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Article • March 15, 2013 • from PLN March, 2013
California Governor Approved Parole for 377 Life-Sentenced Murderers in 2012 by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Last year, California Governor Jerry Brown approved four out of every five parole grant decisions by the Board of Parole Hearings (Board) for prisoners convicted of murder and sentenced to life with parole. …
Article • March 15, 2013 • from PLN March, 2013
Eleventh Circuit: Corizon Policy Led to Prisoner’s Paralysis; $1.2 Million Verdict Upheld by In a September 6, 2012 unpublished ruling, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a jury verdict that found Corizon Health, Inc., formerly Prison Health Services (PHS), had a policy or custom of refusing to send prisoners …
Article • March 15, 2013 • from PLN March, 2013
Los Angeles County Settles Civil Detainee Wrongful Death Claim for $750,000 by On August 1, 2012, the County Counsel for the County of Los Angeles, California recommended settlement of a lawsuit filed by the survivors of a civil detainee who died as a result of an accident while working on …
Article • March 15, 2013 • from PLN March, 2013
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California Prison Town Files for Bankruptcy by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The City of Stockton, California, which hosts two youth correctional facilities and is the site of current construction for a new $700-750 million prison hospital for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, filed for Chapter 9 …
Article • March 15, 2013 • from PLN March, 2013
Eighth Circuit Upholds Child Porn Supervised Release Condition by On May 7, 2012, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a supervised release condition imposed on a federal prisoner convicted of a non-sex offense that prohibited possession of child pornography or photographic depictions of child nudity. A Nebraska federal court …
Article • March 15, 2013 • from PLN March, 2013
Wisconsin Supreme Court Clarifies Sex Offender Registration for Homeless Prison Releasees by William Dinkins, Sr. was about to be released from a Wisconsin state prison, having completed a ten-year sentence for a sex offense, when he was informed that at least 10 days before his release he must register the …
Article • March 15, 2013 • from PLN March, 2013
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News in Brief by ARIZONA: Five Pima County Jail guards were fired following a September 19, 2012 fight outside the Buffet Bar in Tucson. John Hyatt, 30; Matthew Garcia, 24; Anthony Bonfiglio, 25; Angel Castaneda, 23; and Steven Haglund, 26 were arrested on felony aggravated assault charges following a “brutal …
Dangerous Jails - LA Weekly by DANGEROUS JAILS, PART 1 by Matthew Fleischer A Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department whistleblower reveals to the LA Justice Report that groups of rogue deputies have flourished for years inside the nation’s largest jail system while the LASD command staff looked the other way. What …
Life On the List by A single mistake when he was 12 landed Josh Gravens on Texas’ sex offender list. He’s been paying for it ever since. by Emily DePrang Published on Thursday, May 31, 2012, at 2:52 CST When Josh Gravens was 12 years old, he made a terrible …
Article • March 15, 2013
Participation in Reentry Programming Leads Ex-Offenders Back to Prison, Study Says by The results of a three-year study by researchers at the University of Kansas will likely make prisoners more skittish of reentry programming than many already are. A report from KU's School of Social Welfare, first published in August …
Abuse in Los Angeles Jails Leads to Investigations, Lawsuits and Eventual Reforms by Michael Brodheim by Mike Brodheim and Alex Friedmann WITH SEVEN FACILITIES THAT HOUSE from 15,000 to 18,000 prisoners, Los Angeles County’s jail system is the nation’s largest – and, arguably, among the most dangerous in terms of …
Article • March 15, 2013 • from PLN March, 2013
Filed under: News
Colorado Seeks New Use for Empty Prison by WHEN COLORADO GOVERNOR JOHN Hickenlooper announced the closure of the Fort Lyon Correctional Facility in Las Animas, Brent County officials became despondent. The prison was an economic mainstay of the tiny county. “There’s no question the jobs leaving the community are some …
Article • March 15, 2013 • from PLN March, 2013
Filed under: News, News in Brief
From the Editor by Paul Wright OBSERVANT READERS WILL NOTICE A number of changes in this issue of Prison Legal News. First, we have changed our layout design. It has been well over a decade since we last made significant changes to PLN’s layout, and it was time for a …
Article • March 15, 2013 • from PLN March, 2013
Nevada Prison Industries Exploiting Businesses and Workers by Bob Sloan THE USE OF PRISON LABOR HAS BEEN increasing throughout the nation for the past fifteen-plus years. More and more factories are being built behind prison fences, with thousands of prisoner-made products sold to consumers annually – including apparel, processed foods, …
Article • March 15, 2013 • from PLN March, 2013
The Color of Corporate Corrections: Overrepresentation of People of Color in the Private Prison Industry by Christopher Petrella by Christopher Petrella and Josh Begley While data generated by the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and state departments of corrections (DOCs) have long demonstrated persistent racial disparities in rates of incarceration, …
Article • March 15, 2013 • from PLN March, 2013
British Call Center Fires Employees to Hire Prison Slave Labor by A British company in Wales reportedly fired 17 of its call center employees to make room for prisoners that it pays just £3 a day—or less than $5.00. Beginning in December 2011, at least 23 prisoners were bussed in …
Why Are Prisoners Committing Suicide in Pennsylvania? by Matt Stroud By the time John McClellan, Jr. was found dead inside Pennsylvania’s State Correctional Institution (SCI) at Cresson in May 2011, he had long been categorized as “special needs” for his history of addiction and mental instability. Yet prisoners and staff …
Article • March 15, 2013 • from PLN March, 2013
Federal Court Grants Six-Month Extension to Reduce CDCR Prison Population by The three-judge federal court over a long-standing prison healthcare class-action suit against California took a slight turn on January 29, 2013, when the court gave the state a six-month extension to achieve the prison population reduction it had ordered …
Article • March 15, 2013 • from PLN March, 2013
Alaska Supreme Court Revives Prisoner’s “Shy Bladder” Suit by On August 31, 2012, the Alaska Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s dismissal of a prisoner’s paruresis (i.e., “shy bladder”) and visiting rule claims. Alaska state prisoner Loren J. Larson, Jr. suffers from paruresis, a condition that makes it physically impossible …
Article • March 15, 2013 • from PLN March, 2013
Historic $45 Million Settlement in Washington State Prison Phone Class-action Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In January 2013, A $45 million settlement was reached in a long-standing lawsuit that challenged the failure of prison phone service companies to provide rate information to people who accepted calls from prisoners …
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