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healthcare providers for prisoners, with annual revenue exceeding $1 billion. The Nashville, Tennessee-based firm supplies medical and mental health services to more than 100 state and federal prisons and 330 ...
Article • November 6, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018
for anger management classes. Meanwhile, Larry Allen was incarcerated in a jail in Virginia, just after the state stopped charging $1 a day for pay-to-stay. He told Truthout that his medical fees accumulated ...
exploit 1 million prison laborers. Why pay workers outside the walls the minimum wage when you can pay workers behind walls only a couple of dollars a day? Why exploit sweatshop workers in countries like ...
Article • January 31, 2018 • from PLN February, 2018
Filed under: Work, Release and Reentry
$1 million. The recidivism rate for graduates is around 7 percent, much lower than the 23 percent overall rate in Texas. That reduction has saved the state an estimated $6 million in incarceration ...
Article • July 1, 2018 • from PLN July, 2018
.” They can also kill. [See: PLN, Oct. 2006, p.1]. According to a December 2017 investigative report by Reuters news service, Tasers have been linked to over 1,000 deaths at the hands of law ...
Article • June 9, 2017 • from PLN June, 2017
Filed under: Bail, Bail Bonds
to jail.” [See: PLN, Sept. 2016, p.1]. More importantly, Walter Scott would have likely stayed behind bars, unable to bail himself out, just like hundreds of thousands of other people jailed ...
Article • December 5, 2017 • from PLN December, 2017
directly from solitary into society. Raemisch spent a night in a segregation cell himself and found it disturbing. [See: PLN, July 2014, pp.1, 8]. Since then, he said Colorado prisoners released from ...
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
minutes cost $13, and costs could climb as high as $1 per minute under the jail’s contract with prison phone company Securus. The contract, which Truthout obtained under Louisiana’s ...
Article • May 20, 2014 • from PLN May, 2014
Filed under: Education
changes in the GED program that allows people to earn the equivalent of a high school diploma. Starting on January 1, 2014, the test was realigned to match Common Core State Standards, and the old pencil ...
varying among the states. CCA and GEO alone employ over 30 lobbyists in Florida as advocates for private prisons. The reported lobbying expenses in Florida from January 1 through March 31, 2011, ranged from ...
and is responsible for its content. If you are a victim of Dr. Ayres, please write to her at: Victoria Balfour, 151 College Avenue, Apt.1, Poughkeepsie, New York 12603. ...
, the Boone County Sheriff’s Department’s contract with ACH is expected to save the county $100,000. The company began providing health care to prisoners at the Boone County Jail on June 1, 2016 ...
cell. He was found dead on Feb. 5, 2014. He had tied the sheet to a smoke detector and hung himself. Originally published by The Huffington Post on September 1, 2016. Reprinted with permission.  ...
of vast proportions. Incredibly, in 1 out of 5 cases involving police shooting a family pet, a child was either in the police line of fire or in the immediate area of a shooting. The so-called ...
because such a move required legislative action. [See: PLN, Feb. 2012, p.1]. The court ruling ending prison privatization left open the option of privatizing the prison health care system. Scott too ...
Article • May 5, 2017 • from PLN May, 2017
assailants were charged with attempted murder and mayhem, and held on $1 million bail each. Cruz had been charged with sodomy with a minor; he allegedly had sex with the girl after she passed out drunk on his ...
out with news the FCC would no longer defend its 2015 decision. In June 2017, a U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. ruled 2-1 to strike down the FCC’s ruling. Truthout spoke ...
Article • September 4, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
Sheriff’s Office, U.S.D.C. (D. Colo.), Case No. 1:16-cv-00714-PAB-STV. At the Arapahoe County jail in Centennial, Colorado, Jeffrey Scott Lillis, 37, died of easily-treatable bacterial pneumonia ...
” as to all of the following: 1) that the defendant would have accepted the offer if competently advised by his lawyer; 2) that the prosecutor would not have withdrawn the offer before the court approved ...
Article • September 15, 2014 • from PLN September, 2014
Filed under: Informants, Sentencing
than many police officers and prosecutors care to openly admit. It is, quite simply, the practice of using snitches to obtain convictions. [See: PLN, June 2010, p.1; Feb. 2006, p.28]. But wait, you say ...
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