by Kevin W. Bliss
On January 5, 2023, new Michigan Supreme Court Justice Kyra Bolden announced she had accepted the resignation of her formerly incarnated clerk, Pete Martel. In doing so, the justice bowed to complaints that Martel, who served 14 years for shooting at police during a 1994 robbery, ...
by Kevin W. Bliss
In a black eye for right-wing anti-vaccine group America’s Frontline Doctors (AFLDS), Chairman Richard Mack – the former Sheriff of Arizona’s Graham County – is accused of taking an unauthorized $350,000 transfer from the organization’s bank account, preventing payroll from going out for the month of ...
by Kevin W. Bliss
On March 20, 2023, two detainees escaped from the jail annex in Newport News, Virginia, after tunneling through their cell wall. But their freedom lasted less than a day before they were arrested the next morning at an IHOP in the neighboring city of Hampton.
Authorities ...
by Kevin W. Bliss
Prison is often compared to as a pressure cooker, exerting powerful forces that can either make or break someone. With a stunning list of achievements, Eric Van Buren is not one of the latter. Arrested in 1999 for drugs and sentenced to life in the custody ...
by Kevin W. Bliss
British prisoner Abigail White, a self-styled “Fake Barbie” popular on the adult website OnlyFans, is petitioning the country’s prison system to allow conjugal visits for its prisoners in order to care for their sexual needs while incarcerated.
White’s popularity skyrocketed prior to her incarceration, thanks ...
by Kevin W. Bliss
Utah-based Management and Training Corporation (MTC) faces allegations of breach of contract in Texas, where the private prison firm allegedly forced prisoners to sign for parole-required treatment and program time they were not in fact provided. The scam allegedly began during the COVID-19 pandemic and continued ...
by Kevin W. Bliss
At the same time the federal government is once again opening Pell Grants to prisoners, some have been left scrambling in Washington by closure of the State Reformatory (WSR) – which hosted the state’s primary college program behind bars.
The Second Chance Pell grant program will ...
by Kevin W. Bliss
On November 9, 2022, an Iowa teenager convicted of murdering a man she claimed repeatedly raped her was recaptured, five days after she escaped from the Fresh Start Women’s Center (FSWC) in Polk County, Iowa. Peiper Lewis, 18, was recaptured after walking out and then cutting ...
by Kevin W. Bliss
California’s Monterey County Sheriff’s Department (MCSD) was under the spotlight in October 2022, when two “Jane Doe” lawsuits were filed accusing now-retired Undersheriff John Mineau of sexually harassing a pair of co-workers. But the agency has been embroiled in ethical issues at least since ex-Sheriff Steve ...
by Kevin W. Bliss
On October 11, 2022, the U.S.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed dismissal of California prisoner’s suit alleging he was assaulted because a guard labeled him a “snitch.” The ruling represents a reversal of the Court’s previous judgment in the case, which found that damages ...
