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The Rainmakers: banking on private prisons in the fleecing of small town America by Beau Hodai By Beau Hodai December 2009 The circus comes to town Hardin: a sleepy town set in the rolling plains of southeastern Montana, 50 miles east of Billings, 15 miles north of the site of …
Article • February 15, 2010 • from PLN February, 2010
Swine Flu Widespread in Prisons and Jails, but Deaths are Few by David Reutter by David M. Reutter For hundreds of years the cramped, overcrowded and often filthy confines of dungeons, prisons, jails and other places of imprisonment have served as incubators for infectious diseases, which have killed more prisoners …
Ineffective Attempts to Protect Texas Prisoner Were Sufficient by The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court’s denial of summary judgment to prison officials who had failed to safeguard a Texas state prisoner, saying their ineffective attempts to protect him were sufficient. Gregory Moore was incarcerated at the …
Article • February 15, 2010 • from PLN February, 2010
From the Editor by Paul Wright February is traditionally the height of cold and flu season in the United States and this month’s cover story probably proves the axiom that if America catches cold, prisons catch pneumonia. Swine flu has been in the news quite a bit lately including its …
Preventable Sacramento County Jail Death Costs Taxpayers $1.45 Million by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The systemic failure of medical care at California’s Sacramento County Main Jail (SCMJ) resulted in a prisoner’s avoidable death that has cost taxpayers $1.45 million. For years, SCMJ’s healthcare system has been severely deficient …
Free Rent for Some Washington State Parolees by Due to a roughly $9 billion state budget deficit, the Washington State legislature approved a plan to offer 90-day rent subsidies for selected prisoners who are eligible for early release. The program is expected to save taxpayers an estimated $1.5 million over …
Article • February 15, 2010 • from PLN February, 2010
A New Look at a Very Old Subject: The Uniform Collateral Consequences of Conviction Act by Margaret Colgate Love by Margaret Colgate Love1 In the past twenty years, a relentlessly punitive political environment has given rise to a wide-ranging network of collateral penalties and disqualifications that isolate and stigmatize those …
Arkansas Prisoner Awarded $625 for Refusing to Clean His Cell on the Sabbath by On April 13, 2009, U.S. District Court Judge Harry F. Barnes adopted a magistrate’s report and recommendation that found an Arkansas prisoner should be awarded $625 after being punished for refusing to work on the Sabbath. …
Three Years Later, CMS Still Fails to Meet Medical Standards in Delaware by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Despite federal oversight of its prison medical care, Delaware “continues to have a great deal more to achieve before it comes into substantial compliance with all provisions of the MOA” (Memorandum …
Army Prisoners Isolated, Denied Right to Legal Counsel by Dahr Jamail The military’s treatment of Army prisoners is “part of a broader pattern the military has of just throwing people in jail and not letting them talk to their attorneys, not let visitors come, and this is outrageous. In the …
Freedom Forum CEO Charles Overby’s Dark History with Corrections Corporation of America by Beau Hodai Charles L. Overby is a man who leads dual lives; a man who has each foot planted firmly in two very different worlds. In one world he is a champion of the free press. In …
Three Florida Guards Charged in Prisoner’s Beating by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Three Florida prison guards have been arrested and charged in the December 16, 2008 beating of a handcuffed prisoner at the Charlotte Correctional Institution (CCI). The criminal proceedings can be viewed as a fulfillment of Florida …
Washington State Makes Work Release Available to Disabled Prisoners; Monetary Payments to Class Members by The Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC) agreed to a settlement in a class action lawsuit alleging violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) that results in not only a policy change but monetary payments …
Federal Judge Holds Texas Parole Board Coleman Hearings Unconstitutional by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 6, 2009, a federal judge ruled that hearings held by the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles (BPP) to determine whether onerous sex offender conditions should be imposed on parolees not convicted of …
$6,000 Settlement in Illegal Arrest of Washington State Probationer by The State of Washington paid $6,000 to settle a wrongful imprisonment claim. The claim involved the probation violation arrest of Kenneth Butler. When he reported to the community corrections office on January 23, 2008, as required, he was advised that …
Denial of Medical Care Causes Two Riots at GEO Group Texas Prison by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On December 12, 2008, a riot erupted at the GEO Group-run Reeves County Detention Center (RCDC) in Pecos, Texas, which houses federal immigration detainees. The uprising was triggered by the death of …
Article • February 15, 2010 • from PLN February, 2010
Special Treatment for Jewish Prisoners, Rappers Leads to Employee Discipline, Resignations at New York Jails by Gary Hunter Five corrections employees at the Manhattan Detention Complex in New York City, also called “the Tombs,” were disciplined after it was learned that the jail chaplain in charge of Jewish affairs threw …
Maine Prison System’s Board of Visitors: Secret, Unaccountable and Co-Opted by Lance Tapley The state prison in Warren has been hammered in recent months by a prisoner murder and other violence, a prisoner hunger strike, legislative investigations exposing mismanagement and poor guard morale, and a request by human-rights groups for …
Rikers Guards Charged With Using Juvenile Prisoners to Run Extortion Ring by Gary Hunter On January 22, 2009, Rikers Island, New York guards Michael “Mack” McKie and Khalid “Nel” Nelson were charged with enterprise corruption after it was learned they were using a group of prisoners to enforce discipline and …
Article • February 15, 2010 • from PLN February, 2010
Maryland: Parole Supervision Fee Likely Does More Harm than Good by Bob Williams In a 2009 report by the Brennan Center for Justice, a think tank and public interest advocacy group at New York University School of Law, the authors conclude that the state of Maryland’s assessment of a $40 …
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