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Article • September 20, 2014 • from PLN September, 2014
Filed under: Victims, Restitution
counts of violating federal child pornography laws. The district court also ordered him to pay $3.4 million in restitution to a victim known only by the pseudonym “Amy” and nearly $1 million ...
of "the biggest development project in our city" for years "so we've got to do something."   The Dawson State Jail closed in August 2013. [See: PLN, July 2013, p.38; June 2013, p.1].   Sources ...
Article • January 1, 2016 • from PLN January, 2016
considering the lobbying and campaign donations spent on Congress by CCA, GEO and Management & Training Corporation (MTC). [See: PLN, April 2013. p.1]. “[P]rivate-prison companies have no incentive ...
Article • January 1, 2016 • from PLN January, 2016
on the international market or turning to poorly-regulated compounding pharmacies. [See: PLN, March 2014, p.46; June 2011, p.1]. On June 29, 2015, a sharply-divided U.S. Supreme Court upheld the use of the drug ...
Article • January 15, 2013 • from PLN January, 2013
Filed under: News, News in Brief
: On September 1, 2012, San Diego jail prisoner Anthony Dunton was shot to death at the UCSD Medical Center when he struggled with deputies and a medical technician. Dunton managed to slip out of his restraints ...
. settled his claims in October 2013 for $1 million, while the claims of the other plaintiffs proceeded. On April 7, 2014, the district court denied summary judgment to the defendants on claims of deliberate ...
in federal court alleging pervasive violence and excessive use of force by prison guards. That case remains pending. See: Pitts v. Espinda, U.S.D.C. (D. Haw.), Case No. 1:15-cv-00483-JMS-KJM. Meanwhile ...
.), Case No. 1:11-cv-02047-LJO-BAM. “I truly think that what we’ve done here will create a better environment for both inmates and correctional officers and this is a situation where people ...
Article • October 15, 2011 • from PLN October, 2011
Filed under: News, News in Brief
to jail, where he was placed in a restraint chair. Cassidy had worked for the Florida Dept. of Corrections for almost 24 years. Florida: According to a July 1, 2011 news report, two Hall County jail ...
Article • March 15, 2013 • from PLN March, 2013
Filed under: News, News in Brief
, and later pleaded guilty to a criminal contempt charge related to his attempt to flee. Maine: On November 1, 2012, Episcopal priest Stephen Foote, 70, was arrested on a class C charge of trafficking ...
Article • February 15, 2013 • from PLN February, 2013
Filed under: News, News in Brief
was booked into the Escambia County Jail on October 30, 2012. Ireland: A Northern Ireland Prison Service guard was ambushed and killed on November 1, 2012 in County Armagh. David Black, who was close ...
their bottom lines on the backs of the exploited. This myth contains a modicum of truth: of course, the 1 percent and beyond do make money off of locking people up. Corporations like Kitchell Construction have ...
on the open market through Prison Industry Enhancement (PIE) programs. [See, e.g., PLN, July 2016, p.26; March 2010, p.1]. The use of such domestic prison labor, while federal laws prohibit the importation ...
.24; Feb. 2008, p.1]. His task at the TJJD was to quell the escalating violence, extortion and gang activity among juvenile offenders, particularly at the Giddings State School. Remedial measures ...
Article • July 9, 2014 • from PLN July, 2014
with HCV, and 12%-35% are chronically infected, compared to 1%-1.5% in the uninstitutionalized U.S. population.” Josiah Rich, director of the Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights at the Miriam ...
Article • August 7, 2014 • from PLN August, 2014
Center for Human Rights, which filed a lawsuit in 2011 alleging systematic brutality by guards at nearby Hays State Prison, where several prisoners have been killed. [See: PLN, Feb. 2014, p.1]. In fact ...
and rest in peace. He’s under the ground and resting in peace.” The lawyer representing Herman Wallace called the October 1, 2013 Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that exonerated his client ...
with the majority. See: Kansas v. Hendricks, 521 U.S. 346 (1997) [PLN, Aug. 1997, p.1]. “They [sex offender civil commitment programs] are not working in the way the courts were promised they would work,&rdquo ...
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
confirmed those numbers. “As of December 1, 2010, 1,579 inmates were identified as having ‘severe addiction’; 6,356 inmates were identified as having a ‘severe problem’ with alcohol and/or controlled ...
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