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Article • November 15, 2005 • from PLN November, 2005
California Prison Gang Linked to Guards and Mexican Drug Cartel by A barber shop in National City, California was allegedly the war room" connecting the statewide Mexican Mafia gang (Eme) to the underworld Arellano Felix drug cartel in nearby Mexico, according to investigators from the California Department of Corrections (CDC). …
Rising Deaths and Violence Among Problems In Illinois Prisons, Jails by by Michael Rigby Imprisonment in Illinois is becoming more perilous, according to the John Howard Association, a Chicago-based nonprofit group that monitors prisons and jails. Between August 2003 and May 2004, according to the association, several state prisoners died …
Oklahoma Prisons Suffer Crisis of Violence and Mismanagement by by Matthew T. Clarke 2005 has turned out to be a violent year in Oklahoma prisons. Between January and July, 2005, the prisons in Oklahoma suffered multiple riots, multiple murders of prisoners, and extensive probes of drug running. The stage for …
Federal Prison Problematic For Texas Officials by Michael Rigby A 500-bed federal detention center may have caused more problems than it solved for cash-strapped Willacy County, Texas. Three county commissioners have already been convicted of accepting kickbacks from companies involved with the prison, and a state senator's ties to three …
Article • November 15, 2005 • from PLN November, 2005
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Escapes
Escaped Murderer Found Eleven Years Later by Escaped Murderer Found Eleven Years Later Living With Warden's Wife by John E. Dannenberg Tipped off by a viewer of America's Most Wanted, Shelby County, Texas police on April 4, 2005 took into custody Randolph Dial, 60, a murderer who escaped from the …
Article • November 15, 2005 • from PLN November, 2005
Supreme Court Holds Penalty Phase by Supreme Court Holds Penalty Phase Shackling Violates the Due Process In a 7-to-2 decision that Justices Thomas and Scalia criticized as shunning common sense and risk[ing] the lives of courtroom personnel, with little corresponding benefit to defendants," the United States Supreme Court held that …
Article • November 15, 2005 • from PLN November, 2005
BJS Report Reveals Rising Imprisonment Rates, Trends In 2003 by by Michael Rigby Rising prison populations...record numbers of female prisoners...rampant overcrowding...continuing racial disparities. These are among the disturbing trends revealed by Prisoners in 2003, a Bureau of Justice Statistics report released in November 2004. At yearend 2003, 1,470,045 prisoners were …
Article • November 15, 2005 • from PLN November, 2005
Accounting Errors Plagued California Criminal Justice Agency by A defunct California agency charged with distributing grant money for crime prevention and victim aid may have cost the state millions in federal funds due to poor accounting practices, state auditors said on February 2, 2005. Lawmakers knew something was wrong at …
Problems Mount In Maryland Prisons by by Michael Rigby Even as the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (DPSCS) reels amid mounting criticism over pervasive violence, inadequate medical care, overcrowding, understaffing, and other systemic deficiencies, new tremors continue to rattle the division. Eight guards accused of beating a …
Bringing Down The Brotherhood by by Alan Prendergast Inside the feds' war on the deadliest prison gang: 16 murders. 21 death-penalty cases. Snitches galore. A wide red line runs across the floor of the visiting room like a clown's grin, separating the guard post and the civilian exit from the …
Rape Behind Bars: Bureau of Justice Statistics Issues First Report by by Andrea Cavanaugh The numbers only begin to tell the story. In July, 2005, the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics released its first-ever report on the prevalence of prisoner rape. A survey of U.S. prisons, jails, and youth facilities …
Article • October 15, 2005 • from PLN October, 2005
Tennessee Pretrial Jail Credit Mandatory, Not Waivable by The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals reversed a defendant's convictions, holding that the trial court should not have accepted [his] plea agreement waiving pretrial Jail credit and that the trial court erred in denying the defendant's motion to withdraw his guilty pleas. …
Suit Implicates Washington DOC In Near-Fatal Collision, Drug Use Suspected by Michael Rigby A woman critically injured in a collision caused by an employee of the Washington prison system--reassigned to his home because of suspected drug use--has sued the state Department of Corrections (DOC) for endangering the public. Barbara Starkel …
Article • October 15, 2005 • from PLN October, 2005
California Lifer Claims Parole by Chair Fisher Is Biased While most of California's lifers face a mere 99% chance of being denied parole, murderer Linda Ricchio's odds appear far worse. Her victim, Ronald Ruse, was the brother of newly appointed (and confirmed) Board of Prison Terms (BPT) Commissioner Susan Fisher. …
Prisoners Faced Violent Hazing In Troubled Pennsylvania Jail by by Michael Rigby At least 50 prisoners entering Pennsylvania's Somerset County Jail over a 2-year period were beaten as part of a violent hazing ritual that went unchecked by jail authorities. This combined with serious overcrowding and a history of poor …
Titan Pays $28.5 Million After Pleading Guilty to Three Felonies by Titan Pays $28.5 Million After Pleading Guilty to Three Felonies by Matthew T. Clarke On March 1, 2005, Titan Corp., the largest private supplier of translators for the U.S. military, pleaded guilty to three felony charges and agreed to …
Article • October 15, 2005 • from PLN October, 2005
Report Details General Decline In Death Penalty Statistics For 2003 by Michael Rigby For most of the nation, 2003 was a year of declining death penalty statistics. That year, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) report, the number of death sentences imposed fell to a 30-year low, while …
Article • October 15, 2005
Certain Blood for Uncertain Reasons: Reinstating Capital Punishment in Vermont by by Michael Mello Seventeen winters ago, a man I loved as a father was murdered. A few days before Christmas 1989, a racist coward with a grudge mailed a shoebox- sized bomb to federal appellate Judge Robert S. Vance. …
No Qualified Immunity for Michigan Prison Warden in Guard's Murder by The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, held that Tripett, the warden of the Thumb Correctional Facility in Michigan (TCF), was not entitled to qualified immunity, in a suit brought by the estate of a …
Article • October 15, 2005
Cameron County, Texas, Jail Guards Indicted for Drug Smuggling, Theft, Sexual Misconduct by by Michael Rigby The problems began almost as soon as the Cameron County Jail system's newly built Carrizales-Rucker Detention Center opened in the summer of 2002. Just months after the $19 million maximum security jail began operations …
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