Nicole Einbinder

1 month ago | businessinsider.com | Nicole Einbinder |Hannah Beckler

Law The US Supreme Court is slated to hear a case Tuesday that could expand prisoners' access to jury trials. Alyssa Schukar/for Business Insider This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . The Supreme Court is set to hear a case Tuesday that could expand prisoner access to jury trials.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Nicole Einbinder |Hannah Beckler

The Supreme Court is set to hear a case Tuesday that could expand prisoner access to jury trials. The case relates to the PLRA, a 1996 law requiring prisoners to pursue a prison grievance before filing suit. The petitioner says expanding access to juries would leave courts "inundated" with meritless suits.

Dec 25, 2024 | businessinsider.com | Nicole Einbinder |Hannah Beckler

Over a span of days, Joshua England's pleas for help became more desperate. "I've been puking all night, and now I'm puking what looks like blood," he wrote to his medical providers on May 22, 2018. "My stomach hurts so, so bad." At the medical clinic that day he clutched his abdomen and described his pain as sharp and intense — an 8 out of 10. But he was seen by a lesser-trained licensed practical nurse, who didn't give him a complete abdominal exam or send him for any lab work.

Dec 23, 2024 | businessinsider.com | Hannah Beckler |Nicole Einbinder

On the morning of March 16, 2015, the night-shift nurses of Martin Correctional Institution clustered in the medical exam room to brief Robert Silvis, the prison's nursing director. Silvis had just started his shift at the facility in Indiantown, Florida, and the nurses looked stunned. They explained, as well as they could, what had occurred the night before. Silvis called a prison captain and pulled the surveillance tape.

Dec 21, 2024 | businessinsider.com | Hannah Beckler |Nicole Einbinder

It rained heavily the night before the retaking of New York's Attica Correctional Facility. A guard, William Quinn, had been killed. Negotiations had ended. The men on the D yard waited for the inevitable. Four days earlier, on September 9, 1971, 1,281 prisoners had wrested control of Attica, taking 42 prison staffers hostage and delivering a manifesto demanding humane treatment including adequate healthcare, independent oversight, and an end to racial discrimination.