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Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Watchdog Faults BOP for Averaging 43 Prisoner Deaths a Year—More Than 23 by Suicide by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A report issued by the federal Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (OIG) on February 15, 2024, identified “operational and managerial deficiencies” in the federal Bureau of …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
D.C. Jail Watchdog Uncovers Alarming Solitary Confinement Practices by A report by the District of Columbia Council for Court Excellence (CCE) released on March 14, 2024, revealed troubling details about solitary confinement in the D.C. Jail, including overly long stays in isolation and refusal by the city Department of Corrections …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Filed under: Advocacy, Mental Health
Pilot Jail Diversion Program Opens for Mentally Ill Arrestees in Austin by A pilot program to divert mentally ill suspects from Texas’ Travis County Jail (TCJ) in Austin opened in March 2024. Inspired by the success of similar efforts in Miami and Nashville, county Judge Andy Brown corralled a coalition …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Filed under: Prison Labor, Advocacy
California Prisoner’s Generosity for Gaza Rewarded With Over $100,000 by As of February 29, 2024, a GoFundMe campaign had raised $102,172 for a soon-to-be-paroled California prisoner to transition from incarceration. Filmmaker Justin Mashouf, who started the page, then shut down contributions at the request of his incarcerated friend, known as …
Article • April 26, 2024
Filed under: Advocacy, Default Judgments
Indiana Prisoner Sues Prison Abolition Group, Wins $1,097 Default Judgment by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On July 28, 2022, an Indiana prisoner was granted a $1,097.00 default judgment against the nonprofit prison abolition group, Critical Resistance, in a state small claims action. Defendant is a longtime prison abolition advocacy …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Compensation Awarded to California Non-Profit and HRDC Officials for Efforts Reducing Prison Phone Rates by On June 9, 2023, the California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) approved a total compensation award of $113,362 for the Center for Accessible Technology (CAT), finding the organization had made a substantial contribution to PUC’s rulemaking …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Watchdog Report Attempts to Prove Epstein Suicide by Nearly four years after billionaire sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was found fatally hanged in his cell at a now-shuttered federal lockup in Manhattan, officials attempted to confirm it was a suicide in a report released on June 27, 2023, by Michael Horowitz, …
Tennessee Private Prison Gets State’s First LGBTQ+ Group by As reported in Filter Magazine on July 26, 2023, Tennessee’s South Central Correctional Facility (SCCF) has become the birthplace of “Be the Change” (BTC), the first known openly LGBTQ+ community in any of the state’s 14 prisons. A private medium-security prison …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Filed under: Advocacy
Advocating for Objective Standards in a Post-Kingsley World by Megha Ram by Megha Ram, Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center A fight over the correct standard for jail conditions cases is playing out in courts across the country. This is an important fight with far-reaching consequences for the constitutional rights …
Article • June 1, 2021 • from PLN June, 2021
Filed under: Resources, Advocacy
Resources for Understanding Today’s Prison System by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Izzie Ramirez, reporter for Vice, wrote a summary of the many resources available to anyone wishing to learn about the U.S. prison system. The article, published Jan. 22, 2021, discusses the varied inequalities of the prison industrial complex …
Article • June 1, 2021 • from PLN June, 2021
Filed under: Advocacy, Art
Activism and Art Team Up to Abolish Mass Incarceration by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders Imagine a future in America that is radically different than it is today—an America where police do not brutalize and kill people, a society without institutionalized racism and classism, a country where jails and prisons …
Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021
New Advocacy Group for New Mexico Prisoners Created by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell A new watchdog nonprofit in New Mexico is focusing on exposing the culture of secrecy in the New Mexico Corrections Department (NMCD), which the group says interferes with the ability to monitor civil rights violations against …
Publication • October 16, 2020
30th Anniversary Sponsorship Flyer “A Night To Remember” To celebrate 30 years of advocacy, we are hosƟng a virtual celebraƟon on December 10, 2020 (InternaƟonal Human Rights Day) at 9:00 PM, EST. With Special Guest Speakers Victoria Law, Master of Ceremonies  Prison AboliƟon AcƟvist  Author of “Prison By …
Article • August 1, 2020 • from PLN August, 2020
Interview: Jessica Sandoval of Unlock the Box on Solitary Confinement by Ken Silverstein by Ken Silverstein Unlock the Box supports education and advocacy efforts on the national, state, and local levels to advance the goal of ending solitary confinement in the United States. The coalition defines solitary confinement for adults …
Article • July 1, 2020 • from PLN July, 2020
Filed under: Advocacy, Bail Bonds
Interview: Alec Karakatsanis of the Civil Rights Corps on Money Bail and Debtors’ Prisons by Ken Silverstein by Ken Silverstein Alec Karakatsanis is the founder and executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based Civil Rights Corps. He previously worked as a civil rights lawyer and public defender with the Special Litigation …
Article • September 9, 2019 • from PLN September, 2019
Dr. Arthur Zitrin, Anti-Death Penalty Advocate and Bioethicist, Dies at 101 by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer Dr. Arthur Zitrin died at age 101 on May 11, 2019. He was a psychiatrist and leading bioethicist who believed that doctors should take no part in lethal injections. His son Richard, an …
Kickback publication • September 3, 2019
OR DOC Rates Sept 2019 9/3/2019 Department of Corrections : Telmate : Sending Money : State of Oregon (http://www.oregon.gov)   Sending Money Information for putting money on an inmate's books (/doc/sending-money/) (/doc/)  (/doc/Pages/default.aspx)  Sending Money (/doc/sending-money/Pages/home.aspx)  Telmate Site Navigation Telmate Using Telmate to Send Money With …
Kickback publication • August 29, 2019
Utah DOC Prison Telephone Kickback Totals 2013-2019 Utah DOC Call Kickback Data* Year (1/1 - 12/31) Total 2019 Notes $1,003,057.31 Only includes commission payments from 1/1/2019 - 6/25/2019 2018 $1,354,368.97 2017 $1,160,502.85 2016 $1,071,632.19 2015 $997,915.49 2014 $977,584.07 2013 $370,230.49 Only includes commission payments from 7/22/2013-12/31/2013 *Source: Utah Public Finance …
New Book Explores the Overlooked History of Feminist Anti-Prison Activism by Victoria Law, Rewire.News Connecting the fights against gendered violence and mass incarceration isn’t new. But you wouldn't know it from most writing on the subject. Marissa Alexander. Bresha Meadows. Cyntoia Brown. Cherelle Baldwin. All four are Black women or girls who were arrested and prosecuted …
2018 Awards for Activism, Advocacy Against the Private Prison Industry by On March 5, 2019, the Private Corrections Institute (PCI), a nonprofit citizen watchdog organization, announced its 2018 awardees for individual activism and organizational advocacy against the for-profit prison industry. PCI opposes the privatization of correctional services, including the operation …
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