A federal judge Wednesday fined Arizona $1.1 million for contempt stemming from its failure to comply with a 2014 settlement over the health care of inmates in the state’s prisons, the second such fine for the state since 2018.
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Instead of planning for her future once she is released from a California state prison, Gabriela Solano, who was brought to the United States when she was 2 years old, filed a class action complaint Monday seeking to prevent an ICE contractor from arresting her for deportation.
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A federal court in California ruled that a woman may pursue her civil rights suit against San Diego in which she claims she was not properly restrained after deputies witnessed her attempting to claw out her own eyeball. Instead of being flagged as at risk of self-harm after her first attempt to take out her eyes, the woman says she was left unrestrained in a cell where she extracted her eyeballs while a deputy allegedly filmed the incident with an iPhone.
Read moreA former inmate may pursue her claims that she was sexually assaulted and enslaved by a captain at a federal prison, a federal court in West Virginia ruled. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency allegedly warned the woman to stop pursuing her civil case and the captain allegedly threatened her, telling her he could gather data on her family and affect her immigration status.
Read moreThe Second Circuit ruled a prison warden is not protected by qualified immunity in a suit brought by a prisoner who says state correctional officials violated his Eighth Amendment rights by denying him a meaningful opportunity to exercise for six months.
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The European Court of Human Rights told Russia on Tuesday that it’s inhuman and degrading to put prisoners in handcuffs when they are let out of their cells in maximum-security prisons.
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Federal prosecutors accused Florida prison officials of failing to protect women inmates from sexual abuse by correctional officers in a searing report released Tuesday.
Read moreThe Second Circuit revived some claims brought against Suffolk County, New York, a former corrections sergeant and another corrections officer in connection with the sergeant’s alleged sexual harassment and assault of women inmates at the county’s facility in Riverhead.
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ATLANTA (CN) — Attorneys for Reality Winner asked an 11th Circuit panel Tuesday to reverse an order denying her request
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President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is continuing down the line of federal death row prisoners it plans to execute, but attorneys put up a new fight against the effort at the D.C. Circuit on Monday.
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A Fourth Circuit panel heard arguments Thursday over whether a North Carolina prison violated a deaf civil detainee’s First Amendment rights by not allowing him to use a videophone to contact people on the outside.
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A Danish man convicted of torturing and murdering a Swedish journalist on his homemade submarine made a dramatic but brief escape from a suburban Copenhagen prison Tuesday, reportedly taking a hostage to break out before police recaptured him.
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Nigeria’s protests against police brutality turned violent Monday when a crowd stormed a prison and freed some 200 inmates in Benin in southern Nigeria.
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Insurgency-hit Mali freed over 100 alleged or convicted jihadists over the weekend in a bid to secure the release of a top politician and French charity worker, an official in charge of the negotiations told AFP on Monday.
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A prison inmate in Thailand has tested positive for the coronavirus in the country’s first confirmed locally transmitted case in 100 days, health officials said Thursday.
Read moreArkansas prisoners on death row may subpoena the state of Nebraska for information about the existence of known and available alternatives to Arkansas’ method of execution that would significantly reduce the risk of severe pain, the Eighth Circuit ruled.
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The Justice Department proposed Wednesday that a Virginia jail comply with a consent decree requiring officials to improve medical treatment for inmates, marking one of the first times the department has proposed such a resolution in the Trump administration.
Read moreInmates have sued U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, the Internal Revenue Service and others, challenging the “unauthorized and unlawful refusal” to issue them coronavirus stimulus checks.
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California is not violating a settlement agreement with suspected gang members formerly housed in solitary confinement by keeping them confined to their general population cells for up to 23 hours a day, the Ninth Circuit ruled Monday.
Read moreA former jail worker sued Bernalillo County, N.M., and its detention center in Superior Court, claiming she was fired the day after she reported to the deputy chief of the jail that she heard two other officers bragging about choking an inmate to death, an event she saw on surveillance video.
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