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on recidivism by age, those released after the age of 65 return for new commitment at a rate of just 1 percent, compared to a 40-60 percent return rate for the general prison population  • • &bull ...
Article • July 28, 2017 • from PLN August, 2017
illnesses between August 1 and August 16 of 2011. Health Services Division staffers tracked a total of 110 illnesses in 2011 through August 16 of that year, across scores of units. The records indicate ...
Article • November 6, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018
previously covered numerous cases of judicial misconduct. [See, e.g.: PLN, Feb. 2016, p.24; Jan. 2013, p.38; Oct. 2010, p.26; Aug. 2009, p.1]. Congress has repeatedly failed to appoint an inspector general ...
Article • August 24, 2016
fire departments with emergency staffing along a desolate, accident-plagued 100-mile stretch of 1-15. Back in Bakersfield, an audit conducted in 2000 found Mesa Verde to be in compliance with 95 percent ...
.: PLN, Sept. 2016, p.46; July 2015, p.1]. Despite oversight as part of a federal consent decree at Rikers Island, guards continue to engage in illegal and inhumane behavior. For example, in May 2016, 17 ...
only $1 a day for cooking, laundering, and cleaning jobs. In 2014, detained workers at the GEO Group-run Tacoma Northwest Detention Center organized a hunger strike to protest their labor conditions ...
(CEC), a company that focuses on reentry programs, for $360 million. GEO also owns BI, Inc., which provides electronic monitoring services. [See: PLN, March 2018, p.1; Aug. 2017, p.48]. For its part ...
Article • June 9, 2017 • from PLN June, 2017
Filed under: Overcrowding, Staffing
; they are not comprehensive audits, nor do they provide oversight. [See: PLN, July 2016, p.1]. With respect to the TDOC, the ACA admitted it was going in with its gloves on, not off. “Our job is not to tear them apart ...
Article • December 5, 2017 • from PLN December, 2017
in an interview. Alkermes now expects Vivitrol sales to jump from around $300 million this year to more than $1 billion in 2021, according to the pharmaceutical industry trackers at FiercePharma. Vivitrol’s ...
Article • November 6, 2017 • from PLN November, 2017
running the prison’s basic services for wages of just $1 a day, some reportedly receiving only a bag of chips in exchange for waxing the prison’s floors.n April 2017, the Northwest Detention ...
Article • February 11, 2019
.” Martinez sent him books to read, and through letters and during frequent visits, encouraged him to go to college, where he studied English literature. After one day of deliberations, on March 1 ...
it was not specifically requested. In November 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a $1 million grant to Ahern’s office under a federal program that prioritizes law enforcement agencies that cooperate ...
Article • September 12, 2014 • from PLN September, 2014
Filed under: News in Brief
McMullen escaped from custody. She later admitted her involvement, and was sentenced to six months in jail on November 1, 2013. Utah: Steven Garrett Thayer, a Washington County jail guard, was fired ...
Article • January 15, 2013 • from PLN January, 2013
forensics evidence used to obtain their convictions. [See: PLN, Oct. 2010, p.1]. “A lot of bad science has been applied to arson investigation,” said fire expert John Lentini, who has provided testimony ...
.” Instead, Frazier was sent on their behalf and was to report back to them. On January 9, 2013, the JRI group voted, 5-1, to name as coordinator an attorney with the law firm Crowe & Dunlevy. Frazier ...
Article • August 7, 2014 • from PLN August, 2014
Filed under: News in Brief
office. At Slack’s December 19, 2013 sentencing hearing, U.S. District Court Judge John T. Copenhaver, Jr. considered letters of support and a 700-signature petition when imposing a sentence of 1-2 ...
Article • July 4, 2014 • from PLN July, 2014
Filed under: News in Brief
attached to his prosthetic leg. A local prosthetics company called in to disassemble the leg found four more razor weapons and a small amount of Suboxone. Ortiz, who was serving 1½ to 3 years ...
Article • July 9, 2014 • from PLN July, 2014
from harassing prisoners by waking them at 1 a.m. to make them strip in front of snarling dogs leaping for their genitals – to arbitrarily have them switch cells. She got this practice stopped ...
Article • February 4, 2015 • from PLN February, 2015
Filed under: News in Brief
on September 10, 2014 to 50 months in prison and two years on supervised release. He was also ordered to pay over $1 million in restitution. Wisconsin: A fistfight broke out on April 22, 2014 at the Sauk County ...
a 2002 hunger strike that involved 65 SHU prisoners at PBSP. Within 5 days, the strike was over. Things were different in 2011. By the end of the day on July 1, 5,300 prisoners at nine prisons refused ...
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