by Matt Clarke
On August 16, 2017, the ACLU of Nebraska, ACLU National Prison Project, Nebraska Appleseed, National Association of the Deaf and two law firms, DLA Piper and Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP, filed a federal class-action suit against the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (NDCS), Nebraska Board ...
by Matthew Clarke
On October 24, 2107, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated a lawsuit brought by a federal prisoner who complained that prison authorities were deliberately indifferent to her safety and violated the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552a, by identifying her as an informant to other prisoners. ...
by Matthew Clarke
On February 7, 2018, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of an Illinois prisoner's civil rights lawsuit.
Guards at the Menard Correctional Center were preparing prisoners to be walked to the chow hall when Joseph Wilborn emerged from his cell and attacked them. He ...
by Matthew Clarke
On February 1, 2018, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that generalized law enforcement records such as training manuals and guidelines could fall under Exemption 7 of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(7), without requiring the agency seeking to withhold the documents ...
by Matthew Clarke
On January 31, 2018, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a district court erred when it mandated a maximum-allowable heat index measure for a Louisiana’s death row. The court upheld the lower court’s finding of an Eighth Amendment violation due to excessive heat and requiring ...
On February 9, 2018, the Tenth Circuit court of appeals upheld the certification of two classes of immigration detainees who were forced by GEO Group to labor without pay or to "volunteer" to labor for $1 per day.
Nine immigration detainees held at the Aurora Detention Facility, a 1,500-bed facility ...
by Matthew Clarke
On February 7, 2018, the Ninth Circuit court of appeals held that a federal prisoner could not pursue a claim that a privately operated reentry center's employees had violated his First and Fifth Amendment rights under Bivens v. Six Unknown Federal Narcotics Agents, 403 U.S. 388 (1971). ...
Ohio: Almost $3 Million Settlement in Suit Brought by Two Wrongfully Convicted Men
by Matt Clarke
In March 2017, a state court judge approved a $2.9 million settlement between Ohio and two men who each spent almost 17 years in prison after having been wrongfully convicted of rape and murder. ...
by Matt Clarke
A surprise inspection by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General revealed a number of substandard conditions at an Orange County, California jail used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to house detainees.
The Theo Lacy Facility is a 3,000-bed jail that contracts with ICE ...
by Matt Clarke
In April 2017, the estate and heirs of woman who died after she was allegedly denied medical care at the Tom Green County jail in San Angelo, Texas received $250,000 to settle a lawsuit against the county, sheriff, three jailers and two jail nurses.
When Jerry Ann ...
