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Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
Oregon Passes Legislation to Move Juveniles Out of Adult Jails by “Youth who are held in adult jail[s] are at significantly increased risk of experiencing violence, committing suicide, and they’re actually at much higher risk of recidivating as well,” stated David Rogers, executive director of the Partnership for Safety and …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: On June 13, 2012, two state prisoners picking up trash on an outside road crew were hit by a vehicle on Interstate 10 near Loxley. One, Kenric Turner, was killed; the other, Kelvin Dejan Jordan, was transported by helicopter to the University of South Alabama …
Article • October 15, 2012
Filed under: Organizing, Telephone Rates
"Strong Families, Safe Communities" Sends Clear Message for Phone Justice by Mel Motel Mel Motel: "Strong Families, Safe Communities" Sends Clear Message for Phone Justice 2012-11-15 The Campaign for Prison Phone Justice is a national effort challenging prison phone kickbacks and the U.S. Prison Telephone Industry. The campaign is jointly …
Article • October 15, 2012
Report: More Should be Done to Preserve Rights of Incarcerated Parents by Joe Watson A report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office has recommended that federal and state agencies do more to address the needs of families of incarcerated parents and their children, beginning with reporting requirements to better identify …
Article • October 15, 2012
Attempted Murder Charge Against Wyoming Parole Board Member Dropped by James Weisbeck, a Wyoming parole board member and former police chief, was charged with attempted second-degree murder and attempting to intimidate a witness after his live-in girlfriend accused him of firing a handgun at her and threatening to kill her …
Article • October 15, 2012
Arizona County Jail Rescinds Daily Fee for Prisoners’ Meals by Arizona’s Santa Cruz County Jail will no longer charge prisoners $2.00 per day for their meals. According to Sheriff Antonio Estrada, the pay-for-food policy resulted in prisoners abusing both the system and other prisoners. Since indigent offenders still received meals, …
Article • October 15, 2012
California: Joint Venture Program Compensates Crime Victims by On December 12, 2011, pursuant to the Prison Inmate Labor Initiative of 1990, better known as the Joint Venture Program, San Quentin State Prison officials donated a total of $38,232 to seven Bay Area nonprofit agencies that provide services to victims of …
Article • October 15, 2012
Filed under: Media, Tapes/Music
From Rock & Rap Confidential: Johnny Cash and Mark Collie by Lee Ballinger From Rock & Rap Confidential: Johnny Cash and Mark Collie HELLO WALLS ... In the early 1890s coal miners began a war against the use of convict labor in the mines of eastern Tennessee. They burned down …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
California Federal Judge Denies Habeas Petitions after Sitting on Them for Years by A federal judge’s treatment of prisoner habeas petitions gives new meaning to the old adage that justice delayed is justice denied. U.S. District Court Judge Percy Anderson, who was named to the federal judiciary in 2002 by …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
California’s Experiment with Community Correctional Facilities Coming to an End? by From August to November 2011, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) closed all but one of its community correctional facilities (CCFs). In the past, the CDCR used CCFs to house low-level (minimum and medium security) prisoners in …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
UTMB Challenges Texas State Audit, while Legislature Imposes $100 Prisoner Health Care Co-Pay by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) has challenged the findings of a state audit of the prisoner health care services it provides. The challenged audit reported that UTMB …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
North Dakota Farmers Help Flush Out Escaped Florida Sex Offender by A Florida prisoner picked the wrong state when he fled from a private transport van and ran into a 310-acre corn field. “This is unique in the sense that, God bless North Dakota, we bring everybody together to solve …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
Oregon Adopts 5% Prison Trust Fund Account “Service Fee” by Tasked with cutting $28 million from its massive $1.36 billion budget, Oregon prison officials had to look under every couch cushion for loose change. That means they once again turned their focus to prisoners and their loved ones, who present …
New Hampshire Court Invalidates City’s Sex Offender Residency Ordinance by A New Hampshire Superior Court has invalidated a local ordinance that prohibits sex offenders from living within 2,500 feet of a school, day care center, playground, athletic field, public beach or ski area, finding that it violated the Equal Protection …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
Fourth Circuit Upholds North Carolina Sheriff’s Bribery Conviction by On November 7, 2011, former Buncombe County, North Carolina Sheriff Bobby Lee Medford’s conviction on federal bribery and conspiracy charges was upheld by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. The decision highlighted a scheme in which Medford and his co-conspirators misused …
Texas Compensates Exonerees Unequally by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A succession of laws, cumulating in the most generous compensation package for wrongly convicted prisoners in the nation, has left Texas exonerees stuck at different levels of compensation depending on when they were proven innocent. Consequently, some earlier exonerees now …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
Criminal Law in a Nutshell, 5th Ed., by Arnold H. Loewy (West Law School, 2009). 387 pages, $38.00 by John Dannenberg Book review by John E. Dannenberg Loewy, a law professor, warns his students not to substitute reading this book for doing the hard work of mastering course material in …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
Former Delaware Prisoner Settles Sexual Assault Suit for $287,500 and Policy Changes by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna and Brandon Sample Former Delaware state prisoner Michelle Bloothoofd has settled a federal lawsuit filed against the Delaware Department of Correction (DOC), the Baylor Women’s Correctional Institution (BWCI), Warden Patrick Ryan, guard …
Brief • October 15, 2012
Fair Elections Ohio v Husted Oh Memo Tro Voters Confined Over Election Day 2012 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO WESTERN DIVISION : FAIR ELECTIONS OHIO, et al., : : : Plaintiffs, : : vs. : : JON HUSTED, in his official capacity : as Secretary …
Brief • October 15, 2012
Fair Elections Ohio v Husted Oh Mtro Pretrial Detainee Absentee Voting 2012 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO WESTERN DIVISION : : : : Plaintiffs, : : vs. : : JON HUSTED, in his official capacity : as Secretary of State of Ohio, et al., : …
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