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Article • December 15, 2012 • from PLN December, 2012
Former New York DOCS Food Director Pleads Guilty to Grand Larceny by Joe Watson Howard Dean, the state employee who ran New York’s prison food services for 17 years, was treated like a big cheese by private vendors. In return, according to investigators, he gave them the secret ingredient for …
Article • December 15, 2012 • from PLN December, 2012
Misconduct at U.S. Army Lab Taints Hundreds of Military Prosecutions by Derek Gilna Pentagon investigators are looking into allegations that an analyst at the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory (USACIL) botched hundreds of DNA tests, casting doubt about lab results in hundreds of prosecutions. An accused soldier who was forced …
Oregon DOC Did Not Report 78 Prisoner Deaths in 2010-2011 by Seventy-nine Oregon state prisoners died in 2010 and 2011, but the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) publicly disclosed just one of those deaths. The 79 deaths occurred in nine of the ODOC’s 14 prisons, with three facilities reporting double-digit …
Article • December 15, 2012 • from PLN December, 2012
Virginia Prison Policy Prohibiting Secular, Non-Religious CDs Held Unconstitutional by On February 7, 2012, a U.S. District Court held that a Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) policy prohibiting prisoners from purchasing or possessing secular spoken-word compact discs was unconstitutional. The court invalidated the policy but also granted qualified immunity to …
America Eats its Young: Arizona Communities Embrace Use of Private Prison Employees in Drug Raids at Public Schools by Beau Hodai In Arizona an unsettling trend appears to be underway: the use of private prison employees in law enforcement operations. The state has graced headlines in recent years as the …
Report Criticizes New Hampshire’s Treatment of Female Prisoners; Lawsuit Filed by Joe Watson A two-year investigation has concluded that the New Hampshire Department of Corrections is guilty of “inexcusable neglect” of female prisoners, according to a report released on October 17, 2011. The New Hampshire State Advisory Committee to the …
Article • December 15, 2012 • from PLN December, 2012
Fifth Circuit Reverses $250,000 Award to Mississippi Prisoner Held too Long by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that Christopher B. Epps, the Commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC), was entitled to qualified immunity after a prisoner was held beyond the date …
Article • December 15, 2012 • from PLN December, 2012
U.S. Sentencing Commission Calls Federal Mandatory Minimums “Excessively Severe” by Derek Gilna In a 645-page report prepared by the U.S. Sentencing Commission for Congress, released in October 2011, the Commission found that federal “mandatory minimum” sentences are harsh and unjust – especially in cases where there is no physical harm …
Article • December 15, 2012 • from PLN December, 2012
Arkansas Prison Director Suspended by Board of Corrections by Ray Hobbs, director of the Arkansas Department of Correction (ADOC), was suspended without pay for two weeks, starting January 2, 2012, for failing to promptly inform the Board of Corrections about a computer glitch that resulted in hundreds of prisoners being …
Texas Federal Court Issues Preliminary Injunction Prohibiting Sex Offender Parole Conditions; Case Settles for $52,000 by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 7, 2011, a U.S. District Court issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles (Board) from enforcing onerous sex offender conditions that had …
Article • December 15, 2012 • from PLN December, 2012
Fifth Circuit Holds Mailbox Rule Applies to Legal Mail Rejected Under Bogus Prison Rule by The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that legal mail rejected by prison officials under a purported rule that does not exist is still entitled to the “mailbox rule.” Clifford Medley, a Texas state …
Article • December 15, 2012 • from PLN December, 2012
Federal Court Upholds Maryland Law that Reclassifies Prisoners for Redistricting by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On December 23, 2011, a Maryland federal district court three-judge panel upheld a state law that counts prisoners as residents of their legal home address rather than their prison address for redistricting purposes. …
Article • December 15, 2012 • from PLN December, 2012
Michigan DOC Taser Experiment Touted; Prison Perimeter Patrols to End by Michigan prison officials are proclaiming their experiment to arm guards with Tasers a success. An announced end to round-the-clock patrols of prison perimeters, however, was denounced as a threat to security by the union that represents Michigan Department of …
New North Carolina DOC Hospital Promises Better Healthcare for Prisoners by Joe Watson With crowded prisons and an increasing percentage of prisoners age 50 and older, the North Carolina Department of Corrections (NCDOC) opened a $153.7 million medical complex at the Central Prison in Raleigh in November 2011. The new …
Article • December 15, 2012 • from PLN December, 2012
Missouri County Ordered to Present Civil Detainees Before Court within 27 Hours; $75,000 Damages Settlement by A Missouri federal district court has entered a consent decree in a class-action lawsuit that prohibits county officials from holding people detained for more than 27 hours, excluding weekends and holidays, on a civil …
Article • December 15, 2012 • from PLN December, 2012
Organizations Submit Letters to FCC Urging Action on Prison Phone Rates by Mel Motel On October 23, 2012, the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), which publishes Prison Legal News, submitted a joint letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) urging action on the “Wright Petition,” which asks the FCC to …
Article • December 15, 2012 • from PLN December, 2012
West Memphis Three Released, but Justice Not Served and Questions Remain by Joe Watson In August 2011, a trio of Arkansas state prisoners, widely known as the West Memphis Three, walked out of prison after serving more than 18 years for a brutal triple homicide they did not commit. They …
Article • December 15, 2012 • from PLN December, 2012
Oregon Re-Sells Unused Execution Drugs by On November 22, 2011, death penalty opponents cheered Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber’s decision to halt the scheduled December 6, 2011 execution of Gary Haugen, and to impose a moratorium on all executions for the duration of his term. Kitzhaber called the death penalty “compromised …
Article • December 15, 2012 • from PLN December, 2012
Philadelphia Women Prisoners Sue for Being Housed with a Man by Four women have sued the City and County of Philadelphia, its prison system, several of its divisions and officials, and Prison Health Services (PHS, now known as Corizon) for forcing them to share a jail cell with a man …
Article • December 15, 2012 • from PLN December, 2012
Momentum Builds to End Prison-Based Gerrymandering by Peter Wagner Four states and hundreds of local governments are standing up to reject one of the most repugnant aspects of the prison industrial complex: Legislators with prisons located in their districts who claim the people incarcerated there – who cannot vote – …
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