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Article • August 15, 2011 • from PLN August, 2011
Filed under: Organizing, Voting
Ninth Circuit Upholds Arizona’s Felon Disenfranchisement Law by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held on May 27, 2010 that Arizona’s felon disenfranchisement law does not violate the Fourteenth Amendment. The law is based on Arizona’s Constitution, which provides that anyone convicted of treason …
Article • August 15, 2011 • from PLN August, 2011
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News In Brief by Alabama: A prisoner’s refusal to surrender a contraband cell phone to guards led to an uprising at the Holman prison in April 2011 that was quelled by the facility’s SORT team. “The inmates did not take over the unit. What actually happened, the supervisor came on …
Article • August 15, 2011
Wisconsin Pretrial Detainees Subject To Same Conditions As Prisoners by Wisconsin State pro se detainee patient at the Sand Ridge Secure Treatment Center (Center), Eric Hendrickson, brought federal action and alleged state law violations against the State and the Center. He claimed violation for being a pretrial detainee but being …
Article • August 15, 2011
California’s Child Abuse Database (CACI) Violated Due Process by Mark Wilson By Mark Wilson The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that California’s “Child Abuse Central Index” (CACI) database violates due process because identified individuals are not given a fair opportunity to challenge the allegations against them. Under California Penal …
Article • August 15, 2011 • from PLN August, 2011
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
Ohio Prison Industry Cranks Out Crappy Toilet Paper by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The foray by Ohio Penal Industries (OPI), a branch of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, into manufacturing toilet paper has turned out to be a crappy deal for taxpayers. OPI creates a wide …
Article • August 15, 2011 • from PLN August, 2011
Provision in Florida Law Prohibits Compensation to Wrongfully Convicted by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A “clean hands” provision in a Florida law designed to compensate wrongfully convicted prisoners is preventing most of those prisoners from receiving compensation. Of 13 men cleared by DNA evidence in Florida, only one …
Article • August 15, 2011 • from PLN August, 2011
U.S. Department of Justice Seeks $28.2 Billion Budget by Despite initial reports that the Justice Department’s 2012 budget would decrease, the latest numbers indicate the Department will seek a 2% increase, including a 10% hike for prison operations. During a February 14, 2011 public news briefing, Deputy Attorney General James …
Washington Prison Guards Sue Prisoners by Brandon Sample Prisoners who attack Washington state prison guards can add one more potential consequence to their actions – garnishment of their commissary accounts. The effort to garnish prisoners’ accounts is being spearheaded by the Washington Staff Assault Task Force (WSATF), a group of …
Article • August 15, 2011 • from PLN August, 2011
Prison Records Officer Entitled to Qualified Immunity; No Evidence of Deliberate Indifference to Sentencing Errors by Mark Wilson On April 22, 2010, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals held that a Pennsylvania prison records officer was entitled to qualified immunity for a prisoner allegedly being confined 10 months beyond his …
Article • August 15, 2011 • from PLN August, 2011
$17.5 Million Verdict for Diabetic Prisoner in New York by A diabetic prisoner who was denied insulin by officers with the New York Police Department (NYPD) was awarded $17.5 million by a Brooklyn jury on October 19, 2010. For nearly 58 hours after Jose Vargas’ arrest on drug charges in …
Insider Trading Charges Against Private Prison Consultant Rejected by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A Florida federal district court has rejected insider trading charges brought against a consultant for Correctional Services Corporation (CSC). The civil complaint, filed in September 2008 by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), charged Dr. …
Article • August 15, 2011 • from PLN August, 2011
Louisiana Attorney Permanently Disbarred but Not Criminally Charged for Pimping Child to Jail Prisoners by David Reutter by David M. Reutter An attorney’s failure to respect the authority of the Louisiana Supreme Court, “as well as his use of his position as an attorney to obtain sexual gratification at the …
Article • August 15, 2011 • from PLN August, 2011
Filed under: Organizing, Voting
Voting Rights Must Be “Earned” Back, Says Iowa Governor by Brandon Sample Regaining voting rights for former felons in Iowa just got harder. Making good on a campaign promise, the newly-elected governor of Iowa, Terry Branstad, a Republican, has rescinded a July 4, 2005 executive order that allowed felons to …
Article • August 15, 2011 • from PLN August, 2011
Hawaii State Auditor Blasts Private Prison Contracting; State Renews Contract Anyway by On December 29, 2010, the State Auditor of Hawaii released a report highly critical of the way the Hawaii Department of Public Safety (DPS) contracts for private prison beds on the U.S. mainland. The report found that the …
Article • August 15, 2011
Ninth Circuit: California DOC's 15-Day Administrative Appeal Filing-Time-Limit Applies to Initial Instance of Grievance - Not To Ongoing Recurrence by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, following remand from the U.S. Supreme Court, held that a California prisoner had not exhausted his administrative …
Article • August 15, 2011
Federal BOP Discharges Severely Disabled Prisoner To Closed Homeless Shelter by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg On August 8, 2008, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) discharged prisoner Michael McHone from its Edgefield, South Carolina prison to spend his first night in a motel. The next day, a Saturday, …
Federal Guard Convicted, Facing Life for Conspiracy Leading to Prisoner's Death by Michael Brodheim Michael Brodheim In a rare prosecution of a corrections officer, a Florida federal jury convicted 33-year-old Erin Sharma of conspiring with fellow guard Michael Kennedy to deprive prisoner Richard Delano, 40, of his civil rights by …
Ohio Legislature Cannot Increase Sex Offender Registration Requirements Imposed By Court by Michael Brodheim By Michael Brodheim A divided Ohio Court of Appeals has held that changes to the state's Sex Offender Registration and Notification (SORN) Act, increasing its registration and notification requirements, violate the constitutional separation of powers doctrine …
Article • August 15, 2011
Alabama Sheriff Jailed For Starving Prisoners: States Cut Prisoner Meals by Gary Hunter By Gary Hunter Morgan County Sheriff Greg Bartlett was arrested by federal authorities on January 8, 2009, after he admitted to pocketing $200,000 designated for prisoners' meals in the Alabama jail. Johnny Maynor and Anthony Murphree, prisoners …
Article • August 15, 2011
Filed under: Classification, Transfers, Food
Judge Orders Marshals to Transfer Prisoner Due to Inadequate Diet at Jail by Brandon Sample By Brandon Sample United States Magistrate Judge Todd Campbell has ordered the U.S. Marshals Service to transfer a pre-trial detainee from a county jail after determining the jail failed to provide a nutritionally adequate diet. …
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