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Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
JPay Loses Bid to Revoke Class Certification in Washington Prisoners’ Challenge to Crummy Products and Service by Over five years ago, in May 2020, Washington prisoners Michael Linear and Lonnie Burton filed a complaint in state court against prison telecom JPay LLC, which held the exclusive contract with the state …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Pro-Navalny Hackers Breach Russian Prison Computers, Lower Commissary Prices by Hours after Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny died in prison on February 16, 2024, anti-­government hackers took revenge, breaching information systems of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) and posting personal data of some 800,000 prisoners online. Prices at prison …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
1,200 Washington Prisoners Lose Laptops After One Shows Up on eBay by By March 2, 2024, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) had collected laptops from some 1,200 state prisoners who had been issued them for course work in college programming—throwing a huge monkey wrench into their plans to work …
Article • May 9, 2023
Former Federal Prisoner Markets Game App He Developed Behind Bars by Kevin Bliss 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 …
Article • December 27, 2022
Oklahoma Prison Industries Partially Shut Down After Convicted Child Molester Uses Work Computer to Download Kiddie Porn by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On November 30, 2022, the new Executive Director of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections (DOC) addressed a scandal that began unfolding eight months earlier, when …
Article • December 21, 2022
Filed under: Computers, Wrongful Death
One Idaho Detainee Kills Another in Jail Fight Over Tablet Use by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On November 28, 2022, a man who fatally beat a fellow detainee at Idaho’s Madison County Jail was sentenced for the murder. Robert Pompa, 27, will spend at least 27 years …
Article • August 7, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Kentucky Jail Rents Texting Devices to Prisoners by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer The Noble County jail in Albion, Kentucky has found a new way to make money – by renting texting devices to prisoners. For $4.00 a month plus $0.10 per text, prisoners can send and receive monitored messages. …
Lawsuits Filed Over South Dakota Replacing Prison Law Libraries with Tablets by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Two federal lawsuits were filed by South Dakota prisoners in May and June 2018 against the state Department of Corrections (DOC) over the introduction of tablet computers to replace prison law libraries and …
Defy Ventures Founder Steps Down Amid Accusations of Misconduct by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Catherine Hoke used to work on Wall Street, employed by a private equity firm. She left the world of high finance to start the Prison Entrepreneurship Program for Texas prisoners in 2004. But after five …
New Rule Sparks Uprising at California Sex Offender Civil Commitment Facility by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On January 14, 2018, about 400 to 500 civilly committed sex offender “patients” met in the common area of California’s Coalinga State Hospital to protest a stringent new rule that went into effect …
Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
Filed under: Computers, Telephone Access
Tablets and E-messaging Services Expand in Prisons and Jails, as do Fees by Matthew Clarke, Edward Lyon by Matt Clarke and Ed Lyon Global Tel*Link (GTL), one of the largest prison and jail phone service providers in the United States, has steadily expanded into other services that target corrections agencies. …
Article • July 28, 2017 • from PLN August, 2017
Filed under: Computers
Ohio Prisoners Build Computers from Spare Parts, Conceal them in Ceiling by A pair of prisoners at the Marion Correctional Institution in Ohio built two computers from spare parts obtained from PCs they were dismantling as part of a recycling program, then successfully connected them to the prison’s network. The …
FAMM - Using Time to Reduce Crime, 2017 USING TIME TO REDUCE CRIME: Federal Prisoner Survey Results Show Ways to Reduce Recidivism By Kevin Ring and Molly Gill JUNE 2017 AUTHORS Kevin A. Ring President Families Against Mandatory Minimums Molly Gill Director of Federal Legislative Affairs Families Against Mandatory Minimums …
Increased Access to Higher Education Programs for California Prisoners by Christopher Zoukis Some California prisoners, including those confined at the notorious Pelican Bay supermax, are enjoying access to higher education courses provided by the state’s community colleges. A 2014 law eliminated the requirement that all classes taught by community colleges …
Dear Librarian: Filling the Information Gap for Prisoners with No Internet Access by Christopher Zoukis For most Americans, life without Google or Wikipedia would be quite different, and living without Internet access probably unimaginable. One might ask, “How would I obtain the information I need to live my life?” Yet …
Correctional Education as a Crime Control Program, Bazos and Hausman, 2004 Correctional Education as a Crime Control Program by Audrey Bazos and Jessica Hausman UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research Department of Policy Studies March, 2004 TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary 2 Introduction 3 Correctional Education 3 Incarceration …
Article • November 8, 2016 • from PLN November, 2016
Company Offers Educational Tablets to Prisoners, with Mixed Results by Matthew Clarke A new educational product offered by a private company is being provided to prisoners in an increasing number of the nation’s jails – computer tablets supplied by Chicago-based Edovo (a name derived from “Education Over Obstacles”). Edovo tablets …
Article • November 8, 2016 • from PLN November, 2016
Pennsylvania: Former Cop Indefinitely Jailed for Failure to Supply Passwords by In March 2015, former Philadelphia police sergeant Francis Rawls, 37, was identified as a suspect in a child porno­graphy ring. As part of the investigation, Delaware County authorities confiscated several electronic devices from Rawls’ home and requested that he …
Courts Divided on Confidentiality of Attorney-Prisoner Email by Derek Gilna The fact that prosecutors and corrections officials read emails between prisoners and their lawyers comes as no surprise to most defense attorneys, many of whom find it ironic that the very public officials paid to enforce the laws do not …
Article • March 7, 2016
Filed under: Computers, First Amendment
California Prisons Are Deleting Records of Social Media Censorship by Dave Maass By Dave Maass Facebook Rightfully Questions Claims That California Inmates Are Banned from Having a Social Media Presence Up until last spring, Facebook had maintained a semi-secret channel for corrections facilities to file "Inmate Takedown" requests. A prison official could …
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