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Article • September 15, 2008 • from PLN September, 2008
Minnesota Sheriff Profited from Jail Breakfast Scam by Minnesota Sheriff Profited from Jail Breakfast Scam In October 2007, Hubbard County, Minnesota officials announced they had reached a settlement with Sheriff Gary Mills. For eight years, Mills had practiced an archaic tradition of providing breakfast for the county jail’s prisoners and …
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$250,500 Verdict for False Imprisonment at Florida Jail by A federal jury from the Middle District of Florida awarded $250,500 to a man who claimed he was falsely imprisoned by the misuse of a Florida law – the Marchman Act – that permits the civil detention of persons who are …
Prison Legal News Attends CCA Shareholder Meeting by Alex Friedmann Prison Legal News Attends CCA Shareholder Meeting by Alex Friedmann From 1992 to 1998, I served time at the South Central Correctional Center in Wayne County, Tennessee, which is operated by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest private …
Article • September 15, 2008 • from PLN September, 2008
New York Prisoner Awarded $21,500 for Finger Injury by On September 13, 2007, a court of claims in Syracuse, New York, awarded $12,500 to a state prisoner for pain and suffering related to a broken finger. While imprisoned at the Oneida Correctional Facility on October 24, 2001, state prisoner Patrick …
Article • September 15, 2008 • from PLN September, 2008
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief: by Canada: On August 26, 2008, six prisoners escaped from the Regina Provincial Correctional Center. The men had been awaiting trial on serious charges, mostly murder. Jail officials would not tell the media how the escape occurred. Colorado: On March 23, 2008, 40-50 prisoners at the Larimer …
Article • September 15, 2008 • from PLN September, 2008
$200,000 Settlement in Wyoming Prisoner’s Suicide Death by $200,000 Settlement in Wyoming Prisoner’s Suicide Death To settle the claim that a prisoner who committed suicide was not properly treated, Wyoming’s Cambell County Detention Center (CCDC) has paid the prisoner’s estate $200,000. Nick Ashby, 38, was booked into CCDC on July …
Article • September 15, 2008
Filed under: Immigration, News
Winning the Fight of Our Lives: Immigrant Rights and Prison-Industrial Complex by By Subhash Kateel Published on: October 01, 2008 If the immigrant rights movement doesn't understand raids, detention, and deportation in the context of the greater prison-industrial complex, and organize accordingly, we will lose the fight of our lives …
Massachusetts’ Mental Health Treatment Policies Prove Deadly for Public, Prisoners by David Reutter by David M. Reutter As America’s prisons continue their transformation into mental health institutions, little thought is given to mentally ill prisoners who languish within the harsh confines of prison environments with little if any treatment. That …
Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System, by Silja Talvi ;Seal Press, 359 pp. $15.95 by Alexis Paige Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System, by Silja Talvi, Seal Press, 359 pp. $15.95 Reviewed by Alexis Paige Silja J.A. Talvi’s …
Article • September 15, 2008 • from PLN September, 2008
From the Editor by Paul Wright The link between solitary confinement and mental illness is well known, well documented and largely ignored by the prison officials and policy makers who decide to imprison tens of thousands of American prisoners in solitary confinement on any given day for months, years and …
“I CAN Learn” Software Procurement for Kentucky DOC Questioned by Matthew Clarke “I CAN Learn” Software Procurement for Kentucky DOC Questioned by Matt Clarke The “I CAN Learn” educational software produced by New Orleans-based JRL Enterprises, which was adopted by the Kentucky Department of Corrections (KDOC), is under scrutiny for …
South Carolina Prison Officials Allegedly Forced to be Executioners by On December 18, 2007, Ira Baxley and Terry Bracey, former South Carolina Department of Corrections (DOC) officials with 22 and 23 years of service, respectively, filed suit in federal court against DOC Director Jon Ozmint and Director of Operations Robert …
Millions Paid in Mississippi Jail Deaths; Ten Guards Sentenced for Abuses; Corruption Continues by Bob Williams “The house always wins,” Warden Don Cabana proclaimed to the Sun Herald, a Mississippi newspaper, in July 2007. However, Harrison County, home of the Harrison County Adult Detention Center (ADC), has agreed to pay …
Article • September 15, 2008 • from PLN September, 2008
California “Restitution Center” Prisoner’s Suit for Underpayment Certified as Class Action by Marvin Mentor A prisoner housed at a “restitution center” who spent two years working in the community sued the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) for failure to reimburse her work-related expenses per state statute, or to …
Article • September 15, 2008 • from PLN September, 2008
GEO Group Expands into Mental Health Facilities for Business Growth by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Since 1984, the GEO Group (formerly Wackenhut Corrections) has focused on operating private prisons as its business model. It is now finding a more lucrative niche in privatizing mental health facilities and civil …
Of 426 California Prisoner Deaths in 2006, 66 Found to be Preventable by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg In August 2007, former California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) federal healthcare Receiver Robert Sillen issued a report titled Analysis of CDCR Death Reviews, prepared by the CDCR’s Death Review …
New Jersey Joins Other States in Restricting Internet Use by Sex Offenders by New Jersey Joins Other States in Restricting ?Internet Use by Sex Offenders On December 27, 2007, New Jersey enacted legislation to restrict convicted sex offenders’ Internet use. Acting Governor Richard J. Codey relied on public hysteria over …
Florida DOC Ends Unofficial Transfer-for-Sale Policy by David Reutter by David M. Reutter It has long been an established fact among Florida prisoners that if you wanted a transfer to a certain prison, you could pay well-connected lawyers to make that transfer happen. After Florida then Department of Corrections (FDOC) …
Arizona DOC Guard Reinstated Despite Error Resulting in Prisoner’s Murder by Arizona’s state personnel board has overturned disciplinary actions against two prison employees who were implicated in errors leading to the murder of a prisoner at ASPC Florence. The board determined that although mistakes occurred, they should not have resulted …
Article • September 15, 2008 • from PLN September, 2008
Survivors Guide to Medical Research in Prison by Greg Dober When one thinks of all the “Survivor Guides” that could be written for prisoners, the last one that comes to mind is for participating as a trial subject in medical research experiments. Yet medicine is science. Scientific theories and developments …
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