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Article • January 12, 2015
per jail prisoner per day. On September 1, 2012, there were 1,292 pretrial detainees in the Travis County Jail. They constituted 56% of the jail's population. That number of prisoners costs ...
claims. Jackson’s consent provision of his probation was enough to justify the defendants’ entry and search of the house where (1) no law was clearly established that a consent provision ...
Article • September 25, 2015 • from PLN October, 2015
of uranium. [See: PLN, Sept. 1992, p.1]. Liquid waste laced with radioactive material and heavy metals was discharged into 11 unlined ponds from 1958-1978. Those were replaced in 1982 with two lined ...
with disabilities.” [See: PLN, June 2014, p.1]. The defendants, including the County of Monterey, Monterey County Sheriff’s Office and California Forensic Medical Group (CFMG), filed motions to dismiss ...
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 ...
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