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31,000 Criminal Cases Under Review After Detroit Crime Lab Closes

Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Contractor Misconduct, Crime Labs, Wrongful Imprisonment

31,000 Criminal Cases Under Review After Detroit Crime Lab Closes by After the police crime lab in Detroit, Michigan was found to have provided faulty firearm ballistics evidence in criminal ...

Texas Prison System Faces Critical Guard Shortage

Article • August 15, 2007 • from PLN August, 2007

Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Overcrowding, Staffing

; 30,000 guards have been hired since 2001, but 31,000 have left TDCJ during that same time period. Halving the turnover rate would eliminate the guard staffing shortage in a single year. Some Texas ...

Help Wanted: 31,000 Prison Guard Jobs Open Nationwide

Article • September 1, 2025 • from PLN September, 2025

Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Failure to Protect (General), Staffing, Exercise, Lockdowns, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Guards/Staff, Staff Training

Help Wanted: 31,000 Prison Guard Jobs Open Nationwide by David Reutter The efficiency and functionality of every enterprise rests largely upon the staff put in place to carry out its ...

Jail Prisoners Get Rapid HIV Tests

Article • October 15, 2008 • from PLN October, 2008

Filed under: Medical, HIV/AIDS, Medical Experiments/Exploitation

Jail Prisoners Get Rapid HIV Tests by A relatively new rapid HIV test has been used on over 31,000 jail prisoners in four different states. The testing was made possible by grants from ...

Record Number of Florida Prisoners Died in 2016, 2017

Article • January 31, 2018 • from PLN February, 2018

Filed under: Wrongful Death, Mental Health

ill prisoners, they often end up in segregation and without sufficient treatment. That puts the focus back on hiring and retaining qualified staff – a problem throughout the FDOC ...

Gun Law Threatens Police, Military, Prisons

Article • September 15, 1997 • from PLN September, 1997

Filed under: Police Misconduct, Staffing, Shootings, Sentencing, Federal Legislation, Military Law

their weapons cards taken away. Under a new policy, according to department spokesperson Andrea Dean, anyone seeking. a job as an Ohio prison guard who has "domestic violence or related charges" will not be hired ...

Fifth Circuit Greenlights Federal Takeover of Mississippi Jail

Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025

Filed under: Sexual Assault, Failure to Protect (General), Eighth Amendment, Staffing, Stun Guns/Tasers

into a Consent Decree that imposed 92 requirements upon RDC. [See: PLN, Jan. 2017, p. 40.] In 2019, the DOJ presented the federal district court with a litany of violations. RDC avoided a contempt order by hiring ...

Cal Prison Politics, Guard Unions

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Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Statistics/Trends, Guards/Staff, Guard Unions

than 2500 members in 1978 to a powerhouse of 31,000 members who contribute $21.9 million dollars a year. The union employs a 91 person staff including 20 full-time attorneys and uses the services of five ...

California Corrections System Officially Declared Dysfunctional" - Redemption Doubtful

Article • March 15, 2005 • from PLN March, 2005

Filed under: Guard Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Criminal Prosecution, Overcrowding, Staffing, Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Special Masters, Sentencing, Parole, Guard Unions, State Legislation

Department of Corrections: A Behemoth With 165,000 incarcerated prisoners in 33 prisons and another 114,000 on parole, and with 54,000 employees (including 31,000 guards) feasting on a $6.2 billion annual ...

Letter to Board re Jail Work Plan, Aug 14, LA Co CEO, 2012

Publication • February 16, 2016

Filed under: Prison Labor, Jail Specific

operating cost Five-year operating cost Maximum Contract amount Taft CCF $61.00 (260 beds) $60.55 (512 beds) $31,000 $11,315,000 $56,575,000 $75,000,000 County Jail NA $112.84 (512 beds) $57,800 $21,097,000 ...

News In Brief

Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022

Filed under: News in Brief

, saying that he had hired someone do it. He was arrested on charges of strangulation, menacing, endangering the welfare of a child, stalking, and assault. New York: When a jail guard at the Erie County ...

“This Man Will Almost Certainly Die”

Article • December 8, 2016 • from PLN December, 2016

Filed under: Private Prisons, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Contractor Misconduct, Guard Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Medical Misconduct, Government Misconduct, Seizures, Private Contractors, War on Drugs, Cost of Prison Systems, Failure to Protect (General), Collateral consequences of prison, Immigration, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Suicides

Clinton’s presidency, to 31,000 in 2004 under George W. Bush, to a high of 91,000 in 2013 under President Obama. By the late 1990s, the flood of prisoners from this new class of offender, coupled ...

Alabama Forced to Confront Criminal Justice Reform

Article • May 5, 2016 • from PLN May, 2016

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Corizon, Staff-Prisoner Harassment, Systemic Medical Neglect, Failure to Treat, Failure to Protect (General), Overcrowding, Hygiene Supplies, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Failure to Train/Supervise, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Excessive Force (Wrongful Death)

; March 2002, p.10; June 2001, p.31]. Several years later, a 2004 settlement in a class-action lawsuit forced Alabama to hire full-time prison doctors to treat prisoners with life-threatening diseases. [See ...

America's Guilt Mill

Article • March 28, 2017

Filed under: Wrongful Conviction

to pony up a retainer—typically $25,000 or much more—to hire a lawyer to seek justice. Nor can they expect help from the community of innocence advocates, who focus on cases where DNA can ...

From Options to Action - A Roadmap for City Leaders to Connect Formerly Incarcerated Individuals to Work, PPV, 2008

Publication • August 9, 2016

Filed under: Prisoner Privileges, Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Release and Reentry

Barriers to Employment................36 Ensure Fair Hiring Practices in Your City.................................36 5. Engaging the Business Community ...

With “Fox in Charge of the Henhouse,” Almost All Misconduct Accusations Against BOP Staff Result in No Discipline

Article • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023

Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Bureau of Prisons (BOP)

;exodus’ he bemoaned, with 3,000 BOP employees retiring in 2021 and another 3,000 in 2022 – dwarfing the number of new hires. Peters blamed the decision by past administrations to locate prisons ...

Prison Broke: The Missouri Department of Corrections Can’t Escape its Own Worst Habits

Article • January 31, 2018 • from PLN February, 2018

Filed under: Staff-Staff Assault, Staff-Staff Harassment, Supervisor-Staff Harassment, Threats by Staff, Discrimination, Gender Discrimination -- Women, Racial Discrimination, Religious Discrimination, Guards/Staff

by the state reads. The department hired Ann Molloy, a Kansas City lawyer, to independently investigate the allegations of retaliation. Molloy finished the report in July 2016, and the state later paid her ...

Emancipate the FLSA, Article on Prison Labor, Patrice A. Fulcher, 2015

Publication • 2015

Filed under: Prison Industries, Prison Labor, Fair Labor Standards Act

. prison population: $31,000 a year per prisoner.3 Yet the U.S. continues to incarcerate non-violent offenders at exorbitant rates,4 and supports practices that incentivize incarceration.5 One incentive ...

Pro Se Magazine Vol18 No2 2008

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Filed under: Magazines, Pro Se Magazine

changes have occurred both within PLS and within DOCS, changes that can move us toward a more humane criminal justice system. When I first began at PLS, the prison population was approximately 31,000. PLS ...

Co CCA Riot Audit, June, 2005

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Filed under: Private Prisons

. • Private prisons have hired some applicants with questionable backgrounds. We identified 4 out of about 300 current private prison employees in our sample who appeared to have questionable backgrounds when ...