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Article • October 9, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Filed under: Food
Formerly Incarcerated Chef Plans to Revolutionize Ramen by Steve Horn by Steve Horn When Ron Freeman was released from prison in 1998, he returned to doing the two things he enjoyed the most: cooking and eating. He decided, after being incarcerated for nearly three years for drug possession at the …
Article • October 9, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Kentucky Law Requiring Abused Spouse to Pay for Abuser’s Divorce Attorney Abolished by The Kentucky legislature has closed a loophole in a statute that required a victim of domestic violence to pay the cost of an attorney for their incarcerated abuser when seeking a divorce. Kentucky law requires a person …
Article • October 9, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Fifth Circuit Upholds Convictions of Louisiana Jail Staff for Failing to Stop Abuse by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke In February 2018, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a former Louisiana jail lieutenant’s conviction for depriving a prisoner of his civil rights under color of state law in violation …
Article • October 9, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
North Carolina Fined $190,000 for Mismanagement of Prescription Medication by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin On July 11, 2018, Robert Higdon, Jr., the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announced that a $190,000 settlement had been reached with the state’s prison system over its failure to properly …
Article • October 9, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Arizona: Lawsuit Spurs Significant Reforms for Death Row Prisoners by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna A federal lawsuit that settled in March 2017 resulted in the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) drastically improving conditions of confinement for death row prisoners. Pursuant to the settlement, most of the state’s 120 condemned …
Article • October 9, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Oregon County Pays $2.85 Million for Dehydration Death of Mentally Ill Jail Prisoner by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Lincoln County, Oregon agreed to pay $2.85 million to settle a wrongful death suit filed by the family of a 55-year-old mentally ill prisoner who died of dehydration at the county …
Article • October 9, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Filed under: Parole
Black Liberation Army Members Convicted of Murdering Cops Granted Parole by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Herman Bell served 46 years behind bars in New York. The 70-year-old was convicted of the 1971 murders of two NYPD officers, and received a sentence of 25 years to life. Denied parole on …
Article • October 9, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Editorial: The Case Against Florida’s Amendment 4 on Felon Voting Rights by Paul Wright by Paul Wright Florida leads the nation with over 1 million citizens disenfranchised and unable to vote due to felony convictions. The path to having their voting rights restored is long and difficult, and has been …
Article • October 9, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Private Prison Company Pays to Play; Federal Election Commission Fails to Act by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis GEO Group, one of the nation’s largest for-profit prison companies, donated $225,000 to the pro-Trump Super PAC Rebuilding America Now during the 2016 election cycle. Within a few months after President Trump’s …
Article • October 9, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
The Big Business of Prisoner Care Packages: Inside the Booming Market for Food in Pouches by Taylor Elizabeth Eldridge by Taylor Elizabeth Eldridge, The Marshall Project Ed. Note: PLN’s August 2018 cover story examined prison food and commissary services. This article looks at prison and jail package services supplied by private vendors …
Solitary Confinement Reforms Sweeping the Nation but Still Not Enough by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Solitary confinement is “worse than any torment of the body” – so said famous British author Charles Dickens. French historian Alexis de Tocqueville, who toured American prisons in 1831, added that solitary “devours the …
Article • October 9, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright In 1992, the Washington Department of Corrections signed its first prison phone contract with AT&T that required the company to give the DOC a “commission” kickback in exchange for the monopoly contract. Previously, AT&T provided phone services to the DOC with …
Article • October 9, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Filed under: Visiting, Video Visitation
Advocacy Groups Call for End to Ban on In-person Visits at Tennessee Jail by A recent report on a ban on in-person visitation at the jail in Knox County, Tennessee concluded that the ban “makes the jail more dangerous, does nothing to stop the flow of contraband, and strips money …
Article • October 9, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alaska: On January 17, 2018, a 43-man riot flared and quickly dissipated on the yard of the maximum-security Spring Creek Correctional Center, leaving five prisoners with injuries and resulting in a facility-wide lockdown. Alaska Department of Corrections spokeswoman Megan Edge said guards deployed pepper spray when …
CoreCivic’s Actions Against Sexual Harassment Compel Reversal of Jury Verdict by David Reutter by David Reutter  The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a Georgia federal district court’s grant of judgment of law for Corrections Corporation of America, now known as CoreCivic, in a lawsuit alleging it failed to take …
Article • September 21, 2018
$35,500 affirmed by Sixth Circuit in Michigan guard retaliation, free speech case by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the jury finding against Lewis Condon, Joseph Downard, and Gary McMurtrie, guards at Gus Harrison Correctional Facility in Adrian, Michigan, was proper and that …
Solitary Instead of Treatment of Mentally Ill Prisoner Costs New Mexico Jail $2 Million by R. Bailey by R. Bailey New Mexico’s Otero County Board of County Commissioners agreed to pay a former Otero County Detention Center (OCDC) pretrial detainee $2 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit that alleged …
Article • September 10, 2018
Former district attorney in Maine sued for misconduct by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Former Assistant District Attorney Mary Kellett was sued by Vladek Filler for allegedly withholding and editing exculpatory evidence and advising police not to comply with subpoenas in relation to a 2009 conviction of a sexual assault …
Article • September 10, 2018
$280,000 settlement after family files wrongful death suit against New Jersey jail, health providers by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss A civil action lawsuit was filed against Burlington County Jail (DCJ), CFG Health Systems, Corizon Health, Inc. and others on behalf of Jerome Iozzia after he died due to improper …
Article • September 10, 2018
Montana Involuntary Committed Individuals May Be Restrained During Transport by Mark Wilson The Montana Supreme Court held that Montana law does not preclude handcuffing involuntarily committed mentally ill people during transport to a state hospital. Accordingly, the district court did not abuse its discretion when it denied an involuntarily committed …
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