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"Little Guantanamo": Exposing the CMU by Daniel McGowan by Daniel McGowan, Spring 2009 Daniel McGowan is an environmental and social justice activist from NYC charged in federal court on counts of arson and conspiracy and given the "terrorism enhancement" for his involvement in two environmentally motivated actions in Oregon in …
Article • June 15, 2009 • from PLN June, 2009
Racial Impact Statements: An Effort to Eliminate Legal Racism by Gary Hunter Racial Impact Statements: An Effort to Eliminate Legal Racism by Gary Hunter Barack Obama’s election to the White House has many citizens convinced our country is closing its racial divide. Perhaps we are. But the disproportionate number of …
Texas Increasingly out of Step on Death Penalty by David C Fathi By David Fathi Copyright 2009 Houston Chronicle May 23, 2009, 3:44PM Barring unexpected events, in the next few weeks Gov. Rick Perry of Texas will oversee his 200th execution since taking office in 2000. Perry has already allowed …
Prison Guard wins $18,000 in Discrimination Suit Against DOC by An African-American prison guard at Wisconsin's Jackson Correctional Facility filed suit against the DOC and two prison officials under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The plaintiff, Sergeant Davis, had recently been demoted after a hearing regarding …
Article • May 15, 2009
What happened to prison education programs? by Marlene Martin by Marlene Martin What happened to prison education programs? Why have college education programs in prison--proven statistically to have a positive impact on recidivism--all but disappeared, asks Marlene Martin, national director of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty. Analysis: Marlene …
Article • April 15, 2009
Slavery Haunts America's Plantation Prisons, by Maya Schenwar by Maya Schenwar by Maya Schenwar, Truthout On an expanse of 18,000 acres of farmland, 59 miles northwest of Baton Rouge, long rows of men, mostly African-American, till the fields under the hot Louisiana sun. The men pick cotton, wheat, soybeans and corn. …
Court Denies Michigan Prison Officials Summary Judgment In Discrimination Suit by David M. Lawson, U.S. District Judge, has denied summary judgment to Michigan prison officials in a suit alleging racial discrimination in the termination of a visit by an interracial couple. Gordon Butter, a black prisoner in the Michigan Department …
Deconstructing Gus: A Former CCA Prisoner Takes On, and Takes Down, CCA’s Top Lawyer by Paul Wright by Paul Wright, et al. On June 13, 2007, former President Bush nominated Gustavus A. Puryear IV, 40, for a lifetime appointment to the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. …
BOP Medical Worker's Race Based Termination Suit Settles For $65,000 by West Virginia resident and ex Bureau of Prisons medical employee, Darrick Leacock, brought a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action in 1995 against United States Attorney General Janet Reno after allegedly being discriminated against and subsequently fired due to his …
Article • January 15, 2009
ACLU Says Federal Death Penalty Prosecutions Racially Biased by Bob Williams By: Bob Williams The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) alleged that racial disparities exist surrounding the implementation of the federal death penalty (FDP). They claim that United States Attorney Generals (AG) Reno, Ashcroft and Gonzales seek the FDP for …
Violence at Oklahoma Prisons Leaves Two Dead, Twenty-Five Injured by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On May 19, 2008, at approximately 12:30 p.m., a fight broke out between Native American and black prisoners at the Oklahoma State Reformatory (OSR) in Granite. When the skirmish ended five minutes later, two prisoners …
Article • January 15, 2009
Illegal Alien Not Required to Submit Dual Parole Plans in California by California's First District Court of Appeals has held that a prisoner is not required to prepare a parole plan for both California and a country he will be deported to if there is a conclusive presumption that he …
Texas: $232,000 Settlement, $82,000 Award in Prison Employees' Discrimination Suits by In 2003 and 2004, plaintiffs in two separate lawsuits prevailed on their claims of racial discrimination against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ). In the most recent lawsuit, four auditors in the Community Justice Assistance Division of TDCJ …
NIC Report: Wisconsin Jails Racist and Dangerous by Gary Hunter On January 31, 2008, the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) issued a 139-page report detailing numerous flaws in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin jail system. The Milwaukee House of Correction (HOC), the Community Corrections Center (CCC) and the County Jail Facility (CJF) …
California DOC Settles Sadistic, Hate-Motivated, Three-Year Starvation Death Of Sikh Prisoner For $1 Million by Marvin Mentor California DOC Settles Sadistic, Hate-Motivated, Three-Year Starvation Death Of Sikh Prisoner For $1 Million by Marvin Mentor The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) settled a lawsuit brought by the survivors of …
Article • December 15, 2008 • from PLN December, 2008
Oregon Guards Wrongly Fired Win $1,000,000 by Russell Rice and Larry Lytle, both career employees of the Oregon state Department of Corrections, were fired by Superintendent Frank Thomas of the Santiam Correctional Institute in early 2004. Both had long histories of exemplary performance. But they formally complained that Thomas, who …
Article • November 15, 2008 • from PLN November, 2008
Arkansas Woman Left in Cell for Four Days Without Food or Water by Arkansas Woman Left in Cell for Four Days Without Food or Water In March 2008, a woman was locked in a small courthouse holding cell without food or water for four days after an Arkansas bailiff forgot …
Article • November 15, 2008 • from PLN November, 2008
Iowa Imprisons Blacks at Alarming Rate by Gary Hunter Extreme racial disparities in Iowa’s sentencing patterns have put the state under scrutiny once again. Iowa has a population of about 3 million people. Only 2.3 percent, about 20,000, are black. Yet the incarceration for black Iowans is six times greater …
Article • November 15, 2008 • from PLN November, 2008
U.S. Pardon Attorney Replaced After Investigation Reveals Racial Comments, Retaliation and Mismanagement by Brandon Sample U.S. Pardon Attorney Replaced After Investigation Reveals Racial Comments, Retaliation and Mismanagement by Brandon Sample The federal attorney responsible for recommending presidential pardons and commutations has been replaced following an investigation by the Office of …
Alabama Jail Guard Fired, Convicted, Held Civilly Liable in Prisoner’s Assault by David Reutter Alabama Jail Guard Fired, Convicted, Held Civilly Liable in Prisoner’s Assault by David M. Reutter In a rare conclusion to a guard’s violent attack on a prisoner, a Jefferson County, Alabama jail guard was fired, prosecuted, …
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