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. The changes resulted in a decreased prison population, saving the MDOC millions of dollars and allowing it to close several facilities. [See: PLN, June 2010, p.13; April 2009, p.1]. However, three incidents ...
Article • June 3, 2015 • from PLN June, 2015
resulting from his repeatedly impregnating one of the women. Under a plea agreement, Castro pleaded guilty and was sentenced on August 1, 2013 to life in prison without parole plus 1,000 years. The following ...
Article • November 16, 2015
(1) files a timely application, (2) show[s] an interest in the action, (3) evidences prejudice “by the disposition of the action, and (4) show[s] that the interest is not protected adequately ...
Article • November 16, 2015
Filed under: Attorney Fee Awards
that section 1038 did not mention nor authorize the “imposition of defense costs against a party’s counsel.” The appellants also claimed that (1) the commissioner did not have jurisdiction ...
Article • November 17, 2015
600A.6A(1). The Supreme Court also reaffirmed its holdings in In re S.A.J.B. and held that the juvenile court had properly determined that the mother was constitutionally entitled to counsel and that IDM ...
Article • November 17, 2015
judge and had expressed in the interview that (1) some drivers were harming themselves by taking the course, (2) law enforcement was offering legal advice influencing a driver’s decision whether ...
Article • November 17, 2015
; motion for summary judgment and Doe appealed. Doe argued on appeal that (1) SORA’s notification and registration amendments were punitive, violating the ex post facto clause, (2) he had been deprived ...
Article • August 2, 2016 • from PLN August, 2016
Filed under: Smoking, Eighth Amendment
, Sept. 1993, p.1]. In 2001, 25 states had introduced full or partial smoking bans in their correctional facilities; that number rose to 48 states by 2011. Federal prison commissaries stopped selling ...
from 2005 to 2007. The case continues to drag on. See: Disability Law Center, Inc. v. Massachusetts DOC, U.S.D.C. (D. Mass.), Case No. 1:07-cv-10463-MLW. There is also an apparent correlation between ...
of recommendations, including, most controversially, 1) the reporting of all egregious prosecutorial misconduct, regardless of whether it is deemed harmless by the courts; 2) identifying (in appellate opinions ...
Article • August 15, 2011
Filed under: Searches, Strip Searches
, in order to avoid being strip-searched this way. Prisoner Krystal Voss writes, “I’ve been through daily strip searches as a condition of my job in the print shop for 2-1/2 years. It did not bother me much ...
Article • November 15, 2012 • from PLN November, 2012
Filed under: Organizing, Telephone Rates
, p.1], he found that eight states did not accept kickback commissions from phone companies, which resulted in lower rates. Many organizations and individuals in those states had worked to put pressure ...
rape him, make him perform oral sex or touch his genitals, or he would be subjected to physical abuse and false misconduct reports. [See: PLN, April 2012, p.1]. Nicolleti, who was released on $75,000 ...
Article • September 15, 2012 • from PLN September, 2012
Filed under: News, News in Brief
at a jury trial on June 1, 2012 of felony charges that he had assaulted a guard who was trying to break up a fight between Simms and another prisoner. According to Simms, he got into a physical altercation ...
Article • July 9, 2014 • from PLN July, 2014
, while probation officers were required to monitor some 80,000 adult and juvenile offenders – a number that has increased under California’s Realignment initiative. [See: PLN, June 2014, p.1 ...
Article • June 7, 2014 • from PLN June, 2014
-world businesses to use prisoner labor to produce goods and services sold on the open market. [See: PLN, March 2010, p.1]. The National Correctional Industries Association reported that 4,618 prisoners ...
Article • June 7, 2014 • from PLN June, 2014
Filed under: Statistics/Trends, News
’s administration closed seven of New York’s 67 correctional facilities and put them on the real estate market in 2012. [See: PLN, June 2013, p.1]. “Instead of spending millions ...
Article • June 5, 2014 • from PLN June, 2014
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
Court ordered Wanetta Gibson to pay a $2.6 million judgment, including $1.5 million from her settlement with the Long Beach Polytechnic School District plus interest, attorney’s fees and $1 million ...
Article • October 26, 2015 • from PLN November, 2015
1996. Yet during that same time period, the state’s $1 million annual allocation for its sex offender treatment unit containing 200 beds has remained unchanged. In 2012, Utah lawmakers passed tough ...
Article • October 26, 2015 • from PLN November, 2015
and Coleman v. Brown class-action lawsuits. [See: PLN, July 2011, p.1]. The Act provided for the release of low-level felons into county-based supervision programs. After the law was passed, former Secretary ...
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