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Article • January 8, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
Filed under: Voting
Are Re-Enfranchised Florida Felons More Likely to Vote Republican? by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter During the recent campaign to reinstate the voting rights of 1.4 million disenfranchised Florida felons, Republicans rallied against a constitutional amendment out of fear that former prisoners would vote as Democrats. Jared Kushner, …
Article • January 8, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
The Other Family Separation: Prisoners Fight to Keep Their Children by Victoria Law by Victoria Law Ayana Aubourg was seven years old when her father was sentenced to 10 years in prison. For the next decade he parented through letters, weekly phone calls and once-a-year visits. He missed most of …
Brief • January 1, 2020
San Bernardino County Court Order Against Protests 2021 2 SUPERIOR COURT COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO 247 West Third Street, Eleventh Floor San Bernardino, CA 92415 3 4. 5 6 7 8 IN THE SUPERIOR.COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA 9 FOR THE COUNTY Of SAN BERNARDINO 10 GENERAL ORDER OF …
Article • December 10, 2019 • from PLN December, 2019
Overzealous Prosecutors Seek to Lock Up Prisoners Released Under First Step Act by Chad Marks by Chad Marks In December 2018, President Trump signed the First Step Act into law. Among other reforms, the legislation reduced some of the penalties for crack cocaine offenses. For many years, there were complaints …
Brief • November 14, 2019
Filed under: Protests
Imani v. City of Baton Rouge, LA, Complaint, Protesting, 2019 Case 3:17-cv-00439-JWD-EWD Document 189-1 11/14/19 Page 1 of 85 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA ____________________________________ ) BLAIR IMANI, AKEEM MUHAMMAD, ) RAAE POLLARD, SAMANTHA NICHOLS, ) TAMMY CHENEY, ALEXUS CHENEY, ) VICTOR ONUOHA, KAREN SAVAGE, ) CHERRI …
Article • November 4, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
How High-Priced Drugs Cripple Prison Health Care – and Reform by Priti Krishtel by Priti Krishtel, The Crime Report In a deeply divided political electorate, prison reform is one of the few issues that attracts bipartisan support. Yet there’s something missing from the current conversation about criminal justice reform: the …
Article • November 4, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Filed under: Hunger Strikes
Alabama Prisoners Bring Awareness of Abusive Conditions Through Hunger Strikes by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss In March 2019, nine Alabama prisoners went on a hunger strike after being placed in solitary confinement without being given any reason other than “preventative measures.” The prisoners, members of Convicts Against Violence or …
Brief • October 25, 2019
Taylor v. Pfister, IL, Settlement, Failure to Protect, 2019 STATE OF ILLINOIS - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS-LEGAL SERV1CES SETTLEMENT CASE CLOS URE FO RM ~c~j \cl ( · \J '. ~ t' 1St>-'\ Cose Numbs r: l 1 ( V lf '1/ Lia is on~ \4-.\\~ ~~sk'J MG: ~\.,_Cv\JJ\'\. \°t"~_s Plaintiff …
Article • October 19, 2019
Texas Court Rules Force Feeding Detainee Is Necessary by Chad Marks by Chad Marks  Ajay Kumar, a citizen of India, was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) officials in New Mexico and later transfered to Texas. He began a hunger strike because, in his words, he wanted his freedom. ICE …
Article • October 7, 2019 • from PLN October, 2019
Filed under: Voting, Voting Rights Act
Lawsuits Challenge Florida Law that Undermines Voting Rights Ballot Initiative by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter Organizations that supported Amendment 4 – a 2018 ballot initiative to amend the Florida Constitution to restore voting rights to most people with felony convictions – have sued to block a new …
Article • October 7, 2019 • from PLN October, 2019
The Sentencing Project Issues Report on Reducing Excessive Punishment for Violent Crimes by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Cutting the U.S. prisoner population by half is the goal of the #cut50 and End Mass Incarceration movements, and of the criminal justice reform group JustLeadershipUSA, but that will not be possible …
Author John Grisham Pens Editorial Criticizing Death Penalty in North Carolina by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer On October 11, 2018, world-famous author and attorney John Grisham published an editorial in a North Carolina newspaper regarding capital punishment in that state. “Today, there are 141 people on North Carolina’s death …
Article • October 4, 2019 • from PLN October, 2019
Filed under: Prison Gangs, Settlements
North Carolina Prisoners Sue Over Gang Violence, Obtain $62,500 Settlement by According to a February 8, 2019 news report, a lawsuit filed by North Carolina prisoners Tavieolis Hunt, 39, Benjamin White, 35, and Sean Smith, 38, settled for a total of $62,500. The settlement was reached after the trio and …
Article • October 4, 2019 • from PLN October, 2019
Why Our Movement Can’t Afford to Ignore Private Prison Corporations by Caroline Isaacs by Caroline Isaacs, Program Director, AFSC In 1998, I was a budding anti-prison activist, volunteering for the American Friends Service Committee in Arizona (AFSC-AZ). I was fortunate enough to attend the very first Critical Resistance gathering in …
Article • October 4, 2019 • from PLN October, 2019
Audit Finds Mississippi Private Prison Plagued by Violence, Run by Gangs by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Former warden Jody Bradley depended on gang leaders at a privately-run Mississippi prison to maintain control of the facility. That was one finding of a December 2018 internal audit by Management & Training …
First Step Act Update: Over 1,600 Sentences Reduced, 3,000 Prisoners Released by Dale Chappell, Douglas Ankney by Dale Chappell and Douglas Ankney As of late July 2019, the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) had released over 3,000 prisoners under the First Step Act, a landmark criminal justice reform measure signed …
Article • September 9, 2019 • from PLN September, 2019
Dr. Arthur Zitrin, Anti-Death Penalty Advocate and Bioethicist, Dies at 101 by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer Dr. Arthur Zitrin died at age 101 on May 11, 2019. He was a psychiatrist and leading bioethicist who believed that doctors should take no part in lethal injections. His son Richard, an …
Article • September 9, 2019 • from PLN September, 2019
Prisoner’s Activism Leads Colorado DOC to Reverse Ban on Greeting Cards, Postcards and Drawings by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Thanks to the activism of Colorado prisoner Tiffany McCoy, the Colorado Department of Corrections (DOC) has rescinded its prohibition against prisoners receiving greeting cards, postcards and drawings.  In 2018, the …
Kickback publication • September 3, 2019
OR DOC Rates Sept 2019 9/3/2019 Department of Corrections : Telmate : Sending Money : State of Oregon (http://www.oregon.gov)   Sending Money Information for putting money on an inmate's books (/doc/sending-money/) (/doc/)  (/doc/Pages/default.aspx)  Sending Money (/doc/sending-money/Pages/home.aspx)  Telmate Site Navigation Telmate Using Telmate to Send Money With …
Kickback publication • August 29, 2019
Utah DOC Prison Telephone Kickback Totals 2013-2019 Utah DOC Call Kickback Data* Year (1/1 - 12/31) Total 2019 Notes $1,003,057.31 Only includes commission payments from 1/1/2019 - 6/25/2019 2018 $1,354,368.97 2017 $1,160,502.85 2016 $1,071,632.19 2015 $997,915.49 2014 $977,584.07 2013 $370,230.49 Only includes commission payments from 7/22/2013-12/31/2013 *Source: Utah Public Finance …
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