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The Sun Never Sets On Torture in American Military Prisons by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke PLN has reported extensively on some of the issues surrounding the treatment of prisoners in the American military prisons which were set up to hold people suspected of committing or supporting terrorism. This …
Article • September 15, 2011
Death Penalty Scrutinized: Court Halts Missouri Physician-Overseen Lethal Drug Execution; Ten States Suspend Executions by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The death penalty has come under renewed scrutiny nationwide with nine states suspending executions by lethal injection. Serious questions have been raised both as to Eighth Amendment concerns of …
Article • September 15, 2011
California Inspector General’s Audit of Women’s Prison And Warden Is Generally Favorable by John Dannenberg By John E. Dannenberg California law (Penal Code § 6126(a)(2)) requires the new warden of a state prison to be evaluated by the State Inspector General (IG) within twelve months prior to their state Senate …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN October, 2004
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Voting
Two Empty Bottles With Different Labels: John Kerry on Criminal Justice Issues by Paul Wright By Paul Wright “Americans on the frontlines - our first responders, military forces, sheriffs, policemen, firefighters, and civil defense volunteers - must have the very best equipment, training and support possible. Our safety and freedom …
Article • September 15, 2011
Filed under: Classification, Transfers
Massachusetts Pretrial Detainee Transfer to State Prison Invalid by The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) held that a lower court lacked authority to order the transfer of pretrial detainees from a county jail to a state prison. On August 16, 2005, the Worcester County District Attorney submitted a written request …
Article • September 15, 2011
Prisoners Must Resort to Habeas First before Settling Relief under the Privacy Act when Attacking a Prison Disciplinary Conviction that Involves the Loss of Good Time by Federal prisoners may not seek monetary damages via the Privacy Act when the requested relief, if granted, would necessarily imply the invalidity of …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
PLN Files Censorship Suit Against Michigan Jail over “Postcard Only” Policy by On August 9, 2011, Prison Legal News filed a federal lawsuit against Livingston County, Michigan and the county’s sheriff, Bob Bezotte, alleging First and Fourteenth Amendment violations due to improper censorship at the Livingston County Jail. The suit …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
Reform Comes to Maine Supermax: New commissioner cuts population by more than half; prisoner rights advocates help in the reform by Lance Tapley Less than three months into his job, Maine’s new corrections commissioner, Joseph Ponte, has begun to dramatically reform the Maine State Prison’s long-troubled solitary confinement “supermax” unit. …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
$73,700 Jury Award for Guard’s Sexual Encounters with Massachusetts Prisoner by David Reutter A Massachusetts federal jury has awarded $73,700 in damages to a woman who was repeatedly sexually assaulted while imprisoned at the South Middlesex Correctional Center (SMCC). After being convicted of drug offenses in 2003, Christina Chao, 31, …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
Sixth Circuit Upholds Tennessee’s Financial Obligation Re-Enfranchisement Law by Mark Wilson The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a Tennessee statute that bars the restoration of voting rights to ex-felons who have outstanding restitution or child support obligations. Tennessee law disenfranchises convicted felons but allows reinstatement of their voting …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
New Mexico Spends $20 Million in Federal Stimulus Money to Fund Prison Jobs by Like most other states, New Mexico received a large amount of federal money under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Of the billions of dollars in stimulus funds, $260 million was earmarked as a “state fiscal …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
Filed under: Searches, Strip Searches
$60 Million in Strip Search Settlements for Cook County Jail Prisoners by Derek Gilna Two separate settlements totaling almost $60 million were approved between November 2010 and January 2011 for Cook County, Illinois jail prisoners who were strip searched before being released. Both settlements stemmed from federal court cases filed …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
Filed under: Searches, Strip Searches
Ninth Circuit Finds Maricopa County Jail’s Cross-Gender Strip Searches Unreasonable by On January 5, 2011, the en banc Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court’s dismissal of a prisoner’s lawsuit against the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) and Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Charles Edward Byrd, while a pre-trial detainee …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
California: OAL Disapproves Proposed Parole Board Regulation Formalizing Lifer Risk Assessments by Michael Brodheim In May 2011, California’s Office of Administrative Law (OAL) disapproved a proposed regulation submitted by the Board of Parole Hearings intended to formalize procedures requiring Board psychologists to evaluate the risk for future violence of life-sentenced …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
Feds Pay Wrongfully Convicted D.C. Men $1.9 Million by The U.S. Department of Justice agreed in April 2011 to pay almost $1.9 million to two former prisoners wrongfully convicted of murder, who spent a combined 49 years in prison for a District of Columbia homicide. Joseph Wayne Eastridge and Joseph …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
Filed under: Organizing, Voting
Florida Reenacts Reconstruction-Era Felon Disenfranchisement Rule by David Reutter On March 9, 2011, Florida’s executive clemency board unanimously voted to make it more difficult for ex-felons to have their civil rights restored – including the right to vote, sit on a jury and hold public office. Rather than automatic restoration …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
New Mexico State Auditor Investigates Prison Contracts by On November 12, 2010, New Mexico State Auditor Hector Balderas revealed that his office was investigating whether a former state prison employee violated rules when awarding construction and maintenance contracts to three vendors between 2007 and 2010. Balderas said New Mexico Department …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
Filed under: Statistics/Trends, News
Washington State Closes McNeil Island Prison by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Citing $12 million in annual savings, the Washington State Department of Corrections (WDOC) has closed the 1,200-bed McNeil Island Corrections Center. A 2009 audit, however, found there would be no actual savings because it would cost the …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
Canadian Prison Guards Hold Prisoners at Gunpoint for 10 Days by In January 2010, a Canadian prison tactical unit held prisoners at gunpoint during a search of British Columbia’s Kent Institution. “For 10 days, this team followed its own rules of engagement with almost complete impunity,” stated a report by …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
Smoke ’Em if You Got ’Em, Says Oklahoma DOC by The Oklahoma Department of Corrections (DOC) has partially reversed its six-year-old smoking ban. Citing increased prisoner health care costs caused by smoking, the DOC banned cigarettes in all its facilities in 2004. Since then, predictably, a black market for tobacco …
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