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Article • November 15, 2008 • from PLN November, 2008
Ex-Warden’s Wife Charged With Assisting Prison Escapee by Gary Hunter In April 2008, charges were filed against Bobbi Parker, 46, who is accused of hiding convicted killer Randolph Dial in her van and driving him out of the Oklahoma State Reformatory (OSR) on August 30, 1994. The pair remained missing …
Florida County Sheriff Liable for $1.5 Million for Acts of Informant on Work Release by Florida County Sheriff Liable for $1.5 Million for Acts of Informant on Work Release On May 18, 2007, a Florida jury found the Hendry County Sheriff is liable for injuries caused by a prisoner it …
Article • November 15, 2008 • from PLN November, 2008
HIV Cases in U.S. Prisons Decline by by Matt Clarke In September 2007, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics released a bulletin showing known cases of prisoners infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and those with confirmed AIDS declined for the sixth straight year in 2005. …
Article • November 15, 2008 • from PLN November, 2008
Justice Policy Institute Brief Links Crime, Wages and Unemployment by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 1, 2007, the Justice Policy Institute (JPI), a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, published a research brief linking crime rates to wages and unemployment levels. In general terms, JPI found that higher crime rates …
Crack Cocaine Offenders Denied Representation for Sentence Reductions by Brandon Sample Crack Cocaine Offenders Denied Representation for Sentence Reductions by Brandon Sample In the wake of the U.S. Sentencing Commission’s decision to reduce penalties for federal crack cocaine offenses, and to make those changes retroactive effective March 3, 2008, crack …
Article • November 15, 2008 • from PLN November, 2008
Snitch: Informants, Cooperators & the Corruption of Justice, by Ethan Brown Public Affairs Publishing, 273 pages, $25.95 by David Preston Snitch: Informants, Cooperators & the Corruption of Justice, by Ethan Brown Public Affairs Publishing, 273 pages, $25.95 Reviewed by David Preston “Snitch” – the word is one of the most …
Article • November 15, 2008 • from PLN November, 2008
Former Illinois Prison Watchdog Group Executive Acquitted of Bribing Prison Officials by Former Illinois Prison Watchdog Group Executive Acquitted of Bribing Prison Officials On May 7, 2008, a federal judge acquitted Michael J. Mahoney, former executive director of a prison watchdog organization, of involvement in the payment of $20,000 in …
Article • November 15, 2008 • from PLN November, 2008
Identity of Prisoner Who Smuggled Gun into New Jersey Facility Revealed by Appeals Court by Gary Hunter Identity of Prisoner Who Smuggled Gun into New Jersey Facility Revealed by Appeals Court by Gary Hunter A prisoner accused of smuggling a gun into a New Jersey prison two years ago was …
Article • October 15, 2008 • from PLN October, 2008
Washington State Crime Lab Chief Resigns by Gary Hunter Washington crime lab chief Barry Logan resigned effective March 14, 2008, after judges in three counties roundly criticized the work performed in state laboratories under his supervision. The fallout mainly stemmed from hundreds of DUI cases that were improperly handled by …
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
Prior Failure to Register as Sex Offender Does Not Violate Adam Walsh Act by Prior Failure to Register as Sex Offender Does Not Violate Adam Walsh Act On December 5, 2007, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri granted a motion for judgment of acquittal in a …
Article • October 15, 2008 • from PLN October, 2008
Washington DOC Fires McNeil Island Employee for Prisoner Fund Theft by Washington DOC Fires McNeil Island Employee for Prisoner Fund Theft On February 22, 2008, the Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC) fired Colleen Brixley, 48, a fiscal analyst at the McNeil Island Corrections Center, for stealing $103,000 from the …
Article • October 15, 2008 • from PLN October, 2008
New York Mail Rule Disciplinary Conviction Reversed by The Appellate Division, Fourth Department, of the New York Supreme Court has ordered the removal from a prisoner’s institutional record of a misbehavior report for failing to comply with correspondence rules. Curtis Davis, a prisoner at New York’s Attica prison, commenced an …
Massachusetts’ Mental Health Treatment Policies Prove Deadly for Public, Prisoners by David Reutter by David M. Reutter As America’s prisons continue their transformation into mental health institutions, little thought is given to mentally ill prisoners who languish within the harsh confines of prison environments with little if any treatment. That …
Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System, by Silja Talvi ;Seal Press, 359 pp. $15.95 by Alexis Paige Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System, by Silja Talvi, Seal Press, 359 pp. $15.95 Reviewed by Alexis Paige Silja J.A. Talvi’s …
“I CAN Learn” Software Procurement for Kentucky DOC Questioned by Matthew Clarke “I CAN Learn” Software Procurement for Kentucky DOC Questioned by Matt Clarke The “I CAN Learn” educational software produced by New Orleans-based JRL Enterprises, which was adopted by the Kentucky Department of Corrections (KDOC), is under scrutiny for …
Millions Paid in Mississippi Jail Deaths; Ten Guards Sentenced for Abuses; Corruption Continues by Bob Williams “The house always wins,” Warden Don Cabana proclaimed to the Sun Herald, a Mississippi newspaper, in July 2007. However, Harrison County, home of the Harrison County Adult Detention Center (ADC), has agreed to pay …
Of 426 California Prisoner Deaths in 2006, 66 Found to be Preventable by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg In August 2007, former California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) federal healthcare Receiver Robert Sillen issued a report titled Analysis of CDCR Death Reviews, prepared by the CDCR’s Death Review …
Arizona DOC Guard Reinstated Despite Error Resulting in Prisoner’s Murder by Arizona’s state personnel board has overturned disciplinary actions against two prison employees who were implicated in errors leading to the murder of a prisoner at ASPC Florence. The board determined that although mistakes occurred, they should not have resulted …
Texas Federal Judge Acquits VitaPro Defendants by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On April 22, 2008, Houston, Texas, federal judge Lynn Hughes acquitted former Texas prison chief James “Andy” Collins, 57, and former president and CEO of VitaPro Foods Yank Barry of federal charges for bribery, money laundering, conspiracy and …
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