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Innocence Project Frees Thirty One People in 2013 by Thirty one people were exonerated by the Innocence Network in 2013. Three of them were women. All total, these prisoners served 451 years of illegal incarceration. Bennie Starks spent 20 years behind bars after being wrongfully convicted of raping a 69-year-old …
Article • January 12, 2016
Filed under: Probation
California’s Lack of Oversight for Probationary Programs Allows Questionable Business into Loop by David Reutter California law encourages life-skill organizations to become involved in criminal justice, but a lack of oversight has allowed some non-profits to talk about responsibility while the organization itself shirks it. A review by the Voice …
Article • January 12, 2016
California’s Efforts to Hide Deficiencies at Prison Psych Unit Failed by David Reutter With a federal court order looming, the psychiatric unit at California’s Salinas Valley State Prison (SVPP) violated its own policies and made risky admissions to reduce its patient waiting lists. As a three-judge panel was about to …
Article • January 12, 2016
Filed under: Prisoner Privileges, Family
California Photo Ban Rule Turns SHU Prisoners into Ghosts by David Reutter Hunger strikers and a federal lawsuit have pushed California prison officials to reverse a decades old policy that banned personal photographs of prisoners held in the state’s four special security housing units (SHU). While the reversal currently only …
Article • January 12, 2016
Filed under: Overcrowding, Booking Fees
Overcrowds Its Jail with People Who Can't Pay Court Fines and Fees by Joe Watson A recent analysis by the Tulsa World found that the percentage of bookings into the Tulsa, Oklahoma, County Jail involving warrants for failure to pay court fines and fees has more than tripled since 2004, …
Article • January 12, 2016
Texas Guards Who Fought with Juveniles Disciplined but Not Prosecuted by David Reutter Seven guards at a Texas Juvenile Justice Department (TJJ) facility have been fired or disciplined for assaulting teenage prisoners. Many of the incidents were caught on video. The TJJ established the Phoenix Program in 2012 to calm …
Article • January 12, 2016
Prison Guard Seeks Disability Payments for PTSD Related to Brother's Incarceration by Christopher Zoukis Brad Coleman, an Illinois Department of Corrections prison guard, has filed a disability claim with the state's retirement board.  His claim: a diagnosis of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), caused, he says, by the stress of working …
Article • January 12, 2016
Filed under: Booking Fees
Ohio ACLU Study Shows Pay-to-Stay Programs Don't Generate Much Revenue by Matthew Clarke A report released by the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio (ACLU) in June 2013 shows that the pay-to-stay fees charged by Ohio jails do not generate much revenue and damage indigent prisoners and their families. It …
Article • January 12, 2016
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Department of Justice Reports Third Year of Prison Population Declines by Matthew Clarke By Matt Clarke The Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice released a statistical report in July 2013 showing the third straight year of prisoner population declines in the United States. From year-end 2011 …
Article • January 12, 2016
The Bureaucracy of Mercy by Why hasn’t President Obama freed more prisoners? Maybe that’s the wrong question. By Bill Keller, The Marshall Project As the two presidents, one incoming and the other outgoing, shared a limo to the inauguration in January 2009, President Bush had some advice for President-elect Obama: “Announce …
Article • January 12, 2016
Dead Convicted Rapist Cop to be Sentenced by David Reutter A California court is scheduled to follow a victim’s request to sentence her rapist despite the fact that he committed suicide. Anthony Nicholas Orban was an Orange County detective who was off-duty when he went out “boozing and stalking cute …
Denver Sheriff’s Office Mishandles Prisoners’ Grievances by Denver’s Office of Independent Monitor (OIM) filed a six chapter report critiquing procedures within the Denver Police Department (DPD) and the Denver Sheriff’s Department (DSD). Chapter two of the report detailed deficiencies in the manner in which the DSD handled prisoners’ most serious …
In-the-News Article • January 12, 2016
Nevada DOC settles PLN suit over censorship, breach of settlement Jan. 12, 2016 Articles about PLN Litigation Las Vegas Sun State paying $475,000 over blocking inmate access to prison publication By Cy Ryan (contact) Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016 | 2:33 p.m. CARSON CITY — The state is going to pay a $475,000 settlement …
In-the-News Article • January 12, 2016
Nevada DOC settles PLN censorship suit for $475,000 Jan. 12, 2016 Articles about PLN Litigation Las Vegas Review-Journal Posted January 12, 2016 - 2:10pm State OKs $475K settlement in prison censorship case By Sandra Chereb Las Vegas Review-Journal Capital Bureau CARSON CITY — State officials Tuesday approved $475,000 to settle a …
Brief • January 12, 2016
Slone v. Lincoln County, KY, Plaintiff's First Discovery Request, Jail Suicide, 2016 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY CENTRAL DIVISION at LEXINGTON [Filed Electronically] CARRIE SLONE, Administratrix of the Estate of Tuanya Lee Slone, deceased, ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) PLAINTIFF v. LINCOLN …
Brief • January 12, 2016
Chua v. City of Los Angeles, CA, Complaint, false arrest wrongful detention of protestors, 2016 Case 2:16-cv-00237 Document 1 Filed 01/12/16 Page 1 of 31 Page ID #:1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Carol A. Sobel, SBN 84483 Colleen Mullen SBN 299059 …
Article • January 11, 2016
Washington State Must Rehire 3 Guards Fired for Complacency by David Reutter An arbitrator ordered the state of Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC) to rehire three guards fired on the heels of a guard’s murder. The arbitrator’s ruling found that “widespread… complacency” existed at the Monroe correctional Complex (MCC), which …
Too Many Prisoners in New Mexico Needlessly Held in Solitary, Report Says by Joe Watson In spite of his history of mental illness, Stephen Slevin was locked away in a small, padded cell in solitary confinement at the Dona Ana County, New Mexico, Detention Center not long after he was …
Article • January 11, 2016
Threat of Lawsuit Pushes Florida to Allow Circumcision of Jewish Prisoners by David Reutter With the help from students at the Stanford Law School’s Religious Liberty Clinic, Pablo Manuel Diaz, 37, became the first Florida prisoner to be circumcised while incarcerated. Diaz who is serving a life sentence at Blackwater …
Article • January 11, 2016
Filed under: Jail Specific
Texas Jail Expansion by another Name on Ballot Passes by David Reutter Jail expansion was unpopular in 2007 with voters in Harris County and the City of Houston. Learning from that defeat, local politicians gained approval of an expansion of the jail, but they called it something else on the …
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