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Article • February 15, 2008 • from PLN February, 2008
New Jersey "Anthrax" Legal Mail Policy Unconstitutional; Count Condemns Opening Outside Prisoner's Presence by The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a New Jersey Department of Corrections' (NJDOC) policy of opening prisoners' legal mail outside their presence is unconstitutional. That policy was enacted by a NJDOC memorandum dated …
Scandal Rocks Texas Youth Commission; Youths Molested by School Supervisors by Gary Hunter During the 2006 elections, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott ran television ads touting the capture of the state's 500th Internet child predator. Shortly after elected lawmakers convened in 2007 they went to work on a bill that …
Article • February 15, 2008
Filed under: News, State Legislation
Wave of reform by Lance Tapley There is now a chance to fix Maine?s broken corrections system, but only if the public speaks up By: LANCE TAPLEY 2/6/2008 11:49:12 AM A wave of change is moving swiftly toward Maine?s jails and prisons. It could bring major reform - or a …
Article • February 15, 2008
Filed under: Education, News
Educating inmates by Lance Tapley By: LANCE TAPLEY 2/6/2008 4:48:35 PM Another wave of reform is surging from Lewiston's Bates College: a movement to expand college courses for prisoners. The goal has been embraced by the state Department of Corrections. At a Bates meeting on January 21, Max Kenner, of …
Article • February 15, 2008
Meet Bush's Prison Nominee by Stephanie Mencimer Tennessee's next trial court judge might be a prison company executive who has less courtroom experience than most inmates. Mother Jones article Stephanie Mencimer February 20, 2008 -- In October 2000, Dick Cheney faced off for a debate with Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman. …
Article • February 15, 2008
Math-challenged Sheriff Joe Arpaio can't account for the $41 million he's cost taxpayers by From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons Published: January 10, 2008 Nothing makes this mallard madder than Tyra Banks after someone's said her booty's too big than having the truth-twisters over …
Article • February 15, 2008 • from PLN February, 2008
Colorado Farms Out Prisoners to Replace Immigrant Farm Workers by Colorado is renting its prisoners to local farmers to replace migrant agricultural workers - mostly Mexican and Central American - who have been scared away by the state's restrictive immigration laws. In 2006, the Colorado legislature passed what it trumpeted …
Death Sentence: The Feds Throw the Book at King County'sJail as Prisoner Fatalities Skyrocket by Rick Anderson Death Sentence: The Feds Throw the Book at King County's Jail as Prisoner Fatalities Skyrocket by Rick Anderson A few months after two prisoners in the downtown King County Jail in Seattle, Washington …
Article • February 15, 2008 • from PLN February, 2008
Washington State: No Restoration of Felon Voting Rights Until Fines and Restitution are Paid by On July 26, 2007, a majority of the Washington State Supreme Court held that pursuant to state law, felons must first pay all court-imposed fines and restitution before their voting rights are restored. A strong …
Article • February 15, 2008
Cumulative Tightening of Michigan Lifers' Parole Eligibility Rules Held Ex Post Facto by John Dannenberg by John R. Dannenberg The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Southern Division, has held that a decade of cumulative changes to parole eligibility regulations for Michigan's life-sentenced prisoners violated the U.S. …
Article • February 15, 2008 • from PLN February, 2008
Louisiana Work-Release Prisoners Used by Sheriff in Chop Shop by Gary Hunter In February 2005, Louisiana sheriff Ronald ?Gun? Ficklin was indicted on 22 counts of conspiracy, trafficking in motor vehicles with removed or altered Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs), removing or altering VINs, aiding and abetting the possession of a …
Los Angeles Settles County Jail Murder Suit For $1 Million by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg On August 14, 2007, Los Angeles County settled a lawsuit brought by the family of a mentally ill prisoner who was stomped to death in a holding cell by two prisoners, while guards …
Article • February 15, 2008 • from PLN February, 2008
Non-Convicted Michigan Sex Offenders Required to Register by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that Michigan's Sex Offender Registration law, which requires persons charged with but not convicted of sex crimes to register as sex offenders, is constitutional. The Court's ruling affirms an order granting summary judgment to …
Independent Monitor Issues First Report on Delaware Health Care by by David M. Reutter Joshua W. Martin III, the Independent Monitor who is overseeing an agreement between the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Delaware Department of Corrections (DDOC), has issued his first semi-annual report. The agreement with the …
Article • February 15, 2008 • from PLN February, 2008
"Let Freedom Ring" -- Cellphones Abound In California Prisons by Over 1,000 cellphones and Blackberrys were confiscated in California's 33 prisons in the past year. While such contraband was at a trickle seven years ago, the technology has reduced the size of these items to permit a veritable flood today …
Article • February 15, 2008 • from PLN February, 2008
Privately Run Seal Beach, California Jail Closed Following Checkered Past by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg With salacious tales of murderous and thieving former guards splashed across local headlines, Seal Beach, California officials shut down their privately-run jail on June 15, 2007. The city claimed that the jail?s for-profit …
Article • February 15, 2008 • from PLN February, 2008
Filed under: Classification, Good Time
WA Prisoners Entitled to Minimal Due Process Before Risk Level Demotion by Division 1 of the Washington Court of Appeals has ruled that the State Department of Corrections (DOC) must afford minimal due process to prisoners whose risk assessment levels it intends to demote. In 2000, Dion Xavier Adams, a …
Broward County, FL Sheriff Resigns, Pleads Guilty to Federal Corruption Charges by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Facing an imminent federal grand jury indictment, Florida?s Broward County Sheriff Ken Jenne took preemptive action by agreeing to plead to lesser charges and resign as Sheriff. PLN has previously reported the …
Study Finds Federal Defenders Outperform CJA Attorneys by Indigent federal criminal defendants represented by court-appointed private attorneys ?are, on average, more likely to be found guilty and? to receive longer sentences? than defendants represented by public defenders, according to a new study by a Harvard economist. The study was conducted …
Article • February 15, 2008 • from PLN February, 2008
New York Pays State Prisoner $1,100 for Disregarding Work Restrictions by On March 31, 2006, a court of claims in Rochester, New York, awarded $1,100 to a state prisoner who was forced to pick up a laundry bag despite a work restriction prohibiting such activity. Plaintiff Stephen Gagne claimed that …
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