by Matt Clarke
On August 11, 2020, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that prisoners retain Fourth Amendment rights to bodily privacy requiring that physical and visual strip searches be reasonable. In doing so, it overruled two circuit precedents to the contrary.
In 2011, over 200 female prisoners at ...
by Matt Clarke
On August 10, 2020, the U.S. signed off on a settlement of $2 million, including up to 25% in attorney fees, in a lawsuit brought by a federal prisoner who was denied necessary emergency eye surgery for closed-angle glaucoma for months. By the time she received the ...
by Matt Clarke
On June 23, 2020, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that an Ohio prisoner could be executed despite a previous botched attempt. Romell Broom was taken to the Ohio execution chamber on September 15, 2009, to be put to death by lethal injection. For two hours, ...
by Matt Clarke
On July 12, 2020, the Second Circuit court of appeals held that a federal court did not commit error when it denied a New York parolee’s motion to order parole officials to allow him to attend the trial of a prison conditions civil rights lawsuit when he ...
by Matt Clarke
Members of National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) maintained their place at the forefront of the movement for racial justice even while encapsulated in the National Basketball Association (NBA) bubble during the 2020 championship playoffs. The basketball court inside the Disney World bubble was proudly emblazoned with “Black ...
by Matt Clarke
On September 16, 2020, the estate of a woman who died while incarcerated at the Bi-State Justice Center Jail in Texarkana filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Bowie County, Texas, LaSalle Corrections and its parent company, Southwestern Correctional. The lawsuit alleges denial of medical care, which ...
by Matt Clarke
In August 2020, New York City agreed to settle a lawsuit over the death 15 months before of a Dominican-born transgender detainee who died of epileptic seizures while in segregation at the Rose M. Singer Center (RMSC) on the city’s Rikers Island jail complex. The $5.9 million ...
by Matt Clarke
Thanks to a public records request by The Associated Press, news broke in March 2020 that Louisiana-based private prison firm LaSalle Management Company had settled for $177,500 a lawsuit over a 2016 incident in which five prisoners were pepper-sprayed while handcuffed and kneeling.
Adley T. Campbell, ...
by Matt Clarke
On June 12, 2020, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated a lawsuit against four Texas police department employees alleging they knew a prisoner was suicidal when they gave him a blanket, failed to remove the blanket from his cell and failed to monitor him before he ...
by Matt Clarke
On June 11, 2020, the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reinstated some of the claims brought by a couple seeking permission to marry, one of whom is an immigration detainee being held in a private prison operated by GEO, under contract with the federal Bureau ...
