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Speaking Truth to Power - Testimonies from prisoners in US, Prison Watch Program, 2014

Publication • February 12, 2016

Filed under: Advocacy, Statistics/Trends, Conditions of Confinement

to be removed by 10-18-13 through surgery, then suffered retaliation threats and harassment by guards and civilian personnel for standing up to prison abuse. I still have this tumor and no operation and care ...

Disability Rights, MS, Cruel and Unsusual Punishment in Mississippi Prisons, 2021

Publication • 2021

Filed under: Cruel and Unusual Punishment

of Abuse, Discrimination & Undue Death Sentences A SPECIAL REPORT FROM DISABILITY RIGHTS MISSISSIPPI EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Investigations by Disability Rights Mississippi (DRMS) have revealed that, for many ...

Ma Prison Voice Paper Spring 2013

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Filed under: Organizing, Advocacy

working on posting the issues of the MPV on it and hopefully expanding from there. I will be having eye surgery next month and am hoping that this will help me to be able to stay on the computer for longer ...

PLN quoted in "Bad Medicine" re medical care at WA women's prison

In-the-News Article • January 1, 1999

: McCune cut the brachial artery in her arm. "I lost 75 percent of my blood," she recalls. "I was gone for 10 minutes." She was rushed to a nearby hospital for emergency surgery. When she ...

INS Detention Standards Compliance Audit - ACI-Cranston Intake Service Center, Cranston, RI, 2002

Publication • May 27, 2016

Filed under: Corrections Audits, Immigration

have its own "rule book" that all detainees receive upon arrival. Nothing in the rulebook relates to INS or INS detainees, in apparent contravention of the Standards. See Standards, Detainee Handbook & I ...

“Deep-Seated Culture of Violence” and Abysmal Medical Care at Rikers Island

Article • July 7, 2015 • from PLN July, 2015

Filed under: Corizon, Contractor Misconduct, Guard Misconduct, Prison Rebellion, Systemic Medical Neglect, Private Contractors, Failure to Protect (General), Jail Specific, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Pepper Spray/Tear Gas, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Suicides

Hunter Pressure is mounting to speed the progress of reforms at New York City’s infamous Rikers Island jail complex, as city and federal officials focus on two primary areas that have drawn the focus ...

Ex parte Moreno-245 S.W.3d 419 (Tex.Crim.App. 2008)

Case • 2008

as "a cold-blooded killer," but more like "a frightened child." He described himself to her as "pretty much [**12] a loner for a long time, and did not have . . . a lot of close connections." She "sensed ...

Tapa v. Naphcare, WA, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2022

Brief • October 7, 2022

Filed under: Failure to Treat

at the Jail. This 3 includes, again, failing to have and follow proper training, policies, and procedures for the care and 4 treatment of people in the Jail. It also includes a cold-hearted attitude ...

Ntl Registry Exonerations Report Update April 2013

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Filed under: Sentencing, Wrongful Conviction

have continued to add cases since; our current totals are 67 for 2012 and 76 for 2009.)  Old exonerations. About two-thirds of the cases we added (120/178) – occurred in earlier years but were ...

The Succession Battle for a Prison Empire

Article • December 1, 2025 • from PLN December, 2025

Filed under: Telephone Rates, Private Phone Contractors

. By the 1990s, that had changed: Rates for prison phone calls were rising dramatically, even as telecom costs decreased for everyone else. Perks for prison bosses have always been a central ...

Rouster v County of Saginaw Mi Complaint Jail Death Perforated Ulcer 2011

Brief • 2011

6 of 23 On May 10, 2007 at approximately 12:34 a.m. Conley discovered that Jerry was vomiting but failed to have him seen by an RN, doctor or transferred to a hospital emergency room (“ER”). 25 ...

Soaring Number of Detainee Deaths Spotlights Ongoing Crisis at Harris County Jail

Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023

Filed under: Wrongful Death

of the Harris County Jail (HCJ) – the highest number of deaths at the Texas facility in nearly two decades. Already 11 more have died in HCJ custody from January 1 to July 13, 2023. This article briefly ...

Old Behind Bars Report on Elderly in Prison, Human Rights Watch, 2012

Publication • September 9, 2016

Filed under: Geriatric Classification, Statistics/Trends

, or walk long distances to meals or the pill line; whose old bones suffer from thin mattresses and winter’s cold; who need wheelchairs, walkers, canes, portable oxygen, and hearing aids; who cannot get ...

Journal 17-1

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Filed under: Magazines, ACLU National Prison Project Journal

into educational and vocational training programs. "Since 1987, prisoners withHIV/AIDS in Alabama have fought to receive the same opportunities to learn and rehabilitate themselves as other prisoners," said Margaret ...

Bowers v. Philadelphia, Order, Pa, Conditions, 2007

Brief • January 25, 2007

’ request for declaratory and injunctive relief will be granted. 1 The parties have referred to the Police Districts as CCTV locations. Case 2:06-cv-03229-RBS I. Document 94 Filed 01/25/2007 Page 2 ...

Exhibit Solitary Lockup Mentally Ill Prisoners Sc

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Filed under: Mental Health

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Hill v. BOP, CO, Complaint - Inmate Housing and Mental Health Services ,2013

Brief • December 17, 2013

Filed under: Prisoner-Prisoner Assault, Mental Health, Transgender, Discrimination (Transgender), Failure to Protect (Transgender)

Defendants' awareness of the heightened risk posed to Ms. Hill's safety, they have failed to protect her from actual and ongoing substantial risks of, serious harm. Ms. Hill seeks nominal, compensatory ...

Correctional Facility Disturbances 1998-2008, GEO, 2008

Publication • May 26, 2016

Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut, Corrections Audits

the premises without the supervision of a sworn peace officer. GEO has identified forty (40) “criminal justice facilities” that we have operated in the United States since 1998. Of the forty (40) facilities ...

Nunez v Nyc Ny Complaint Unnecessary Excessive Force on City Jail Inmates 2012

Brief • May 24, 2012

(the “Unconstitutional Use of Force Practice”). Defendants include officers and captains who have inflicted brutal beatings on the named plaintiffs and other inmates, and who have lied and coerced false statements ...

Aclu Military Prison Death Reports Part5

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Filed under: Military, Military Prisons

-lIOIIriJhed unclld C.llCIIian male.. The body weip IpplOkimlltely '60 pounds (eslimltocl). is 68" in Ilciibt and appears COIIlpiotible with the fq)lItIN 'ie of 31 years. The body t~ is cold, ttlal of the refri ...