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Article • January 13, 2016
Illinois County Settles Pro Se Jail Conditions-of-Confinement Suit for $10,500 by Matthew Clarke In June 2013, St. Clair County, Illinois, settled a federal civil rights lawsuit brought by three former prisoners of the St. Clair County Jail alleging unconstitutional conditions of confinement at the jail. Each man received $3,500 in …
Article • January 12, 2016
Texas Counties Still Stuck With Empty Public-Private Prisons by Matthew Clarke By Matt Clarke It was a bad deal for Texas cities and counties when, prison-construction entrepreneurs talked them into building publicly-financed prisons, for private corporations to operate; housing a surplus of prisoners at a profit. The counties went deep …
Article • January 12, 2016
Overcrowding Causes Unrest in Oklahoma Jail by Matthew Clarke By Matt Clarke Around 43 prisoners in Oklahoma's Bryan County Jail took part in unrest on August 18, 2013. According to Bryan County Sheriff Ken Golden, the prisoners, who had been sentenced to serve time in prison and were awaiting transfer …
Article • January 12, 2016
Ohio County Jail Overcrowded, Understaffed and On Verge of 'Catastrophe' by Joe Watson The results of a September 2013 inspection of the Hamilton County Jail in Cincinnati, Ohio, revealed that the facility failed to adequately meet 48 of 69 standards set by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC). …
Article • January 12, 2016
Filed under: Overcrowding, Booking Fees
Overcrowds Its Jail with People Who Can't Pay Court Fines and Fees by Joe Watson A recent analysis by the Tulsa World found that the percentage of bookings into the Tulsa, Oklahoma, County Jail involving warrants for failure to pay court fines and fees has more than tripled since 2004, …
Article • November 10, 2015
No Resources for Programs to Help Prisoners Make Parole in West Virginia by Christopher Zoukis No Resources for Programs to Help Prisoners Make Parole in West Virginia by Christopher Zoukis West Virginia's prison and jail population has continued to grow despite the passage of a sweeping prison reform bill, so …
Article • October 26, 2015 • from PLN November, 2015
Jails: Time to Wake Up to Mass Incarceration in Your Neighborhood by James Kilgore By James Kilgore, Truthout Jails admit nearly 12 million people every year. Yet they are largely off the radar of critics of mass incarceration. However, as a new report by Vera Institute and actions by activists around …
Article • October 26, 2015 • from PLN November, 2015
Utah Sex Offender Prison Population Grows under Harsher Laws while Treatment Programs Lag by Mark Wilson Utah Sex Offender Prison Population Grows under Harsher Laws while Treatment Programs Lag by Mark Wilson and Christopher Zoukis Fueled by the notion “once a predator, always a predator,” harsher laws have flooded Utah …
Article • October 23, 2015
Filed under: Overcrowding, Overdetention
Courts in Bengal Now Come to Prison by Courts in Bengal Now Come to Prison Starting September 5 of this year, courts in India's state of Bengal will set up shop inside prisons one day a week to conduct bail hearings for pretrial detainees. The move comes after India's Apex …
Article • October 14, 2015
Oregon Jail Overcrowding Emergency Releases Skyrocket 3,552 Percent by Mark Wilson Oregon Jail Overcrowding Emergency Releases Skyrocket 3,552 Percent by Mark Wilson The number of emergency early releases by Oregon’s largest jail system, Multnomah County, has spiked an eye-popping 3,552 percent, up from 25 releases in 2010 to 913 releases …
Article • August 28, 2015 • from PLN September, 2015
Social Impact Bonds in Criminal Justice: A Deal We Can’t Refuse? by Jennifer R. Zelnick Social Impact Bonds in Criminal Justice: A Deal We Can’t Refuse? by Jennifer R. Zelnick, MSW, ScD Over the past several years there has been a lot of buzz about Social Impact Bonds (SIBs). More …
Article • August 28, 2015 • from PLN September, 2015
Filed under: Prison Reform, Overcrowding
ACLU Awarded $50 Million to Help End Mass Incarceration by Christopher Zoukis ACLU Awarded $50 Million to Help End Mass Incarceration by Christopher Zoukis On November 7, 2014, the American Civil Liberties Union announced it had received the largest grant in the organization’s history: $50 million from George Soros’ Open …
Brief • August 28, 2015
Filed under: Food, Overcrowding, Sanitation
Does v. Johnson, AZ, Motion for Sanctions, Conditions of Confinement-Border Patrol Stations, 2015 Case 4:15-cv-00250-DCB Document 56 Filed 08/28/15 Page 1 of 19 1 6 Harold J. McElhinny* Kevin M. Coles* Elizabeth Balassone* MORRISON & FOERSTER LLP 425 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94105-2482 Telephone: (415) 268-7000 Facsimile: (415) 268-7522 …
Article • August 1, 2015 • from PLN August, 2015
Peer-Review Reports Must be Disclosed in Philadelphia Jail Conditions Suit by David Reutter Peer-Review Reports Must be Disclosed in Philadelphia Jail Conditions Suit by David Reutter A Pennsylvania federal district court held on November 4, 2014 that medical care contractor Corizon Health has to produce mortality and sentinel event reviews …
Castro v County of LA, CA, Appellee Brief, sobering cell inmate assault, 2015 Case: 12-56829, 07/17/2015, ID: 9614558, DktEntry: 48, Page 1 of 15 No. 12-56829 IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT JONATHAN MICHAEL CASTRO, Plaintiff and Appellee, v. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, LOS ANGELES …
Article • June 12, 2015
California: Commission Recommends Reforms for Jail Overcrowding, Sentencing by Michael Brodheim California: Commission Recommends Reforms for Jail Overcrowding, Sentencing by Michael Brodheim In a May 2013 letter to the Governor and to members of the state legislature, Jonathan Shapiro, Chairman of the Little Hoover Commission, addressed problems of jail overcrowding …
New Report Cites Improvements at Troubled Ohio Prison by New Report Cites Improvements at Troubled Ohio Prison Prisoner-on-staff assaults at the Toledo Correctional Institution (TOCI) in Ohio continued to rise in fiscal year 2014, but a recent report from a state inspection team indicates the facility has made improvements in …
Publication • May 10, 2015
Ombudsman's Report - The Mother's Day Riot at the Tecumseh State Correctional Institution, 2015
Riley v Walsh IL Settlement 2015 04/08/2015 From ~ 15:52 # 24 6 FULL AND FINAL REL~ASE OF ALL CLAIMS TO INCLUDE COUNSEL'S FEES, COSTS AND EXPENSES FOR THE SOLE AND ONLY CONSIDERATION of a total of Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($2,500.00) paid by and on behalf of Defendants …
Third Prisoner Dies at Illinois’ Overcrowded Menard Prison by Third Prisoner Dies at Illinois’ Overcrowded Menard Prison   by Derek Gilna   One of the jobs of prison officials in any department of corrections is not only to protect the public from possibly dangerous individuals, but also protect the older …
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