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Article • September 16, 2022
Wait,What? Florida DOC Bans Tee Shirts Promoting Prisoner Visits by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On August 5, 2022, the Florida Department of Corrections (DOC) warned employees that certain t-shirts worn by visitors to state prisons “are considered inflammatory and a potential threat to security.” So what messages …
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
Overdoses Skyrocket in Tennessee Prisons During Pandemic Despite Visitation Restrictions by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon In the three years before the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, fourteen Tennessee state prisoners died from overdoses, according to the state Department of Correction (DOC). Over the two years since then that number …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Eighth Circuit Rules Pretrial Detainees and Prisoners Have Right to Visit Family Members by Eighth Circuit Rules Pretrial Detainees and Prisoners Have Right to Visit Family Members In a precedential ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has held that “prisoners and pretrial detainees have a right …
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
Fourth Circuit Rules Prisoner Sex Offender has No Right to In-Person Visitation with His Minor Children by Douglas Ankney by Doug Ankney James Desper is a convicted sex offender incarcerated at the Augusta Correctional Center in Craigsville, Virginia. For six years, Desper received visits from his minor child without incident. …
Article • September 1, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021
San Diego Jail Approves Free Phone and Video Calls by The County of San Diego Board of Supervisors (Board) voted unanimously February 27, 2021 to stop charging prisoners and detainees in county jails and juvenile detention centers for phone calls. The initiative called for the Board to develop a plan …
Article • June 1, 2021 • from PLN June, 2021
Fourth Circuit Holds Deaf Federal Civilly Committed Sex Offender Has First Amendment Right of Access to Point-to-Point Videocalls in BOP Prison by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On January 13, 2021, the Fourth Circuit court of appeals reversed the judgment of a federal district court which, following a two-day bench …
Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021
Government Refuses to Follow Federal Court’s Discovery Order After Being Caught Recording Attorney Meetings with Prisoners at Leavenworth by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell In a federal appellate court filing on August 20, 2020, nearly five years after a federal judge ordered officials to stop recording privileged calls between attorneys …
Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021
COVID-19 Inspired Ban on Prison Visits in Texas Ends by Chad Marks by Chad Marks At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Texas prison officials stopped all visits in the prison system between prisoners and families. Stopping the visits seemed to have little effect on keeping both prisoners and staff …
Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021
Michigan Begins Video Visits During Coronavirus Pandemic by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Over six months after concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic halted in-person visitation at Michigan state prisons in March 2020, the state Department of Corrections (DOC) launched a pilot program of video visitation on October 9 to …
Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021
Fourth Circuit: Deaf North Carolina Prisoner Should be Allowed Direct Videophone Calls to Communicate with Deaf Community by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In reversing a district court’s judgment, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered that a deaf prisoner be allowed “access to point-to-point videophone calls because the …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
BOP Guard Pleads Guilty to Sexually Molesting Prisoners at MCC Manhattan by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell On March 4, 2020, federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) guard Colin Akparanta pleaded guilty to the 2017 sexual abuse of a female prisoner at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City, thereby …
Article • July 1, 2020 • from PLN July, 2020
COVID-19 Pandemic Leads to Unrest in Prisons Around the Globe by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The COVID-19 pandemic, or rather government officials’ inept reaction to the pandemic, has led to unrest in prisons around the world—especially in South America and the Middle East. This has resulted in the escape …
Article • June 1, 2020 • from PLN June, 2020
Prison Officials Limit Prisoner Communications During COVID-19 Crisis by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Prisoners struggling to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic — often without masks, sufficient cleaning supplies or the ability to social distance — are crying for help to the outside world by any means possible. Some prison …
Federal Court Orders Videophone Access for Deaf Prisoners in Colorado by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 18, 2019, a federal district court ordered the Colorado Department of Corrections (DOC) to provide access to videophones for all of its deaf and hard of hearing prisoners and prisoners who wish …
Publication • January 17, 2020
Far from Home and All Alone: The Impact of Prison Visitation on Recidivism Far from Home and All Alone: The Impact of Prison Visitation on Recidivism January 17, 2020 Reporter Am Law Econ Rev (2019) 21 (2): 431 Length: 40546 words Author: Logan M. Lee, Send correspondence to: Logan M. …
Article • September 9, 2019 • from PLN September, 2019
Female Attorneys Denied Access to Clients at Missouri Jail Due to Bras by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon As of May 2019, a new policy at the Jackson County Detention Center in Missouri requires female attorneys to remove any brassieres with metal underwires before passing through a metal detector in …
Article • September 8, 2019 • from PLN September, 2019
Filed under: Visiting
Massachusetts Prisoners and Visitors Challenge Restrictive Visitation Rules by Bill Barton by Bill Barton  More restrictive regulations for visits in Massachusetts prisons – originally adopted in March 2018 and later amended effective March 1, 2019 – have spurred at least five lawsuits against the state’s Department of Correction (DOC) by …
Article • August 7, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Filed under: Video Visitation
Tennessee Prisoners File Lawsuit Challenging Video Visitation Policy at County Jail by Chad Marks by Chad Marks In April 2014, then-Sheriff James “J.J.” Jones implemented a video visitation system at the Knox County, Tennessee jail through a contract with Securus Technologies. The video system coincided with the elimination of in-person …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Filed under: Visiting
UK Using Facial Recognition Technology on Prison Visitors ... is the U.S. Next? by Chad Marks by Chad Marks After more than 23,000 packages containing drugs and cell phones were seized in UK prisons in 2018 – compared to just 4,000 the year before – officials with Her Majesty’s Prison …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Filed under: Visitor Searches, Visiting
Problems with Ion Scanners Used to Detect Drugs on Prison Visitors by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Ion scanners were initially installed in prisons in the early 1990s to detect controlled substances on visitors, whose hands and clothes are typically swabbed for testing. But visitors and prison staff who filed …
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