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Colorado Sought to Revoke Prisoner’s Electrician License After His Release
For nearly two decades, Colorado state prisoner Marke E. Bogle worked as a licensed electrician for the Colorado Department of Corrections. In 1987, with the prison system’s approval, he tested and obtained his journeyman’s license. The next year he was licensed as a master electrician, and prison officials paid for …
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More from this issue:
- Nationwide PLN Survey Examines Prison Phone Contracts, Kickbacks, by John Dannenberg
- Some Agencies Balk at Releasing Prison Phone Data, by Michael Rigby
- New Research: Why Innocent People Confess to Crimes They Did Not Commit, by Derek Gilna
- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
- Bexar County, Texas Fails to Properly Evaluate Mentally Ill Jail Prisoners, by Matthew Clarke
- Prisoners’ Human Rights, by Corey Weinstein
- Colorado Sought to Revoke Prisoner’s Electrician License After His Release, by Gary Hunter
- It’s Scary Out There in Reporting Land: Why Crime News is on the Rise and Reporting Analysis is on the Decline, by David Cay Johnston
- Controversial Drug Given to All Guantanamo Detainees Akin to “Pharmacologic Waterboarding”
- Washington Court Reverses Injunction Against Prisoner’s Public Records Requests
- New York Taxpayers Foot the Bill for Late Prison Vendor Payments, by Brandon Sample
- Texas State Auditor’s Reports Find Problems with Parole System, by Gary Hunter
- Oregon Parole Board Improperly Excluded Witnesses at Revocation Hearing
- Maryland: Convicted Felons Receive Victims’ Compensation, by Gary Hunter
- Maine Governor Rakes in Private Prison Money, Shows Appreciation, by Lance Tapley
- Minnesota DOC Releases Study on Impact of Prison-Based Sex Offender Treatment, by Matthew Clarke
- Heat Ray Device, Rejected by Military, to be Tested on Los Angeles County Jail Prisoners, by Michael Brodheim
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- GEO Group Acquires Electronic Monitoring Firm for $415 Million, by David Reutter
- Facebook Lands Prison Guards, Prisoners in Hot Water, by Michael Rigby
- Massachusetts Strip Search Class-Action Nets $1,162,468, by Mark Wilson
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- U.K. Terrorism Suspects May Challenge Extradition Based on U.S. Prison Conditions, by Matthew Clarke
- Twelve Indiana Prison Employees Suspended for Positive Drug Tests, Contraband, by Matthew Clarke
- Texas Legislator Who Helped Prisoners’ Families Indicted, Convicted, Sentenced, by Gary Hunter
- Wisconsin Prisoner Pleads No Contest to Helping Cellmate Commit Suicide
- Questionable New Jersey Halfway House Funding Benefits CEC, by Matthew Clarke
- $85,000 Settlement in South Carolina Prison Murder Suit
- News In Brief:
More from Gary Hunter:
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- Denver Sheriff’s Deputy Accused of Ignoring and Instigating Prisoner Attacks, April 5, 2017
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- Illinois: Exonerated Prisoner Calls $80,000 Award a Travesty, Retrial Ordered, Oct. 3, 2016
- Destined to Fail: the Negative Effect of Collateral Consequence Laws, Aug. 10, 2016
- Federal Guard Has Sex with Coworkers and Impregnated by Prisoner, Aug. 10, 2016
- Negligence not Grounds for Prosecution in Deaths of Wisconsin Prisoners, Aug. 5, 2016
- New York Based Ex-Offender Assistance Program Sues Landlord for Discrimination, Aug. 4, 2016
- Human Rights Report Reveals Inequities in U.S. Sentencing Practices, Aug. 3, 2016
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- SCOTUS Shuts Down GEO Group Bid for Immunity in Suit by Colorado ICE Detainees, July 1, 2026. GEO Group/Wackenhut, Prison Labor, Sovereign Immunity, Interlocutory Appeals, Immigration Detention.
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- Wisconsin Governor Issues Executive Order to Restore Commutations, June 1, 2026. Prison Reform, Criminal justice system reform, Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Pardons/Clemency, Reduction of Prison Population.
- Colorado DOC Allows Some Prisoners Convicted of Sex Crimes to be Released While Delaying Parole Consideration for Others, June 1, 2026. DOC/BOP misconduct, Overcrowding, Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Sex Offender Treatment, De Facto Life Sentence.
- Federal Judge Upholds Infamously Brutal Farm Labor at Angola Prison, June 1, 2026. Racial Discrimination, Prison Labor, Exposure to Heat, Cruel and Unusual Punishment, Deliberate Indifference.
- Prisons in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula “in a Death Spiral” Due to Under-Staffing, May 1, 2026. Staffing, Lockdowns, Rural Prisons, Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Assaults on Staff.

