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Article • March 5, 2015 • from PLN March, 2015
Screening Out Family Time: The For-Profit Video Visitation Industry in Prisons and Jails by Bernadette Rabuy Screening Out Family Time: The For-Profit Video Visitation Industry in Prisons and Jails by Bernadette Rabuy and Peter Wagner Every Thursday, Lisa* logs on to her computer and spends $10 to chat for half …
Predictors and Effects of Prison Visitation for Children, Melinda Tasca, ASU Dissertation, 2014 The author(s) shown below used Federal funds provided by the U.S. Department of Justice and prepared the following final report: Document Title: “It’s Not All Cupcakes and Lollipops”: An Investigation of the Predictors and Effects of Prison …
Publication • February 7, 2014
Extended Family Visits in Prison, Office of Legislative Research Report, 2014 Office of Legislative Research Research Report February 7, 2014 2014-R-0053 EXTENDED FAMILY VISITS IN PRISON By: Christopher Reinhart, Chief Attorney EXTENDED FAMILY VISITS QUESTION  Defined as a prolonged visit in an area apart from the inmate population Provide …
Article • December 15, 2013 • from PLN December, 2013
Ninth Circuit Affirms Finding that Claim Accrues Each Time a Request for Conjugal Visits is Denied by On November 21, 2012, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court’s finding that a prisoner’s challenge to the denial of his request for conjugal visits was not barred by the …
Prison Visitation: A Fifty State Survey by Chesa Boudin by Chesa Boudin, Trevor Stutz and Aaron Littman This article presents a summary of the study’s findings. The full study and data set will be published in a forthcoming volume of the Yale Law and Policy Review: Chesa Boudin, Trevor Stutz …
Article • May 15, 2012 • from PLN May, 2012
New York Prison System Allows Same-Sex Partners to Participate in Family Reunion Program by In late April 2011, the New York Department of Correctional Services (DOCS) formally adopted a regulation permitting same-sex married partners and those in civil unions to participate in the prison system’s family reunion program, also referred …
Gay and Lesbian Prisoners: Recent Developments and a Call for More Research by Zachary Wolfe, Esq. by Zachary Wolfe, Esq.1 This is an interesting time in the changing legal landscape relating to gay and lesbian prisoners, but public and scholarly attention is lacking. Rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered …
Article • August 15, 2008
New York Prisoner's Crime and Sentence Prevents Family Reunion Program Participation by New York state prisoner Steve Williamson appealed the 2006 dismissal of his pro se action against the Department of Correctional Services (DOCS) for denying him participation in the Family Reunion Program (program). The state appellate court affirmed the …
Article • August 15, 2008
Ban on EFUs and Artificial Insemination for CA Lifers Upheld by California denies conjugal visits to persons sentenced to life without parole or to life without a parole date established by the parole board. The plaintiff is serving so much time that no parole date appears likely. The court declines …
Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
California Homosexual Prisoner Family Visits Policy Draws Fire by California’s newly adopted state prison policy permitting overnight conjugal visits for registered domestic partners who are in prison has been praised by homosexual advocacy groups but has drawn fire from religious conservatives. Prison conjugal visiting began in 1918 in Mississippi as …
WA DOC Pays $102,000 to Wife Stabbed During Conjugal Visit by The Washington Department of Corrections settled a lawsuit filed in Thurston county superior court by Heather Hiivala alleging negligence in providing for her safety and under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. In 1995 she was engaged in a conjugal visit …
Alaska Prisoners' Disciplinary Hearing Rights by In 1975 Alaska's supreme court held that under the state and federal constitutions, Alaskan prisoners enjoy substantial due process rights in prison disciplinary hearings, moreso than prisoners enjoy under the U.S. Constitution alone. The state supreme court held that Alaskan prisoners have the right …
Article • May 15, 2007
No Right to Family Visits by The court of appeals for the Second circuit held that New York prisoners have no right to participate in a family (AKA conjugal) visiting program. Prisoners have a right to marriage but not to marital privacy. All courts to consider this issue have concluded …
No Liberty Interest in Washington Extended Family Visits by The Washington Supreme Court held that prisoners have no constitutionally protected liberty interest in the DOC's extended family visiting (EFV) program. The court also held that prison officials have broad discretion to approve or deny a prisoner's participation in the EFV …
Article • October 15, 2005 • from PLN October, 2005
California Family Visiting Appeal Denied by The California Court of Appeal affirmed the denial of a state prisoner's quest for injunctive and declaratory relief that would have invalidated the 1996 amendments to the Department of Corrections' (CDC) family [overnight] visiting rules excluding him from participation. The case had received much …
Article • October 15, 2005
California Limits Participants for Extended Family Visits by The California Supreme Court held that only family members as defined in Title 15, § 3174., California Administrative Code (CAC) are eligible for "extended family visits." A San Quentin prisoner serving a life sentence was denied "extended family visitation' with a woman …
Destruction of Exculpatory Disciplinary Evidence May Violate Due Process Clause by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has affirmed the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York's order denying prison officials' motion for summary judgment on qualified immunity grounds in a prison discipline case. …
No Presumption of Collateral Consequences from California Disciplinary Proceeding by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit US Court of Ap- peals held that in a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas proceeding, a guilty finding in a California state prison disciplinary proceeding would not be accorded a …
BOP Guards Smuggle Sperm for Mobsters by Gary Hunter BOP Guards Smuggle Sperm For Mobsters by Gary Hunter On March 1, 2002, the U.S. District court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania denied the motion of a mobster's wife requesting the return of her incarcerated husband's sperm. Circumstances leading to …
Dominican Women Prisoners Strike for Conjugal Visits by Julia Lutsky In November of 2001, women prisoners in the Najayo public prison in San Cristóbal on the southern coast of the Dominican Republic, carried out a protest during which they set fire to and burned all the books, doors and shelving …
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