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Pfizer Deals Blow to Lethal Injections by Christopher Zoukis Pfizer, Inc., the world’s second-largest pharmaceutical manufacturer, recently announced new restrictions on the distribution of drugs used to execute prisoners. The May 13, 2016 announcement detailed “distribution restrictions” that the company is placing on certain drugs used in lethal injection protocols, …
Medical Statistical Model Used to Estimate Wrongful Conviction Rate in Death Penalty Cases by Matthew Clarke An interesting collaboration between medical and law professionals, under the leadership of University of Michigan Law School professor Samuel R. Gross, led to the application of medical statistical analysis to exonerations of death-sentenced prisoners, …
Study Shows Modest Decline in Prison Populations by Derek Gilna A February 2016 study by The Sentencing Project, “U.S. Prison Population Trends 1999-2014: Broad Variation Among States in Recent Years,” found there has been a 2.9% average decline in the number of state prisoners during that period. Over those 15 …
Dallas Conviction Integrity Unit Gains National Notoriety by Matthew Clarke The word “first” was applied to Craig M. Watkins multiple times after his election to the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office in 2006. He was the county’s first black D.A., the first D.A. who had been a public defender before …
Article • July 6, 2016 • from PLN July, 2016
Georgia: Federal Court Finds Bond System Unfair to Indigent Defendants, Enters Injunction by Derek Gilna Maurice Walker, 54, was arrested in the City of Calhoun, Georgia for public intoxication in September 2015, and told that if he posted a $160 bond he could go free until his first court date. …
Article • July 1, 2016
If You're Poor, Justice in America Doesn't Look the Same by Being poor has become a crime. And this makes mass incarceration the most pressing civil rights issue of our era. By Chris Hedges / Truthdig If you are poor, you will almost never go to trial—instead you will be forced to accept …
Does Smarter Sentencing Equal Lower Prison Numbers? by By Adam Wisnieski, The Crime Report The United States has the world’s highest incarceration rate—and efforts to reduce it have been the focus of studies by leading academics, advocacy groups and policymakers. Most recognize that if significant change is going to come, it …
Formerly Incarcerated Moms Fight for Reforms to Save Families by Victoria Law By Victoria Law, Yes! Magazine Diana waited at the bus stop for her children to arrive from school one afternoon 20 years ago. She had planned a party to celebrate her daughter’s sixth birthday. The party, however, never happened. …
Article • June 27, 2016
Are Shows Like "Serial" and "Making a Murderer" Clouding the Wider Struggle for Justice? by By James Kilgore, Truthout How many US prisoners are wrongfully convicted? And how many are technically "guilty" but still should not be locked up? This original story saw the light of day thanks to support from …
U.S. v. Hinds County, MS, Settlement Agreement, Conditions of Confinement, 2016 Case 3:16-cv-00489-WHB-JCG Document 2-1 Filed 06/23/16 Page 1 of 65 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI NORTHERN DIVISION UNITED ST A TES OF AMERICA, PLAINTIFF, V. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) COUNTY HINDS …
Incarceration, Justice and the Planet: How the Fight Against Toxic Prisons May Shape the Future of Environmentalism by Panagioti Tsolkas Prisons inspire little in terms of natural wonder. It might be a weed rises through a crack and blooms for a moment. It might be a prisoner notices. But prisoners, …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
California: City Council Hears Proposal to Repurpose Empty Prison as Pot Farm by The Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga houses around 2,300 prisoners and employs about 1,000 area residents, but the local economy was hit hard by the 2011 closure of the smaller, city-owned Claremont Custody Center. In a …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Bail Bond Payment Plans Face Scrutiny, Criticism in New Jersey by Joe Watson In May 2014, New Jersey’s State Commission of Investigation (SCI) concluded a “broad-based” probe into the state’s bail bond industry for allowing criminal defendants to get out of jail with lower upfront costs and weekly or monthly …
Prisoners Protest Solitary Confinement at Illinois Facility by Joe Watson More than two dozen prisoners at the Menard Correctional Center in Illinois protested conditions in the prison’s high security unit (HSU) by staging a series of hunger strikes, most of them sustained for weeks. The protests at the Menard facility, …
Exonerees Fulfill Dreams, Help Other Prisoners Overcome Wrongful Convictions by David Reutter by David Reutter and Joe Watson Former Louisiana death row prisoner John Thompson has spearheaded an organization that aims to help the wrongfully convicted and former prisoners successfully rebuild their lives. Thompson was sentenced to death for the …
California’s Broken Death Penalty System by Christopher Zoukis While California taxpayers have spent over $4 billion on capital punishment since it was reinstated in 1978, more than 900 prisoners have been sentenced to death but only 13 have been executed – an average cost of around $308 million per execution. …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Wrongfully Convicted Former Prisoner Commits Suicide by Anti-death penalty advocate Darryl Hunt, who was wrongfully convicted and served almost 20 years in North Carolina prisons before being exonerated in 2004, was found dead on March 13, 2016 in a car near the Wake Forest University campus. Police officials revealed that …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
U.S. Department of Education Offers Second Chance Pell Pilot Program by Christopher Zoukis On July 31, 2015, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) announced a new pilot program that will provide federal funding to colleges to provide classes at select prisons. The Second Chance Pell Pilot Program will help prisoners …
From the Editor by Paul Wright Criminologist Jonathan Simon refers to prisons as human toxic waste dumps where the ruling class dumps its human waste: out of sight and out of mind. Sadly, toxic waste is not just a literary analogy when discussing American prisons and jails. As PLN has …
Publication • June 2, 2016
Justice in Review - New Trends in State Sentencing and Corrections 2014-2015, Vera, 2016 Justice in Review: New Trends in State Sentencing and Corrections 2014-2015 .": CENTER ON SENTENCING AND CORRECTIONS 3FCFDDB4JMCFSt3BN4VCSBNBOJBOt.BJB4QPUUT FROM THE DIRECTOR This analysis of state-level changes in sentencing and corrections laws enacted in 2014 and 2015 …
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