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Multitudes Caged for Failure to Pay Child Support, Driving Mass Incarceration
Loaded on May 1, 2025
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2025, page 1
Filed under:
Child Support,
Failure To Pay,
Effects of Mass Incarceration.
Location:
United States of America.
by Matt Clarke
On August 22, 2024, the federal court for the Eastern District of Kentucky sentenced Jesse Kipf to 81 months in federal prison for hacking into the Hawai’i Death Registry the year before. It was a strange crime; in his guilty plea, Kipf, 39, admitted to using the ...
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More from this issue:
- $1.2 Million in Settlements Reached in Suit Over Sacramento Jail Murder, by Douglas Ankney
- Multitudes Caged for Failure to Pay Child Support, Driving Mass Incarceration, by Matthew Clarke
- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
- Fifth Circuit Denies Qualified Immunity to Louisiana Officials Who Forced Prisoner to Work with Broken Surgical Screws in Ankle, by Anthony Accurso
- Florida’s “Pay to Stay” Law: A Second Sentence for Former Prisoners
- Study Finds Just 1% of Prisoner’s Eighth Amendment Claims Succeed
- Incarcerated Students Caught in Crosshairs of Trump War on Education Department
- Wisconsin Prisoner Inhaled His Own Teeth in Fatal Beatdown
- Disbarred Cincinnati Defense Attorney Who Defrauded Prisoner Clients Gets Three-Year Sentence
- South Carolina Conducts First U.S. Execution by Firing Squad in 15 Years
- Eleventh Circuit Revives Volunteer Pastor’s First Amendment Claim at Georgia Jail, by Douglas Ankney
- Trump Guts BOP Guard Union
- Los Angeles County Jails Record Almost One Death Every Nine Days
- South Carolina Jailer Gets 10 Years for Sexually Assaulting Nine Detainees and Co-Workers
- Florida Prisoner Returns to Custody After Overturned Conviction Reinstated
- Maryland Targets Highest-in-Nation Racial Incarceration Gap
- Idaho Warden Bought Execution Drugs on Roadside
- Connecticut Court Denies Access to Video of Prisoner’s Fatal Beat-Down by Guards
- Florida Prisoner Released to Die Settles With Centurion Over Ignored Prostate Cancer
- Wellpath Sanctioned for Discovery Violation in Suit Over Kentucky Prisoner’s Death, by Douglas Ankney
- Cruelty Is Now the Point for BOP
- New York Lifts Hiring Ban on Fired Striking Prison Guards, Announces Early Prisoner Releases
- Former Prisoner Appointed President’s Pardon “Czar”
- Oregon DOC Replaces Top Medical Staffers Amid Turmoil
- Rikers Island Staffers, Contractor and Detainee Sentenced for Smuggling
- Washington DOC On Hot Seat Over “Unexpected Fatalities,” Missed Autopsies
- Second Circuit Revives Connecticut Prisoner’s Challenge To Conditions In Virginia Lockup Where He Was Transferred, by Douglas Ankney
- 20 Charged in Nevada Prison Brawl That Left Three Dead
- Rikers Island Detainees Wait in “Black Hole” for Competency Treatment
- Pittsburgh Lockup Accounts for 43% of Pennsylvania Jail TASER Use, Suit Filed
- Mass Incarceration Weakens All Workers, by Brian Nam-Sonenstein, Eric Seligman
- Plans to Hold Migrants at Gitmo Hit Snag
- Third Circuit Denies Qualified Immunity to Pennsylvania DOC in Prisoner’s Challenge to 26 Years of Solitary Confinement
- Studies Link Incarceration with Lower Cancer Survival Rates—For Prisoner’s Partners, Too, by Anthony Accurso
- $2.95 Million Settlement for Untreated Pneumonia Death in Washington Jail
- Virginia Bribes Prisoners Not to Set Themselves On Fire
- Medical Copays Blamed for Reducing Prisoner Access to Healthcare
- New Jersey DOC Sued Twice for Turning “Blind Eye” to “Pervasive” Drug-Smuggling Blamed for Prisoner Deaths
- Missouri Repeals “Pay-to-Stay” Law
- New York Guards Indicted for Prisoner’s Murder
- $18,000 for New York Prisoner Who Alleged Guards Planted Shank in Cell
