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Article • August 23, 2016
." According to the CSGJC, North Carolina lawmakers project that the legislation will avert or save $560 million by 2017. Similarly, with 4.8 million American adults—or 1 in 50—on probation or parole ...
on December 1, 2015. Reprinted with editor’s permission. The article in its entirety is available here. ...
hopes that in having to pay over $1 million for this young man’s suffering and death, it will bring attention to other cases of abuse and neglect by law enforcement officers.” See: Mays v ...
Article • January 31, 2018 • from PLN February, 2018
, excessive force and staff misconduct [see: PLN, Jan. 2018, p.61; Feb. 2016, p.1], as well as a record number of prisoner deaths. [See related article in this issue]. Use-of-force incidents – when guards ...
Article • January 31, 2018 • from PLN February, 2018
, Dec. 2015, p.1]. However, the ODRC has also banned 135 Aramark employees for having improper relationships with prisoners. In spite of these problems, the state awarded a second contract to the company ...
Article • January 31, 2018 • from PLN February, 2018
of the everyday give and take of the justice system.” After Montana voters approved – by a margin of 2-to-1 – a version of Marsy’s Law in November 2016, the state ACLU chapter was joined ...
Article • January 9, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
Department of Corrections, U.S.D.C. (S.D. Fla.), Case No. 1:14-cv-23323-RNS. “Even though it was a really bad and evil thing, when I look back and see the good that came as a result of attention ...
Article • January 8, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
and accommodations needed to address their educational needs, in violation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. On October 1, 2018, the U.S. Department ...
Article • January 8, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Food
portion of their jail food account over to the sheriff for their personal benefit. [See: PLN, March 2018, p.48; April 2010, p.1]. Sheriff Entrekin used around $750,000 of that money to invest in a lavish ...
. [See: PLN, Feb. 2016, p.1]. At the time, FDOC Secretary Julie Jones admitted that LCI was “poorly managed.” LCI officials could not produce for the Herald any protocol for disciplining guards ...
. 2018, p.1]. Reports of retaliation during and after the work strike included physical abuse, destruction of prisoners’ regular and legal property, and denial of access to courts and grievance ...
as a result of criminal cases, according to a May 2015 Department of Justice study. Native American girls are just 1% of the total U.S. youth population, but are 3.5% of detained and committed girls ...
Article • August 10, 2016
consequence laws will; 1) have higher recidivism rates for new crimes; 2) have higher rates of parole violations; and 3) the scope of those collateral consequence laws will be reflected in recidivism rates ...
Article • August 12, 2016
challenge was foreclosed by the United States Supreme Court's holdings in Greenholtz v. Inmates of Neb. Penal and Correctional Complex, 442 U.S. 1 (1979) and Swarthout v. Cooke, 562 U.S. 216 (2011 ...
Article • June 9, 2017 • from PLN June, 2017
, p.1]. Overton’s conviction had been overturned on appeal due to ineffective assistance of counsel, but Nueces County prosecutors were preparing for another trial. The charges were dismissed due ...
Private Prisons in Oklahoma Prove Costly by Private prisons cost the state of Oklahoma $92.7 million in 2015 alone, and almost $1 billion since 2004. With its prison system currently ...
Article • June 9, 2017 • from PLN June, 2017
. Mitchell’s lawsuit remains pending; on June 1, 2017, the district court certified a question of law to the Utah Supreme Court related to retroactive changes to the state’s statute of limitations ...
and working. 42 U.S.C. § 12102(1). The U.S. Department of Justice has created a Disability Rights Section in its Civil Rights Division, charged with monitoring and addressing ADA violations in, among other ...
Article • December 5, 2017 • from PLN December, 2017
training began returning to OPP. Maynard’s most recent status report on the initial remedial action plan at the jail was filed with the federal court on November 1, 2017.  Sources: Times-Picayune ...
. 2017, p.1]. Redirecting funds from segregation units to other programs – such as drug treatment, education and employment training – would reap Massachusetts much greater benefits, the PLSM ...
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