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Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021
Filed under: Editorials
witnessed many changes in the criminal justice system, pretty much all of them negative for prisoners and criminal defendants alike. (We belatedly celebrated our 30th anniversary last November in a virtual ...
with jail staff was captured by guards’ body-worn cameras. Those recordings and the diligence of the family’s attorneys led to the discovery of the abusive neglect—despite an autopsy ...
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
that after 85-year-old Arthur Stapler died on September 23, 2023, during a 10-year incarceration for child sex abuse at the Hamilton Aged and Infirm Center, his son hired a private pathologist who found &ldquo ...
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
three therapists for 170 detainees in Big Muddy’s SDP program. Group therapy was provided just one day a week for one hour, and some groups, including Victim Empathy and Substance Abuse, had been ...
In-the-News Article • January 1, 2011
for groceries & school supplies” is a tweet that appears on the Prison Phone Justice website. This tweet goes directly to the essence of the problem. The situation of telephone pricing abuse ...
Article • June 1, 2023
and build a replacement. County Court of Common Pleas President Judge Kevin F. Kelly closed the facility in March 2021 after public defenders brought forward allegations of abuse, and the state pulled ...
in January 2023. Nichols, a Black motorist, was subjected to physical abuse during his arrest, which was captured on video and sparked outrage. The incident led to the termination of seven police officers ...
complaining that two prison officials retaliated against him for the first grievance by falsely claiming he was malingering and using abusive language at his job. The Regional Director instructed Mays ...
, 39, on abuse by jailers and denial of mental health and medical care. Zumwalt was arrested near his home on October 22, 2020, on suspicion of public intoxication—he admitted using methamphetamine ...
In-the-News Article • March 28, 2006
in the Sudan. To divest, the investment must be responsible for a "grave social injury," but critics say the standard is too subjective. Yale President Richard C. Levin has defended the CCA ...
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
the presumption that the shoes were unchanged, the district court didn’t abuse its discretion in finding that there was a reasonable probability that the shoes were not altered.” Finally, Dozier ...
; Civil rights advocates say the case brought much-needed attention to the Miami-Dade County Jail. They are concerned that only a handful of abuse cases have been addressed in the past 10 years. They say ...
Article • March 1, 2021 • from PLN March, 2021
to reforming the use of solitary confinement in New Mexico. According to an October 2020 profile in Rolling Stone magazine, Matthew Coyte has successfully sued local jails over abuses of the practice, and he ...
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
the altercation. One was stabbed in the neck. Isby claims the attack upon him was staged and that he was simply defending himself. But the incident led to a conviction for attempted murder in 1992 and an additional ...
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
as the sole defendant. According to the complaint, as early as 2009 McDermott began alerting NMCD officials to problems with its contracted health-care provider — Corizon (then known as CMS) &mdash ...
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Filed under: Rural Prisons
to historian Monica Muñoz Martinez, who wrote The Injustice Never Leaves You. Another Texas prison was named after a staunch segregationist, William P. Hobby, who defended the beating of an NAACP official ...
Article • December 10, 2019 • from PLN December, 2019
decision in Turner v. Safley, 482 U.S. 78 (1987). Although the Turner court lowered the bar for prison officials to defend their policies against constitutional challenges, it also clearly upheld ...
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
imposing the sanction. During a class session in February 2019 for the Vermont Treatment Program for Sexual Abusers at the Northwest State Correctional Facility (NSCF), an instructor asked participants ...
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: Staffing, Guards/Staff
dangers of guarding prisoners. But Townsend noted that hundreds of guards began abusing the policy during the pandemic, saying she “saw people who were out for months and months and who were ...
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
that the defendant knew of his serious mental health conditions from the time he was a young child until his death and also his heightened risk of suicide. For example, in 2012 a prison mental health care worker ...
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