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Article • September 15, 2005 • from PLN September, 2005
California Guards Assigned Word Puzzles to Satisfy Training Requirements by California State Assembly Member Rudy Bermudez, himself a member of the powerful prison guards union (CCPOA) while on leave from his prison job to serve elective office, sharply criticized the practice of solving word puzzles used by California prison guards …
Brain Dead California Prisoner Guarded Around The Clock by A California parole violator, who was declared brain dead from being shot in the head by a guard at 6,100 bed Wasco State Prison during a lounge-area fight, was guarded at a nearby Bakersfield hospital at a cost of $1,056/day in …
CSC May Be Liable For Retention of Sexually Abusive Employee by by Matthew T.Clarke A federal district court in New York has held that Correctional Services Corporation (CSC) may be liable for retaining an employee at a CSC-run halfway house after his sexual abuse of female prisoners was reported to …
Federal Court Orders Independent Evaluation, Training And Credentialling Of All California Prison Healthcare Practitioners by John E Dannenberg Under pressure from U.S. District Judge Thelton E. Henderson, who earlier in 2004 threatened wholesale federal court takeover of the California Department of Corrections (CDC), the CDC stipulated to an order aimed …
Five Homicides In L.A. County Jail Blamed On Security Lapses; 25 Sheriff's Deputies May Be Disciplined by Five Homicides In L.A. County Jail Blamed On Security Lapses; 25 Sheriff's Deputies May Be Disciplined by Marvin Mentor After investigating five brutal prisoner-on-prisoner slayings in a six month period inside the Los …
California Corrections System Officially Declared Dysfunctional" - Redemption Doubtful by California Corrections System Officially Declared Dysfunctional" - Redemption Doubtful by Marvin Mentor Culminating a multi-year crescendo of criticism leveled at California's Corrections system from frustrated legislative, judicial and executive leaders, the Corrections Independent Review Panel (CIRP) recently tasked by Governor …
Article • March 15, 2005 • from PLN March, 2005
Fulton County Jail under Federal Control by by David M. Reutter For the second time since 1999, Georgia Federal District Judge Marvin H. Shoob has taken over supervision of the Fulton County Jail. Fulton County Jail Sheriff, Jacquelyn H. Barrett, told the court to go ahead, telling the court that …
Delaware Prisoner Killed In Hostage Standoff, Counselor Raped by By Michael Rigby On July 12, 2004, Scott A. Miller, a Delaware prisoner serving a 699-year sentence for rape, assault and kidnapping, was shot to death by a prison guard at the Delaware Correctional Center. The shooting ended a 6 ½ …
Report Lambastes New York Lockdowns by Michael Rigby by: Michael Rigby Emotional and physical distress...restricted diets... "greeting beatings" ...high rates of mental illness...a reliance on warehousing instead of treatment. This is the troubling reality of disciplinary confinement in New York, according to a 54-page report released on October 22, 2003, …
CMS Must Pay $1.75 Million in Illinois Jail Suicide by John E Dannenberg CMS Must Pay $1.75 Million In Illinois Jail Suicide by John E. Dannenberg Correctional Medical Services (CMS), a private contractor providing all medical and mental health services at the Lake County, Ill. Jail, was ordered by a …
A Death in Custody: Massachusetts DOC Wracked by Scandal by Peter Costanza On August 23, 2003, the 26 men in Unit J-1 at SBCC, a "supermax" prison in Shirley, Massachusetts, were finishing lunch. It was just before noon. There was one guard in the unit, a prison guard named David …
Article • September 15, 2004 • from PLN September, 2004
Prison Guards With Criminal Records Work in Texas Prison by Gary Hunter Over ten percent of the guards at the Lyncher State Jail, near Houston Texas, are convicted felons themselves. Houston television station. KPRC uncovered court files showing that about thirty of the guards had served time. Some are repeat …
Article • July 15, 2004 • from PLN July, 2004
Thirty Three Years after Attica: Many more Blacks in prison, but not as guards by Peter Wagner by Peter Wagner and Rose Heyer In September 1971, thousands of prisoners at Attica prison in rural New York State rebelled, taking control of D-yard. Sixty-three percent of the prisoners were Black or …
Is It Criminal to Be a Muslim Civilian or Military Prison Chaplain? by by Matthew T. Clarke It may not yet be criminal to be a Muslim prison chaplain, but they are certainly being singled out and subjected to a heightened level of scrutiny in the New York, federal and …
Tennessee Prison Audit Blasts DOC, CCA and CMS by Michael Rigby A Tennessee Department of Corrections (TDOC) performance audit for the years 1997-2002, released by the state comptroller's office in September 2003, reveals problems with prison staffing, pre-release preparation, and numerous instances of contract violations by private prison contractors. A …
Arizona Prisoners Seize Tower; State Officials Point Fingers by Michael Rigby On February 1, 2004, the longest prison hostage drama in U.S. history ended peacefully as two Arizona prisoners released their final hostage, descended from their surveillance tower stronghold, and surrendered to an army of state and local police ringing …
Court Continues Oversight and Orders Corrections in Georgia Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter "The Court is totally out of patience with the assurances and promises that compliance will be achieved" with the Final Settlement Agreement signed on January 24, 2000. So said Judge Shoeb, U.S. District Court …
Another Death in a Wisconsin Prison by Gary Hunter "Unremarkable." That's what prison nurse Jolinda Waterman called Donnie Powe's condition when she relegated him to an observation cell. Guards perfunctorily recorded his declining health right up until he died, face down on the floor of his 6 by 8 foot …
Disarray in Colorado: Prisoners Hurt by Host of Problems by Bob Williams Society is dynamic, in a state of con-stant flux where change is the only constant, but recent changes in Colorado are turning up the pressure in Colorado's prison system. Prisoner pay has been nearly eliminated while hygiene items …
CCA Closes Oklahoma Prison, Settles Tax Lawsuit Over Ohio Prison by Michael Rigby The turbulent economy of the past decade has led many communities across America to foolishly seek prisons as a recession proof industry and rural welfare program for poor whites. But prisons can be a double edged sword, …
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