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Article • July 6, 2016 • from PLN July, 2016
fines or fees in Dekalb County Recorders Court. Those changes include: 1) Adoption of a “bench card” that provides instructions to judges on how to protect defendants’ right to counsel ...
Article • September 2, 2016 • from PLN September, 2016
calls will be capped at $0.23/min., effective January 1, 2018. Advocates argued that the bill, which received bipartisan support, will reduce recidivism and help prisoners reintegrate ...
fees and costs. See: K.J. v. Bishop, U.S.D.C.-D.I11.1 Case No. 1:1-cv-07289. ...
Article • August 26, 2016
Justice Assistance Grant Program (JAG}—the federal government's largest criminal justice subsidy—while less than 1% of JAG funds goes toward defending the poor. "Despite repeated calls from ...
Article • October 12, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
punishment. Oslund was awarded $5 million in compensatory damages plus $1 million in punitive damages, and judgment was entered in his favor. However, less than a month later, on April 2, 2018, U.S. Magistrate ...
Article • August 30, 2017 • from PLN September, 2017
not commit. After having his conviction thrown out by an appeals court and being found not guilty in a subsequent retrial, Deacon, 61, sued the City of New York for malicious prosecution.  On November 1 ...
Article • August 30, 2017 • from PLN September, 2017
Filed under: Medical, Prisoner Property
with possession of a weapon and supplying contraband. The parties agreed to apply the statutory definition of “dangerous weapon” found in ORS 161.015(1), which provides, “under the circumstances ...
Article • December 19, 2017
, and policies and procedures of Angola's medical care. Dr. Thomas avowed that he would testify to the following expert opinions: 1) that incarceration facilities were primarily medical care; 2) it is not unusual ...
Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
Filed under: Religious Diet
to receive kosher meals in accordance with their religious beliefs. The agreement required the IDOC to implement a “No-Touch diet system” by November 1, 2017 for all prisoners who requested kosher ...
Article • September 4, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
detainees reported “live rattlesnakes in their sleeping quarters,” according to KJZZ. Both the West Texas and Prairieland facilities are now run by LaSalle Corrections [see: PLN, Feb. 2013, p.1 ...
Article • September 10, 2018
nearby police to shoot him. During an emergency room visit, David Powell, LCSW/MHP, performed a mental health evaluation. He found that J.J. was suffering from “Bipolar 1 disorder, severe ...
by his parents for $1.6 million. [See: PLN, March 2016, p.1]. Austin Losorelli hung himself at the jail despite the fact that both he and his father, Los Angeles Police Department lieutenant Joe Losorelli ...
Article • April 13, 2017
to supervise those 1,481 prisoners, an 8.4 to 1 guard to prisoner ratio. It has used overtime to increase the number of onsite guards to 216, or a 6.9 to 1 ratio, which cost ADOC $2.9 million in overtime last ...
Article • April 3, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
as defendants while the other named Zink and WASPC. The trial court consolidated the cases. Revised Code of Washington (RCW) 42.56.070(1) mandates that each government agency “shall make available ...
Article • April 5, 2017
Filed under: Cost of Prison Systems
$1 billion for a 25,000 seat stadium for a Major League Soccer team, a 275,000 square-foot retail complex, 1 million square-feet of residential space, and 1.3 million square-feet of office space ...
Article • April 13, 2017
facilities: (1) a detainee can place acollect call, or (2) a family member or friend can contact the telephone service provider for the detention facility to establish a prepaid account which funds a detainee ...
Article • November 6, 2017 • from PLN November, 2017
Filed under: Parole, Parole Conditions
Centers (RRCs), nationwide. The BOP claims that the reduction in halfway houses will impact only 1 percent of affected prisoners nearing release, but a prisoners’ rights organization says the number ...
Article • September 12, 2017
of the Washington State Court of Appeals held in a 2-1 ruling that the Department of Corrections (DOC) was not liable for an assault suffered by a man while he was serving his term of community supervision following ...
Article • October 10, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
alleged that “(1) he routinely had to wait outdoors in adverse conditions to receive his medications, (2) he received inadequate care from the prison’s medical staff, and (3) the prison’s ...
Article • July 15, 2011 • from PLN July, 2011
-fived” each other in apparent celebration of the incident. [See: PLN, Oct. 2009, p.1]. Roberts filed a civil rights suit in U.S. District Court pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that the assaults ...
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