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In-the-News Article • October 18, 2013
PLN quoted in article about levels of violence in TN prison system Oct. 18, 2013 Articles with PLN Quotes Channel 4 WSMV TN prison violence declining despite rise in serious attacks Posted: Oct 18, 2013 5:26 PM CDTUpdated: Nov 01, 2013 5:26 PM CDT Reported by Jennifer Johnson    NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) …
Brief • October 18, 2013
Troutman v. State of AZ, AZ, Settlement, Failure to Protect, 2013 Thomas C. Home Attorney General Neil Singh Assistant Attorney General State Bar of Arizona No. 021327 1275 W. Washington Street Phoenix, Arizona 85007-2926 Telephone: (602) 542-4951 Fax: (602) 542-7670 E-matl: neil.singh@azag.gov Attorneys for Defendants UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT …
Brief • October 17, 2013
Filed under: Telephone Rates
Securus Petition Before FCC to Hold Rulemaking Proceeding in Abeyance - In re Interstate ICS Rates (2013) Before the Federal Communications Commission Washington, D.C. 20554 Rates for Interstate Inmate Calling Services WC Docket No. 12-375 SECURUS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. PETITION TO HOLD FURTHER RULEMAKING PROCEEDING IN ABEYANCE Securus Technologies, Inc. (“Securus”), …
Brief • October 17, 2013
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
MA Prisoners v. GTL MA DTC, MA, Motion Relief from Unreasonable Rates, telephone rates, 2013 Before the COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND CABLE Petition of Recipients of Collect Calls from Prisoners at Correctional Institutions in Massachusetts Seeking Relief from the Unjust and Unreasonable Cost of such Calls ) …
Brief • October 17, 2013
Veal v. County of Kent, MI, Settlement, Guard Assault, 2013 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE This SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE is entered into as of September 5, 2013, by and between FREDERICK VEAL ("Plaintiff"), on the one hand, and COUNTY OF KENT, RAY PADILLA, GUS SUDUE, JULIE BENNETT and AMBER SCOTT …
Brief • October 16, 2013
Filed under: Telephone Rates
Petitioner's Appeal and Cover Letter PRISONERS' LEGAL SERVICES* 10 Winthrop Square, 3rd Floor Boston, MA 02110 617-482-2773; WATS 800-882-1413 FAX 617-451-6383 State Prisoner Speed Dial *9004# County Col ect Cats 617-482-4124 www.mcla.net October 16, 2013 Via electronic service and surface mail Catrice C. Williams, Secretary Department of Telecommunications and Cable …
How Many Inmate Deaths is too Many? by Dave Maass by Dave Maass & Kelly Davis San Diego CityBeat Bernard Joseph Victorianne was a 28-year-old black male with a ticking time bomb in his stomach. Victorianne was arrested on September 12, 2012, less than two blocks from the San Diego …
Article • October 15, 2013 • from PLN October, 2013
Filed under: News, News in Brief
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 …
Article • October 15, 2013 • from PLN October, 2013
From the Editor by Paul Wright This month’s cover story on the San Diego County jail system illustrates that while prisons often get slightly more media attention, it is not because they are necessarily more poorly run. On any given day some 735,000 detainees are confined in local jails, and …
Article • October 15, 2013 • from PLN October, 2013
Sex Offenders Who Fail to Register May Receive Life Sentence Under California’s “Three Strikes” Law by The California Supreme Court has held that, depending on the specifics of the underlying offense, failure to register as a sex offender may subject a defendant with two qualifying prior serious and/or violent convictions …
Five Prisoner Deaths in Eighteen Months at Small Ohio Jail by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The deaths of five prisoners in 18 months might pass without notice in a large jail system, but that many deaths at the 270-bed Portage County jail, located about 30 miles southeast of Cleveland, …
New York Promised Help for Mentally Ill Prisoners – But Still Sticks Many in Solitary by Christie Thompson When Amir Hall entered New York state prison for a parole violation in November 2009, he came with a long list of psychological problems. Hall arrived at the prison from a state …
Article • October 15, 2013 • from PLN October, 2013
Widespread Sexual Abuse Alleged at Alabama Women’s Prison by On March 4, 2013, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division launched a formal inquiry into widespread sexual abuse of female prisoners by male guards at the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka, Alabama. The investigation was opened following …
Idaho: Federal Court Unseals Pleadings, Holds CCA in Contempt for Violating Settlement Agreement by On August 16, 2013, U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter, sitting by designation, unsealed a number of court documents related to a contempt motion seeking sanctions against Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest …
Article • October 15, 2013 • from PLN October, 2013
Filed under: Mental Health
Montana Agrees to Change Policies for Treatment of Mentally Ill Juveniles in Adult Prison by David Reutter by David M. Reutter To settle a lawsuit filed by a juvenile prisoner, the Montana State Prison (MSP) has agreed to adopt or change policies that regulate the care and treatment provided to …
Oregon DOJ Intentionally Destroyed Records; Target of Abusive Criminal Investigation Settles Suit for $1 Million by The Oregon Department of Justice (DOJ) deliberately destroyed emails and withheld records related to a botched high-profile criminal investigation, a state court found. One of the targets of that investigation filed a lawsuit against …
From Tiger Cages to Control Units by Nancy Kurshan 1970 TRIP to VIETNAM As a 26 year old co-founder of the Yippies (the Youth International Party) I traveled to North Vietnam in 1970 as part of an all-women’s peace delegation. I believed that the Vietnamese people should have been able …
Effective Counsel Required in Kansas Civil Commitment Proceedings by The Kansas Supreme Court has held that prisoners facing civil commitment under the Kansas Sexually Violent Predators Act (KSVPA) have a due process right to effective assistance of counsel. The Court also held that ineffective assistance of counsel claims may be …
Article • October 15, 2013 • from PLN October, 2013
CDCR to Block Contraband Cell Phone Signals at all Facilities by The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has awarded a six-year system-wide telephone contract to Global Tel*Link (GTL), which requires the company to install equipment capable of blocking signals from contraband cell phones at the state’s 33 adult …
Article • October 15, 2013 • from PLN October, 2013
Filed under: Sentencing, Good Time
California: Court May Not Award Increased Presentence Conduct Credits to Categorically Disqualified Prisoners by On July 19, 2012, the California Supreme Court held that a trial court’s discretionary power to dismiss a criminal action “in furtherance of justice” pursuant to Penal Code Section 1385 did not extend so far that …
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