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for $2,910,480, according to its contracts site. Not long after the CMS contract, NYDC also signed two contracts with NaphCare, Inc. in 2006 for more than $1 million each, and extended them at the start of 2011 ...
Article • July 7, 2015 • from PLN July, 2015
on October 1, 2013 and agreed to take responsibility for the DOJ’s findings as negotiations continued on how to resolve the issues uncovered by the federal investigation. Justice Department officials ...
lucrative contracts to run the detention centers. CCA, for example, received a no-bid, four-year contract worth $1 billion to operate its South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas. Even better ...
– many of them recently released from prison – were reportedly abysmal. [See: PLN, May 2014, p.1]. On March 18, 2015, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman issued a superseding indictment ...
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
states. [See, e.g., PLN, Dec. 2016, p.22; April 2015, p.1; Oct. 2010, p.1]. These scandals have led courts to be more open to challenges to the once-unassailable field of forensic analysis. A similar ...
Article • July 15, 2011 • from PLN July, 2011
Filed under: News, News in Brief
, was granted early release on March 1, 2011. The sexual assault occurred in November 2009, and Wolford was sentenced in March 2010; he had served a year in prison prior to his early release. “The reason ...
to mitigate unconstitutional prison overcrowding that resulted in deficient medical care. [See: PLN, July 2011, p.1]. According to a December 2011 report in The Arizona Republic, however, Ryan’s initial ...
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
Filed under: News, News in Brief
,” according to court records. Hamm was sentenced on December 1, 2011 to one year in prison and 7½ years probation; he will also have to register as a sex offender. Arizona: On Oct. 21, 2011, former Maricopa ...
Article • May 6, 2015 • from PLN May, 2015
County, U.S.D.C. (S.D. Fla.), Case No. 1:14-cv-23933-PCH. Miami-Dade County has long been criticized for its residency restrictions. In 2006, a camp under the Julia Tuttle Causeway grew to include more ...
, a long-standing critic of Tasers, has reported that since 2001 at least 550 people died after being Tased by police. [See: PLN, Oct. 2006, p.1; June 2005, p.1]. The company that manufactures the stun ...
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
Filed under: News, News in Brief
to asphyxia by strangulation. Witmer received a life sentence on July 26, 2011 for Kay’s murder, in addition to two other life sentences he was already serving. Nevada: According to a June 1, 2011 news report ...
cases have held sexual assault not to constitute physical injury, and therefore not to be compensable in federal civil actions. See, e.g., Hancock v. Payne, 2006 WL 21751, *1, 3 (S.D.Miss., Jan. 4, 2006 ...
Article • August 15, 2013 • from PLN August, 2013
capacity. The state objected and appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, in a first-ever test of the three-judge panel provision of the PLRA. In Brown v. Plata, 131 S.Ct. 1910 (2011) [PLN, July 2011, p.1 ...
Article • September 25, 2015 • from PLN October, 2015
for applying the death penalty, executing more prisoners than any other state. Between 1976 and September 1, 2015, Texas carried out 528 executions – nearly five times as many as neighboring Oklahoma ...
reported the abuse of prisoners in American military prisons in Iraq. [PLN June 2004, p. 1; Nov. 2004, p. 36; Dec. 2004, p. 26]. The most infamous location where prisoner torture took place is Abu Ghraib ...
Police Benevolent Association, resulted in the Leon County Circuit Court ruling that the provision was unconstitutional. [See: PLN, April 2012, p.38; Feb. 2012, p.1]. While that issue generated ...
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Statistics, and one of every ten occurs in Texas. Over the nine-month period between October 1, 2017 and July 1, 2018, some 80 prisoners died in Texas jails – a rate 22 percent above the national average ...
Article • October 4, 2019 • from PLN October, 2019
from 11:1 at Parchman, Mississippi’s most infamous prison, to 23:1 at the Southern Mississippi Correctional Institution (SMCI) – a ratio far higher than in other states. “We regularly ...
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Filed under: RLUIPA, Religious Freedom
’s regulation imposes a substantial burden on a prisoner’s religious exercise, the regulation violates RLUIPA unless the institution demonstrates both: (1) that a compelling governmental ...
Article • April 2, 2019 • from PLN April, 2019
Filed under: Prison Labor
to count toward the work requirement, but it also barred prisoners from receiving pay for their labor. [See: PLN, May 1998, p.1].  “Measure 17 has some serious flaws, and this is one of them ...
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