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Article • April 15, 2011
Washington DOC Agrees to Pay $965.44 After Woman’s Car Was Struck by Debris by On December 14, 2005, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) Agreed to pay $965.44 to a woman whose car was damaged after a piece of particle board fell out of a DOC truck. On October 21, …
Article • April 15, 2011
First Circuit Enters Stay to District Court Proceedings Following Interlocutory Appeal by On August 4, 2010, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit stayed district court proceedings in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 suit following an interlocutory appeal by three Boston police officers who were sued in their …
Article • April 15, 2011
A Convict's Odyssey - The journey of Mark Clements, a victim of torture by former Chicago PD officer Jon Burge by Steve Bogira A Convict's Odyssey When he was 16, Mark Clements talked his way into four life sentences. Twenty-eight years later, he talked his way out. By Steve Bogira …
Nationwide PLN Survey Examines Prison Phone Contracts, Kickbacks by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg An exhaustive analysis of prison phone contracts nationwide has revealed that with only limited exceptions, telephone service providers offer lucrative kickbacks (politely termed “commissions”) to state contracting agencies – amounting on average to 42% of …
Some Agencies Balk at Releasing Prison Phone Data by Michael Rigby by Mike Rigby It is common knowledge among PLN readers that prison and jail phone rates are priced far above those in the free world. But just how overpriced are they? What is the average kickback (commission) rate provided …
Article • April 15, 2011 • from PLN April, 2011
From the Editor by Paul Wright The gouging of prisoner’s families and friends by prison and jail officials and the telephone industry is a well-known phenomenon but also one that is fairly recent. Telephones were not introduced into prisons and jails until the 1970s (the state of Texas was the …
New Research: Why Innocent People Confess to Crimes They Did Not Commit by Derek Gilna A September 2010 article in the New York Times highlighted an interesting phenomenon that has become more evident in an era where DNA evidence is available to help conclusively prove guilt or innocence – the …
Article • April 15, 2011 • from PLN April, 2011
Bexar County, Texas Fails to Properly Evaluate Mentally Ill Jail Prisoners by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In 2009 the Texas legislature amended a law, codified at Article 16.22 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, with the intent to require early identification of mentally ill jail prisoners so they can …
Prisoners’ Human Rights by Corey Weinstein by Corey Weinstein, MD It was a little more than sixty years ago that the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). For the first time in history, governments from around the world declared that …
Article • April 15, 2011 • from PLN April, 2011
Colorado Sought to Revoke Prisoner’s Electrician License After His Release by Gary Hunter For nearly two decades, Colorado state prisoner Marke E. Bogle worked as a licensed electrician for the Colorado Department of Corrections. In 1987, with the prison system’s approval, he tested and obtained his journeyman’s license. The next …
Article • April 15, 2011 • from PLN April, 2011
Filed under: Media
It’s Scary Out There in Reporting Land: Why Crime News is on the Rise and Reporting Analysis is on the Decline by David Cay Johnston To understand how badly we’re doing the most basic work of journalism in covering the law enforcement beat, try sitting in a barbershop. When I …
Controversial Drug Given to All Guantanamo Detainees Akin to “Pharmacologic Waterboarding” by by Jason Leopold and Jeffrey Kaye The Defense Department forced all “war on terror” detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison to take a high dosage of a controversial antimalarial drug, mefloquine, an act that an Army public health …
Article • April 15, 2011 • from PLN April, 2011
Washington Court Reverses Injunction Against Prisoner’s Public Records Requests by On July 29, 2010, the Washington State Court of Appeals affirmed that prisoners have standing to request records under Washington’s Public Records Act (PRA). The court also held that photographs of guards; personnel, compensation and training records; and intelligence and …
Article • April 15, 2011 • from PLN April, 2011
New York Taxpayers Foot the Bill for Late Prison Vendor Payments by Brandon Sample Paying your bills on time is a basic element of efficient fiscal management. Apparently, however, it is a basic element that the New York Department of Correctional Services (DOCS) failed to master, since the Department’s tardy …
Article • April 15, 2011 • from PLN April, 2011
Texas State Auditor’s Reports Find Problems with Parole System by Gary Hunter Two audits of Texas’ parole system, in 2008 and 2010, revealed a number of problems and inefficiencies. According to the first audit, released in June 2008, approximately 1,250 Texas parole officers supervised 77,526 parolees during fiscal year 2007. …
Article • April 15, 2011 • from PLN April, 2011
Oregon Parole Board Improperly Excluded Witnesses at Revocation Hearing by The Oregon Supreme Court, sitting en banc, held that the Oregon Board of Parole (Board) had improperly deprived a parolee of his right to call witnesses at a revocation hearing. Parolee Thomas Edward O’Hara was arrested on March 9, 2005 …
Article • April 15, 2011 • from PLN April, 2011
Maryland: Convicted Felons Receive Victims’ Compensation by Gary Hunter Since 2003, Maryland’s Criminal Injuries Compensation Board has awarded about $1.8 million to claimants with criminal convictions. In Baltimore, over 120 people who received victims’ compensation had been arrested for selling or manufacturing drugs; more than seventy of those payments went …
Maine Governor Rakes in Private Prison Money, Shows Appreciation by Lance Tapley In Maine’s last gubernatorial campaign, the controversial Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest for-profit prison operator, spent $25,000 on behalf of Republican candidate Paul LePage, now Maine’s newly-elected governor. The money was given to the Republican …
Article • April 15, 2011 • from PLN April, 2011
Filed under: Excessive Force, Burning
Heat Ray Device, Rejected by Military, to be Tested on Los Angeles County Jail Prisoners by Michael Brodheim by Mike Brodheim In August 2010, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department announced plans to deploy a high-tech heat ray device, originally developed by Raytheon Company for use by the U.S. military …
Article • April 15, 2011 • from PLN April, 2011
Minnesota DOC Releases Study on Impact of Prison-Based Sex Offender Treatment by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In March 2010 the Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) released a report on the impact of in-prison sex offender treatment programs on recidivism rates. The results of the study “suggest that prison-based treatment …
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