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No Opened Envelopes: Hawai’i Prisons Get New Mail Scanning Technology by The Hawai’i Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) announced in September 2024 that it would purchase nine machines to scan inbound prisoner mail—including legal mail—for drugs. The new scanners claim to detect letters soaked with drugs without opening envelopes. …
Cages Without Bars Are Widening the Net: The Explosion of Electronic Monitoring by James Kilgore, Brian Dolinar   by James Kilgore and Brian Dolinar Electronic monitoring (EM) is rapidly expanding throughout the criminal legal system. COVID-19 is partly responsible for this. The pandemic precipitated jailers’ use of monitors to reduce …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Prison Profiteer Is Using Sandra Bland’s Death to Sell Surveillance Technology by Brian Dolinar by Brian Dolinar Guardian RFID is a virtually unknown, but rapidly growing, company that sells digital technology to jails. It makes ID cards and bracelets that can be scanned by guards when doing head counts, meal …
Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022
The Catalog of Carceral Surveillance: Voice Recognition and Surveillance by Beryl Lipton, Cooper Quintin by Beryl Lipton And Cooper Quintin This article was first published by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on September 10, 2021. It is reprinted here with permission. Prison telecommunication companies have historically been in a voice-based …
All Ohio Prison Guards to Wear Body Cams by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders In January 2022, the Ohio Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation began requiring the state’s 5,000 prison guards to don body-worn cameras. Supplied by Axon, the “body cams,” which complement over 1,000 security cameras already installed in …
The Catalog of Carceral Surveillance: Prison Gaming and AR/VR Services by Cooper Quintin, Beryl Lipton by Cooper Quintin and Beryl Lipton This article was originally published by the Electronic Frontier Foundation on September 9, 2021. It is reprinted here, with permission. No matter how many rights are taken away from …
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
The Catalog of Carceral Surveillance: Mobile Correctional Facility Robots by Cooper Quintin, Beryl Lipton by Cooper Quintin and Beryl Lipton There are too many people in U.S. prisons. Their guards are overworked, underpaid, and prone to human errors, and they require work breaks and food, paychecks and sick days. Plus, …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Federal Prisons’ Switch to Scanning Mail Is a Surveillance Nightmare by Lauren Gill The Bureau of Prisons has piloted a program that can give authorities “huge secret intelligence into the public sender of postal mail.” by Lauren Gill, originally published by The Intercept, September 26, 2021 In a Pennsylvania federal prison, …
District Court Extends Armstrong Order to Five Additional California Prisons by Derek Gilna, Douglas Ankney Judge Orders Facilities Housing Disabled Prisoners to Install Surveillance and Body Cameras by Derek Gilna and Doug Ankney On March 11, 2021, U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken in the Northern District of California ordered the California Department …
Prosecutors Drop Charges Against Florida Prisoner Accused of Assaulting Guard After Video Surfaces by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Prosecutors dismissed felony aggravated assault charges against jail detainee Mike Neal and placed three guards under criminal investigation for battery and official misconduct after previously unreported video surfaced of the incident …
Article • March 1, 2021 • from PLN March, 2021
Federal Court Orders Body Cams Be Worn by Guards in Effort to Stop Abuse of Disabled at California Prison by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On September 8, 2020, U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilkin of the Northern District of California ordered additional remedial measures—including body-worn cameras for guards—as relief in …
Article • July 1, 2020 • from PLN July, 2020
Sale of Clandestine Surveillance Equipment Available to the Government and “Select Clients” by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss Special interest groups are becoming more concerned with the government surveillance equipment provider, Special Services Group (SSG). As of early 2020, it had about $2.6 million in contracts with over a …
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
Artificial Intelligence for Surveillance Spreading to Prisons Around the Globe by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Artificial Intelligence, long thought to be the wave of the future, has become a present reality in prisons around the globe. Facilities in Hong Kong and China have already established themselves on the cutting …
Article • April 20, 2018
FBI Training Manuals, Guidelines May Be Exempt from FOIA Disclosure by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke On February 1, 2018, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that generalized law enforcement records such as training manuals and guidelines could fall under Exemption 7 of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), …
Publication • April 15, 2017
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Brief • February 13, 2017
Flora v. SW IA Narcotics Enforcement Task Team, IA, Order, Traffic Stop and Seizure, 2017 Case 1:16-cv-00002-JEG-SBJ Document 50 Filed 02/13/17 Page 1 of 30 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF IOWA WESTERN DIVISION PHILLIP ANTHONY FLORA, Plaintiff, v. SOUTHWEST IOWA NARCOTICS ENFORCEMENT TASK TEAM, BRIAN MILLER, …
Publication • January 1, 2017
The Civil Rights Division, US Department of Justice, 2017 The Civil Rights Division’s Pattern and Practice Police Reform Work: 1994-Present Civil Rights Division U.S. Department of Justice January 2017 TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................... 1 II. BACKGROUND – THE HISTORY AND PURPOSE OF SECTION 14141 ........................................ 3 III. INITIATING …
Fields v. City of Philadelphia, PA, Amicus Brief, Civilian Recording of Police Officers, 2016 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT Nos. 16-1650 & 16-1651 RICHARD FIELDS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, et ano, Defendants-Appellees. AMANDA GERACI, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, et al., Defendants-Appellees. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ On Appeal …
Jewel v. National Security Agency, et. al., CA, Complaint, Jury Demand, Illegal Surveillance, 2008.pdf 1 1. Plaintiffs, on behalf of themselves and a class of similarly situated persons, bring this 2 action and allege upon personal knowledge and belief as to their own acts, and upon information and 3 4 …
No More Shackles: Why We Must End the Use of Electronic Monitors for People On Parole, Challenging E-Carceration No More Shackles Why We Must End the Use of Electronic Monitors for People on Parole a report for Challenging E-Carceration and the #NoDigitalPrisons campaign This report was produced by the Challenging …
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