Articles by Matthew Clarke | Prison Legal News

Texas State Equipment and Employees Used for Private Prison Labor Lobbying

Loaded on April 15, 2005 by Matthew Clarke published in Prison Legal News April, 2005, page 32

Filed under: Contractor Misconduct, Government Misconduct, Prison Industries, News, State Legislation. Location: Texas.

by Matthew T. Clarke

Republican State Representative Ray Allen of Grand Prairie, Texas, Chairman of the Texas House Corrections Committee, has been using his state employees and state equipment to operate a private firm that specializes in consulting and lobbying for the private prison industry. Allen's company, called Service House, …

Fifth Circuit Allows Sexual-Orientation Discrimination in Texas Prisoner Rape Suit

Loaded on April 15, 2005 by Matthew Clarke published in Prison Legal News April, 2005, page 37

Filed under: Prisoner-Prisoner Assault, Discrimination, Racial Discrimination, Gay/Lesbian, Failure to Protect (General), Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA), Qualified Immunity, Supervisory Liability. Location: Texas.

by Matthew T. Clarke

The Fifth Circuit court of appeals held that a homosexual prisoner who prison officials allegedly allowed to be repeatedly sexually assaulted and made a sex slave may sue the prison officials for both failures to protect him in violation of the Eighth Amendment and discrimination based …

Uprising by Vermont Prisoners Damages CCA Prison in Kentucky

Loaded on March 15, 2005 by Matthew Clarke published in Prison Legal News March, 2005, page 26

Filed under: Out of State Transfers, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Contractor Misconduct, Organizing, Prison Rebellion, Criminal Prosecution, Food, Overcrowding. Locations: Kentucky, Vermont.

by Matthew T. Clarke

On September 14, 2004, a prisoner uprising rocked the 816-bed, 88-acre Lee Adjustment Center (LAC), a private prison owned and operated by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) in Lee County, Kentucky.

The Prison

LAC was built in 1990 as a 400-bed, minimum-security prison by a private …

Compensating the Wrongly Convicted, or Not

Loaded on July 15, 2003 by Matthew Clarke published in Prison Legal News July, 2003, page 1

Filed under: Police Misconduct, Government Misconduct, Judicial Misconduct, Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct, DNA Testing/Samples, Damages, Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment, Qualified Immunity, Judicial Immunity, Prosecutorial Immunity, Sovereign Immunity, Death Penalty/Death Row, Death Penalty, Death Row, State Legislation, Federal Legislation. Location: United States of America.

by Matthew T. Clarke

Hundreds of thousands of men and women are hidden from society—social failures convicted of felonies—behind concrete walls and razor wire in isolated parts of our country. Nestled among them are society's silenced victims—the wrongfully convicted.

Society is loath to admit its mistakes. Citizens would rather believe …