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Publication • January 24, 2014
NY Amended Legislation on Solitary Confinement 2014 2/18/2014 A8588-2013 Text - NY Senate Open Legislation S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 8588 I N A S S E M B L Y January 24, 2014 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. …
Article • January 15, 2014 • from PLN January, 2014
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News in Brief by Alabama: On July 29, 2013 there was a break-in at the Draper Correctional Facility. According to the Department of Corrections, three sections of the prison were burglarized in the early morning hours, and laptop computers and multiple weapons were discovered missing when employees started arriving around …
Article • January 15, 2014 • from PLN January, 2014
Task Force Linked to Harsh Sentencing Laws and Private Prison Firms Disbands Following Public Scrutiny, Boycott by A national campaign to shut down a quasi-governmental task force backed by powerful corporate interests, which has promoted harsher sentences, prison privatization and controversial “stand your ground” gun rights legislation, was successful thanks …
Article • December 15, 2013 • from PLN December, 2013
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News in Brief by Arizona: On May 28, 2013, a former staff member at FCI Phoenix was convicted of six counts of sexual abuse of a ward. A federal jury found that Jose Arnulfo Martinez, 49, sexually abused a prisoner on three separate occasions in 2008 and victimized another prisoner …
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
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News in Brief by California: Reggie Alcantar, 31, was charged with felony battery and elder abuse on May 14, 2013 following an incident at the popular Tom’s Farms attraction near Corona. An investigation determined that Alcantar pushed a 71-year-old security guard to the ground, causing him to suffer a broken …
Article • October 15, 2013 • from PLN October, 2013
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News in Brief by Arkansas: The Phillips County jail closed on April 30, 2013 after it failed to pass a state inspection. Sheriff Neal Byrd would not go into detail as to why the 30-year-old facility failed the inspection, but said 60 prisoners had been transferred to other jails and …
Brief • October 4, 2013
Koger v. Dart et al, IL, Complaint, jail mail censorship newspapers, 2013 Case: 1:13-cv-07150 Document #: 1 Filed: 10/04/13 Page 1 of 5 PageID #:1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION GREGORY KOGER, Plaintiff, v. THOMAS J. DART, SHERIFF OF COOK COUNTY; …
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
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News in Brief by Arizona: “The debt one pays to society for having engaged in criminal activity does not include being subjected to sexual assault by prison staff,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Ann Birmingham Scheel. Two prisoners at FCI Phoenix were subjected to such sexual assaults, and on June 18, …
Article • August 15, 2013 • from PLN August, 2013
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News in Brief by Alabama: Alabama Department of Corrections guard Bryant Thompson and former guard Quincy Walton are the subjects of a 29-count indictment unsealed on March 8, 2013, charging them with federal tax crimes. They are accused of a scheme in which Thompson obtained prisoners' Social Security numbers and …
Article • August 15, 2013 • from PLN August, 2013
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Millions in Security Equipment Wasted at Rikers Island by When officials at New York City's Rikers Island jail complex closed the facility's harbor and bike patrol units, and gutted staff in emergency services and firefighting units, they were trying to deal with budget cuts. Yet insiders said the move resulted …
Article • August 15, 2013 • from PLN August, 2013
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HRDC Receives First Amendment Award by On July 25, 2013, the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), a national organization dedicated to encouraging the free practice of journalism, upholding high standards of ethics in that field and protecting First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech and the press, announced the Human …
Article • August 15, 2013 • from PLN August, 2013
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California Jail Installs New Microgrid to Cut Energy Costs by Derek Gilna California Jail Installs New Microgrid to Cut Energy Costs by Derek Gilna The Santa Rita Jail in Alameda County, California has installed an $11.7 million "microgrid" system to help power the 4,000-bed facility, which is the fifth-largest jail …
Article • August 15, 2013
Connecticut Prohibits Disclosure to Prisoners of Investigation Reports Against Guards by Connecticut legislature has enacted an exemption to the state’s Freedom of Information Act that prevents disclosure of certain records sought by “any individual committed to the custody or supervision of the Commissioner of Correction or confined in a facility …
Article • July 15, 2013 • from PLN July, 2013
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News in Brief by Arizona: Approximately 400 prisoners were involved in a March 3, 2013 fight that resulted in a lockdown at the Arizona State Prison Complex-Tucson. Guards quickly responded to stop the mass brawl in the Whetstone Unit, according to Arizona DOC spokesman Bill Lamoreaux. Two staff members suffered …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
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News in Brief by Australia: Benjamin Lord pleaded guilty in Victoria County Court on January 21, 2013 to two counts of impersonating a public official with the intention of obtaining sexual services and two counts of obtaining a financial advantage by deception. While incarcerated, Lord, 31, had victimized a fellow …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Charting a New Justice Reinvestment by Nicole D. Porter by Nicole D. Porter, The Sentencing Project For more than forty years, the correctional system has been dominated by growth. In 1969, the crime rate was 3,680 per 100,000 population and the incarceration rate was 97 state and federal prisoners per …
New Law Gives Parents Behind Bars in Washington State a Way to Hold onto Their Children by Victoria Law by Victoria Law, Truthout On May 8, 2013, Washington State governor Jay Inslee signed SHB1284, or the Children of Incarcerated Parents bill, into law. The law guides the courts' discretion to delay …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Oregon Rape Victim's Rights Clash with Rights of Accused Rapist by The Oregon Supreme Court, sitting en banc, has dismissed a rape victim's interlocutory appeal of a trial court's order allowing her accused rapist to review her Internet search history on her personal computer as part of his defense. In …
New Hampshire Cancels Private Prison Bids, but Bill Prohibiting Prison Privatization Fails to Pass by After the state of New Hampshire hired a consulting group last year to help evaluate bid proposals for the "construction, operation and potential privatization" of the state's entire prison system, it was determined that all …
Article • May 15, 2013 • from PLN May, 2013
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North Carolina County Conned into Building $100 Million Jail by For evidence that the art of the slick-talking conman is very much alive, witness Guilford County, North Carolina. The county’s new $100 million, 1,032-bed lockup in downtown Greensboro was built based on spurious claims that the jail population would increase …
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