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New Jersey Phone Rates Out of Control
Two calls a week from her incarcerated son costs Marjorie Arniotis over $150 per month. Lorraine Green pays around $200 a month to talk to her imprisoned son and was paying more until one of her sons was acquitted in January 2006.
New Jersy jails and prisons have long been …
New Jersy jails and prisons have long been …
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- Maryland Man Awarded $6.4 Million For False Imprisonment, Police Misconduct, by Michael Rigby
- Joe Arpaio: America’s Toughest Sheriff or Most Corrupt?, by Alex Friedmann
- California DOC Wage Audit: Guards Overcharged State $12 Million for Union Business Leave, by Marvin Mentor
- Florida Warden Susceptible to Liability in Valdes’ Murder; Suit Settles for $1,169,923.42, by David Reutter
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- Hawaii Settles DOJ Suit Over Unconstitutional Juvenile Facility
- Cunningham v. California: Who’s Covered and Who’s Not?, by Kent A. Russell
- HIV in Prison Is Lower Than Believed, by Gary Hunter
- China’s Death Penalty On Wheels, by Gary Hunter
- Sheriff’s Deputies Charged in Prisoner’s Death; Both Get Prison Time, by Gary Hunter
- Ninth Circuit: California Lifers Have A Liberty Interest In Parole, by Marvin Mentor
- California DOC Federal Receiver Is Granted First Waiver of State Law, by John Dannenberg
- North Carolina Enacts Innocence Inquiry Commission, by John Dannenberg
- Three Work-Release Van Drivers Escape from Arkansas Prison; Practice Discontinued, by Gary Hunter
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- Alabama Spends $500,000 to Vaccinate State Prisoners, by Gary Hunter
- Maricopa County, Arizona, Abandons Restraint Chairs Following Deaths, Multimillion Dollar Payouts, by Michael Rigby
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- Appeals Court Reverses Summary Judgment of Washington Phone Suit
- Pennsylvania Work-Release Program Criticized, by Gary Hunter
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- California DOC Ordered to Comply with Overdue Suicide Prevention Measures, by Marvin Mentor
- Texas Prisoners Face Mandatory Testing For HIV, by Gary Hunter
- $275,000 Paid In Excessive-Force Michigan Jail Death Lawsuit, by John Dannenberg
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