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Article • January 15, 2012 • from PLN January, 2012
. The measure was signed into law in June 2011 and became effective on September 1. However, the legislation does nothing to lower staff turnover rates or ensure adequate staffing, including medical staffing ...
of the detention center in July 2005, a $1 million payment was made to Conahan and Ciavarella through Pinnacle Group of Jupiter LLC, another company owned by others but controlled by the judges. They also received ...
. The lawsuit also contends that CCA staff collaborated with ICC gang members in order to maintain control at the facility. See: Castillon v. CCA, U.S.D.C. (D. Idaho), Case No. 1:12-cv-00559-EJL. “[E]mployees ...
Article • October 10, 2014 • from PLN October, 2014
in Tennessee mislead the public and victims, as a ten-year sentence does not mean defendants will serve 10 years. Rather, they are eligible for parole at 30% of their sentence for standard range 1 offenders ...
Article • October 10, 2014 • from PLN October, 2014
reforms intended to reduce excessive criminalization and incarceration.1 Last year, 300 bills were introduced on the state level that promoted smarter, healthier approaches to crime prevention ...
Article • October 3, 2014
, March 2014, p.1].   Such contracts are for a fixed rate annually. The Minnesota contract pays Corizon $28 million each year, providing it with a strict incentive to cut costs. Cutting costs typically ...
Article • March 1, 2016 • from PLN March, 2016
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
(11.8 homicides per 100,000 black females), a level slightly above the rate for black females younger than age 1.” The report also documented the type of weapons used to commit homicides, finding ...
Article • June 15, 2012 • from PLN June, 2012
to 43 in 2011. However, the drop is largely attributed to problems with obtaining drugs used in lethal injections. [See: PLN, June 2011, p.1]. The economic downturn, which has focused attention on budget ...
Article • August 15, 2013 • from PLN August, 2013
court asserting "(1) that 730 ILCS 5/3-6-3(d) is unconstitutionally vague and overbroad in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments; (2) that, as applied to him, 730 ILCS 5/3-6-3(d) and 730 ILCS 5 ...
Article • September 24, 2015 • from PLN October, 2015
Filed under: Resources
). www.centerforhealthjustice.org Centurion Ministries Works to exonerate the wrongfully convicted, in both cases involving DNA evidence and those that do not. Centurion only takes 1-2 new cases a year involving actual innocence ...
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
by Level 1-5 pay scales. Two states (Georgia and Texas) pay nothing. Others pay next to nothing. Unskilled Level 5 prisoners mop floors, wash windows, shovel snow or scrub pots for eight to 13 cents an hour ...
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
well-documented in recent years [see, e.g., PLN, Oct. 2012, p.1], but also on what the ACLU terms the “double” punishment suffered by condemned prisoners, who must endure extra-judicial treatment ...
court said it would dispense with that claim and instead examine his RA claim. To state an RA claim, Jaros only needed to allege that 1) he is a qualified person, 2) with a disability, and 3) the IDOC had ...
is that when she got to the hospital, her condition was so grave there was nothing they could do,” said public defender Greg Tiscay. Previously, Correct Care Solutions had paid $1 million to settle a lawsuit ...
Article • April 15, 2012 • from PLN April, 2012
did Judge Justice’s Ruiz ruling create for future prisoners? Brown’s acquittal was a victory for both him and other Texas prisoners, and provided a spark for prison activists. But when 1 in 15 black ...
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
in May 2011. See: Brown v. Plata, 131 S.Ct. 1910 (2011) [PLN, July 2011, p.1]. The court also denied the CDCR's request to end the federal receivership over the state's prison mental health care ...
Article • January 10, 2015 • from PLN January, 2015
the state’s badly overcrowded prison system. [See: PLN, July 2011, p.1]. “It’s real. It’s happening, not only in Texas, but around the country,” said Austin-based criminal ...
Florida: Sheriff’s Office and Medical Provider Pay $1 Million for Prisoner’s Death by Gary Hunter In July 2013, Armor Correctional Health Services agreed to settle a wrongful death suit ...
Article • December 3, 2014 • from PLN December, 2014
the state’s badly overcrowded prison system. [See: PLN, July 2011, p.1]. “It’s real. It’s happening, not only in Texas, but around the country,” said Austin-based criminal ...
Article • October 10, 2014 • from PLN October, 2014
and substandard medical care. [See: PLN, March 2006, p.1]. State officials counter that the reforms have produced a “Cadillac” level of care that has caused medical costs to skyrocket, nearly doubling ...
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