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From the Editor
Welcome to the last issue of PLN for 2013. As the year closes we can look back and see we have accomplished a great deal, including expanding the magazine to 64 pages, successfully urging the FCC to cap the cost of interstate prison phone calls, and prevailing in censorship and ...
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More from this issue:
- FCC Order Heralds Hope for Reform of Prison Phone Industry, by John Dannenberg
- Prison Phone Companies Fight for Lucrative Florida DOC Contract, by David Ganim
- Consolidated Footnotes – Charts A to D
- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
- Habeas Hints: Staring Down the Two-Headed Monster: Richter-Pinholster, by Kent A. Russell
- BOP Compromises on Plan to Transfer Prisoners from FCI Danbury, by Derek Gilna
- Telemedicine Behind Bars
- Third Circuit Allows Prisoner's Substitution of Deceased Guard’s Estate
- Under Fire, the Federal Bureau of Prisons Audits its Use of Solitary Confinement - and Buys a New Supermax Prison, by James Ridgeway
- The Invisible Crisis of Correctional Health Care, by Cara Tabachnick
- BOP Settles Lawsuits Related to Food Poisoning at Pennsylvania Prison, by Derek Gilna
- California Supreme Court Addresses CDCR Gang Associate Validation
- Ninth Circuit Affirms Finding that Claim Accrues Each Time a Request for Conjugal Visits is Denied
- Kansas Supreme Court Holds Inpatient Drug Treatment Time Counts as Jail Time in Consecutive Non-Drug Case
- Ninth Circuit Reinstates Disabled Prisoner's Deliberate Indifference Claim
- Eighth Circuit Initially Allows Non-Delegation Challenge to SORNA, then Reverses Course, by Derek Gilna
- Wyoming Sheriff Granted Qualified Immunity for Jail Guard’s Sexual Assault
- No Summary Judgment on Claim that Guard Stole Prisoner’s Wedding Ring
- Ninth Circuit: Residential Reentry Center Walkaway is Not Escape
- Kansas Supreme Court Vacates Attorney Fee Reimbursement Order
- Minnesota: Favorable Resolution of Charges Establishes Rebuttable Presumption of Expungement
- Possession of Cell Phone Doesn’t Violate Nevada Escape Device Statute
- Iowa Voting Rights Restoration Process Becomes Slightly Less Onerous
- Massachusetts Warden Removed After Eight Months on the Job
- Elder Abuse in Prisons: The Call for Elder Justice and Human Rights Protections Behind Bars, by Tina Maschi
- British Court Blocks Sex Offender’s Extradition to U.S. Due to “Draconian” Civil Commitment Policies
- New York City’s Revised Indigent Defense Services Plan Upheld
- News in Brief
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- From the Editor, Sept. 15, 2024
- From the Editor, Aug. 15, 2024
- From the Editor, July 1, 2024
- From the Editor, June 1, 2024
- From the Editor, May 1, 2024
- From the Editor, April 1, 2024
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More from these topics:
- Pay-for-Play Tablets: The Costly New Prison Paradigm, March 1, 2025. Food/Commissary (Private Prisons), Electronic Tablets, Seizure of Prisoner Funds, Telephone Rates, Tapes/Music, Securus, Global Tel*Link Corp.
- From the Editor, Feb. 15, 2025. Editorials.
- From the Editor, Jan. 15, 2025. Editorials.
- First Circuit Rejects Request by Securus and Pay Tel to Stay FCC Prison Phone Rate Caps, Jan. 15, 2025. Telephone Rates, Private Phone Contractors, Securus.
- Securus/JPay Video Calling Service Potentially Threatened by New Rate Caps, Jan. 15, 2025. JPay, Inc., Telephone Rates, Video Visitation, Securus.
- From the Editor, Dec. 15, 2024. Editorials.
- From the Editor, Dec. 15, 2024. Editorials.
- Eighth Circuit Asked to Block New FCC Rules Capping Prison Phone Rates and Eliminating Ancillary Fees and Kickbacks, Nov. 15, 2024. Telephone Rates, Federal Funds.
- From the Editor, Nov. 15, 2024. Editorials.
- FCC Slashes Prison and Jail Phone Rates, Caps Video Call Cost, Eliminates “Site Commission” Kickbacks, Oct. 15, 2024. Telephone Rates, Video Visitation, Federal Funds, Private Phone Contractors, Securus, Global Tel*Link Corp.