- Kansas Supreme Court Denies Compensation to Former Prisoner Whose Conviction Was Overturned
- Los Angeles County Pays $24 Million to Two Former Prisoners Wrongly Convicted as Teens of 1997 Murder, by Matthew Clarke
- Missouri Pays More Than $1.2 Million for Deputy Warden’s Sexual Harassment Claim Against Warden, by Douglas Ankney
- New Orleans Public Defender’s “Redeem Team” Says: “Re-entry Is Never Over”
- Texas Courts, Legislature at Odds over Executing Potentially Innocent Death Row Prisoner
- ACLU Sues BOP Over Failure to Implement First Step Act Release Credits, by Anthony Accurso
- Six Deaths in Eleven Months at Washington Jail
- New York Prisoner Awarded Almost $280,000 in Retaliation Claim Against Guards
- West Virginia Prison Chief Tapped to Helm BOP
- Crackdown On Pro-Palestinian Dissent Nabs New York Professor Who Found Link Between Cars and Incarceration
- Two California Prisoners Accused of Strangling Conjugal Visitors
- Wellpath Prepares Plan to Exit Bankruptcy
- Texas Prison Heat Declared Unconstitutional
- $3.4 Million Settlement for Minnesota Jail Death Called “Real-Life Nightmare”
- BOP Jettisons Transgender Offender Manual
- Kentucky Jail Sued for Detainee’s Death, Prisoner’s Stillborn Child
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More from Matthew Clarke:
- Kansas Supreme Court Revives Prisoner’s Challenge to Loss of Parental Rights, June 1, 2025
- Fifth Circuit Reinstates Baha’i Texas Prisoner’s Dietary Claim, June 1, 2025
- $5.6 Million Settlement for California Prisoner’s Wife Strip-searched During Visit, June 1, 2025
- Academic Study of Prison Guards’ Use of Excessive Force Details Sad State of Civil Rights for Abused Prisoners, June 1, 2025
- Multitudes Caged for Failure to Pay Child Support, Driving Mass Incarceration, May 1, 2025
- Los Angeles County Pays $24 Million to Two Former Prisoners Wrongly Convicted as Teens of 1997 Murder, May 1, 2025
- Federal Watchdog Calls Out BOP for Spiking Suicide Risk at Pennsylvania Lockup, April 1, 2025
- Eighth Circuit: Arkansas Prisoner Who Had Consensual Sex With Guard Cannot Sustain Eighth Amendment Claim, April 1, 2025
- TDCJ to Run Out of Beds in 2025, April 1, 2025
- “Happy Mother’s Day”: $1,353,000 Settlement Approved for Migrant Parents Separated from Minor Kids at Border, March 1, 2025
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- Community Supervision: America’s Hidden Wellspring to Mass Incarceration, Feb. 15, 2025. Lifetime Supervision, Effects of Mass Incarceration.
- Among World Nations, Individual U.S. States Near Top of List for Per Capita Incarceration, Feb. 15, 2025. Statistics/Trends, Prisoners-International, Effects of Mass Incarceration.
- Fines and Fees Destroy the Impoverished and Perpetuate Mass Incarceration, Jan. 15, 2025. Effects of Mass Incarceration, Ability to Pay.
- 1994 Crime Bill Turns 30: A Legacy of Controversy, Jan. 15, 2025. Crime, Statistics/Trends, Solicitation to Commit a Crime of Violence, Effects of Mass Incarceration.
- PPI Releases 10th Anniversary Report on Mass Incarceration in the U.S., Nov. 15, 2024. Prison Reform, Criminal justice system reform, Effects of Mass Incarceration.
- Building Carcerality, Nov. 15, 2024. Effects of Mass Incarceration.
- CoreCivic’s Successful Campaign for Mass Incarceration Continues in Tennessee, Sept. 15, 2024. Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Cost of Prison Systems, Effects of Mass Incarceration.
- Criminalizing Poverty Drives Mass Incarceration in Kentucky, Washington, Aug. 15, 2024. Seizure of Prisoner Funds, Socio-Economic Status, Effects of Mass Incarceration.
- Demonstrable Remorse, Psychiatric Diagnoses, and Alternatives to Incarceration, Aug. 1, 2024. Alternative Sentencing, Mental Health, Probation, Parole & Supervised Release, Effects of Mass Incarceration.