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Pennsylvania’s Buck County Liable for Illegally Disclosing Criminal Records
by David M. Reutter
A federal jury awarded $1,000 to each person who was subjected to a privacy violation due to Buck County’s willful violation of Pennsylvania’s Criminal History Record Information Act (CHRIA). Up to 66,799 people whose arrest information was posted online are eligible for inclusion in the class-action ...
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- $860,000 Settlement in Suit Over Michigan Female Prisoner’s Suicide, by David M. Reutter
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- Court Orders Changes to Alabama Prison System After 15 Suicides; Feds Threaten Suit, by Scott Grammer
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- Compassionate Releases Needed for an Aging Prisoner Population, by Edward Lyon
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- Washington State Settles Suit Over 15-Hour-a-Day Lockdown of Mentally Ill Prisoners, by Matthew Clarke
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- Study Finds that War on Drugs Kept Black Men from Higher Education, by Scott Grammer
- Maryland: Parole Changes Needed for Life-Sentenced Prisoners, by Chad Marks
- Man Mistakenly Released 13 Years Ago Won’t Have to Return to Prison, by Douglas Ankney
- Allegheny County Settles Three Lawsuits Over Medical Care at County Jail, by Dale Chappell
- West Virginia Regional Jails Entitled to Sovereign Immunity, by David M. Reutter
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- Pattern of Abuse and Mismanagement at North Carolina Jail, by David M. Reutter
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- Court Declines to Seal Records in Michigan Prisoner’s Excessive Force Case, by David M. Reutter
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