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Article • April 15, 2009 • from PLN April, 2009
Texas Prison Authority OK’s Illegal Use of Prison Labor, but PIE Contract Not Renewed by Gary Hunter Texas Prison Authority OK’s Illegal Use of Prison Labor, but PIE Contract Not Renewed by Gary Hunter Even though a Texas legislator found the practice illegal, and even though it cost sixty people …
Article • April 15, 2009 • from PLN April, 2009
Oregon Prison Chief’s Pay Raise Revoked; He Must Survive on Only $14,500 a Month by Brandon Sample Oregon Prison Chief’s Pay Raise Revoked; He Must Survive on Only $14,500 a Month by Brandon Sample Crime pays well in Oregon. Just ask Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) Director Max Williams, who …
Entire Texas Prison System Locked Down to Search for Phones; Prison Cell Phone Problem is Pandemic by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 20, 2008, Texas Governor Rick Perry placed all 112 prisons and 155,000 prisoners in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) on lockdown to search for …
Federal Three-Judge Panel Issues Tentative Ruling To Reduce California’s Prison Population By Up To 57,000 In Three Years by John Dannenberg Federal Three-Judge Panel Issues Tentative Ruling To Reduce California’s Prison Population By Up To 57,000 In Three Years by John E. Dannenberg In a tentative ruling issued February 9, …
Article • March 15, 2009 • from PLN March, 2009
Report Finds Increase in Michigan Prison Population Attributable to Political Policy Changes, Not Crime Increase by David Reutter Report Finds Increase in Michigan Prison Population Attributable to Political Policy Changes, Not Crime Increase by David M. Reutter A report issued by the Citizens Research Council of Michigan (CRC) concludes that …
Article • February 15, 2009 • from PLN February, 2009
Deceased New York Prisoner Wins Barber/Cosmetology Licensing For Ex-Cons by Three years after his death, ex-con Marc LaCloche won his long-fought case to permit ex-cons in New York state the right to gain barber and cosmetology licenses. LaCloche, after an 11-year stint in New York prison, sought to make a …
Officials Agree To Cap Population at D.C. Jail by Michael Rigby After decades of fighting lawsuits, skirting court orders, and defying legislative decrees, the District of Columbia Mayor’s Office has finally agreed to a definitive population cap at the notoriously overcrowded and dangerous D.C. Jail. Under the terms of the …
Article • February 15, 2009 • from PLN February, 2009
Washington DOC Restarts Private Industry Prison Jobs Following State Constitutional Amendment by John Dannenberg Washington DOC Restarts Private Industry Prison Jobs Following State Constitutional Amendment by John E. Dannenberg After eliminating private industry prison work programs in response to a Washington State Supreme Court ruling declaring the underlying statute unconstitutional …
Article • February 15, 2009 • from PLN February, 2009
Texas Awards Prison Phone Contract by Matthew Clarke On August 14, 2008, the Texas Board of Criminal Justice (TBCJ) awarded a phone service contract to two companies, Kansas-based Embarq Corp. and Dallas-based Securus Technologies, Inc. Prior to this historic event, the Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) was the only …
Article • February 15, 2009 • from PLN February, 2009
Behavior Modification Training to Become Part of Washington State DOC by Behavior Modification Training to Become Part of Washington State DOC Governor Chris Gregoire signed Senate Bill 6400 into law on March 20, 2008. The bill enacts a revolutionary concept designed to correct what politicians perceive to be, the morally …
Article • February 15, 2009 • from PLN February, 2009
Ohio DNA Specimen Law Ruled Not Retroactive by The Ohio Supreme Court held that a state law requiring convicted felons and some misdemeanants to provide DNA specimens could not be applied retroactively to offenders placed on supervised release before the law’s May 2005 effective date. On August 6, 2002, Craig …
Article • January 15, 2009 • from PLN January, 2009
115,000 Florida Ex-Felons Have Civil Rights Restored Under New Rules by Changes to Florida’s rules for restoration of civil rights were made in April 2007; since that time, 115,232 former felons have had their rights to vote, serve on juries, run for office, and obtain various business licenses restored. That …
Article • January 15, 2009 • from PLN January, 2009
Will California’s $11 Billion Prison Outlay Survive State Budget Cuts? by Marvin Mentor As California deals with a projected $28 billion budget shortfall over the next 18 months, it remains to be seen if the requisite two-thirds of the state legislature has the political courage to make cuts to the …
Article • December 15, 2008 • from PLN December, 2008
Exonerated Florida Man Receives $1.25 Million by Exonerated Florida Man Receives $1.25 Million Florida Gov. Charlie Crist signed an executive order on May 6, 2008, that awards Alan Crotzer $1.25 million for the 24 years he spent in prison for a rape and kidnapping conviction he did not commit. Crotzer …
New York Sex Offenders’ Settlement Agreement Superseded by New Registration Law by New York Sex Offenders’ Settlement Agreement Superseded by New Registration Law The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals dealt a blow to sex offenders in New York state when it ruled that despite an earlier suit and settlement …
Article • November 15, 2008 • from PLN November, 2008
Colorado DOC Increases Legal Photocopy Fees 400 Percent by As if cutting prisoner wages 70 percent (from $2 per workday to $0.60 while providing nothing but one roll of toilet paper per week) was not enough, Colorado Department of Corrections executive director Aristedes Zavaras has ordered the facility law libraries …
Private Prisons a Public Disgrace in Texas by Gary Hunter So much human feces covered the floors of a GEO Group-run juvenile prison in Coke County, Texas that departing inspectors stopped outside to wipe their shoes in the grass. The Coke County Juvenile Justice Center was in such bad shape …
Article • November 15, 2008 • from PLN November, 2008
Nevada Phone Contract Reduces Costs to Prisoners’ Families But Increases State’s Kickback by David Reutter Nevada Phone Contract Reduces Costs to Prisoners’ Families But Increases State’s Kickback by David M. Reutter A panel headed by Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons has approved a contract that reduces the cost of in-state collect …
Article • October 15, 2008 • from PLN October, 2008
States Expand Registration Laws to Include Drug Offenses by States Expand Registration Laws to Include Drug Offenses In 2003, Montana began including persons convicted of manufacturing illegal drugs on its sex offender and violent offender Internet registry. Since then, Tennessee, Minnesota, Kansas and Illinois have created online registries for people …
Article • October 15, 2008 • from PLN October, 2008
Federal Prisoner in State Jail Custody Illegally Denied State Court Name Change Petition by Federal Prisoner in State Jail Custody Illegally Denied State Court Name Change Petition The California Court of Appeal has reversed the Fresno Superior Court’s denial of a name-change petition filed by a federal prisoner awaiting sentencing …
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