 2024, lawyers for disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein said that their client has suffered at least $5 million in damages …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Fourth Circuit Revives West Virginia Prisoner’s RLUIPA Claim Over Religious Diet with Soy He Can’t Digest by On March 20, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed dismissal of an Islamic prisoner’s federal civil rights lawsuit accusing West Virginia Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) …
Muslim New York Prisoner’s Free Exercise of Religion Claim Reinstated by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 15, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed summary judgment on a New York prisoner’s First Amendment free exercise claim while also affirming a jury’s verdict …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Fourth Circuit Revives Claim Over North Carolina Jail Suicide by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In an important decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled on December 8, 2023, that pretrial detainees no longer need show that a detention official “knew of and disregarded a substantial …
Brief • July 10, 2024
Lilgerose, et al. v. Polis, et al., CO, Motion for Class Cert., Prison Slave Labor, 2024 DISTRICT COURT, DENVER COUNTY, COLORADO Denver City and County Building 1437 Bannock Street, Denver, CO 80202 PLAINTIFFS: RICHARD LILGEROSE and HAROLD MORTIS, on their own behalf and on behalf of those similarly situated v. …
CoreCivic Sued by Former Detainee Stabbed at Shuttered Kansas Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   In a suit filed in Kansas state court on July 31, 2023, former detainee Joshua Braddy accused private prison profiteer CoreCivic of negligence that resulted in his stabbing at Leavenworth Detention Center …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Wrongfully Convicted Michigan Prisoners Wait for Compensation by Seven years after Michigan lawmakers adopted the Wrongful Imprisonment Compensation Act (WICA)—and 17 years after state Sen. Steve Beida (D-Warren) began working to get it passed by a legislature then dominated by Republicans and signed by then-Gov. Rick Snyder (R)—a group of …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
West Virginia Supreme Court Orders Prison Officials to Develop Good-Time Credit Policy by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On October 16, 2023, the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia reversed denial of mandamus relief to a prisoner and compelled the Commissioner of the state Division of Corrections and …
Article • April 26, 2024
Florida Supreme Court Bans ‘Vexatious’ Prisoner From Filing Further Pro Se Petitions by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On April 13, 2023, the Supreme Court of Florida directed its Clerk to “reject any future pleadings or other requests for relief” submitted by state prisoner Daryl A. Sanders, “unless such …
Sixth Circuit Refuses Michigan Prisoner’s Excessive Force Claim Despite Guard’s Conviction for Battery by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On August 16, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed dismissal of a Michigan prisoner’s lawsuit with an outrageous-­sounding opinion that a guard “may have violated …
Commissary and Food Service Privatization Strands Florida Prisoners in ‘Food Desert’ by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Much has been made of the “food desert” where America’s poorest citizens live: inner-city ghettos and rural backwaters where no grocery store is found, forcing impoverished residents—most lacking a car—to shop for …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
First Prisoners Released Two Years After Illinois Passed Law to Revisit Excessive Sentences by When Charles Patton, 54, rolled out of Dixon Correctional Center in his wheelchair on July 19, 2023, he was the first Illinois prisoner freed under SB 2129, a re-sentencing measure passed two years earlier. The second …
Third Circuit Revives Claim by Federal Prisoner in Pennsylvania that Delayed Cancer Treatment Cost Him a Testicle by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In a precedential opinion issued on August 21, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that a federal prisoner incarcerated in the …
West Virginia High Court Decides Medical Practice Liability Act Not Applicable to Prison System by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In June 8, 2023, the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia held that the Medical Professional Liability Act (MPLA), W. Va. Code §§ 55-7B-1 to 12, does not apply …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Seventh Circuit Revives Illinois Prisoner’s Claim Over Knee Surgery Delayed 29 Months by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On September 19, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed a lower court’s grant of summary judgment to Illinois prison officials accused of violating a state prisoner’s civil …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Third Circuit Reinstates Claim by Federal Prisoner in Pennsylvania that Guards Prevented Daily Muslim Prayers by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On March 21, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reinstated a former federal prisoner’s lawsuit under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), 42 U.S.C. §§ …
Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022
Ninth Circuit: Prisoner Filing a New Grievance That Makes New Claims Does Not Render Previous Grievance ‘Unexhausted’ by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In May 2022, after a ruling in his favor by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, a former California prisoner accepted a settlement …
Brief • December 6, 2021
McHenry County v. Raoul, IL, Order, Way Forward Act, 2021 Case: 3:21-cv-50341 Document #: 41 Filed: 12/06/21 Page 1 of 8 PageID #:439 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS WESTERN DIVISION McHenry County, et al., vs. Plaintiff, Kwame Raoul, Defendant. ) ) ) ) …
Brief • August 2, 2021
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City of Susanville v. CDCR, Order Re Application for Restraining Order, Prison Closures, 2021 . ENDORSED FILED 1 Cttirk of IM Suparlor Court County (jf Lassen 2 AUG 02 2UZ1 3 4 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA 6 IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF LASSEN 7 8 …
Delgado v. Brookman, IL, Settlement, Solitary Confinement, 2021 Information Sheet for Case Number Official Case # Case# 18-CV-2188-NJR 18-2188 Opposing Counsel: Institutions: Delgado, Kristian #K77366 v. Brookman, et al. IDOC# Ph ntiffs: Filed Case Name Defendants: 3/29/19 Date Served Status Received closed 4/9/ 19 Class Action 0 On Appeal W …
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