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Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
Sixth Circuit Terminates Glover v. Johnson by In 1977, two groups of female prisoners of the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) brought two separate §1983 civil complaints against the MDOC and various staff alleging Equal Protection and First Amendment violations with regard to educational and vocational programming (female prisoners sought …
Marriott Cancels Prison Protest Concert by Sodexho-Marriot is a huge transnational corporation mainly consisting of hotel and food service operations. Marriott Dining Services, a subsidiary of Sodhexo- Marriott, operates the American University Tavern on the Washington D.C. campus of AU. On February 15, 2000, a hip-hop concert was booked at …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Court Modifies Education Plan for Rikers Island Youth by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In continuing its enforcement of an "Education Plan" for the Rikers Island Academies, a New York federal district court has made modifications to the Plan because it is "deficient in many respects." PLN previously reported …
Article • February 15, 2000 • from PLN February, 2000
Prisoners' Guerrilla Handbook to Correspondence Programs in the U.S. and Canada: High School, Vocational, Paralegal and College Courses by Paul Wright by Jon Marc Taylor, Audenreed Press, 243 Pages Reviewed by Paul Wright. The steady demise of educational programs in prison means that prisoners seeking an education can no longer …
CSC Cancels Florida Juvenile Facility Contract by Correctional Services Corp. (CSC) announced Aug. 23, 1999 that it was withdrawing from an $8.7 million-a-year contract to operate the Pahokee Youth Development Center, a 350 bed Florida juvenile facility, 8 months before the contract is due to expire. The announcement came six …
Article • October 15, 1999 • from PLN October, 1999
Michigan's Female Prisoners Have Educational Parity by A federal district court in Michigan held that the educational, vocational, and apprenticeship opportunities provided to male and female prisoners in the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) are now sufficiently comparable for equal protection purposes to require termination of the court's 20 year …
Prison Realty Board Member Settles Ethics Complaints by Prof. Charles W. Thomas, director of the Private Corrections Project at the University of Florida and a board member of Prison Realty Corp., has long been criticized for his close connections with the private prison companies he researches [see: "University professor shills …
IDEA Confers Right to Education Even in SHU by IDEA Confers Right to Education Even In SHU The First Circuit court of appeals has held that a prisoner receiving educational services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), 20 U.S.C. § 1415(e)(4)(B), is entitled to a free and public …
Juveniles Held Hostage for Profit by CSC in Florida by Alex Friedmann According to a consultant hired by the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, the Pahokee Youth Development Center (Juvenile prison) operated by the Correctional Services Corporation (CSC) kept ten juvenile detainees beyond their release dates for no other reason …
Indiana May Not Deny Pay and Educational Programs to Protective Custody Prisoners by The Court of Appeals of Indiana has held that the Indiana Department of Corrections (DOC) violated state law, Title 11, Section 11-10-5-1 when it denied all education programs to prisoners in protective custody. The court held that …
Article • February 15, 1999 • from PLN February, 1999
University Professor Shills for Private Prison Industry by Alex Friedmann Much of the statistical and academic information regarding prison privatization that is reported in the media (and consequently relied upon by lawmakers deciding whether to contract with private prison companies) comes from Charles W. Thomas, director of the Private Corrections …
Article • January 15, 1999 • from PLN January, 1999
Open Society Institute Funds College Classes in Maryland Prisons by When the Clinton Crime Bill gutted federal Pell Grants for prisoners, some states' prison education programs were hit harder than others. Many states funded post-secondary education entirely with state money. Maryland prisoners, though, were the hardest hit. Virtually all of …
Brief • January 15, 1999
Filed under: Education
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CT Prisoners Pinched for Cost of Imprisonment by A1995 "get tough" state law mandated that the Connecticut Department of Correction write a regulation for assessing prisoners for the cost of their incarceration In 1997, that mandate was codified into sections 18-85a-1 to 18-85a-4 of the "Regulations of State Agencies: cost …
CA ADA/RA Injunction Affirmed by In the September, 1997, issue of PLN we reported Armstrong v. Wilson , 942 F. Supp. 1252 (ND CA 1996) where a federal district court held that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. § 12131-34 and the Rehabilitation Act (RA), 29 U.S.C. § …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
Mock Prison Riot Staged by On April 25 and 26, 1998, there was a weekend-long riot at the old West Virginia State Penitentiary. This wasn't your typical prison riot, though. First of all, it was anything but spontaneous. Rather, the two-day event was meticulously planned, and carried out by prison …
DC Women Prisoners' Suit Settled by In the December 1995, June 1996 and September 1997 issues of PLN we reported the saga of Womens Prisoners of the District of Columbia DOC v. District of Columbia , which is cited in 877 F.Supp. 634, 899 F.Supp. 659, and 93 F.3d 910, …
Deaf Prisoners in Washington Seek Class-Wide Relief by David C Fathi by David C. Fathi, Jeff B. Crollard and Leonard J. Feldman Lawyers representing two deaf prisoners in a lawsuit against the Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC) are seeking to broaden the suit into a class action on behalf of …
Article • January 15, 1998 • from PLN January, 1998
Education as Crime Prevention: Providing Education to Prisoners by Dan Pens I lost count of the number of people who have written me to ask if I know where they can find statistics on the impact of prison-based education programs on recidivism. After congress eliminated Pell grants for prisoners in …
Article • November 15, 1997 • from PLN November, 1997
Prisoner Literacy Obscure & Outdated by Laura Whitehorn A news item you might want to use in the paper: Washington Post (Feb. 18, l997) reported that the OMB [a federal budget office] compiled a "secret list" of 254 federal programs that could be cut to save money. They wouldn't release …
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