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of Corrections (DOC) statistics. “The number of completed suicides is always the tip of the iceberg,” stated Rick Glassman, litigation director for the Disability Law Center of Massachusetts. “What lies beneath ...
Article • December 15, 2012 • from PLN December, 2012
injunctive relief from what they allege are practices that violate their rights as indigent defendants; the suit seeks to compel the state to provide funding for indigent defense services. These cases ...
Article • June 7, 2014 • from PLN June, 2014
$473.8 million in sales with $1.6 million in net profit in fiscal year 2012. What states did with those proceeds varied; some reinvested profits into their industry programs while others used the funds ...
Article • October 26, 2015 • from PLN November, 2015
, exist despite data which shows that 78% of sex offenders in Utah had no prior convictions. “Our culture has a very strict credo, a moral sense, of what is appropriate sexually and what ...
Article • February 29, 2016
to be the property of your email provider? What if every email cost $1 to send and the receiver could not answer back by simply hitting "reply?" "Calling the electronic messaging offered to incarcerated people ...
Article • October 10, 2014 • from PLN October, 2014
to the problem” often means that they have given significant thought to possible solutions. In what appears to be a watershed moment for criminal justice reform we need these communities of the currently ...
Article • October 3, 2014
; Minnesota has many cases that exhibit this tactic of cost cutting during its privatization period. Two deaths in 2000, only two years into the privatization contract, hinted at what was to come. &nbsp ...
Article • March 5, 2015 • from PLN March, 2015
by Obama recently, the CIA still has authority to carry out what are known as renditions, secret abductions and transfers of prisoners to countries that cooperate with the United States.” The English ...
Article • August 15, 2011
. 22) and to provide specific legal materials (par. 33) to its prisoners. What the court found was deplorable. For breakfast prisoners would receive a serving of unsweetened grits or oatmeal, a slice ...
the prisoners." Seven days later, prison employee Sandra Naves issued a notice of intent to place King in segregation upon the order of Unit Manager Sharon Wells, who told Naves what to put in the notice even ...
good about the retrial; the evidence suggested we were going to win. We were worried about what happens next, after he walks out of prison after 18 years,” said Michael Banks, one of Thompson&rsquo ...
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
well-documented in recent years [see, e.g., PLN, Oct. 2012, p.1], but also on what the ACLU terms the “double” punishment suffered by condemned prisoners, who must endure extra-judicial treatment ...
Article • August 4, 2015
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with turning to the illicit or underground marketplace to get desired products on their own terms. Taken together, these themes suggest several novel ways to look at incarceration. For example, what we mean ...
Article • February 2, 2016 • from PLN February, 2016
and remand the case to the lower court for entry of an injunction. We will report the outcome of the appeal once it is decided. As you read this month’s cover story, you can determine for yourself what ...
Article • April 15, 2012 • from PLN April, 2012
a comment Brown had made about furlough. Beyond that, what happened – and why – depends on whom you ask. Brown’s attorney, Craig Washington, argues that “Brown was in fear of being thrown in the river ...
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
$10 Million Settlement in Suit Over Oklahoma Sheriff’s Sex Abuse Scandal by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Members of the public typically have little concern over what happens ...
a program for parolees, stating it had a “disturbing pattern of ethical violations.” Brown was vigorous in his defense of the organization, however. “We’re new, but what makes us ...
Article • January 10, 2015 • from PLN January, 2015
who pushed fiscal conservatism over previous tough-on-crime and lock-’em-up-and-throw-away-the-key political philosophies. “Policies in various states are finally catching up with what we ...
Article • November 8, 2014 • from PLN November, 2014
up working with Norris until his release in 2003. When he finally walked out of prison, he had already laid the groundwork for his life’s mission. He knew exactly what he had to do. Norris told ...
Article • December 3, 2014 • from PLN December, 2014
who pushed fiscal conservatism over previous tough-on-crime and lock-’em-up-and-throw-away-the-key political philosophies. “Policies in various states are finally catching up with what we ...
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