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; Although the prison is a close security facility, its 800 men have violent histories and are deemed escape risks, so it sees more than its share of violence. McBride was one of five prisoners killed ...
with a lower court’s ruling that barred the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) and its healthcare arm, California Correctional Health Care Services (CCHCS), from paroling prisoners ...
Article • February 15, 2005 • from PLN February, 2005
lethal injections in 2000, Rao stopped promoting the health of prisoners and started assisting in their executions. Although Rao doesn't give the injections himself, he does ensure the executions ...
Article • October 1, 2020 • from PLN October, 2020
-Kotelly of the federal district court of the District of Columbia entered a preliminary injunction against the district’s Department of Corrections (“DOC”), its Central Detention Facility ...
Article • June 1, 2021 • from PLN June, 2021
-needed attention to how solitary confinement is used and its debilitating impact on prisoners. In Colorado, he was able to “completely reform its use as a disciplinary practice.” Raemish ...
Article • August 1, 2020 • from PLN August, 2020
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright As summer wears on, the pandemic continues to take its toll behind bars. Our cover story reports the latest developments on COVID-19 in prisons ...
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Filed under: Medication
Prisoner Health Update: Over-the-Counter Medications by Eike Blohm, MD by Eike Blohm, MD Various medications are available to prisoners for purchase in commissaries and can be taken without ...
then filed suit in the state’s First Judicial District Court for Santa Fe County in 2021, accusing NMCD and Centurion of violating IPRA with the denied records request. NMCD continued to shrug its ...
In-the-News Article • January 1, 2011
exemptions to the state public-records laws -- numbering 239 -- and determine if they are needed. The six-member committee plans to delve more deeply into the exemptions at its next meeting in September ...
In-the-News Article • December 24, 2014
, the magazine filed a public records request asking CCA for copies of health-related grievances and resulting settlements specific to its Vermont prisoners. CCA initially ignored the request, and then, when ...
Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021
with mental illnesses. Where the two sides disagree is in the total number of prisoners in solitary confinement. The MDOC does not count Level V lock-down, prisoners in mental health restrictive housing ...
County Jail in Detroit for arraignment. While housed there, her mental health deteriorated, so jail staff had her transferred to United Community Hospital UCH for mental health care. The co-ed UCH ward ...
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
have enough beds to meet increasing projections, remain big challenges.” DOC currently cages about 85,000 prisoners, 14,000 of them serving life sentences, so its headcount is projected to mushroom ...
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
was provided before he was transferred to MCF. There two mental health practitioners named Arkesteyn and Foster oversaw SOP. Harper named them in a grievance he filed and carried all the way through DOC’s ...
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Filed under: COVID-19
bars. Why? The Florida Department of Corrections website doesn’t even mention the crisis on its home page. The words coronavirus and COVID-19 are not present. But digital banners pitching careers ...
Article • November 4, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Filed under: Hunger Strikes
’s prison system is already well known for its high number of murders and suicides. [See: PLN, Dec. 2018, p.24; Aug. 2018, p.30; June 2017, p.51]. Prisoner advocates fear the destabilizing practice ...
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Department of Health Services Director Dr. Cara Christ that prisoner testing for COVID-19 would begin. Staff in housing areas have now been given more extensive personal protection equipment, including N95 ...
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
all on its own, and that momentum often overwhelms not only the conditions that created the policy but also the public welfare it purportedly serves. It is extraordinarily difficult to break this type ...
In-the-News Article • July 27, 2018
. The high levels of radon at the prison were discovered in late 2013 after a teacher in one of its classrooms complained about potential exposure. While federal guidelines warn of radon levels in excess ...
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
was confined in the Multnomah County Detention Center (MCDC) in Portland, Oregon. Due to her mental health issues she was placed in a special segregation unit consisting of five single cells. One of the cells ...
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