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officials to answer questions at a public hearing. “While I realize that the Department deals with thousands of inmates daily, it seems to me that the public needs more information about what happened ...
Article • January 8, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
– named after Thurgood Marshall – has only once reported on Marshall, Jr.’s affiliation with CoreCivic, burying it at the very bottom of an article titled “What You Need to Know ...
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
I co-founded, I’m convinced that much of what happens in these places constitutes torture. How is it possible that a human-rights crisis of this magnitude can carry on year after year, with impunity ...
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
there for a long time – a couple of decades – and they would show me how to do legal research.” When John Fellers asked, the “Law Man” – Shon’s proud prison moniker – agreed to see what he could do for him. He wrote ...
Article • April 15, 2014 • from PLN April, 2014
Filed under: Allergy, Food
for food allergy issues. Choices about what to eat and what to avoid are especially difficult to make when prisoners are served food they did not prepare. Yet some institutions tell prisoners to fend ...
was swift. In the words of New Mexico Corrections Secretary Rob Perry, “The only thing you can do is act with an iron fist, and that’s what we’re going to do.” Another prison official ...
Article • July 1, 2016
District Attorney Ken Kratz is nothing compared with what goes on in the well-oiled and deeply cynical system in place in inner-city courts. The accused in poor urban centers are lined up daily like sheep ...
. While it is unclear what led to the riot, audits and lawsuits against prison administrators suggest there are issues with inmate safety and access to medical care. In early February ...
Article • October 3, 2016 • from PLN October, 2016
prisoners [as of September 21, 2016], more than his seven predecessors combined.) The steps taken by this administration to address the issue of mass incarceration are unprecedented, raising what has long ...
. That year, lawmakers voted to privatize the ADC’s medical system and to pay providers at a rate no higher than what they would be paid by the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, the state’s Medicare ...
Article • September 15, 2014 • from PLN September, 2014
Filed under: Court Access
; said SCHR attorney Gerry Weber. “A closed courtroom is one that is less accountable to the public. What is done behind closed doors can be different to what is done in the cold light of day,&rdquo ...
again “forgot to record it on the form.” In short, the form did “not state that Harrison smelled of alcohol, what type of alcohol Harrison drank, the amount of daily consumption ...
Article • April 9, 2015 • from PLN April, 2015
Filed under: Reviews
industrialized nation. Burning Down the House is rich with first-person accounts of what it’s like to do time in juvenile facilities from formerly incarcerated youth whom Bernstein met during a decade ...
Article • August 2, 2016 • from PLN August, 2016
and then-Calumet County District Attorney Ken Kratz is nothing compared with what goes on in the well-oiled and deeply cynical system in place in inner-city courts. The accused in poor urban centers are lined up ...
Article • May 15, 2011 • from PLN May, 2011
Filed under: Family, Family Law
to fueling the overcrowding problem in the county’s jail system, what effect does incarceration have on the parent? “It doesn’t add up,” said Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff, pointing out that a jailed ...
Article • October 10, 2014 • from PLN October, 2014
going to lose her feet.” She wonders what condition her daughter will be in when she is finally released in 2017. “How bad will she be by then, if she even lives? The outlook is not so good ...
Article • March 2, 2015
. What is the status quo? Put simply, capitalism requires inequality and racism enshrines it. Thus, criminalization and mass incarceration are class war, as Platt and Takagi explained in 1977. Therefore ...
Article • February 4, 2015 • from PLN February, 2015
of its kids than any other industrialized nation. Burning Down the House is rich with first-person accounts of what it’s like to do time in juvenile facilities from formerly incarcerated youth ...
Article • February 4, 2015 • from PLN February, 2015
Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut
Herald. On April 1, 2013, GEO Group announced that it was withdrawing its $6 million gift to FAU, which would have been paid in 12 annual installments of $500,000. “What was originally intended ...
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
.” The Department of Justice supposedly monitors conditions in the jails but has shown little or no appetite for confronting Arpaio. What my research discovered is that people hang themselves ...
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