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Polls Show People Favor Rehabilitation over Incarceration by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A recent poll found a majority of Americans – 67 percent overall – believe that building more prisons and jails does not reduce crime. Nearly as many – 62 percent – don’t believe that more prisons would …
Article • November 6, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018
San Diego County Targets Reporter Who Exposed Sky-High Jail Death Rate by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell When the widow of a prisoner who committed suicide at a San Diego County jail filed suit claiming staff had been made aware of the jail’s high death rate due to a reporter’s …
Article • November 6, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018
States Implementing New Technology to Fight Contraband Smuggling Via Drone by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin Prison Legal News has reported several times on the trend of prison contraband smuggling via remote-controlled aerial drones, both in the U.S. and other countries. [See, e.g.: PLN, May 2018, p.14; Nov. 2017, p.52; …
Article • November 6, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018
The Secret World of Missouri DOC Internal Death Investigations by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss The Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC) has been accused of not being transparent or competent when it comes to conducting investigations into deaths that occur in state prisons. The DOC is responsible for the care …
Article • November 6, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018
Death Sentences and Executions Ebbing in the “Capital of Capital Punishment” by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Harris County, Texas is known for many things. The county seat is Houston, the fourth-largest city in the United States and the largest in Texas. It has its own shipping channel and a …
Justice Policy Institute: The Ungers, 5 Years and Counting - A Case Study in Safely Reducing Long Prison Terms and Saving Taxpayer Dollars, 2018 NOVEMBER, 2018 1 Acknowledgments THIS REPORT IS THE RESULT OF THE COLLABORATIVE AND CUMULATIVE EFFORTS OF SEVERAL ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS OVER SEVERAL YEARS. THE “UNGER STORY” …
Publication • October 16, 2018
Letter in support of Fare Evasion Decriminalization Amendment Act in DC - Oct 2018
Article • October 12, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Crime
Florida: Federal Prison Guard Sentenced for Accepting Bribe by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin Former FCC Coleman guard Albert Larry Harris, Jr., 27, was sentenced to 24 months in prison on February 15, 2018 after Senior U.S. District Court Judge James D. Whittemore accepted his guilty plea for taking a …
Article • October 12, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
California Attorney Specializes in Representing Prisoners Victimized by Fraud by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin Peter Borenstein graduated from law school in 2014 with a burning passion for criminal justice reform ignited by his 20-year pen-pal relationship with a federal prisoner who had been a client of his father’s. He …
Article • October 12, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Lawsuit Over Prisoner Assault at Tennessee Jail Results in Settlement, Dismissal by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss A civil rights complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee on behalf of a pretrial detainee who was severely beaten by his cellmate at the Rutherford County …
Article • October 12, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Landmark Stanford Prison Experiment Criticized as a Sham by Steve Horn by Steve Horn It’s a study widely taught in high school and college psychology textbooks as a prime example of how, as Lord Acton put it, “Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” It’s also a study whose …
Article • October 12, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Escapes
U.S. Marshals Capture Fugitive Former Prison Guard After 10 Years on the Run by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin William F. Lawrence, a former Utah Department of Corrections guard, apparently thought that hiding out in a tropical paradise would spare him from a prison term after he pleaded guilty to …
Arabella Advisors: Understanding and Confronting the Prison-Industrial Complex - An Overview for Philanthropists, 2018 Understanding and Confronting the Prison-Industrial Complex An Overview for Philanthropists OCTOBER 2018 UNDERSTANDING AND CONFRONTING THE PRISON-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX A BO UT T H E REPORT As part of its commitment to learning, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation …
Article • October 9, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Fifth Circuit Upholds Convictions of Louisiana Jail Staff for Failing to Stop Abuse by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke In February 2018, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a former Louisiana jail lieutenant’s conviction for depriving a prisoner of his civil rights under color of state law in violation …
Solitary Confinement Reforms Sweeping the Nation but Still Not Enough by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Solitary confinement is “worse than any torment of the body” – so said famous British author Charles Dickens. French historian Alexis de Tocqueville, who toured American prisons in 1831, added that solitary “devours the …
Brief • September 24, 2018
Sweeney et al v. Commissioner, Indiana Department of Correction, preliminary injunction, prison mail restrictions, 2018
Article • September 4, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
NC Escape Attempt that Left Four Dead Leads to Reforms, Increased Punishment by Four employees at North Carolina’s Pasquotank Correctional Institution were killed during an ill-conceived escape attempt last year. The four prisoners involved in the incident, who were caught before they left the prison grounds, have been charged with …
Article • September 4, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
$55,000 Settlement in Rape of Missouri Jail Prisoner by The City of Ferguson, Missouri has paid $55,000 to a pretrial detainee who had sex with a guard, who in exchange allowed her to escape. On October 9, 2013, while driving through Ferguson, a woman identified as “J.W.” was pulled over …
Former Mexican Mafia General Turned Informant Receives $25,000 from GEO Group, 20 Years in Prison from Feds by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke After former Mexican Mafia general Raymond S. “Indio” Tellez agreed to testify against the gang, two gang members stabbed him multiple times in a secure area of …
At the Federal Supermax, When Does Isolation Become Torture? by Alan Prendergast by Alan Prendergast, Westword You see them on TV, usually around the time they are arrested. Men who have declared war on America, combatants in a conflict that never ends. They are captured on the street and at airports, …
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