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Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
Indiana DOC’s Refusal to Provide Kosher Meals Violates RLUIPA by Brandon Sample The Indiana Department of Corrections (DOC) must provide kosher meals to prisoners who require a kosher diet to properly exercise their religious beliefs, U.S. District Court Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson held on November 1, 2010. Judge Magnus-Stinson’s decision was …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief: by Alabama: Evergreen police officer Sean Klaetsch was placed on paid leave on Sept. 8, 2011 due to “complaints of unprofessional and harassing conduct.” That conduct included Klaetsch allegedly using a Taser on a female prisoner while she was in a restraint chair at the local jail. …
Prison Sexual Abuse Survivor Speaks Out by Alan Prendergast In January 2010, Scott Howard, a 39-year-old federal prisoner, made his way briskly into a hearing room in the Robert F. Kennedy Justice Building in Washington, D.C. He was neatly dressed in blazer, slacks and tie, and quite nervous about what …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
Filed under: Medical, Medical Expenses
Texas State Auditor Blasts UTMB, Texas Tech Prisoner Health Care Costs by Medical care for more than 150,000 prisoners in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) is contracted out to two state university medical systems – the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) and Texas Tech University …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
From the Editor by Paul Wright Welcome to the last issue of PLN for 2011. Since we began publishing PLN, the issue of prisoner rape and sexual assault has been an important priority. There has been some improvement, at least as far as raising public awareness around this issue, over …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
DOJ Finds No Wrongdoing After Prisoner Dies Due to Grossly Inadequate Medical Care by Brandon Sample Prison officials at the Federal Correctional Institution in Pekin, Illinois, a medium-security facility, were the subject of an FBI investigation related to a prisoner who died in agony after being denied medical care. Adam …
Anatomy of False Confessions, Redux by Earlier this year PLN reported on the phenomenon of suspects who falsely confess to crimes they did not commit. [See: PLN, April 2011, p.18]. As false confessions occur in wrongful conviction cases with disturbing regularity, this article revisits and expounds on this important topic …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
Tennessee: Felony Friendly Job Fairs an Unexpected Hit by When Tennessee state Representative Brenda Gilmore and other event organizers planned a Felony Friendly Job Fair in North Nashville on April 23, 2011, they expected a turnout of about 100 former prisoners looking for work. They grossly underestimated the interest among …
Illinois DOC Sued to Accommodate Hearing Impaired Prisoners by A class-action lawsuit filed on May 4, 2011 is challenging the failure of the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) to provide assistance to prisoners who are deaf or hard of hearing. The complaint, filed in federal court, alleges violations of the …
Tennessee: Incident Rates at CCA Facilities Higher Than at Public Prisons by According to an analysis of incidents involving assaults and disturbances at government-run and privately-managed prisons in Tennessee from January 2009 to June 2011, incident rates were consistently higher at the state’s three private prisons. Those were the findings …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
Study Shows Ex-offenders Have Greatly Reduced Employment Rates by In November 2010 the Center for Economic and Policy Research released a study titled “Ex-offenders and the Labor Market,” which found that a felony conviction or imprisonment significantly reduces the ability of ex-offenders to find jobs, costing the U.S. economy an …
Ohio ACLU, Other Organizations Release Reports on Prison Privatization by In April 2011 the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio (ACLU) released an expansive report entitled Prisons for Profit: A Look at Prison Privatization, which draws strongly on the experiences of other states with heavily-privatized prison systems. The report concludes …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
Immigrants Have Special Sixth Amendment Rights But Limited Time to Enforce Them by Holly S. Cooper by Holly S. Cooper & Anel Carrasco In negotiating plea bargains for immigrants, many defense lawyers forget to focus on the primary goal for their clients – staying in the United States. While no …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
Ohio County’s Intensive Probation Program Failing Miserably by Justin Miller A study has found that an intensive probation program in Hamilton County, Ohio is so unsuccessful that its participants are actually more likely to re-offend than those convicted of similar crimes who receive no supervision at all, according to the …
Virginia Prisoners Held in Segregation Over 10 Years for Violating DOC Grooming Policy by Justin Miller A number of prisoners in Virginia have been held in segregation for more than a decade because they refuse to cut their hair or beards on religious grounds. Since December 1999, the Virginia Department …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
Northern California Private Pathology Company Under Scrutiny by A shortage of forensic pathologists in Northern California and elsewhere in the nation has led to the growth of private for-profit forensics companies. Forensic Medical Group (FMG) is one of those companies. FMG, which employs five doctors, conducts all the autopsies for …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
Prison Legal News Files Censorship Suit Against Florida DOC by On November 17, 2011 the ACLU of Florida and the Florida Justice Institute filed a lawsuit on behalf of Prison Legal News in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Named as defendants in the suit are …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
Texas State Bar, Exonerated Ex-Prisoners File Suit Against Attorney Over Fees by The State Bar of Texas has filed a lawsuit against Lubbock attorney Kevin Glasheen, alleging that he grossly overcharged clients in violation of the Bar’s Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct. Glasheen, who represents over a dozen exonerated former …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
Denver Prisoner’s Death Ruled a Homicide; Family Files Suit by Brandon Sample The Denver area coroner’s office has ruled the death of a prisoner at the Van Cise-Simonet Detention Facility (VCSDF) a homicide. Marvin L. Booker, 56, a homeless preacher, died on July 9, 2010 after a struggle with guards …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
Prisoners Shot and Killed During Egyptian Revolution; 23,000 Escape by Egyptian officials reported in January 2011 that thousands of prisoners clashed with guards and staged mass escapes during nationwide protests that were part of the revolutionary movement known as Arab Spring. The officials acknowledged that a number of prisoners were …
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