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Article • November 6, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018
Why Prison Reform is Not Enough to Fix the U.S. Criminal Justice System by Ed Chung by Ed Chung, Center for American Progress The Trump administration kicked off 2018 by expressing a surprising, newfound interest in reforming the country’s prisons and strengthening opportunities for those incarcerated to successfully re-enter their communities …
Johnson v. CoreCivic, et al., TN, order, wrongful death, 2018 Case 1:18-cv-01051-STA-egb Document 19 Filed 11/05/18 Page 1 of 20 PageID 103 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE EASTERN DIVISION _____________________________________________________________________________ CAROLYN JOHNSON, as survivor and next of kin of EARL WAYNE JOHNSON, ) …
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” …
Article • October 9, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Editorial: The Case Against Florida’s Amendment 4 on Felon Voting Rights by Paul Wright by Paul Wright Florida leads the nation with over 1 million citizens disenfranchised and unable to vote due to felony convictions. The path to having their voting rights restored is long and difficult, and has been …
Article • October 9, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Private Prison Company Pays to Play; Federal Election Commission Fails to Act by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis GEO Group, one of the nation’s largest for-profit prison companies, donated $225,000 to the pro-Trump Super PAC Rebuilding America Now during the 2016 election cycle. Within a few months after President Trump’s …
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 …
Publication • September 18, 2018
HRDC Fact Sheet on Florida Amendment 4, Voting Rights Human Rights Defense Center DEDICATED TO PROTECTING HUMAN RIGHTS FLORIDA AMENDMENT 4 – HRDC FACT SHEET Not all ex-felons support Amendment 4! This November, Florida citizens will be voting on a very important ballot initiative that will impact nearly 1.5 million …
McCall v. Wooley, IL, Amended Complaint, Failure to Protect, 2018 Case 3:17-cv-01009-NJR-DGW Document 75 Filed 09/14/18 Page 1 of 10 Page ID #366 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EAST ST.LOUIS DIVISON } VENNIS McCALL, #K-55319, RECEIVED ) } ) Plaintiff, v. SARAH WOOLEY, …
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 …
New Rule Sparks Uprising at California Sex Offender Civil Commitment Facility by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On January 14, 2018, about 400 to 500 civilly committed sex offender “patients” met in the common area of California’s Coalinga State Hospital to protest a stringent new rule that went into effect …
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 …
Protesters Blockade CoreCivic Headquarters in Nashville; 19 Arrests by As dawn broke on August 6, 2018, the light shone on a group of about two dozen protesters who had blockaded the main entrance to the Nashville, Tennessee headquarters of CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America), the nation’s largest for-profit prison …
Article • September 3, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
New CNN Film, “American Jail,” Shows How the Poor Get – and Stay – Incarcerated by Steve Horn by Steve Horn On July 1, 2018, the film “American Jail” made its premiere screening before a cable television audience on CNN. Given how seldom criminal justice-related issues – let alone the …
Article • September 3, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
Lawsuit, Ballot Initiative Seek to Reform Felon Disenfranchisement in Florida by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In 1868, in response to the abolition of slavery following the Civil War (except for prisoners), Florida enshrined in its constitution the permanent disenfranchisement of people convicted of a felony. The deprivation of …
Publication • September 1, 2018
Inside the Prison Labor Strike, The Kite, 2018 Working  W Working ki to t Extend E t d Democracy D to t All   V Volume V l Volume 1, N 1 Number b 3 3 September  S S t b 2018 September 2018 INSIDE THE PRISON …
Publication • September 1, 2018
Inside the Prison Labor Strike, The KITE, 2018 Working  W Working ki to t Extend E t d Democracy D to t All   V Volume V l Volume 1, N 1 Number b 3 3 September  S S t b 2018 September 2018 INSIDE THE PRISON …
Article • August 8, 2018 • from PLN August, 2018
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Trump Calls Prison Reform “Very Important” as First Step Act Passes in the House by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Does “tough on crime” President Donald J. Trump support prison reform? If his comments at a January 2018 listening session can be believed, the answer is a qualified “yes” – …
Article • August 8, 2018 • from PLN August, 2018
Donald Who? Reform Goes Forward Despite His Idiocy by Joseph Margulies by Joseph Margulies, Justia.com Recently, the president called for the execution of drug dealers. This is idiotic, of course, both as a matter of law and policy. But no one who has been following these things should have been …
Alabama Pastor and Non-profit Director Fights Capital Murder Charge by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Dothan, Alabama pastor and non-profit director Kenneth Glasgow, 52, has been charged with capital murder in a controversial case where another man with whom he was driving fatally shot a woman who allegedly stole the …
Article • August 6, 2018 • from PLN August, 2018
The Catalyst: Thelton Henderson Transformed California’s Criminal Justice System. Now Comes the Backlash by Abbie Vansickle by Abbie Vansickle, The Marshall Project As the judge climbed the watchtower stairs in Pelican Bay prison, he heard muffled gunshots below. When he reached the top, he looked into the prison yard and …
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