by Matt Clarke
On May 15, 2020, the Nebraska Supreme Court held that documents related to the procurement and use of drugs used in executions by lethal injection are subject to disclosure and such documents containing the non-disclosable names of members of the state’s execution team should be redacted, not ...
by Matt Clarke
A research team of internationally recognized prison experts from multiple academic institutions will be working with state prison officials from Arizona, Colorado, Massachusetts, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Texas to perform the most comprehensive study ever made into the causes and effects of prison violence.
The experts expect ...
by Matt Clarke
The family of a Texas detainee who died of a suicidal overdose under jailers’ noses can continue its lawsuit against Young County, Texas. That decision was handed down on April 22, 2020, by the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which reversed in part a summary judgment ...
by Matt Clarke
The once self-styled “Toughest Sheriff in America” has lost a bid to reclaim the office of Maricopa County sheriff. He was defeated in the Arizona Republican primary on August 4, 2020.
The controversial Joe Arpaio earlier lost his office in the 2016 election cycle. He then tried ...
by Matt Clarke
On January 17, 2020, a Washington judge awarded over $110,000 in penalties and attorney fees to a former state prisoner whom another state judge had already freed, all because Snohomish County officials’ clumsy handling of public records requests had threatened his rights, as well as those of ...
by Matt Clarke
On April 15, 2020, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court’s granting of summary judgment to prison officials in a Connecticut prisoner’s lawsuit over their failure to protect him from retaliation by gang members after he assisted in an investigation.
Lloyd George Morgan, Jr., ...
by Matt Clarke
On June 30, 2020, Flacks Group, a Miami-based global investment firm, announced that it had purchased Brentwood, Tennessee-based Corizon Health, one of the nation’s largest private providers·of health care services in prisons and jails. The purchase price was not disclosed.
Flacks Group specializes in “operational-turn-around of under-utilized ...
by Matt Clarke
On February 24, 2020, the families of four Alabama state prisoners who committed suicide as they languished in isolation cells in the Alabama Department of Corrections (DOC) filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against DOC officials, Wexford Health Sources and MHM Correctional Services, the DOC’s contract providers ...
by Matt Clarke
Former Louisiana State Penitentiary Warden Burl Cain’s 21-year tenure running the prison complex at Angola was both long and controversial. His critics accused him of religious bias, blatant racial prejudice and excessive use of solitary confinement. He is known for forcing his brand of Baptist faith on ...
by Matt Clarke
In February 2020, WDRB News revealed a previously undisclosed $400,000 settlement paid by the Kentucky Department of Corrections (DOC) to the family of a state prisoner who starved to death while in segregation at the Kentucky State Penitentiary (KSP).
James Kenneth Embry,57, died of starvation and dehydration ...
