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New Yorks Son of Sam Law Constitutional, Damages Seized by New York's Son of Sam Law Constitutional, Damages Seized The New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, has held that the state's Son of Sam law, which allows a victim to seek restitution from crime perpetrators, is constitutional. Ibn Kenyatta was …
Focus on Sex Offenders Increases While Number of Sex Offenses Decline by In September, 2006 the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics released its annual Crime Victimization report for 2005, which indicated a dramatic drop in the number of rapes and sexual assaults nationally. The 191,670 reported incidents represent an almost …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
Delaware Law: Punishing Prisoners for Reporting Sexual Abuse by Guards by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In July 1980, the state of Delaware criminalized all sex in its prisons. Critics cry that the law requires a prisoner to be convicted even when the sex is non-consensual, preventing prisoners from …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
Virginia's General Assembly Sells Out Prisoners' Families for Phone Money by Gary Hunter Virginia's General Assembly reneged on their agreement with a prisoner advocate group to substantially reduce phone rates between prisoners and their families. Virginia's Citizens United for the Rehabilitation of Errants (CURE) had lobbied for years to have …
Article • September 15, 2006 • from PLN September, 2006
Oklahoma Requires Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies For Ex-Prisoner Suits by The Oklahoma Legislature has enacted a law that prohibits former prisoners from bringing a civil action unless the prisoner has exhausted all administrative remedies. To PLNs knowledge, this is the first law of its kind. The legislation, which was signed …
Article • September 15, 2006 • from PLN September, 2006
Delaware Legislature Rejects Bill Upgrading Prison Health Care by David Reutter by David M. Reutter After a public outcry condemned the health care services provided to prisoners held by the Delaware Department of Corrections, (DDOC) the Delaware Legislature has passed a bill that provides an inflation adjustment for services and …
Article • August 15, 2006 • from PLN August, 2006
Texas State Representative Criticized For Helping Prisoners and Families by Matthew T. Clarke Texas Representative Terri Hodge has been taking heat for (gasp!) helping prisoners and their families, in other words--for doing her job. Hodge is accused of the following: (1) helping arrange rare face-to-face meetings between parole-eligible prisoners and …
Article • August 15, 2006 • from PLN August, 2006
Texas Politicians Provided Perks Using Prisoner Slave Labor by Matthew T. Clarke Texas Correctional Industries (TCI), the industrial division of the Texas prison system, has been operating as a cut-rate, custom craft-goods supplier for dozens of Texas legislators. One politician furnished his new home with prisoner made goods. The goods …
Transgender Wisconsin Prisoners Continue Hormone Treatment Despite Law by Michael Rigby On January 25, 2006, a federal court in Wisconsin issued an emergency injunction to prevent the state from discontinuing hormone therapy for three transgender prisoners, despite a new state law banning the therapy. In January 2006 the Wisconsin legislature …
Youth Dies in Florida Boot Camp; Cause of Death Questioned by David Reutter by David M. Reutter For the fifth time in five years a juvenile has died in a Florida boot camp. A videotape of 14-year-old Martin Lee Anderson being counseled at a Bay County boot camp facility in …
Article • June 15, 2006 • from PLN June, 2006
Filed under: Parole, News, State Legislation
California Legislature Reorganizes DOC To Add Rehabilitation by Marvin Mentor California Legislature Reorganizes DOC To Add Rehabilitation by Marvin Mentor Via legislative enactment (SB 737) effective July 1, 2005, the California DOC (formerly CDC) was renamed the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), the Board of Prison Terms (BPT) was …
Michigan Youth Prison Closed But Problems Continue by Michael Rigby During its six years of operation, the Michigan Youth Correctional Facility has been criticized over abuse, suicide attempts, and a policy of filling beds at the maximum-security prison with low level offenders. But even after its closure, the privately run …
Article • June 15, 2006 • from PLN June, 2006
California Ex-Con DNA Collection Law Ruled Not Retroactive by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The U.S. District Court, N.D. Cal., ruled that Californias recent Proposition 69, which provides for DNA collection from all convicted persons, does not apply retroactively to exconvicts who have been discharged from custody, parole …
Article • March 15, 2006 • from PLN March, 2006
Texas Legislature Requires HIV Testing for Prisoners by Gary Hunter Texas prisoners must now be tested for HIV before they are allowed to leave prison. Rep. Yvonne Davis, D-Dallas, authored House Bill 43 which was signed on June 19, 2005, by Gov. Pick Perry, and went into effect on September …
Article • March 15, 2006 • from PLN March, 2006
Florida Awards $2 Million to Wrongfully Convicted Man by At its special session in December 2005, the Florida Legislature passed a bill to pay 44-year-old Wilton Dedge $2 million as compensation for a rape he did not commit. Dedge spent 22 years in Florida prisons for the sexual assault and …
California Enacts Strong Sexual Abuse in Detention Elimination" Act by California Enacts Strong Sexual Abuse in Detention Elimination" Act by John E. Dannenberg To aid compliance with the federal Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) of 2003 (Public Law 108-79), California enacted Assembly Bill 550 (AB 550), the Sexual Abuse in …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Habeas Hints: How to Get DNA Testing by Kent Russell This column is intended to provide habeas hints" to prisoners who are considering or handling habeas corpus petitions as their own attorneys (in pro per). The focus of the column is habeas corpus practice under the AEDPA, the 1996 habeas …
Arkansas Considers Prison Rape Law, Problems Evident by by Michael Rigby Nearly two years after the Prison Rape Elimination Act, (PREA) passed unopposed in the U.S. House and Senate, an attitude of indifference and skepticism surrounding prison sexual assaults still permeates the Arkansas Department of Corrections (ADC). Signed into law …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Oregon Criminalizes Sex with Prisoners; & Other Legislative Developments by In the wake of a huge scandal involving several high ranking, veteran prison officials engaging in sexual activity with female prisoners of the Coffee Creek Correctional Institution, Oregon has enacted legislation criminalizing custodial sexual misconduct. The law, which became effective …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Shackling of Women Prisoners During Labor and Delivery Ended In California by by John E. Dannenberg California's Governor Schwarzenegger improved health care for women prisoners by signing AB 478 into law, which makes it illegal to deny prenatal and postpartum care (to include basic dental cleaning) and bans shackling during …
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