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Article • April 2, 2019 • from PLN April, 2019
Mugshots.com Operators Arrested, Face Extradition to California by Chad Marks by Chad Marks Four people have been charged with extortion, money laundering and identity theft by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra. In May 2018, Sahar Sarid, Kishore Vidya Bhavnanie, Thomas Keesee and David Usdan, allegedly the operators of Mugshots.com and …
Article • April 2, 2019 • from PLN April, 2019
California Prison Psychiatrists Blow Whistle on Poor Mental Healthcare, Falsified Records by Steve Horn by Steve Horn The landmark case of Coleman v. Brown, a federal lawsuit that forced California to provide better mental health treatment for state prisoners, has taken an unusual turn after the state’s prison psychiatry chief …
Article • April 2, 2019 • from PLN April, 2019
For Journalists Covering Prisons, the First Amendment is Little Help by Jonathan Peters by Jonathan Peters, Columbia Journalism Review “Each prison is a fiefdom, and the warden is at the top of the feudal system.” That’s how Gary Fields, who covered criminal justice for The Wall Street Journal, put it in 2012, discussing …
Article • April 2, 2019 • from PLN April, 2019
Study Says Mass Incarceration Contributes to Poverty and Hunger by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna A 2018 report by the Washington, D.C.-based Bread for the World Institute (BWI) made the argument that “U.S. poverty would have dropped by 20 percent between 1980 and 2004 if not for mass incarceration,” quoting …
“It Smelled Like Death”: Reports of Mold Contamination in Prisons and Jails by Panagioti Tsolkas by Panagioti Tsolkas “There was big, dark, gray, blackish mildew around the air vent and that’s where the air was coming from … it smelled like death.” – Candie Hailey, Rikers Island pre-trial detainee Over the …
Article • April 2, 2019 • from PLN April, 2019
Congressional Report Finds Misconduct by BOP Administrators Often Ignored by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A memorandum from the House Subcommittee on National Security, released on January 2, 2019, concluded that misconduct by senior leadership in the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) “appears to be largely tolerated or ignored altogether.”  …
Article • April 2, 2019 • from PLN April, 2019
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright This month’s cover story reports on the landmark First Step Act, which is the first criminal justice reform bill in decades that might actually benefit some prisoners. Until now, the cavalcade of criminal justice legislation that has emerged from Congress over …
Article • April 2, 2019 • from PLN April, 2019
Hawaii Supreme Court: Pretrial Solitary Wrong, but Warden Protected by Qualified Immunity by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Mukadin Gordon, who had an extensive criminal record, was arrested for a non-violent offense in August 2010 and placed in solitary confinement for several months.  He sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 …
Article • April 2, 2019 • from PLN April, 2019
Ohio County Jail Settles PLN Censorship Suit for $45,000 by Steve Horn by Steve Horn In response to a censorship lawsuit filed in 2017 by Prison Legal News’parent organization, the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), Greene County, Ohio agreed to settle the case for $45,000. Filed in the U.S. District …
Incorrigible: The First Step Act and the Carceral State by Marie Gottschalk by Marie Gottschalk With much fanfare, President Donald Trump signed the First Step Act into law in December 2018. New Jersey senator and presidential candidate Cory Booker hailed the legislation as a milestone that marked a “meaningful break …
Article • March 15, 2019
In Search of Justice: How DHS PREA Standards Don’t Necessarily Protect Immigrants From Assault by Tina Vasquez by Tina Vasquez, Rewire.News, March 13, 2019  This is the second article in a two-part series. Read the first article in the series here.  Trying to understand the systems in place intended to …
In Search of Safety: An Investigation of Abuse at an Immigration Facility by Tina Vasquez by Tina Vasquez, Rewire.News, March 8, 2019 Over a ten-month period, Rewire.News partnered with Latino USA to dig into the case of one woman’s alleged sexual abuse. What we learned through a FOIA request raised …
Article • March 15, 2019
Filed under: Money/Property
A Blow to Prison Privatization: Florida Democratic Party Rejects Profiteers’ Contributions by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Calling it a victory in the battle against mass incarceration, activists within the Florida Democratic Party (FDP) won passage in July 2018 of a resolution banning donations from private prison companies, their …
Article • March 15, 2019
Texas Female Prisoners Denied Equal Academic and Vocational Training by Depending on whose figures are relied on, Texas has either the largest or second-largest prison system in the United States. Ninety-one percent of Texas’ 150,000 prisoners are men. For the 12,500 female Texas prisoners, the list of career training offered …
Article • March 6, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: Anthony Cortez Oliver, 22, was sentenced to 15 years with three to serve, followed by five years of probation, after pleading guilty on April 24, 2018 to two counts of robbery for trying to take food from another Dallas County Jail prisoner in December 2016. …
Article • March 6, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Filed under: Prison Reform, Education
Executive Order Prompts BOP to Expand Prison Apprenticeship Programs by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell An executive order issued by President Donald Trump has prompted the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to develop “National Standards of Apprenticeship” to expand apprenticeship programs for federal prisoners, …
Article • March 6, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Filed under: Sentencing
Fourth Circuit: BOP Must Consider State Court’s Designation to Serve Concurrent Federal Sentence by The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held on December 12, 2018 that the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) had violated the Court’s earlier mandate when considering a prisoner’s request for nunc pro tunc designation of an …
Article • March 6, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Filed under: Corizon
Hedge Fund Pumps More Money into Corizon Health by Private prison medical care provider Corizon Health has received an injection of capital from shareholder BlueMountain Capital Management, a global hedge fund. The infusion of cash allowed Corizon to pay down its debt and “accelerate business development and investment opportunities.” In …
Article • March 6, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
“Prisoner of Weed” Released, Sets Sights on Criminal Justice Reform by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The man dubbed a POW (“prisoner of weed”) by his supporters was finally released from a Louisiana prison in February 2018 following public outcry over his harsh 13-year sentence for possession of about two …
Article • March 6, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
CoreCivic Bilked Rural Oklahoma Town, Forced to Pay Back Money in Lawsuit by Steve Horn by Steve Horn Located in heartland America in an area historically dominated by the oil and gas industry, the small town of Sayre, Oklahoma recently found itself in the middle of a lawsuit against private …
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