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Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Filed under: Editorials, COVID-19
litigation. That is what we were planning to do for this issue. And then COVID-19 erupted. We will be reporting on COVID-​19 for the duration of the pandemic, which we expect, tragically, to get much, much ...
lawyers. “The Eighth Amendment hangs its hat on these evolving standards of what is proportional punishment, and we could say now that understanding has changed,” said attorney Courtney Cross ...
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
” Wilson said after being released in January 2020, exonerated after 28 years wrongfully in prison, only to find himself locked in at home. “This is a microcosm of what a person experiences ...
because of pending arson charges over fires he allegedly set in the jail. “It’s a pandora’s box of things that have gone wrong,” said Montaner. “But what is true is that he ...
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Seven Guards Fired Over Collins County Texas Jail Death by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Marvin David Scott III was far from what most people would consider a criminal. The 26-year-old ...
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Company Surveils Activists Opposing Construction of Prisons and Jails by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders As if building prisons were not enough, companies are now engaged in what are called ...
Article • July 1, 2020 • from PLN July, 2020
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault
received what amounts to a life sentence.” In February 2014, Tangreti was incarcerated at the York Correctional Institution, which has 425 acres containing numerous buildings. She was housed ...
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Filed under: Prison Labor, Fire Hazards
. “What those numbers say to me is they’re using inmate labor to close the budget gap,” State Rep. Kristin Engel said. She’s also a professor at the University of Arizona College ...
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
the government supposedly has no access to it and cannot force you to pay any court-ordered financial obligations, such as child support or restitution to victims of your crimes. That’s what critics ...
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
would later testify that those stresses played a role in what occurred at the Edna Mahan State Prison. The incident that sparked the conflict was an alleged “splashing”—a prisoner ...
Article • June 1, 2020 • from PLN June, 2020
state prisons is 34 percent above what it was 10 years ago. [See: PLN, May 2018, p. 12; July 2018, p. 14] In response to the LCI riot – and SCDOC’s failure to address either its causes or its ...
Article • June 1, 2020 • from PLN June, 2020
through seven other executions before its supply of lethal drugs expired. [See PLN, Feb. 2018, p.24.] Lee was executed on April 20, 2017. “What we see here is unfortunately too common in death penalty ...
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Filed under: Editorials
in a decade, eviscerated what few rights prisoners had to humane conditions of confinement, and gutted a modest and largely non-existent federal habeas corpus review. On December 10, the Human Rights Defense ...
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
table for hours on end with pencil and paper. A few have colored pencils and some ink pens. They produce beautiful greeting cards that far eclipse what can be bought at card counters in stores ...
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
Federal New York City Jail Made Infamous by Jeffrey Epstein Death Closed Due to Persistent Problems and Incompetence by In late August, 2021, the federal Bureau of Prisons announced what ...
complaint in 2003, but it couldn’t verify any of his other recent claims. Jackson said the only thing holding back additional accusations was that prisoners were afraid to report what had happened ...
Article • February 4, 2020 • from PLN February, 2020
tired of these unfunded things that come from the state legislature. We just can’t afford to do it anymore.” Some of the problems arise from discrepancies over what it costs to keep a state ...
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Filed under: Exposure to Heat
conditioning are available, he said. The reality is much different. What little relief is afforded prisoners are fans that often only cover a small portion of the dorm. Exhaust fans pull in hot air through ...
Article • July 1, 2021 • from PLN July, 2021
Filed under: Transfers, COVID-19
, 91 of the Chino transferees and 85 of the 201 San Quentin prisoners had tested positive for COVID. What happened at the Badger Unit would be a disaster by itself, but San Quentin officials made matters ...
Article • July 1, 2021 • from PLN July, 2021
When Prisoners Die, Hawaii Keeps it Secret by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon What happens when a state prisoner or jail detainee dies in Hawaii’s custody? Few people know because prison ...
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