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Article • May 1, 2023 • from PLN May, 2023
Filed under: Census, Rural Prisons
Montana Becomes 13th State to End Prison Gerrymandering by Chuck Sharman   by Chuck Sharman On February 14, 2023, Montana joined a dozen other states to end prison gerrymandering, the practice of having census takers count prisoners where they are incarcerated, rather than in their hometowns. It is also the …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
U.S. Response to Haitian Crisis: Fund More Prisons by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Haiti’s recent history reads like an endless tragedy of natural disasters and political upheavals. In between devastating hurricanes and earthquakes, a presidential assassination and gang wars paint a picture of a failed state. Violence regularly halts …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
BOP Revives Plans for Controversial Prison in Kentucky by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss On December 8, 2022, the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) released a summary of the Public Scoping Meeting held in Whitesburg, Kentucky, regarding its proposed bid to build a $500 million federal prison on top …
Article • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023
Judge Dismisses Suit Filed by California Town to Keep State Prison Open by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders Prison is big business in America. Not only do billion-dollar corporations compete to warehouse individuals, so do American cities. That’s why in 2021, the California city of Susanville sued the state Department …
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
Burning Tires Left Louisiana Prisoners With Migraines, Breathing Problems, and Minimal Medical Care As black smoke poured out of a burning tire dump in Louisiana, people inside the prison next door struggled to keep the fumes out. by Alleen Brown by Alleen Brown, The Intercept Brandon Moore knew something was …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
Filed under: Overcrowding, Rural Prisons
Mississippi Reopens Walnut Grove Prison Just in Time for Prison Population Explosion by Harold Hempstead byHarold Hempstead In October 2022, the Mississippi Corrections and Criminal Justice Oversight Task Force reported there were 2,192 more state prisoners than the year before. That pushed the state Department of Corrections (DOC) close to …
Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022
Cages in the Coalfields by Judah Schept A growing carceral state has slowly replaced the coal industry in large swaths of Central Appalachia. But even here, a different future is possible. by Judah Schept Mitch Whitaker wants to be able to hunt with his birds. A certified “master falconer,” he …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Death and Inhumane Living Conditions Persist in Nation’s Worst Jail by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss Crisis conditions continue at New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex, where 13 deaths have been recorded through the first eight months of 2022. Given a population of some 5,700 prisoners and detainees …
Article • September 21, 2022
TDCJ Driven Batty Over Demolition Plans by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott A colony of 750,000 bats has upended plans by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) to demolish an abandoned warehouse next to the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville. The massive building, occupying an entire city …
Article • August 30, 2022
Arizona DOC Director Admits State Economy Would “Collapse” Without Cheap Prisoner Labor by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott During testimony before Arizona’s Joint Legislative Budget Committee on July 14, 2022, state Department of Corrections (DOC) Director David Shinn admitted that communities in the Grand Canyon State would “collapse” without cheap …
Article • August 5, 2022
Despite $200 Million Bond Sale Shortfall, Alabama Moves Forward with New Prison Construction by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott  On June 30, 2022, Alabama officials announced they were proceeding with plans to build two “mega” prisons for $1.2 billion despite being falling $200 million short in a bond …
Article • May 1, 2022
Filed under: Rural Prisons
Massachusetts DOC Will Close Long-Time Maximum-Security Prison by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott The Massachusetts Department of Corrections (DOC) announced on April 7, 2022, that it will close one of its oldest prisons, Massachusetts Correctional Institution (MCI) Cedar Junction, citing a falling incarceration rate and nearly $30 million …
Article • March 1, 2022
Filed under: Rural Prisons
Rhode Island Joins the Movement to End Prison Gerrymandering by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott In February 2022, Rhode Island joined twelve other states that have addressed “prison gerrymandering,” the practice which counts people in prison as residents of the cell in which they are detained instead of …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
North Carolina Renames Prisons Whose Names Honored Enslavers by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke On September 30, 2021, over 156 years after the end of the Civil War, the North Carolina Department of Public Safety (DPS) announced the renaming of four prisons and a drug addiction treatment facility whose previous …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Filed under: Rural Prisons
California Town Fighting to Keep Prison Open by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders In the 1950s, the timber mills in Susanville, California, began to shutter. For this isolated town of about 8,000 residents, the economic impact of losing its only industry was devastating. But in 1963 the California Department of …
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
Filed under: Voting, Rural Prisons
New Connecticut Law Eliminates Prison Gerrymandering by On May 26, 2021, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed S.B. 753, Public Act 21-13, which created a new statute requiring the state to count most imprisoned persons as residents of the district where they were living before they were imprisoned for purposes of …
Brief • September 16, 2021
Friedmann v. Parker, TN, Complaint, Prison Conditions, 2021 IN THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE NASHVILLE DIVISION ALEXANDER FRIEDMANN ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Plaintiff, v. TONY PARKER, TONY MAYS, MICHAEL KEYS, GEORGE FIRESTINE; and CELESTA WILLIAMS In their individual and …
Article • September 8, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021
Filed under: Voting, Rural Prisons
Nominal Representation Without Actual Representation: One Person, No Vote by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon In the antebellum South, the Missouri Compromise allowed for every slave to count as four-fifths of a person for census and representative purposes. In our current, much more enlightened nation, every prisoner counts as an …
Article • September 1, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021
Filed under: Rural Prisons
Florida’s Brutal Prison System Will Continue to Subsidize Rural Economies, With No Meaningful Reform in Sight by David Reutter by David M. Reutter When the Florida Legislature opened for its annual 60-day session in March 2021, hopes were high that at least some of the criminal justice reform bills would …
Article • June 25, 2021
Filed under: Protests, Rural Prisons
Rural Citizens in North Carolina Resisting New Jail by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon   Haywood County, North Carolina is a conservative, rural political entity located in a mountainous region in the state’s west. Trump won his 2020 reelection bid there by 30 points with staunch republican Madison Cawthorn being …
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