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Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
50 Years After Starting “Scared Straight,” Former N.J. Prison Warden “Would Do It Again” by In a May 2024 interview about the “Scared Straight” program he founded 50 years earlier, former New Jersey prison warden Bob Hatrak, 83, dismissed research showing that the program actually has a counterproductive effect on …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: Mobile Metro Jail guard Robert Aaron Small was fired and arrested for assault on June 27, 2024, one day after he allegedly used excessive force against an unnamed detainee. WKRG in Mobile said that the guard had worked at the lockup since 2019. Mobile County …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
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News in Brief by Alabama: On June 24, 2024, Walker County Sheriff Nick Smith told the Birmingham News that county jail guard Tony Dewayne Jackson, 29, had been arrested for smuggling “non-­drug” contraband into the lockup. Jackson was no longer working at the jail, but Smith didn’t say how or …
Publication • August 1, 2024
NJPP-PrisonProfiteers- How Private Companies Profit From Prison Phone Calls and Harm New Jersey Residents-Aug2024 August 2024 Prison Profiteers: How Private Companies Profit From Prison Phone Calls and Harm New Jersey Residents Marleina Ubel, Senior Policy Analyst For the thousands of people incarcerated in New Jersey's prisons and jails, a phone …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
In New Jersey, Yet More Privileged Phone Calls Between Prisoners and Attorneys Recorded and Used by Prosecutors by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney   A New Jersey prisoner filed a putative class-action lawsuit on December 19, 2023, alleging that privileged telephone communications with his attorney were recorded by the jail …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Families of New Jersey Jail Suicide Victims Still Waiting for Settlement Payouts by Families who lost loved ones to suicide in New Jersey’s Cumberland County Jail (CCJ) were still waiting in early March 2024 for payouts from settlements reached two years ago or more. The delay is blamed on their …
Third Circuit Revives Disabled New Jersey Prisoner’s Claim for Deprivation of Walking Cane by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On September 19, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reversed dismissal of prisoner Tremayne Durham’s suit blaming employees of the New Jersey Department of Corrections (DOC) for …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
N.J. Prison Guard Sacked Over Mock George Floyd Killing by On September 20, 2023, the New Jersey Civil Service Commission upheld a decision by an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) allowing the state Department of Corrections (DOC) to fire a state prison guard involved in a mock killing of George Floyd …
Publication • April 1, 2024
Special Report, Visits and Phone Calls, NJ Office of the Corrections Ombudsperson (April 2024) Visits and Phone Calls NJ Office of the Corrections Ombudsperson, Special Report April 2024 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Sustaining relationships with loved ones through a period of incarceration can be difficult, but research suggests that doing so has …
Brief • March 4, 2024
Howard v. The County of Essex, NJ, Complaint, Discrimination, 2024 ESX-L-001515-24 03/04/2024 2:00:00 AM Pg 1 of 26 Trans ID: LCV2024562192 LURETHA M. STRIBLING, ESQ. 1030 South Avenue West, Suite 1A Westfield, New Jersey 07090 (908) 403-0113 Attorney for the Plaintiff Attorney ID No. 008452004 LMStribling@verizon.net IDESHA HOWARD SUPERIOR COURT …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
New Jersey Supreme Court Revives Parolee’s Challenge to Administratively Imposed Treatment Program by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 3, 2023, the Supreme Court of New Jersey held that a state prisoner’s parole could not be conditioned on his enrollment in a residential treatment program (RTP) when he is …
New Jersey Private Prison Ban Voided by The issue of illegal immigration is a contentious one. Though entering the country illegally is a violation of civil immigration law, migrant families and children who do so are most often treated like criminals and held in prison-like detention centers. Some are jails …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: Within 48-hours of booking into the Morgan County Jail on August 29, 2023, Miles Rea Batson, 39, had two second-degree assault charges added to his public intoxication charge as well as another for disarming a law enforcement agent. WHNT in Huntsville reported that during booking …
New Jersey Prisoner’s Suit Survives Seeking to Validate the Nation of Gods and Earth as a Religion by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On September 12, 2022, the federal court for the District of New Jersey denied a motion for summary judgment by the defendant New Jersey Department of …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
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News in Brief by Alabama: Three jail guards in the Yellowhammer State were hit with drug smuggling charges in August 2023 and another the month after. WAFF in Huntsville reported that Morgan County Jail guard Bobby Simmons, 19, was arrested on August 3, 2023, when he was charged with promoting …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Filed under: Settlements, Suicides
Almost $2.4 Million in Settlements For Seven Suicides at New Jersey Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The families of two women and five men who committed suicide while held in pretrial detention between July 2014 and November 2018 at New Jersey’s Cumberland County Jail (CCJ) have received …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
DOJ Reaches Consent Decree with New Jersey Jail to Improve Mental Health Care by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 17, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed both a federal civil rights complaint and a proposed consent decree to resolve allegedly unconstitutional conditions at New Jersey’s …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
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News in Brief by Alabama: According to WSFA in Montgomery, a guard at the Montgomery County Detention Center was charged on July 18, 2023, with conspiracy to provide contraband to a prisoner as well as bribing a public official. Timothy Bernard Summerlin, 33, had worked at the lockup for roughly …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
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News in Brief by Alabama: A state Department of Corrections (DOC) guard was arrested on June 10, 2023, for allegedly smuggling drugs, including meth, to a prisoner at Kilby Correctional Facility, 1819 News reported. Charlie Townsend, 28, resigned from his position upon his arrest by the Law Enforcement Services Division. …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A guard with the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) was indicted on April 27, 2023, on charges he sexually abused two prisoners at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Aliceville, according to a report by the Birmingham News. Robert D. Smith allegedly had sexual intercourse …
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