Skip navigation

Search

71914 results
Page 1300 of 3596. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 ... 1296 1297 1298 1299 1300 1301 1302 1303 1304 ... 3592 3593 3594 3595 3596 | Next »

Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Fourth Circuit: No Qualified Immunity for Bail Bondsmen; $100,000 Damages Award Upheld by The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a jury verdict and $100,000 damages award, concluding that bail bondsmen are not entitled to qualified immunity. South Carolina bail bondsman Jon E. Ham, through his company Quick Silver …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Filed under: Mental Health
CDCR to Open New Mental Health Facility by In response to intense pressure from the Plata v. Brown and Coleman v. Brown federal lawsuits demanding improved medical and mental health care for California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) prisoners, a new 50-bed mental health facility is scheduled to open …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Slowly Closing the Gates: A State-by-State Assessment of Recent Prison Closures by Christopher Petrella by Christopher Petrella and Alex Friedmann After nearly 40 years of unprecedented growth, our nation's expanding prison population has finally begun to sputter. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2010 marked the first year since …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Solidarity and Solitary: When Unions Clash with Prison Reform by James Ridgeway by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella On January 4, 2013, Tamms supermax in southern Illinois officially closed its doors. The prison, where some men had been in solitary confinement for more than a decade, had become notorious for …
TN Court of Appeals Rules Against CCA for Second Time in PLN Public Records Case by In February 2013, the Tennessee Court of Appeals issued its second ruling in a long-running lawsuit filed under the state's Public Records Act against Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation's largest for-profit private …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
From the Editor by Paul Wright Please note that as of June 10, 2013, Prison Legal News and its parent organization, the Human Rights Defense Center, will have a new mailing address: P.O. Box 1151, Lake Worth, FL 33460. Our website and e-mail addresses remain the same, and our new …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
New York Commission of Correction Says Jails Don't Need Law Libraries by According to the Albany Legislative Gazette, the New York State Commission of Correction will no longer require the county jails it oversees to provide law libraries for detainees, effective May 18, 2013. Although jails must provide prisoners with …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by Australia: Benjamin Lord pleaded guilty in Victoria County Court on January 21, 2013 to two counts of impersonating a public official with the intention of obtaining sexual services and two counts of obtaining a financial advantage by deception. While incarcerated, Lord, 31, had victimized a fellow …
How the Prison - Industrial Complex Destroys Lives by Mark Karlin by Mark Karlin, Truthout Marc Mauer is the Executive Director of The Sentencing Project and the author of Race to Incarcerate, which has just been released in graphic format, illustrated by Sabrina Jones, as Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Charting a New Justice Reinvestment by Nicole D. Porter by Nicole D. Porter, The Sentencing Project For more than forty years, the correctional system has been dominated by growth. In 1969, the crime rate was 3,680 per 100,000 population and the incarceration rate was 97 state and federal prisoners per …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Juveniles
Oregon Juvenile Department Employee Gets Jail Time for Sexualizing Booking Photos by "A jail sentence is called for," declared Clackamas County Circuit Court Judge Jeffrey S. Jones when sentencing a former Oregon Juvenile Department employee to two days in jail for altering mugshot photos of juvenile offenders to make them …
Florida Proceeds with Privatization of Prison Medical Care by The Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) is moving forward with a legislative mandate to privatize its entire medical system. Whether the plan is implemented, however, may depend on the outcome of a lawsuit filed by prison health care workers challenging the …
New Law Gives Parents Behind Bars in Washington State a Way to Hold onto Their Children by Victoria Law by Victoria Law, Truthout On May 8, 2013, Washington State governor Jay Inslee signed SHB1284, or the Children of Incarcerated Parents bill, into law. The law guides the courts' discretion to delay …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
U.S. Supreme Court Reinstates BOP Prisoner's FTCA Suit by J.R. Bloom On March 27, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court clarified that the scope of the Federal Tort Claims Act's waiver of sovereign immunity for certain intentional torts committed by federal law enforcement officials was not limited to executing searches, seizing …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Reprieved Oregon Prisoner Wages Legal Fight to be Executed by As previously reported in PLN, on November 22, 2011, Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber imposed a moratorium on the death penalty for the remainder of his term in office. In doing so he canceled the scheduled execution of Gary Haugen, 50, …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Eighth Circuit: Heck Bars False Imprisonment Claim by In an April 19, 2012 decision, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with a federal district court that Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994) [PLN, Sept. 1994, p.12] barred a Minnesota prisoner's claim that prison officials unlawfully confined him for …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Oregon Rape Victim's Rights Clash with Rights of Accused Rapist by The Oregon Supreme Court, sitting en banc, has dismissed a rape victim's interlocutory appeal of a trial court's order allowing her accused rapist to review her Internet search history on her personal computer as part of his defense. In …
New Hampshire Cancels Private Prison Bids, but Bill Prohibiting Prison Privatization Fails to Pass by After the state of New Hampshire hired a consulting group last year to help evaluate bid proposals for the "construction, operation and potential privatization" of the state's entire prison system, it was determined that all …
Research Study Finding Benefits from Prison Privatization Funded by Private Prison Companies by In April 2013, two professors at Temple University in Philadelphia released a study, titled "Cost Analysis of Public and Contractor Operated Prisons," that alleged financial savings through prison privatization and equal or better performance by private prison …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
CCA Pays $100,000 after Exiting Contract to Operate Florida Jail by A mediation agreement between Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and Hernando County, Florida has resolved a dispute over $1.86 million after CCA and the county ended their contract for operation of the Hernando County Detention Center (HCDC), which CCA …
Page 1300 of 3596. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 ... 1296 1297 1298 1299 1300 1301 1302 1303 1304 ... 3592 3593 3594 3595 3596 | Next »