Arkansas 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.
Read moreMandamus “cannot deliver the relief” five inmates in Washington state prisons seek in their suit asking for their immediate release because of Covid-19, the state’s Supreme Court ruled, finding it is obligated to “respect the discretion vested in” the state’s executive branch.
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California moved to release 8,000 prisoners as criticism mounts over the state’s handling of the Covid-19 outbreak in its prison system.
Read moreSix so-called “death by incarceration” inmates went to court Wednesday to challenge Pennsylvania’s policy of denying parole to those sentenced to life in prison for felony murder.
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As Covid-19 continues its inexorable spread throughout California’s state prisons, a federal judge implored corrections officials to release elderly inmates and those with serious health conditions to free up bed space.
Read moreA nationwide RICO class action in federal court claims that Global Tel*Link, Securus Technologies and 3CInteractive conspired “to fix inflated prices for calls between incarcerated individuals and their family members, friends, attorneys, and others, while also repeatedly lying to local governments and their own customers about the costs of those calls.”
Read moreA federal judge denied Michigan’s emergency motion for a stay of an injunction preventing the state from keeping an initiative off the ballot that would allow prisoners to earn time off their sentences.
Read moreOregon Governor Kate Brown commuted 57 sentences Thursday due to the inmates’ “risk for significant health challenges should they contract Covid-19.”
Read moreA federal judge ruled Thursday that the D.C. Department of Corrections needs to implement various protocols to better handle the spread of Covid-19 in its jail, adding that they have shown a “deliberate indifference” to the health of the inmates.
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The release of vulnerable European prisoners at the start of the pandemic – and limiting contact between those still locked up – helped slow the spread of the deadly coronavirus, a new report found.
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Inmates seeking stronger coronavirus protections at a Miami jail ran into a setback in the 11th Circuit, where a three-judge panel found Monday that the prisoners fell short of showing the jail was deliberately disregarding their wellbeing.
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With an eye toward ending a saga of preventable deaths from hepatitis C in Florida jails, inmates are fighting to preserve a court order that forces Sunshine State prisons to treat early stages of the disease.
Read moreA federal judge in New York denied six inmates’ request to release all prisoners at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn whose age or medical condition puts them at a heightened risk from Covid-19. The judge noted there had been no Covid-related fatalities and only one Covid-related hospitalization at the facility.
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Aiming to help lower the country’s high rate of felons returning to prison, a new report from the National Institute of Justice finds prison recidivism programs are best assessed using structured and localized data.
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Federal prisoners can have only so many fee waivers to file lawsuits, and the Supreme Court ruled Monday that lawsuits dismissed with leave to amend count against that limit.
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