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Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Audit Reveals Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Chaplaincy Services Branch Critically Depleted by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian The Office of the Inspector General completed an audit of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Chaplaincy Services Branch (CSB) in July 2021. The CSB is responsible for the BOP’s religious services …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
To End Mass Incarceration, We Need to Bust the Myths That Prop It Up by James Kilgore An interview with Victoria Law by James Kilgore, Truthout.org One of the most pervasive myths about incarceration is that it makes a society safer. Now, a leading journalist who focuses on the criminal …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
CFPB Hits JPay with $6 Million in Fines and Restitution Over Fee-Heavy “Debit Release Cards” by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman In an order and settlement agreement released on October 19, 2021, by the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), prison financial giant JPay, LLC agreed to pay $6 million …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
HRDC Prevails Over Wellpath as Vermont Supreme Court Rules Private Contractor Must Release Public Records by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Vermont Supreme Court concluded that under the Public Records Act (PRA) when “the state contracts with a private entity to discharge the entirety of a fundamental and …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Eleven Guards Fired after Death at Houston Jail by Brian Dolinar by Brian Dolinar As other cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York have slowly begun to decarcerate their county jails, the Harris County Jail in Houston has resisted reform efforts. Over the years, Prison Legal News (PLN) has …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
What’s in a Name? by Jeffrey Ross Exconvict, formerly incarcerated, or returning citizen? by Jeffrey Ian Ross In the field of corrections, there are lots of labels, names, and terms that the public frequently applies to people who are housed in, live in, and are processed by jails and prison …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Louisiana Prisoners Used as Slave Labor During Hurricane Ida, Families Left in the Dark for Weeks by Brian Dolinar by Brian Dolinar When Hurricane Ida made landfall this past summer, it was the deadliest and most destructive to hit Louisiana since Hurricane Katrina. In 2005, many prisoners were not evacuated …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Will Federal Prisoners on Home Confinement Have to Return to Prison? by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The million-dollar question lately has been whether the thousands of federal prisoners released on home confinement to reduce prison crowding would have to return to prison once the pandemic is over. While it’s …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Seven Guards Fired Over Collins County Texas Jail Death by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Marvin David Scott III was far from what most people would consider a criminal. The 26-year-old played football in high school, made straight As, and was described by friends and family as “generous to everyone …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Filed under: Hepatitis, Failure to Treat
Kentucky’s Prison HCV Policy of Monitoring Without Treatment Constitutional by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, in an unpublished opinion, held that the Kentucky Department of Corrections (KDOC) policy of refusing to provide Direct-Acting Antivirals (DAAs) to all prisoners infected with hepatitis C virus …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Filed under: Telephone Rates
All Massachusetts Jails to Provide Prisoners Ten Free Minutes of Phone Calls Per Week and Cap Charges on Additional Minutes at 14 Cents by While the Massachusetts Department of Corrections charges prisoners ten or 11 cents per minute for phone calls, the state’s sheriffs set their own rates individually. Some …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Company Surveils Activists Opposing Construction of Prisons and Jails by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders As if building prisons were not enough, companies are now engaged in what are called “corporate counterinsurgency” measures designed to influence public opinion by monitoring and surveilling groups opposing the construction of new prisons and …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Federal District Court Orders All CDCR Employees be Vaccinated by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On September 27, 2021, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California ordered implementation of the Receiver’s recommendations that “(1) access by workers to CDCR institutions be limited to those workers who …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Filed under: Telephone Rates
Louisville Jail Moves to Have Free Phone Calls for Prisoners by First of the Year by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Louisville, Kentucky’s Metro Department of Corrections (MDOC) who operates the city jail has been ordered by the Metro Council Budget Committee to stop charging prisoners for phone calls from …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Hackers Breach Thousands of Security Cameras by David Reutter by David M. Reutter An international group of hackers gained access to the security cameras at 68 organizations that use Silicon Valley start-up Verkada, Inc. They got into cameras at schools, prisons, police departments, hospitals, and other companies. The incident was …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Filed under: Police/Govt Misconduct
Washington State Prison Chief Secretly Forced to Retire, But Why? by It all seemed above board when, on January 26, 2021, Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) Secretary Stephen Sinclair sent an email to DOC employees announcing his retirement effective May 1, 2021, but, according to the Seattle Times, a Public …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Preliminary Injunction Bars Arkansas from Confiscating Prisoners’ COVID Stimulus Money by David Reutter by David M. Reutter An Arkansas federal district court issued a preliminary injunction that bars the Arkansas Department of Corrections (ADC) from carrying out a state law that confiscates prisoners’ stimulus money and distributes it to the …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Benevolent or Predatory? by Casey Bastian Lake Ozark Politician Gives Women Prisoners Help, Gets Sex by Casey J. Bastian In 2015, Gerry Murawski was an elected city alderman for Lake Ozark, Missouri. Murawski was also engaging in questionable relationships with several young women. During the period of 2015-2016, Murawski would …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Filed under: Editorials
Language Matters: Why We Use the Words We Do by Paul Wright by Paul Wright   Recent years have seen efforts by a lot of well-meaning people referring to prisoners as “people in prison” or “incarcerated people,” former prisoners as “returning citizens,” “formerly incarcerated people” and more. Pretty much since …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Filed under: Prison Labor, Escapes
Oregon Suspends Outside Prisoner Work Crews After Prisoner Escape Sparks International Incident by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On September 22, 2021 Oregon prison officials suspended outside prisoner work crews “in order to review any potential changes following a walk away earlier this year” according to an internal memo sent …
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