Choose extends safeguards for Angola’s Farm Line for 90 extra days
Final week, U.S. District Choose Brian Jackson prolonged protections by way of mid-August for the Farm Line, incarcerated males working in excessive warmth on the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. “It is a superb begin, as a result of it…
Angola’s Farm Line once more asks decide for constant shade and water
On Tuesday, attorneys for Angola Jail Farm Line employees went again to court docket, as they did final yr, asking for reduction from what they allege are merciless, scorching, and weird circumstances within the fields of the Louisiana State Penitentiary….
‘Grossly inadequate’: Decide blasts DOC-suggested fixes for Angola’s Farm Line
The Louisiana Division of Corrections is exhibiting a “callous disregard for human well being and security” in its paltry response to a July courtroom order, a federal choose discovered on Thursday. In the beginning of July, U.S. District Decide Brian…
Angola’s proposed Farm Line repair ‘borders on dangerous religion,’ legal professionals contend
Final month, in a high-profile victory for Louisiana prisoners, a federal decide acknowledged the insupportable situations endured by prisoners engaged on the “Farm Line” on the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, and ordered that the Division of Corrections make swift…
Fifth Circuit appeals court docket sides with Angola’s Farm Line employees
On Friday night, the U.S. Courtroom of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit instructed the state Division of Corrections that it should adjust to an earlier district-court order to “right the evident deficiencies of their heat-related insurance policies” for employees pressured…