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Article • September 9, 2019 • from PLN September, 2019
Filed under: Pensions
New York City May Expand Investment Bar to Prison Service Providers by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Under a policy adopted in 2017 by the Comptroller of New York City, none of the city’s five pension funds has any investments in private prison operators due to concerns about investing public …
Article • September 9, 2019 • from PLN September, 2019
Court Certifies Class of Former Washington State Prisoners Challenging Debit Release Cards in HRDC Case by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke At the vast majority of the nation’s jails, when someone is arrested their money is confiscated during the booking process. Those funds are placed in a trust account, where …
Filing • August 9, 2019
Filed under: Money/Property
Reichert v. Keefe Commissary Network, WA, Amended Complaint, Debit Release Cards, 2019 Case 3:17-cv-05848-RBL Document 100 Filed 08/09/19 Page 1 of 28 HON. RONALD B. LEIGHTON 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT TACOMA 8 9 10 11 JEFFREY REICHERT, and …
Publication • August 1, 2019
CLC, Georgetown Law Civil Rights Clinic Report -- "Can't Pay, Can't Vote.: A National Survey on the Modern Poll Tax," 2019 Can’t Pay, Can’t Vote: A NATIONAL SURVEY ON THE MODERN POLL TAX Table of Contents Executive Summary 4 Introduction 7 Part I: History and Context 13 A. Poll Taxes …
Vera Institute of Justice - Gatekeepers: The Role of Police in Ending Mass Incarceration, 2019 Gatekeepers: The Role of Police in Ending Mass Incarceration S. Rebecca Neusteter, Ram Subramanian, Jennifer Trone, Mawia Khogali, and Cindy Reed August 2019 From the Director Reforming the criminal justice system has become a bipartisan …
Brief • July 11, 2019
Disability Rights Washington v. Inslee, et al., WA, settlement, prisoners with mental illness on lockdown, 2019 1 2 3 4 5 Timothy Lang, WSBA #21314 Haley Beach, WSBA #44731 Cassie vanRoojen, WSBA #44049 Assistant Attorneys General Corrections Division PO Box 40116 Olympia, WA 98504 (360) 586-1445 6 7 8 9 …
Fifth Circuit Reinstates Texas Prisoner’s Excessive Force Claims by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On April 16, 2019, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated excessive force claims raised by a Texas prisoner in a federal civil rights suit.  Michael Bourne was being held in a segregation cell when he …
Article • July 2, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019
Filed under: Money/Property
Pennsylvania Prisoners’ Cigarette Stashes to Go Up in Smoke by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Effective July 1, 2019, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) banned tobacco use by staff and prisoners at all state prisons. Announced by DOC Secretary John Wetzel in March, the new rule means that cigarettes, …
Publication • July 1, 2019
Vera Institute of Justice - A Piece of the Puzzle - State Financial Aid for Incarcerated Students, 2019 July 2019 A Piece of the Puzzle: State Financial Aid for Incarcerated Students Lauren Hobby, Brian Walsh, and Ruth Delaney Foreword High-quality postsecondary education offers people in prison new opportunities. It makes …
Publication • June 13, 2019
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: Collateral Consequences - The Crossroads of Punishment, Redemption and The Effect on Communities, 2019 U . S . C O M M I S S I O N O N C I V I L R I G H T S COLLATERAL CONSEQUENCES: The Crossroads …
Al-Kadi v. Ramsey County, et al., MN, Ruling, Religious Discrimination, 2017 CASE 0:16-cv-02642-JRT-TNL Document 97 Filed 06/12/19 Page 1 of 45 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA Civil No. 16-2642 (JRT/TNL) AIDA SHYEF AL-KADI, Plaintiff, v. MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER RAMSEY COUNTY; RAMSEY COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE; and OFFICER JESSICA …
Brief • June 7, 2019
EEOC V. New Mexico, NM, Motion to Dismiss and Settlement, Age Discrimination, 2019 Case 1:15-cv-00879-KK-LF Document 420 Filed 06/07/19 Page 1 of 3 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION, Plaintiff, v. No. 1:15-cv-00879-KK-LF STATE OF NEW MEXICO, CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT, Defendant. …
Modern-Day Gulag In the Golden State by Barbara Koeppel by Barbara Koeppel, The Washington Spectator, June 4, 2019 Back in 1997, the Supreme Court ruled that the practice known as civil commitment was legal. This meant that 20 states—which had passed laws permitting the ongoing incarceration of sex offenders—could continue …
Article • June 5, 2019 • from PLN June, 2019
Consumer Watchdog Group Releases Report on Bail and Corrections Industry by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer The National Consumer Law Center (NCLC), a Boston-based nonprofit, released a report in March 2019 titled, “Commercialized (In)justice: Consumer Abuses in the Bail and Corrections Industry.” The 62-page report “discusses the growing problem of …
Article • June 5, 2019 • from PLN June, 2019
Denver, Colorado Pays $30,000 Settlement Over a $50 Bond Fee by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon  Denver, Colorado resident Mickey Howard, often homeless and unemployed, was arrested on June 9, 2018 and charged with public intoxication and domestic violence. He had $64 when he was booked into jail. The next …
Class Action Challenges Theft of Millions of Digital Music Files from Florida Prisoners by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter A class-action lawsuit accuses the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) of confiscating prisoners’ “lawfully purchased property without compensation” so the department and its vendor, JPay, could realize profit through …
Kuchcinski v. Box Elder County, UT, Court Opinion, Due Process and Bail, 2019 This opinion is subject to revision before final publication in the Pacific Reporter 2019 UT 21 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF UTAH ROBERT KUCHCINSKI, Appellant, v. BOX ELDER COUNTY, and THE OFFICE OF THE …
Brief • May 31, 2019
United States v. Abston, AL, indictment, misuse of surplus jail food allowance money, 2019 FILED Case 7:19-cr-00312-LCB-HNJ Document 1 Filed 05/29/19 Page 1 of 18 2019 May-31 PM 01:36 U.S. DISTRICT COURT N.D. OF ALABAMA JET / JBW: June 2019 Grand Jury # 27 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT …
Taha v. Bucks County (Bensalem Township), PA, et al., Verdict, Unlawful Dissemination, PA, 2019 Case 2:12-cv-06867-WB Document 338 Filed 05/29/19 Page 1 of 1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA DARYOUSH TAHA, Plaintiff, CIVIL ACTION NO. 12-6867 V. CLASS ACTION BUCKS COUNTY, et al., …
Brief • May 29, 2019
Filed under: Food, Jail Specific, Tax Law
United States v. Abston, AL, indictment, sheriff's fradulent food scheme, 2019 FILED Case 7:19-cr-00312-LCB-HNJ Document 1 Filed 05/29/19 Page 1 of 18 2019 May-31 PM 01:36 U.S. DISTRICT COURT N.D. OF ALABAMA JET / JBW: June 2019 Grand Jury # 27 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA WESTERN …
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