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’s closure [see: PLN, July 2016, p.1]. Comparably, there were no major riots at public federal prisons over the same time period. “The private prison industry has a long and sordid track record ...
Article • August 25, 2016
found that the provision of both medical and mental health services at the prison was unconstitutional. See: Balla v. Idaho State Board of Corrections, U.S.D.C.-D.Idaho, Case No. 1:81-cv-01165-BLW ...
that the prison official had a "seriously culpable state of mind" by satisfying the subjective deliberate indifference test. The test requires that the prison official must (1) "both be aware of facts from which ...
Article • March 31, 2017
Filed under: Censorship, First Amendment
, social networking website means an Internet-based website that has any of the following capabilities: (1) Allows users to create web pages or profiles about themselves that are available to the general ...
Article • March 31, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
as a judge since January 1, 2009. His troubles began when the JDDC launched an investigation into allegations of impropriety that involved claims he had a longstanding personal relationship with a young man ...
Article • March 31, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
; which will earn his facility 20 cents of every $1 charged by Securus when prisoners’ families pay for video calls. “When one violates the law and one has to serve time in a public institution ...
Article • April 3, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
Filed under: Tuberculosis
for Disease Control (CDC), they account for up to 6% of tuberculosis (TB) cases reported in the United States. [See: PLN, Aug. 2007, p.1]. The Indiana Department of Health, for example, found that 5 of 108 new ...
Article • April 3, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
for $32,500 in June 2015. See: Ruiz v. United States, U.S.D.C. (E.D. Vir.), Case No. 1:14-cv-01246-GBL-JFA. However, monetary damages cannot make up for what the family went through due to the wrongful ...
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
, in March 2013 – two months after being released directly from solitary confinement. [See: PLN, July 2014, p.1]. According to David Lovell, a former professor at the University of Washington who studied ...
such incidents had occurred in December alone, the DOC faces fines of up to $1 million – though no penalties have been imposed thus far. The DOC’s for-profit medical provider, Corizon Health, has ...
, or dragged detainees down the aisle of the plane, and subjected some to verbal abuse and threats.” See: Ibrahim v. Assistant Field Office Director, U.S.D.C. (S.D. Fla.), Case No. 1:17-cv-24574-DPG. Yet ...
Article • August 29, 2017 • from PLN September, 2017
; Yezzo received the first of five formal reprimands in June 1987, after she cursed at a co-worker, tore the newspaper he was reading and threw a 1-by-6-inch metal plate at him, just missing his head ...
Article • August 30, 2017 • from PLN September, 2017
the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is a major blow to those working for prison reform under Trump. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced on August 1, 2017 that Inch would be taking over the position ...
Article • December 21, 2017
Filed under: Suicides
; Simpson’s husband and children brought federal suit against the county. They alleged alternative theories of County liability for her death: (1) unconstitutional conditions of confinement; and (2 ...
percent since 2000," of a nationwide total of "more than 1.6 million people (about 1 in 200 'U.S. residents" who are incarcerated. The GAO study seems to show that at least some of the states are getting ...
analyzed 359 files for 281 juvenile and adult participants in EMP from April 1, 2012 through September 30, 2012, and made six specific findings. Investigators found that 79% of the files were incomplete ...
, agreeing to implement a system that allows lawyers to register their phone numbers on a “do not record” list for calls with their incarcerated clients. [See: PLN, Sept. 2016, p.16; Aug. 2016, p.1 ...
Article • May 5, 2017 • from PLN May, 2017
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
conviction was affirmed on appeal. See: People v. McCullough, 2015 IL App (2d) 121364, 38 N.E.3d 1 (Ill. App. Ct. 2d Dist. 2015). But newly-elected Dekalb County State’s Attorney Richard Schmack ...
Article • May 5, 2017 • from PLN May, 2017
cases, the drugs available to general population and death row prisoners come from prison employees. The FBI recently broke up a Southern California prison drug conspiracy in which $1 million ...
Article • October 10, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
Filed under: Voting
by bolstering the power of residents who lived in the same district as non-voting, unrepresented prisoners. [See: PLN, Dec. 2012, p.1]. The Florida case challenged the inclusion of 1,157 prisoners held ...
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