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News in Brief
Loaded on Aug. 1, 2021
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2021, page 62
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Alabama: On June 9, 2021, a former guard at the Federal Correctional Institution in Aliceville, Alabama, agreed to plead guilty to federal charges that he had sexual intercourse with a prisoner in the laundry room at the women’s prison west of Tuscaloosa. According to the Birmingham News, Eric Todd ...
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- Sixth Circuit Reinstates Lawsuit Over Kentucky Jail Prisoner’s Suicide, by Matthew Clarke
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- Second Circuit Holds Control Unit Placement for Former Death Row Prisoners Unconstitutional Bill of Attainder, by David Reutter
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- Federal Judge Rejects BOP’s Attempts to Keep Videos of Force-Feeding Prisoners at ADX Secret, by Dale Chappell
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- Florida Prisons Face Ongoing Staff Shortages Due to Low Pay And Long Hours, by David Reutter
- U.S. Department of Justice Publishes Statistics on Prisoners’ Deaths, by Matthew Clarke
- Virginia Federal Court Sentences Former Superintendent of Rockbridge County Jail to 51 Months in Prison for Brutality and Corruption
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