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Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
shortly after MIRA’s 1988 passage only barred the state from attaching funds it had paid a prisoner after they successfully brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. See: Hankins v. Finnel, 759 F ...
Case • 1993
when prison officials placed him in administrative segregation (ad-seg). The district court dismissed his action, holding that prison officials were entitled to qualified immunity. We AFFIRM on other ...
Article • June 15, 2012 • from PLN June, 2012
. For example, former Texas death row prisoner Anthony Graves was freed from prison in October 2010 after serving 16 years. According to special prosecutor Kelly Sigler, “[W]e found not one piece of credible ...
. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has reacted to this increasing number of detainees by contracting with local jails and private prison firms for additional bed space. The expanded use of imprisonment ...
Case • 2006
to be released from prison after serving sentences on two counts of first degree rape and one count of first degree assault. [17] At the civil commitment trial, a jury found that the State had proven beyond ...
Publication • August 9, 2016
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
predictors of success after release from prison or jail, but the prison telephone market threatens those ties because it is uniquely structured to create a counter-productive cycle of exploitation: prison ...
In-the-News Article • March 3, 2015
. Smith, 66, was CCI’s director for seven years. (He retired soon after this tour.) He met me in the prison’s parking lot. I anticipated that our tour of the fields and barns would leave ...
Article • April 9, 2015 • from PLN April, 2015
old, sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of release for 25 years, and had a history of unemployment and underemployment due to depression and alcohol abuse. The Court of Appeals first ...
Brief • February 23, 2011
FEDERAL STATUTES Prison Litigation Reform Act, 42 U.S.C. §1997e ………………………………….1 iv STATEMENT OF FACTS After Plaintiff contracted methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus at the Laurel County Detention ...
Publication • August 1, 2016
anticipates that they will be better-prepared and more likely to succeed in the community after release from prison. Dynamic in nature, the ISDS tool will incorporate information from a variety of sources ...
Article • November 8, 2014 • from PLN November, 2014
to 16 years in federal prison. He was released pending an appeal after serving five months; however, he fled when seven of his 13 convictions were upheld by the First Circuit in 2012. Captured in New ...
months in prison with five years' probation. The offender knew if he violated probation he would have to return to prison to serve out the rest of his sentence. "He did his six months, and after that he ...
Prisoner Dies at Purdy by In the April, 1994, issue of PLN we reported Hallett v. Payne, a class action suit filed by prisoners at the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW) at Purdy ...
$60,411 Attorney Fee Award in Maryland Prisoner’s Public Information Act Suit by The State of Maryland has agreed to pay more than $60,000 in attorney fees to settle a longstanding lawsuit ...
and continued even after relaxation of social distancing protocols that might have excused the failure to provide the programming – though not lying about it, of course. Before certain Texas prisoners can ...
Article • October 15, 2011 • from PLN October, 2011
programming and found that participants had fewer disciplinary problems while inside and fewer returns to prison once released. What studies often cannot show is just what “success” looks like: the peace ...
Article • December 3, 2014 • from PLN December, 2014
cards to prisoners when they are released that contain the balance remaining in their prison accounts. JPMorgan’s original contract was awarded in 1998 and amended at least 14 times ...
Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021
and forcing the state to respond. After being released in 2017, Rojas moved to Los Angeles and helped launch the #MeToo Behind Bars campaign. Rojas also was a leader in a lawsuit accusing guards of civil rights ...
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Another Report Verifies That Prison Deaths Soared During COVID-19 Pandemic by A mortality study released on December 1, 2023, found that the death rate in U.S. prisons spiked 77% during 2020 ...
Case • 1993
said that he was worried that if "he testified against the Sheriff that the Sheriff [might] not sign his 814 [for release from prison]." Id. at 106. Thus, the testimony of Burnett, the only non-party ...
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