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Washington Prison Guard’s Murder Results in Demotions, Firings and $26,000 Fine by Mark Wilson An outside investigation has determined that the murder of a Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC) guard was the result of poor staff management and training by prison officials. On January 29, 2011, prisoner Byron Scherf, 52, …
Article • January 15, 2012 • from PLN January, 2012
Audit Finds California Prison Employees Routinely Work Less Than 40 Hours a Week by In an April 2011 audit, the California Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found that over a three-month period ending in August 2010, mental health and education employees at Mule Creek State Prison routinely worked less …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
Oregon Rethinking Criminal Justice Policies to Avoid Fiscal Crisis by Oregon is one of ten states in “financial peril,” according to a November 2009 report by The Pew Center on the States. Thanks in large part to the state’s criminal justice policies of the last 20 years, Oregon faces an …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
New Mexico Spends $20 Million in Federal Stimulus Money to Fund Prison Jobs by Like most other states, New Mexico received a large amount of federal money under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Of the billions of dollars in stimulus funds, $260 million was earmarked as a “state fiscal …
U.S. Supreme Court Holds California’s Prison Overcrowding Violates Eighth Amendment, Must be Remediated by Population Reduction by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg In a landmark ruling upholding provisions of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) that permit specially convened three-judge federal court panels to order reductions in state prison …
Article • July 15, 2011 • from PLN July, 2011
Washington DOC Agrees to Change Sexual Abuse Policies by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC) has agreed to change its policies that relate to preventing, reporting and investigating sexual abuse of prisoners by staff members. The changes resulted from a settlement in a class-action …
Massachusetts Prisoner Suicides More Than Four Times National Average by Mark Wilson Massachusetts has a relatively low state prison population, with approximately 11,000 prisoners. Yet its annual prisoner suicide rate has topped an alarming 71 suicides per 100,000 prisoners – more than four times the national average of 16 per …
Article • April 15, 2011 • from PLN April, 2011
New York Taxpayers Foot the Bill for Late Prison Vendor Payments by Brandon Sample Paying your bills on time is a basic element of efficient fiscal management. Apparently, however, it is a basic element that the New York Department of Correctional Services (DOCS) failed to master, since the Department’s tardy …
Article • March 15, 2011 • from PLN March, 2011
State Inspections Compel Changes at Abusive Michigan Juvenile Facility by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Inspection reports by Michigan’s Department of Human Services (DHS) concerning conditions at the Muskegon County Juvenile Detention Center (MCJDC) found an abusive environment caused by understaffing. On the verge of losing the state license …
Article • March 15, 2011 • from PLN March, 2011
California Prison System Lays Off Teachers, Vocational Instructors by Michael Brodheim Due to a $60 billion budget deficit in fiscal year 2009-2010, California prison officials decided to slash funding for rehabilitative programs for prisoners. And while state employees affected by the resulting layoffs cried foul (and fraud), prison officials claimed …
$6,000 Settlement in D.C. Youth Prisoner’s Stabbing by The District of Columbia (D.C.) paid $6,000 to settle the negligence suit of prisoner Jeremiah Lester for injuries incurred from being stabbed by two other prisoners. While at D.C.’s Youth Center One in Lorton, Virginia on May 16, 1999, Lester was assaulted …
New Mexico Corrections Secretary Lets Private Prison Firms Skate on Understaffing, Forgoes $18.6 Million in Fines by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Former New Mexico Corrections Secretary Joe R. Williams did not pursue contractual penalties against Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) or GEO Group despite chronic understaffing by the two …
Oregon Mental Patient Dead for Hours Feet from Nurse’s Station; Investigations Reveal Deficient Care and Superintendent Forced Out by In 2008, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) threatened to sue Oregon over abysmal conditions and patient care at the Oregon State Hospital (OSH), where the classic “One Flew Over …
Medical Examiners Lack Qualifications, Competence, Oversight by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Most people will only have direct contact with a medical examiner, also known as a forensic pathologist, after they are dead. Thus, medical examiners have a certain mystic quality and are perceived as both doctors and sleuths who …
Article • January 15, 2011 • from PLN January, 2011
Political Patronage Scandal Rocks Massachusetts Probation Department by Derek Gilna A May 2010 investigative report in the Boston Globe took the Massachusetts Probation Department to task for bypassing qualified candidates for available job positions, instead employing at least 250 friends, relatives and financial backers of politicians and top court officials. …
Article • January 15, 2011 • from PLN January, 2011
Indiana DOC Hires Convicted Former Legislator for Re-Entry Job by A former Indiana democratic state representative convicted of impersonating a public servant was hired by the Indiana Department of Corrections to run its re-entry program at the Branchville Correctional Facility. In June 2009, Dennie Oxley II attempted to avoid arrest …
Article • January 15, 2011 • from PLN January, 2011
Probation Officers Working in Los Angeles Juvenile Facilities Engage in Misconduct, Avoid Disciplinary Action by Michael Brodheim According to a report released in June 2010 by the Los Angeles County Office of Independent Review (OIR), a civilian oversight agency, lax internal investigations in the county’s Probation Department have allowed sworn …
Article • December 15, 2010 • from PLN December, 2010
Michigan Prison System Exceeds Budget, Again by In two of the last three years, the Michigan Department of Corrections’ (MDOC) budget has “blown through its caps,” according to state Rep. John Proos. A May 27, 2010 letter from Robert Emeron, director of the state budget office, informed lawmakers that the …
Pryor v. Wayne County, MI, Affidavit - Eiser, MDOC jail inmate assault, 2010 1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DIVISION 2 3 4 EDWARD PRYOR, 5 6 7 8 Plaintiff, vs. WAYNE COUNTY, and WAYNE COUNTY SHERIFF’S COMMANDER JEROME PANACKIA, et al. …
Crime Labs in Crisis: Shoddy Forensics Used to Secure Convictions by Matthew Clarke To millions of people whose knowledge of crime labs comes from television shows such as CSI, Bones, Crossing Jordan and the venerable Quincy M.E., the forensic experts who work at such labs seem to be infallible scientists …
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