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Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
$255 Awarded For Destruction of Prisoner’s Property by $255 Awarded For Destruction of Prisoner's Property The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DOC) appealed an order awarding state prisoner Carlos Escamilla $255 for property that turned up missing. Escamilla petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus to receive reimbursement. The …
9th Circuit Holds § 1997e(a) Applies to Private Prisons; Magazine Confiscation Is a “Prison Condition” by 9th Circuit Holds § 1997e(a) Applies to Private Prisons; Magazine Confiscation Is a "Prison Condition" The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of an Idaho prisoner's suit for non-exhaustion, concluding that the …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
Filed under: Media, Access to Media
New Jersey Prison Commissioner’s Complete Ban On Media Lifted by Gary Hunter New Jersey Prison Commissioner's Complete Ban On Media Lifted by Gary Hunter Immediately upon taking office, in January 2005, New Jersey Department of Corrections (DOC) Commissioner George Hayman imposed a total ban on media interviews with prisoners. DOC …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
Michigan Jail Prisoners Pay For Incarceration by Gary Hunter Under a law passed by Michigan legislators prisoners can now be required to pay up to $60 per day for the cost of their incarceration in city jails. Proposed by State Sen. Laura M. Toy, R-Livonia the law was signed into …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
Sixth Circuit Extends Abela Ruling to Parole Denial Habeas Petitions by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that the 90-day period to apply for certiorari review to the U.S. Supreme Court tolls the one-year statute of limitations for habeas corpus actions challenging parole denial. In so holding, the …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
Garnishment of Ohio Prisoner’s Account Permitted to Pay Court Costs by Garnishment of Ohio Prisoner's Account Permitted to Pay Court Costs The Ohio Supreme Court has held that the state may collect court costs from an indigent criminal defendant, including collection from a prisoner's account. Before the Court was the …
Ex-Communication: Competition and Collusion in the U.S. Prison Telephone Industry by Steven Jackson by Steven J. Jackson The prison communication industries occupy a large and significant blind spot within the literature of critical communication scholarship and the social sciences more generally. Professional arguments around crime, punishment and the American prison …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
Fifth Circuit Reinstates Texas Prisoners’ Challenge to Extended Lockdown by Michael Rigby Fifth Circuit Reinstates Texas Prisoners' Challenge to Extended Lockdown by Michael Rigby The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated a prisoner lawsuit challenging the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's practice of indefinite segregation without due process. C. …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
Oklahoma Regulation Confiscating Money Order From Other Prisoner’s Family Upheld by Oklahoma Regulation Confiscating Money Order From Other Prisoner's Family Upheld The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld an Oklahoma State Penitentiary (OSP) regulation that allows money sent to prisoners by a person on another prisoner's visitation list to …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief: by California: On November 17, 2006, Orange county jail prisoners Garrett Aguilar, 23; Stephen Carlstrom, 38; Michael Garten, 21; Eric Miller, 21; Jared Petrovich, 22 and Christopher Teague, 30, were charged with the murder of jail prisoner John Chamberlain, 41, who was beaten to death on October …
Tenth Circuit Reinstates Colorado Ad Seg Conditions Claims by Bob Williams The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has reversed a Colorado state prisoner?s administrative segregation (Ad Seg) conditions of confinement claims which were dismissed as frivolous by the United States District Court for the District of …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
From the Editor by Paul Wright Welcome to the first issue of PLN for 2007. With this issue, PLN now enters it?s 17th year of publishing. We have several important goals for the coming year so we can better serve our readers. Among them are expanding the size of the …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
Maryland Sentence Reduction Rule Violates Ex Post Facto Clause by The Maryland Court of Appeals has struck down an administrative regulation amending another regulation to deny previously authorized sentence reduction credits for certain categories of prisoners. In January of 2002, Quinton Demby, Jesse Baltimore, Kenneth Woodall, Daniel Falcone, and Earl …
Violence from Racial Tension and Overcrowding Pervades California Jails, Spreads to Prisons by Marvin Mentor by Marvin Mentor Los Angeles (L.A.) County jail prisoners have been locked in interracial gang-controlled violence for the past year, and the unrest has spread to other jails and into California state prisons as prisoners …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
Lawsuit Filed Over Health Care at Wisconsin Women’s Prison, More Possible by Michael Rigby Lawsuit Filed Over Health Care at Wisconsin Women's Prison, More Possible by Michael Rigby The medical, dental, and mental health care provided to female prisoners at the Taycheedah Correctional Institution in Fon du Lac, Wisconsin, is …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
Vermont DOC Agrees To Stop Punishing Self-Harming Prisoners by Michael Rigby On May 18, 2006, the Vermont Department of Corrections (VDOC) settled a class-action lawsuit by agreeing to stop punishing prisoners who harm themselves. The VDOC further agreed to implement training, retain consultants, and document the mental health assessments of …
200 Dead in Brazil Prison Uprisings, Street Violence by Gary Hunter In May 2006, approximately 200 people were killed in Sao Paulo, Brazil as gang members of the Primerio Comando da Capital ? the First Capital Command, known by its Portuguese initials, PCC ? clashed with police in the streets …
California’s “High-Risk” Sex Offender Parolees Ostracized; Parole Official Fired by John Dannenberg California's "High-Risk" Sex Offender Parolees Ostracized; Parole Official Fired by John E. Dannenberg California's 2,000 "high-risk" sex offenders (HRSOs) currently on parole are increasingly being ostracized following relentless publicity as to their whereabouts, forcing parole officials to continuously …
Washington Women’s Prison Healthcare Violations Continue by Washington Women?s Prison Healthcare Violations Continue As we've reported extensively, health care at the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW), has been woefully inadequate for decades. Reform efforts have been underway since 1993, but the more things change, the more they stay the …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
The Prison and Jail Industry—Who Will Run It by Gary Hunter The Prison and Jail Industry--Who Will Run It by Gary Hunter With the huge growth in American prisons between 1980 and 1990, the American Correctional. Association (ACA) went looking in the past to solve both foreseeable and current problems. …
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