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Article • January 15, 2010 • from PLN January, 2010
Don’t Build it Here Revisited (or “There is no Economic Salvation Through Incarceration”) - Prisons Do Not Create Jobs by Clayton Mosher by Clayton Mosher and Gregory Hooks Despite widespread popular beliefs that prison construction offers substantial economic benefits to local areas, empirical research has suggested otherwise. In an article …
Settlement in Class-Action Suit Against CCA Modified After PLN Unseals Court Documents by Alex Friedmann Last October, PLN reported that Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest private prison firm, had settled a class action lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Kansas that raised claims under the Fair Labor …
Article • January 15, 2010 • from PLN January, 2010
Prison Video Visitation Expands into For-Profit Market by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Businesses seeking to profit from the exponential expansion of our nation’s prison population are now turning to visitation. Florida-based JPay is implementing its “video-conference visitation” in Indiana’s prison system, while other companies, such as einmate.com, are …
South Dakota: Prisoner May Enforce Third-Party Kosher Meal Obligation by The South Dakota Supreme Court has ruled that a state prisoner can bring a third-party beneficiary claim to enforce a settlement agreement between the South Dakota Department of Corrections (DOC) and another prisoner. Charles E. Sisney, a DOC prisoner, filed …
Massachusetts Court of Appeals Reinstates Prisoner’s Dental Negligence Suit by Andrew W. Kilburn, a Massachusetts state prisoner, filed suit in state superior court alleging negligence and violation of the Eighth Amendment by Department of Correction (DOC) officials and medical personnel employed by Correctional Medical Services (CMS) and University of Massachusetts …
Calls over Monitored Phone to Attorney not Protected by Sixth Amendment by U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert E. Larsen has recommended the denial of a motion to suppress audio recordings obtained by the United States from CCA that contained attorney-client communications. While awaiting trial on federal charges, Gary Eye allegedly conspired …
Article • December 15, 2009
Kicking the National Habit: The Legal and Policy Arguments for Abolishing Private Prison Contracts by Lucas Anderson By Lucas Anderson * I. Introduction II. Background A. Historical Perspectives and the Growth of the Private Prison Industry B. The Debate over Prison Privatization III. Prison Administration Is an Inherently Governmental Function …
Article • December 15, 2009 • from PLN December, 2009
Improbable Private Prison Scam Plays Out in Hardin, Montana by Alex Friedmann “Trouble, oh we got trouble, right here in River City! With a capital ‘T’ that rhymes with ‘P,’ and that stands for pool.” – Professor Hill The above quote is from The Music Man, a 1957 Broadway musical …
Article • December 15, 2009 • from PLN December, 2009
Behind Montana Jail Fiasco: How Private Prison Developers Prey on Desperate Towns by Justin Elliott With the unraveling of the deal for the shadowy American Private Police Force to take over and populate an empty jail in Hardin, Montana, it’s pretty clear that the small city got played by an …
Private Prisons Don’t Make Better Prisoners by Andrew L. Spivak by Prof. Andrew L. Spivak The incarceration rate, which from the 1920s to the early 1970s hovered between about 100 to 120 state and federal prisoners per 100,000 Americans, has risen nearly fourfold. While the rate of increase has slowed …
Arizona Jail’s Medical Failures Due to Inadequate Record Keeping, Understaffing by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Medical care for approximately 10,000 prisoners in the Maricopa County jail system is an abject failure. That may explain why the Arizona county, which is the fourth largest in the nation, has had to …
Florida Law Enforcement Officials on the Wrong Side of the Law by David Reutter by David M. Reutter “We’re a law-respecting, law-abiding community. ... We teach our children to respect and look up to men and women who wear badges, and that’s the way it oughta be,” said Florida state …
LULAC Returns CCA Donation by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke As the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) prepared for a June 20, 2009 protest in Williamson County, Texas outside the T. Don Hutto Family Residential Facility, a secure immigration detention center run by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), …
PLN Associate Editor Attends ACA Conference by From August 7 to 12, 2009, the American Correctional Association (ACA) held its 139th Congress of Correction at the Opryland Hotel and Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee. The theme of the conference was “Effective Re-entry is Good Public Safety.” Founded in 1870 as …
Privatized Prison Medical Care in Mississippi Still Problematic by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Anyone looking for evidence that privatized prison health care is a complete failure need look no further than Mississippi. In 2001, the per capita death rate for Mississippi prisoners was around the national average. By …
Revised List of ICE Detainee Deaths Still Incomplete, Updated Again by Mark Wilson At least 92 detainees died in immigration detention facilities between October 2003 and February 2009, according to an updated list compiled by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The list, which was obtained by the New York Times …
Florida to Allow Exportation of Prisoners to Other States by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Florida lawmakers have handed a victory to the private prison industry by passing a bill (SB 1722) that allows Florida prisoners to be exported to out-of-state facilities, which are mostly privately-operated. When Governor Charlie …
Oklahoma Legislators Not Considering Closing State Prisons, Unless They Are by Matthew T. Clarke by Matt Clarke On April 7, 2009, Oklahoma State Senate President Pro Tem Glenn Coffee was accused of asking the Oklahoma Department of Corrections (DOC) to conduct a study analyzing the cost of closing certain state …
Article • October 15, 2009 • from PLN October, 2009
Florida DOC and Keefe Gouge Prisoners on Commissary Sales by David Reutter by David M. Reutter While the economic downturn has caused the price of goods and commodities to decrease in the free world, the cost of items in Florida’s prison canteens has skyrocketed under a new contract. Florida law …
PLN Prevails in Motion to Unseal Settlement in CCA Class Action FLSA Case by On August 28, 2009, the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas unsealed a settlement agreement in a nationwide class-action lawsuit against Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest private prison firm. On July …
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