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Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
confinement prompted Idaho to withdraw its prisoners in 2009. [See: PLN, June 2009, p.1]. Soon thereafter GEO Group, the private prison firm operating the facility at the time, announced it would be leaving ...
-not afford to make bond, who accept pleas in order to escape oppressive jail conditions. [See: PLN, Nov. 2012, p.1]. Additionally, overworked public defenders have an incentive to encourage defendants to take ...
Article • February 15, 2013 • from PLN February, 2013
available to the BOP, but they are statistically insignificant and result in less than 1 percent of prisoners being found eligible. Other than the usual bureaucratic inefficiencies found in most governmental ...
. Idaho), Case No. 1:81-cv-01165-BLW. Separately, on April 17, 2012, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the district court’s award of $76,185.60 in attorney fees, $1,249.20 in costs and $46.94 ...
Article • February 15, 2013 • from PLN February, 2013
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
by freeworld employees. [See: PLN, May 2012, p.1]. Tennier is located in a depressed area of Tennessee; its main line of business is military clothing manufacturing. The federal prisoners who will perform ...
Article • January 15, 2014 • from PLN January, 2014
Filed under: Military, Veterans
developed programs for veterans, too. The Veterans Moving Forward unit, which opened on November 1, 2013 at the Vista Detention Facility in San Diego, is painted red, white and blue. Prisoners in the unit ...
Article • March 5, 2015 • from PLN March, 2015
the county moved for summary judgment rather than settling the case, it would have saved $1.3 million. See: Rouster v. County of Saginaw, U.S.D.C. (E.D. Mich.), Case No. 1:11-cv-10986-TLL-CEB. Rouster’s ...
;the narrowness of the constitutional rule we enforce today, which is restricted to detentions of (1) unusual length, (2) caused by the investigating officers’ failure to disclose highly significant ...
Article • May 6, 2015 • from PLN May, 2015
is an increasingly reliable lie detection device. [See: PLN, Dec. 2008, p.1]. However, recent revelations have cast doubt on the accuracy of one of the most popular polygraph machines, the LX4000 manufactured ...
to the death of prisoner Michael Antonio Martinez, 25, who was found hanging in his cell on November 1. The three were accused of reporting that they checked on Martinez when in fact they had not. Guards Michael ...
Article • May 5, 2016 • from PLN May, 2016
Filed under: Release and Reentry
months of 2013, more than 90 applications were approved. “We found that about 1,300 out of 170,000 inmates – less than 1 percent – were costing the state around $200 million a year,&rdquo ...
Article • July 15, 2011 • from PLN July, 2011
, convicted and sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison). In the case of former Governor Schwarzenegger, what makes his particular act of clemency controversial is the appearance of favoritism. But for the fact ...
Article • July 15, 2011 • from PLN July, 2011
Hennessey was not entitled to qualified immunity. The defendants then filed an interlocutory appeal. Determining whether officials are entitled to qualified immunity involves two inquiries: (1) whether ...
Article • October 15, 2011 • from PLN October, 2011
to reduce and reform its juvenile justice system following a major sex abuse and conditions of confinement scandal in 2007. [See: PLN, July 2008, p.18; Feb. 2008, p.1]. Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut ...
Article • October 15, 2011 • from PLN October, 2011
.” Zadvydas v. Davis, 533 U.S. 678 (2001). The court chose to follow Estelle v. Gamble, 429 U.S. 97 (1976) and Helling v. McKinney, 509 U.S. 25 (1993) [PLN, Sept. 1993, p.1] in regard to Villegas’ deliberate ...
an additional $5,799.20 for medical expenses. The plaintiffs accepted the new remittitur and filed a stipulation dismissing the case. See: McCabe v. United States Secret Service, U.S.D.C. (N.D. Iowa), Case No. 1 ...
Article • March 15, 2013 • from PLN March, 2013
Industry Enhancement Certification Program (PIECP), and under 18 U.S.C. § 1761(c), state officials have a duty to comply with the program’s statutory requirements. [See: PLN, March 2010, p.1]. In Nevada many ...
. The Juvenile Offender Model Bartlett “Barry” Stoodley, 68, who retired February 1, 2013 as associate commissioner for juvenile services after 42 years at the DOC, credits independent Governor Angus King ...
Article • March 15, 2013 • from PLN March, 2013
State Hospital. By early 2007, Atascadero had a 70 percent vacancy rate for psychiatrists and a 100-to-1 patient-to-psychiatrist ratio. In June 2007 the district court ordered additional pay raises ...
Article • March 15, 2013
into the sunlight. This article was originally published by Huffington Post on April 1, 2013 at the following link; it is reprinted by PLN by permission of the author: www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-mcgowan ...
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