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Article • September 25, 2015 • from PLN October, 2015
Filed under: Prison Reform
founding. When Hickenlooper closed the prison, it was supposed to save the state about $6 million a year at a time when Colorado was more than $1 billion in debt. But the closing eliminated around 200 state ...
Article • September 25, 2015 • from PLN October, 2015
at the hands of police during almost two decades under Burge’s reign. [See: PLN, Dec. 2011, p.14; Oct. 2004, p.1]. The reparations package includes maximum payments of $100,000 to torture victims, plus ...
prevailing wages for their labor as required under 18 U.S.C. § 1761(c). [See: PLN, March 2010, p.1]. Additionally, Alpine Steel’s contract with the NDOC specified that prisoners were to be paid ...
care. The prison in Stockton was built as a direct result of that ruling. [See: PLN, June 2013, p.54; July 2011, p.1]. A federal district court appointed J. Clark Kelso as the Receiver to oversee medical ...
to help free the innocent. [See: PLN, April 2016, p.30; Aug. 2013, p.1]. Sources: www.cnn.com, www.r-a-e.org, www.nytimes.com, www.innocenceproject.org, www.mic.com, www.trueconvictionfilm.com ...
confinement. The UPLC’s lawsuit was dismissed without prejudice by the federal district court in February 2016. See: Coleman v. Taylor, U.S.D.C. (N.D. Ill.), Case No. 1:15-cv-05596. Sources ...
for a savings of $55 million a year; or simply abolish capital punishment and save taxpayers about $1 billion every five or six years. On November 12, 2015, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a federal ...
Article • August 15, 2013
on past construction borrowing.” If those obligations were included, they would total $1.5 billion. Taxpayers still owe more than $1 billion on the outstanding bonds and corresponding debt service payments ...
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
was originally published in the New York Times on July 24, 2013; it is reprinted with permission of the author. For more on the shortcomings of DNA evidence, see: PLN, Aug. 2013, p.40; Oct. 2010, p.1 and Jan. 2009 ...
Unit (YOU) at the state-operated Central Mississippi Correctional Facility by December 1, 2012. The YOU is required to have a classification system to ensure that youth are “appropriately ...
Article • August 31, 2015 • from PLN September, 2015
Filed under: War on Drugs
on a daily basis. Investigators determined that between January 1, 2008 and October 15, 2013, the five banks failed to adequately train and supervise foreign currency traders. As a result, according ...
Article • February 2, 2016 • from PLN February, 2016
: Ineffective Assistance of Counsel by Brandon Sample and Alissa Hull. Both titles will be available for shipping by March 1 and will cost $49.95, postpaid. You can order advance copies now ...
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
, benefits and overtime pay for prison staff to guard those 25 prisoners – many of whom cannot even breathe on their own but require the assistance of a ventilator. Senator Leno noted that less than 1 percent ...
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
such injuries, raising questions about the validity of the workers’ comp claims. From January 1, 2008 to December 2010, 389 MCC employees – more than half the workforce at the prison – filed successful workers ...
jails surveyed. [See: PLN, May 2009, p.1]. Two states, Kentucky and Hawaii, removed their female prisoners from CCA’s Otter Creek facility in Kentucky following a sex scandal involving at least six CCA ...
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
court participants, and was sentenced to 79 years in prison in March 2009. [See: PLN, Sept. 2009, p.36; May 2009, p.1]. To pay for the settlement, property taxes in Custer County will increase. “I don’t ...
. See: Estate of Nunuha v. State of Hawaii, Circuit Court of the First Circuit, State of Hawaii, Case No. 12-1-0441-02. Additional sources: www.hawaii.gov, www.civilbeat.com ...
incarceration rates are quite distinct from the United States, which has an incarceration rate of around 1%. On January 19, 2012, a verdict was announced in the trial of the 14 police officers and prison guards ...
Article • May 15, 2013
quantities of sodium thiopental since Hospira, the only American manufacturer of the drug, exited the market in January 2011. [See: PLN, Nov. 2012, p.44; June 2011, p.1]. GDOC secured a supply of the drug from ...
financing private prison companies.” A divestment campaign protest outside a Wells Fargo branch in Nashville, Tennessee on July 1, 2011 involved a sidewalk demonstration and participants closing ...
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