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Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Filed under: Education, Video Visitation
The Lecturer at the Lockup: Maine Prisoner Is First to Teach College Courses from His Cell by Professor Leo Hylton’s class is like almost every other at Colby College in Maine. Students form a circle with their chairs around their professor. His course on prison abolition – the movement to …
Prolonged COVID-19 Visitation Restrictions Net Georgia Jails Over $1.5 Million in Telecom Kickbacks by Jordan Arizmendi by Jordan Arizmendi According to a report by the Georgia Current on April 14, 2023, jails in several of the state’s coastal counties were still profiting by extending COVID-19 visitation bans, forcing detainees and …
Publication • June 13, 2023
Filed under: Video Visitation
Glynn County Sheriff's Office and Pay Tel Communications, Lnc. Contract, 2023 CONTRACT ADDENDUM BETWEEN THE GLYNN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE AND PAY TEL COMMUNICATIONS, INC. Pursuant to the contract for telephone services by and between the Glynn County Sheriffs Office and Pay Tel Commun ications. Inc. executed on August 15. 2014. …
Article • January 9, 2023
Filed under: COVID-19, Visiting
Michigan Prisoners Once Again Lose Visitation Due to COVID-19 and Influenza Outbreaks by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Michigan state prisoners are having a grim winter. Quarantine orders are in effect at 11 state lockups suffering outbreaks of the flu and COVID-19. Two prisons, Macomb Correctional Facility (CF) …
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 …
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