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of widespread violence and sexual abuse. The state’s prisons operate at 172 percent of capacity even as the DOC has experienced a 20 percent drop in the number of guards it employs. [See: PLN, May 2016, p.1 ...
Article • February 5, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019
. 2017, p.1]. CCP volunteers also face risks when not fighting wildfires. Like other firefighters they sometimes respond to 911 calls to battle house fires or extricate bodies from vehicle collisions. One ...
Article • February 5, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019
, June 2017, p.14; July 2016, p.58; Mar. 2014, p.46; Nov. 2012, p.44; June 2011, p.1]. One of those alternative drugs is midazolam. In April 2014, Oklahoma’s Department of Corrections (DOC) attempted ...
Article • June 15, 2011 • from PLN June, 2011
associated with a crime lab trade group and a for-profit accreditation consulting agency. [See: PLN, Oct. 2010, p.1]. Adding to the controversy, a recently-retired SBI agent has accused the SBI of blaming him ...
Article • May 20, 2014 • from PLN May, 2014
Filed under: Sentencing, Juveniles
serving mandatory life sentences for crimes committed as juveniles. Pennsylvania has more juvenile lifers than any other state. See: Commonwealth v. Cunningham, 81 A.3d 1 (Pa. 2013). Sources ...
Article • May 20, 2014 • from PLN May, 2014
. As a result, more prisoners are growing older in prison. [See: PLN, Dec. 2010, p.1]. An October 2013 report by The Pew Charitable Trusts identified the aging prison population as the primary factor behind ...
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights on two levels: (1), whether the offence meets the threshold of the “most serious crimes” as interpreted by the Human Rights Committee in its General Comment ...
their lives, but also help keep them out of prison in the first place.   1. Keeping Families Together When mothers are arrested and jailed, even for a short time, their children are forced into foster care ...
Article • March 28, 2017
their available revenue. Human Rights Watch estimates that JCS collects over $1 million in fees every year from people in DeKalb County on probation for minor offenses like traffic tickets. On JCS’s website ...
contact. Effective September 1, 2017, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) eliminated the use of solitary confinement for disciplinary purposes. The change affected only a small number ...
Article • October 9, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Filed under: Food
doing [financially] by how many soups he’s got in his locker,” one prisoner interviewed during the study explained. [See: PLN, Aug. 2018, p.1]. Cooking ramen in prison or jail can ...
that it is, “the perpetrator rarely faces prosecution. While most prison staff shown to be involved in sexual misconduct lost their jobs, fewer than half were referred for prosecution, and only 1 percent ...
Article • August 30, 2017 • from PLN September, 2017
notice of a hearing. The board did so, at that time, without making one of the three determinations necessary under ORS 144.125(1)(1991) for an extension of a release date.” The Court of Appeals ...
Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
Filed under: Computers, Telephone Access
) set a cap on interstate (long distance) prison and jail phone rates of $0.21 per minute for debit and prepaid calls, and $0.25 per minute for collect calls. [See: PLN, Dec. 2013, p.1]. However, other ...
. And politics, more than money, is often the obstacle. Louisiana, for instance, made headlines earlier this summer when it was revealed that the state had spent more than $1 million of public funds ...
Article • October 3, 2016 • from PLN October, 2016
life-sentenced inmates have been convicted of crimes that occurred before they turned 18 and nearly 1 in 4 of them were sentenced to [life without parole],” and presumably these prisoners would ...
Article • May 5, 2017 • from PLN May, 2017
://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com, TDCJ Offender Orientation Handbook (1-202, rev. April 2016) ...
Article • October 9, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
supported the idea by a 2-1 margin, yet Republican lawmakers have ignored the public’s wishes and opposed bills aimed at oversight of the parole board and reform efforts. “In politics, if it takes ...
Article • September 4, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
Charles Outlaw, a 25-year-old wheelchair-bound prisoner with multiple sclerosis, who was beaten while handcuffed. The SCHR’s suit remains pending. See: Griggs v. Davis, U.S.D.C. (S.D. Ga.), Case No. 1 ...
Article • May 15, 2011 • from PLN May, 2011
Filed under: News, News in Brief
a contraband cell phone to coordinate a credit card fraud scheme in which he purchased over $1 million of Apple products, such as iPads. The Apple products were then sold on the black market; the operation ...
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