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Publication • August 9, 2016
Behind Bars: Substance Abuse and America's Prison Population, Culpeper Foundation, 1998 Behind Bars: Substance Abuse and America's Prison Population January 1998 Funded by: Charles E. Culpeper Foundation The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 500.C Table of Contents Glossary .......................................................................................................................... i Foreword ...................................................................................................................... iii I. Introduction and Executive Summary..................................................................... 1 Most Inmates …
Brief • August 8, 2016
Fox v. Peters, OR, Complaint, Spinal Injury Release Plan, 2016 Case 6:16-cv-01602-MC Document 1 Filed 08/08/16 Page 1 of 7 Lynn S. Walsh, OSB #924955 email: walsh@europa.com 209 SW Oak Street Suite 400 Portland, Oregon 97204 Telephone: 503-790-2772 Facsimile: 503-227-6840 Attorney for Plaintiff UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT …
Oklahoma County Settles Suit over Excessive Use of Restraint Chair for $200,000 by On May 20, 2014, Bryan County, Oklahoma agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by a former Bryan County Jail prisoner over maltreatment, including placing him in a restraint chair multiple times for days at a time and …
Article • August 5, 2016
Failure to Provide Hearing Aid Batteries is Deliberate Indifference to Serious Medical Need by The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals held a prisoner who suffers from substantial hearing loss that may be remediated by a hearing aid may state claim for deliberate indifference to a serious medical need if prison …
Two Illinois Jail Guards Indicted in 2011 'Take Down,' Death of Homeless Man by Joe Watson Two former Illinois jail guards who were employed by the Lake County Sheriff's Office north of Chicago were indicted October 29, 2014, on felony charges related to the death of a homeless man booked …
Brief • August 5, 2016
Sandoval v. San Diego, CA, Order Denying MTD - Sufficient Notice, Failure to Prove Deliberate Indifference, 2016 Case 3:16-cv-01004-BEN-RBB Document 10 Filed 08/05/16 Page 1 of 10 1 FILED 2 2IlUUG-5 PH 2~29 3 ii,Il!!\llol1M pl.TRIGT ef 0 ...11'11' 'tl.iE1I1( us OI$TRtCT .cau~ 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT …
Woman Dies during 1,000 Mile Private Prisoner Transport Trip by David Reutter The death of a woman on a private transport van raised a much needed spotlight on the private prisoner transport industry. The 54-year-old woman was found slumped over in the back of the Prisoner Transportation Services of America …
Jails Sell Prisoners E-Cigarettes, a Gateway to Drug Addiction by As jail officials across the country market e-cigarettes to prisoners at profit margins topping 400 percent, a new study suggests that these “pure nicotine-delivery devices” may actually be a “gateway drug” to cocaine and other serious drug addictions. E-cigarettes use …
Private Corporations Rake in the Cash From DOJ and BOP by Derek Gilna Despite recent efforts to reduce federal prisoner counts and corrections expenses, private corporations continue to reap a financial windfall from other people's misfortune.  Several corporations have fattened their balance sheets as private prison operators and numerous health …
Article • August 4, 2016
Alaskan Prisoner Deaths under Scrutiny by Matthew Clarke The Alaskan state legislature held a hearing in July 2014 after five Alaskan prisoners died between April and June of that year. According to Joe Schmidt, director of the Alaska Department of Corrections, the 2010 national prisoner death rate was .217% and …
Report Finds Fiscal Crisis of Increasing Low-Risk, High-Cost Older Prisoners by Matthew Clarke A report released by the Osborne Association found American prisons facing a crisis of aging in which an increasing percentage of older prisoners who are at low risk for recidivism are driving up the cost of running …
Suit Charges Florida Detainee Died of Neglect by David Reutter The estate of a pretrial detainee who was “neglected to death” sued Florida’s Broward County Jail (BCJ) and its medical contractor, Armor Correctional Health Services (Armor). In other BCJ news, a guard was acquitted of assaulting a pretrial detainee. Upon …
History as Substance Abuser Influences Nation’s Drug Czar by David Reutter America’s drug czar is an alcoholic who is approaching his job differently than his predecessors. In leading the White House Office of National Drug Control, Michael Botticelli is following the Obama administration’s policy of shifting away from the “war …
Article • August 3, 2016
BJS Says Slight Increase in State and Local Prisoner Deaths in 2013 by Derek Gilna The most recent compilation of mortality statistics for local jails and state correctional facilities by the Depart of Justice’s (DOJ) Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) showed an effective increase of approximately 2% for 2012, the …
Publication • August 3, 2016
A Thin Line - The Texas Prison Healthcare Crisis and the Secret Death Penalty, Texas Civil Rights Project, 2011 A TEXAS CIVIL RIGHTS PROJECT HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT 2011 “A THIN LINE” The Texas Prison Healthcare Crisis and The Secret Death Penalty “Right now the [health care] system is constitutional… but …
Torture in Healthcare Settings, CHRHL, 2013 Torture in Healthcare Settings: Reflections on the Special Rapporteur on Torture’s 2013 Thematic Report C E N T E R F O R H U M A N R I G H T S & H U M A N I TA R I …
Publication • August 3, 2016
Tattoo Prohibition Behind Bars - The Case for Repeal, D'Amico, 2008 Tattoo Prohibition Behind Bars: The Case for Repeal Daniel J. D’Amico* George Mason University Abstract Performing or receiving tattoos is forbidden in American prisons. What are the intentions behind this prohibition? Does the policy meet its intentions? Does it …
Publication • August 3, 2016
The Right to Health of Prisoners in International Human Rights Law, Lines, 2008 International Journal of Prisoner Health, March 2008; 4(1): 3Á53 ORIGINAL ARTICLE The right to health of prisoners in international human rights law RICK LINES International Harm Reduction Association Abstract This paper explores the health rights of prisoners …
Publication • August 3, 2016
Filed under: Brain Injury, Mental Health
Repairing Shattered Lives - Brain Injury and Its Implications for Criminal Justice, Exeter University - Williams, 2012 1 repairing shaTTered lives: Brain injury and its implications for criminal justice Professor Huw Williams Centre for Clinical Neuropsychology Research, University of Exeter Acknowledgements The author would like to recognise the contribution of: …
Drug Use, Testing and Treatment in Jails 2000, DOJ BJS, 2000 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Revised 9/29/00 Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report May 2000, NCJ 179999 Drug Use, Testing, and Treatment in Jails By Doris James Wilson BJS Statistician In 1998 an estimated 417,000 jail …
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