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Solitary Confinement Subject of Unprecedented Congressional Hearing by Alex Friedmann by Alex Friedmann1 It’s an awful thing, solitary. It crushes your spirit and weakens your resistance more effectively than any other form of mistreatment. — U.S. Senator John McCain, on his treatment as a P.O.W.2 On June 19, 2012, the …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
Solitary Confinement: Bad for Chimps, Okay for Humans? by Lance Tapley Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins is a key cosponsor of legislation that, among other provisions, would outlaw psychologically damaging solitary confinement for more than 500 chimpanzees caged for research in federally supported laboratories. In July 2012 the bill bipartisanly …
California Female Prisoners Eligible for Early Release, but Disqualified Due to Lack of Local Rehabilitative Services by In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Plata v. Brown, mandating that California take immediate steps to reduce prison overcrowding, state officials have proposed innovative ideas to help accomplish that …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
From the Editor by Paul Wright Over the past 22 years Prison Legal News has been represented by dozens of lawyers around the country in a variety of cases, mostly dealing with censorship and public records requests. We have met many if not most of our attorneys because they subscribed …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
Ninth Circuit Judge Who Co-Authored “Torture Memos” Discloses Receipt of $3.4 Million in Legal and Consulting Help by In October 2011, the National Law Journal reported that Jay Bybee, a conservative federal judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, had accepted $3.4 million in legal and consulting help from …
The Price to Call Home: State-Sanctioned Monopolization in the Prison Phone Industry by Drew Kukorowski Ed. Note: In April 2011, Prison Legal News published a comprehensive cover story on the prison telephone industry based on two years of research into prison phone contracts, rates and kickbacks nationwide. This article provides …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
Ninth Circuit Holds CAFRA Attorney Fees Should be Paid to Claimant, not Attorney by In a case brought under the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act (CAFRA), the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held on April 26, 2011 that “attorneys fees awarded under CAFRA are payable to the claimant, not the …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
Fifth Circuit Holds Louisiana Prisons Can’t Ban Nation of Islam Newspaper by In 2005, Louisiana prison officials instituted a statewide ban on The Final Call, a newspaper published by the Nation of Islam. The ban was based solely on the content of a statement of beliefs called “The Muslim Program,” …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
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New York Court Upholds Law Requiring Census Count to Use Prisoners’ Pre-Incarceration Address by On December 1, 2011, a New York Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit that sought a judicial declaration that a state statute requiring prisoners to be counted for reapportionment purposes in their last known residence prior to …
Article • October 15, 2012
Filed under: Organizing
What HRDC and Prison Legal News Accomplished in 2012! by Alex Friedmann Last January, the Center for Civic Media at MIT declared the work of Prison Legal News and PLN editor Paul Wright to be "The Front Line of the US Censorship Battle." See: https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/456_displayNews.aspx Interestingly, CCM provided the perfect …
Article • October 15, 2012
Bad behavior in state workplace costs taxpayers nearly $2m in settlements by Naomi Schalit By: John Christie, Matt Drange and Naomi Schalit | December 19, 2012 One corrections officer spread a false rumor that the new female officer at the state prison in South Windham was a stripper. Another one …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
Texas Abolishes Last Meals for Death Row Prisoners, Reduces Weekend Meals by Matthew Clarke Texas served its final last meal to condemned prisoner Lawrence Russell Brewer, who, on September 21, 2011, was executed for the infamous racially-motivated 1998 dragging death of James Byrd, Jr. Brewer requested an extensive last meal …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
Manhattan Prosecutor Who Moonlights as Dominatrix Suspended, Resigns by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In 2008, then-New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo heaped lavish praise on Alisha Smith, a prosecutor in Manhattan who helped secure a $5 billion settlement in a securities fraud case involving Bank of America and other …
Report Cites Rising Violence, Other Problems at Illinois Maximum-Security Prison by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A report by the John Howard Association of Illinois (JHA) found that overcrowding and understaffing at the Menard Correctional Center (Menard) has resulted in an “alarming” increase in staff and prisoner assaults. Opened …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
Private Prison Monopolies by Christopher Petrella As the late business historian Alfred Chandler, Jr. once said, the visible hand of the corporation has been of far greater importance to capitalism than has Adam Smith’s so-called invisible hand of the market. Although modern forms of capitalism are justified, and often sanitized, …
46 California Prisoners Injured in Disturbance at CCA-run Oklahoma Facility by Widespread fighting among black and Hispanic California prisoners at the privately-operated North Fork Correctional Facility in Sayre, Oklahoma last year left dozens of prisoners injured. The disturbance began shortly before noon on October 11, 2011 and was described by …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
Washington State Post-Judgment Interest Award Required when Judgment Increased by Appellate Court in Records Case by The Division One Court of Appeals for the State of Washington held on August 15, 2011 that where an appellate court “merely modifies the trial court award and the only action necessary in the …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
Violence in Tennessee Prisons up 20 Percent Under New Commissioner by Alex Friedmann On September 18, 2012 the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), the parent organization of Prison Legal News, released data indicating that levels of violence in Tennessee state prisons had increased approximately 20 percent since Tennessee Department of …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
Mug Shot Websites Based on Extortion Business Model by David Reutter by David M. Reutter One of the most insidious businesses to grow out of the prison industrial complex revolves around mug shots. Natural curiosity compels many people to view jail booking photos taken by law enforcement agencies when someone …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
Advanced Criminal Procedure in a Nutshell, 2nd Ed., by Mark E. Cammack and Norman M. Garland (Thomson West, 2006). 505 pages, $38.00 by John Dannenberg Book review by John E. Dannenberg Advanced Criminal Procedure in a Nutshell is an informative book that covers procedural aspects of a criminal case after …
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