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Don't Shoot Portland v. City of Portland, OR, Court Order, Excessive Force Against Protestors, 2020 Case 3:20-cv-00917-HZ Document 29 Filed 06/09/20 Page 1 of 10 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF OREGON DON’T SHOOT PORTLAND, a nonprofit corporation, in its individual capacity; NICHOLAS J. ROBERTS, in …
Don't Shoot Portland v. City of Portland, OR, Complaint, Excessive Force Against Protestors, 2020 Case 3:20-cv-00917-HZ Document 1 Filed 06/05/20 Jesse Merrithew, OSB No. 074564 Email: jesse@lmhlegal.com Viktoria Safarian, OSB No. 175487 Email: viktoria@lmhlegal.com Levi Merrithew Horst PC 610 SW Alder Street, Suite 415 Portland, Oregon 97205 Telephone: (971) 229-1241 …
Don't Shoot Portland v. City of Portland, OR, Motion for Temp Restraining Order, Excessive Force Against Protestors, 2020 Case 3:20-cv-00917-HZ Document 2 Filed 06/05/20 Page 1 of 38 Jesse Merrithew, OSB No. 074564 Email: jesse@lmhlegal.com Viktoria Safarian, OSB No. 175487 Email: viktoria@lmhlegal.com Levi Merrithew Horst PC 610 SW Alder Street, …
Article • June 1, 2020 • from PLN June, 2020
Thinking in a Pandemic: Let the People Go by Joseph Margulies States should release from prison far more than the very small percentage of low-level, nonviolent offenders they hold. by Joseph Margulies, Boston Review, April 20, 2020 http://bostonreview.net/law-justice/joseph-margulies-prisons-and-pandemics COVID-19 spreads where people congregate. With rare exception, it preys on the …
Interview: David Fathi of ACLU’s National Prison Project on Criminal Justice Reform in the Age of Coronavirus by Ken Silverstein by Ken Silverstein David Fathi is Director of the American Civil Liberties Union National Prison Project, which brings challenges to conditions of confinement in prisons, jails, and other detention facilities, …
Article • June 1, 2020 • from PLN June, 2020
Interview: Don Specter of the Prison Law Office on California Prisons, COVID-19 and Governor Newsom by Ken Silverstein by Ken Silverstein Don Specter is the executive director of the Berkeley, California-based Prison Law Office, a nonprofit public interest law firm that provides free legal services to adult and juvenile offenders. …
Publication • 2020
The Role of Prisoner Voice in Criminal Justice Reform d ~EORGE ON DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS UNIVERSITY THE ROLE OF PRISONER VOICE IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM KAITLYN WOLTZ George Mason University Department of Economics Working Paper No. 20-50 Electronic copy available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3748768 The Role of Prisoner Voice in Criminal Justice …
Publication • 2020
Filed under: Protests
Inciting a Riot - Silent Sentinels, Group Protests, and Prisoners' Petition and Associational Rights “Inciting a Riot”: Silent Sentinels, Group Protests, and Prisoners’ Petition and Associational Rights Nicole B. Godfrey* CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................1113 I. THE SUFFRAGISTS’ PROTESTS ..........................................................1118 A. Alice Paul and Lessons Learned from the Suffragettes ..............1119 B. The …
Publication • 2020
But Who Oversees the Overseers, the Status of Prison and Jail Oversight in the United States, 2020 _DEITCH_V7.DOCX 2/23/2021 10:00 AM Article BUT WHO OVERSEES THE OVERSEERS?: THE STATUS OF PRISON AND JAIL OVERSIGHT IN THE UNITED STATES Michele Deitch  Distinguished Senior Lecturer at the University of Texas, with …
Publication • 2020
Council on Criminal Justice, Reshaping Criminal Justice After COVID-19, 2020 ., .... '· .~tj•. ., -1- ' •• .. ..1 About the Council The Council on Criminal Justice (the “Council”) works to advance understanding of the criminal justice policy choices facing the nation and build consensus for solutions that enhance …
Publication • 2020
The Square One Project - Understanding Health Reform as Justice Reform 2020 THE SOUARE ONE PROJECT REIMAGINE JUSTICE EXECUTIVE SESSION ON THE FUTURE OF JUSTICE POLICY OCTOBER 2020 Lynda Zeller, Michigan Health Endowment Fund Jackie Prokop, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, PhD, University of Texas at Tyler UNDERSTANDING …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Coalition Fights to Ensure Jailed Voters in Arizona Can Vote by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer In 1974, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that jail detainees who are under no voting disability — which essentially means that they have not yet been convicted of a felony and lost their right …
Publication • April 29, 2020
Abolishing Private Prisons: A Constitutional and Moral Imperative, University of Baltimore Law Review, 2020 CRAIG-CUMMINGS (DO NOT DELETE) 4/29/20 11:21 AM ABOLISHING PRIVATE PRISONS: A CONSTITUTIONAL AND MORAL IMPERATIVE Robert Craig* and andré douglas pond cummings+ I. INTRODUCTION President Richard Nixon declared a “War on Drugs” in 1971.1 President Ronald …
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
Filed under: Voting, State Legislation
More States Restore Felony Voting Rights by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter In 2019, Colorado, Louisiana, New Jersey, and Nevada enacted legislation to restore voting rights to felons who have been released from prison but are still under such supervision, the latest of 24 states to make similar …
California Prison Officials Put Hold on Policy That Led to “Gladiator Fights” by Michael Fortino, Ph.D by Michael Fortino, Ph.D. In September 2019, California prison administrators and officials agreed to put a hold on a policy known as “incremental release” after complaints from prisoners and their relatives that it had …
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
GEO Group, Largest Private Prison Contractor, Cranks Up Political Contributions During Trump Years by Michael Fortino, Ph.D by Michael Fortino, Ph.D. In August 2016, just after an Obama administration decision to stop contracting with for-profit private prisons sent its stock price tumbling, GEO Group, Inc., the country’s largest private prison …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Santa Rita Sheriff’s Office Says Prisoners Not Being Maltreated; Prisoners’ Protest Says Otherwise by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Detainees and prisoners at the Santa Rita Jail (SRJ) in Dublin, California, participated in a peaceful protest over the unsanitary and unconstitutional conditions in the jail. Beginning October 30, 2019, between …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Most States Saw Criminal Justice Reforms in 2019, But Incarceration Rates Remain High by Victoria Law by Victoria Law, reprinted from Truthout On December 20, 2019, criminal justice advocates celebrated the news that President Trump signed the Fair Chance Act into law. Tucked into a massive defense spending bill, the …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Filed under: Organizing
Riots At South Carolina Prison Spark Wave of Lawsuits by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter The April 15, 2018, riot at South Carolina’s Lee Correctional Institution (LCI) illustrates the consequences of prison understaffing. That riot was the worst in America’s prisons in 25 years. The toll was seven …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Filed under: Voting, Statistics/Trends
States Rush to End Prison Gerrymandering Before Districts Are Set For Another 10 years by Aleks Kajstura by Aleks Kajstura, Legal Director, Prison Policy Initiative In January, New Jersey became the 7th state to end prison gerrymandering – the practice of using incarcerated people to inflate the population of rural …
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