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Article • February 15, 2010 • from PLN February, 2010
A New Look at a Very Old Subject: The Uniform Collateral Consequences of Conviction Act by Margaret Colgate Love by Margaret Colgate Love1 In the past twenty years, a relentlessly punitive political environment has given rise to a wide-ranging network of collateral penalties and disqualifications that isolate and stigmatize those …
Freedom Forum CEO Charles Overby’s Dark History with Corrections Corporation of America by Beau Hodai Charles L. Overby is a man who leads dual lives; a man who has each foot planted firmly in two very different worlds. In one world he is a champion of the free press. In …
Article • February 15, 2010 • from PLN February, 2010
Wisconsin Enacts New Early Release Law by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke When Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle signed legislation to grant early release to certain prisoners, he just couldn’t win. “It went too far,” said Republicans. “It didn’t go far enough,” retorted his fellow Democrats. What in fact Governor Doyle …
Article • February 15, 2010 • from PLN February, 2010
Ineligible Texas Prisoners Receive Federal Stimulus Checks by Jimmy Franks Between May and June of last year, hundreds of federal economic stimulus checks began to arrive at various Texas prisons, addressed to prisoners who were thought to be eligible to receive them. Those payments were part of 1,700 stimulus checks …
Article • February 15, 2010 • from PLN February, 2010
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief: by Alabama: On October 30, 2009, Richard Hawthorne, 51, a member of the Escambia County School Board, was in-dicted on seven charges stemming from allegations that he fondled female prisoners at the Escambia County Detention Center where he formerly worked as a guard. Two female prisoners reported …
New York Politicians Want to Re-Evaluate Civil Confinement Release Law by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Two years ago New York enacted the Sex Offender Management and Treatment Act, which lets a jury release a civilly-committed sex offender from confinement if the state fails to provide sufficient evidence of a …
Article • January 15, 2010 • from PLN January, 2010
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News in Brief: by California: On June 29, 2009, Richard Henry Kase, 41, was sentenced to 90 years to life for the first-degree murder of his cellmate, 28-year-old Randy James Rabelos, at the Deuel Vocational Institution in Tracy. Kase repeatedly told Rabelos, a convicted child molester, to be quiet one …
Article • December 15, 2009
Washington Supreme Court Permits Sentence In Excess of Statutory Maximum; Legislature Intervenes with Statutory Amendment by The Washington Supreme Court has held that a judgment and sentence containing a total prison term and community supervision term that exceed the statutory maximum sentence is valid, so long as the trial court …
Article • December 15, 2009 • from PLN December, 2009
Eight More Prison Closures in Michigan by Since taking office in 2003, Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm has closed six prisons. To pare $120 million from the state’s budget, she recently decided to close eight more, including five minimum-security prison camps. The announcement of the closures on June 5, 2009 created …
Article • December 15, 2009 • from PLN December, 2009
Improbable Private Prison Scam Plays Out in Hardin, Montana by Alex Friedmann “Trouble, oh we got trouble, right here in River City! With a capital ‘T’ that rhymes with ‘P,’ and that stands for pool.” – Professor Hill The above quote is from The Music Man, a 1957 Broadway musical …
Article • December 15, 2009 • from PLN December, 2009
Miami Sex Offenders Still Living Under Bridge; Lawsuits Fail to Solve Problem by David Reutter by David M. Reutter PLN has reported several times on the plight of Florida sex offenders forced to live under the Julia Tuttle Causeway in Miami due to restrictive sex offender residency laws. [See: PLN, …
Article • December 15, 2009 • from PLN December, 2009
Rape Victim and Family of Exonerated Man Who Died in Prison Become Activists by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Tim Cole achieved widespread recognition when he was exonerated 24 years after his arrest for the rape of a university student in Amarillo, Texas. Another man confessed to the crime and …
Article • December 15, 2009 • from PLN December, 2009
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News in Brief: by Brazil: At least five prisoners died and around 40 others were injured in a fire at the Joao Pessoa jail in northeastern Brazil in October 2009. According to a military police spokesman, prisoners had set the fire to protest another prisoner’s transfer to a high-security facility. …
Article • November 15, 2009 • from PLN November, 2009
Former PA Lawmaker Who Took Sex Offenders into His Home Files Suit Against Zoning Board by Thomas E. Armstrong, a former tough-on-crime Pennsylvania lawmaker who took three registered sex offenders into his home in Marietta Borough, filed a lawsuit last year challenging a decision by zoning officials to force the …
Article • November 15, 2009 • from PLN November, 2009
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News in Brief: by Alabama: In September 2009, criminal defense attorneys in Birmingham donated 2,700 rolls of toilet paper, soap and other supplies to the Jefferson County Jail when they learned officials were severely rationing those items. The jail was reportedly allowing prisoners no more than three strips of toilet …
Article • November 15, 2009 • from PLN November, 2009
North Carolina Courts, Legislature Take Steps to Resume Executions by Michael Brodheim The North Carolina judiciary and legislature have both taken steps to clear the way to resume executions, which have remained dormant in the state for the past three years. On May 1, 2009, a split North Carolina Supreme …
Article • November 15, 2009 • from PLN November, 2009
U.S. Senator John Ensign, Author of Ensign Amendment, Falls From Grace by Brandon Sample There is nothing like a good sex scandal to get things stirred up in Washington, and it’s even better when the scandal involves the likes of U.S. Senator John Ensign, a conservative Republican and member of …
Article • November 15, 2009 • from PLN November, 2009
Ohio Prison Guards Party, Federal Stimulus Funds Save Their Jobs by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Only weeks before ordering $640 million in spending cuts, Ohio Governor Ted Strickland paid more than 800 employees of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DORC) to attend a “Year End Review” …
Florida to Allow Exportation of Prisoners to Other States by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Florida lawmakers have handed a victory to the private prison industry by passing a bill (SB 1722) that allows Florida prisoners to be exported to out-of-state facilities, which are mostly privately-operated. When Governor Charlie …
Oklahoma Legislators Not Considering Closing State Prisons, Unless They Are by Matthew T. Clarke by Matt Clarke On April 7, 2009, Oklahoma State Senate President Pro Tem Glenn Coffee was accused of asking the Oklahoma Department of Corrections (DOC) to conduct a study analyzing the cost of closing certain state …
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