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Private Prison Firms Stumble; Hire Former California Officials to Lobby for For-Profit Facilities by Private prison companies, which presently house only 2,550 of California's 165,000 prisoners, have hired a former county lawmaker, former CDC employees and the former state Finance Director in an attempt to expand into the $7 billion …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
Texas Enacts Life Without Parole Law by On June 17, 2005, Texas Governor Rick Perry signed into law legislation that allows Texas juries to sentence defendants to life without the possibility of parole in capital cases. Senate Bill 60 replaces the previous non-death-penalty option of 40 years without the possibility …
Article • October 15, 2005
Many U.S. Prisoners Give Birth In Chains by Michael Rigby Childbirth is sacred in most cultures. But for many female prisoners in the U.S., the process can be cruel and degrading. According to a March 1, 2006, report by the human rights group Amnesty International U.S.A., 23 state prison systems …
Texas Prison Expert Pays the Price for Telling the Truth by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke Tony Fabelo was the head of the Texas Criminal Justice Policy Council for two decades. He survived multiple changes of administration by doing a great job as the state's top number-cruncher on prison …
Article • September 15, 2005 • from PLN September, 2005
Nebraska Law Automatically Restores Felon Voting Rights by On March 10, 2005, Nebraska lawmakers overrode a veto by the governor and passed legislation automatically restoring the voting rights of felons. With the passage of Legislative Bill 53, Nebraska felons will automatically have their voting rights restored two years after completing …
Article • September 15, 2005 • from PLN September, 2005
Iowa's Governor Grants Ex-Prisoners Automatic Voting Rights Restoration by Iowa's Governor Grants Ex-Prisoners Automatic Voting Rights Restoration by Matthew T. Clarke On July 6, 2005, Governor Tom Vilsack of Iowa signed an Executive Order which enacted a blanket restoration of citizenship rights to ex-prisoners who have completed their sentences. This …
Fatal Justice: The New Maryland by Michael Rigby It's a state already steeped in heritage--birthplace of The Star Spangled Banner, home to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, and site of the bloody Civil War battle at Antietam. But now Maryland is raising a new legacy: a system of dangerous …
CCA Finally Loses Contract at Mismanaged Tulsa Jail by by Matthew T. Clarke For years the Sheriff of Tulsa County, Oklahoma, Stanley Glanz, has been telling anyone who would listen that he, not CCA, should be running the county jail. Now, after five years of CCA mismanagement, he may finally …
U.S. Supreme Court: Michigan Appellate Attorneys Have by U.S. Supreme Court: Michigan Appellate Attorneys Have No Third Party Standing To Sue For Rights Of Future Unrepresented Prisoners by John E. Dannenberg The U.S. Supreme Court, sidestepping the important question of the constitutionality of a Michigan state law that prohibited appointment …
Texas Attorney General Clarifies Confiscation Law Governing Prisoner Art Sales by Michael Rigby Texas prisoners can sell artwork over the internet and retain the proceeds as long as the value is not increased because of their notoriety, an opinion by Attorney General Greg Abbott has confirmed. The Attorney General's January …
Over 96% of CCA Donations Go to GOP by by Matthew T. Clarke It is well know that large corporationsespecially those that are prone to feast at the government troughmake donations to political parties and candidates. Most companies like to hedge their bets, donating to both major political parties. Nationwide, …
Wisconsin Enacts Law, Prison Reforms Regarding Sex Assaults by by Michael Rigby On August 31, 2004, the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (WDOC) announced it would immediately implement sweeping policy changes in the way it views and handles staff-on-prisoner sexual assaults. The reforms come a year after legislation was enacted criminalizing …
New York Legislator Pays For CSC-Chauffeured Rides by A New York State Assemblyman has been sentenced to three years probation and ordered to pay $5,000 in fines and restitution for unlawfully billing the state for rides he got for free from Correctional Services Corporation (CSC). The sentence was imposed after …
Texas State Equipment and Employees Used for Private Prison Labor Lobbying by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke Republican State Representative Ray Allen of Grand Prairie, Texas, Chairman of the Texas House Corrections Committee, has been using his state employees and state equipment to operate a private firm that specializes …
California Corrections System Officially Declared Dysfunctional" - Redemption Doubtful by California Corrections System Officially Declared Dysfunctional" - Redemption Doubtful by Marvin Mentor Culminating a multi-year crescendo of criticism leveled at California's Corrections system from frustrated legislative, judicial and executive leaders, the Corrections Independent Review Panel (CIRP) recently tasked by Governor …
Article • March 15, 2005 • from PLN March, 2005
Pay To Play: Guard Union Spreads the Wealth by From January 3, 2000 to February 9, 2004, 26 of the 40 California state Senators and 50 of the 80 Assembly Members received funds - ranging from $1,000 to $333,000 - from the California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA), the guards …
California Initiative To Soften "3-Strikes" Law Defeated; DNA Collection From Arrestees Approved by California Initiative To Soften "3-Strikes" Law Defeated; DNA Collection From Arrestees Approved Proposition 66 (Prop. 66), a voter Initiative Act placed on the ballot by prisoners' families to soften California's unforgiving "3-Strikes" law by qualifying an offense …
Article • January 15, 2005 • from PLN January, 2005
Los Angeles Voters Reject 5,000 More Cops; Invest In Clear Ocean Instead by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Los Angeles, California voters, in a November 2004 campaign marred by scare tactics, rejected a 1/2 cent sales tax measure (Measure A) that would have raised $560 million per year …
Article • December 15, 2004 • from PLN December, 2004
Florida's $4 Administrative Processing Fee for Prisoner Banking Fees Challenged by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A class action suit filed in Florida's Leon County Circuit Court challenges a new law enacted by the Florida Legislature in its 2004 session. That Legislature amended § 944.516, Florida statutes, to add …
Article • November 15, 2004 • from PLN November, 2004
Last Chance For Washington Prisoners To Request Postconviction DNA Testing is December 31, 2004 by Washington state prisoners who believe DNA evidence may prove their innocence must file a request for postconviction DNA testing by December 31, 2004. Starting January 1, 2005, a defendant must raise DNA issues at trial …
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