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Publication • August 26, 2016
Supplemental HRDC Comment to the CFPB re Arbitration Agreements - Aug. 2016 Human Rights Defense Center DEDICATED TO PROTECTING HUMAN RIGHTS August 26, 2016 Submitted via Email and Postal Mail Monica Jackson Office of the Executive Secretary Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 1700 G Street NW Washington, D.C. 20552 Re: Supplemental …
Article • August 25, 2016
Filed under: Trust Accounts
Texas Supreme Court Rules Inmate Trust Accounts Are Civil in Nature by On June 5, 2009 U.S. Justice Willett reversed in part a petition from the Court of Appeals for the Seventh District of Texas of a due-process claim for funds withdrawn from inmate trust accounts. In 2006, Texas prisoner …
Article • August 25, 2016
North Dakota Supreme Court Clarifies Child Support Lien Issues re State Prisoner by The Supreme Court for the State of North Dakota affirmed the judgment of the Ward County District Court, Northwest Judicial District of North Dakota, affirming an administrative enforcement action placing a lien, ordered September 28, 2011, on …
Article • August 23, 2016
Washington State Undersheriff Gets 5 Months in Prison for Stealing $67K in Bail by Claims of compulsive tendencies and poor physical health don't often help criminal defendants trying to mitigate their prison sentences. Consider Carole Lepiane, the former undersheriff for Walla Walla County, Wash., the predictable exception. Lepiane, 58, using …
Article • August 23, 2016
Jail Employees Steal from Prisoner Fund in Small-Town Maine by After stealing more than $7,200 from a so-called "inmate benefits account," a county jail employee in small-town Maine snitched on a co-worker and implicated his boss in the scam before finally resigning himself. Capt. Robert Gross, 62, filed his letter …
Article • August 22, 2016
Filed under: Restitution
Hawaii: Money from Restitution Orders Generally Not Collected by Thirteen years after a state auditor released a report critical of the Hawaii judiciary's collection efforts, only a small fraction of the millions of dollars in restitution assessed against offenders has been collected, leaving victims of crime upset at what they …
Publication • August 22, 2016
HRDC comments to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau re Arbitration Agreements - Aug. 2016 Human Rights Defense Center DEDICATED TO PROTECTING HUMAN RIGHTS August 22, 2016 Submitted Online Only Monica Jackson Office of the Executive Secretary Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 1700 G Street NW Washington, DC 20552 Re: Comment for Docket …
Brief • August 18, 2016
Walker v. City of Calhoun, GA, Brief of Amicus Curiae, Indigent Arrestee Bail Debtors Prison, 2016 Case: 16-10521 Date Filed: 08/18/2016 No. 16-10521-HH Page: 1 of 34 IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT _________________ MAURICE WALKER, on behalf of himself and others similarly situated, Plaintiff-Appellee …
Article • August 10, 2016
Georgia District Court Deals Blow to Involuntary Debit Card Prisoner Refunds by Derek Gilna Robert Regan, a 67 year old arrested on a warrant in Rockdale County, Georgia, was carrying $764.00 when he was arrested.  When he finally released, instead of being given cash or a check for the money …
Brief • August 8, 2016
Kaelin v. County of Riverside, CA, Consolidated Opp to MTD - Inmate Phone Systems, 2016 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 BARRETT S. LITT, SBN 45527 E-Mail: blitt@kmbllaw.com RONALD O. KAYE SBN 145051 E-Mail: rok@kmbllaw.com Kaye, McLane, Bednarski & Litt, LLP 234 Colorado Boulevard, Suite 230 Pasadena, California …
Article • August 5, 2016
CA Prisoners Win Appeal in Failure-To-Pay Interest Case by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has remanded a case filed by several California state prisoners challenging a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) practice of refusing to credit the prisoners with interest earned on their accounts. …
Article • August 5, 2016
Prison Guard Guilty of Stealing Mail by On September  23, 2014, a guard at a Virginia state prison entered a guilty plea to one count of mail theft for stealing mail intended for prisoners. Ezra Lamont Price was employed as a guard at the Danville Adult Detention Center when mail …
Article • August 4, 2016
States Still Using Unconstitutional Debtors Prisons to Jail the Poor by Joe Watson The landmark 1983 U.S. Supreme Court decision Bearden v. Georgia reaffirmed the outlaw of so-called "debtors prisons"—the practice of incarcerating indigent people for being unable to pay off their debts—and requires that judges consider whether defendants are …
Report Finds Criminal Justice Debt Creates Barriers to Offender Reintegration by David Reutter Severe financial obligations imposed upon offenders who get entangled with the criminal justice system "perpetually punish many ex-offenders and consign them to a life of permanent debt and poverty," concludes a report published by the John Jay …
The Debt Penalty: Financial Barriers to Offender Reintegration, John Jay College, 2014 The Debt Penalty Exposing the Financial Barriers to Offender Reintegration Douglas N. Evans Research & Evaluation Center John Jay College of Criminal Justice August 2014 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | Preparation of this report was supported by a grant from Justice …
Article • August 2, 2016 • from PLN August, 2016
Prison Policy Initiative Report Says Money Bail System Keeps Poor in Jail by Derek Gilna Of the more than 2.3 million people locked up in the United States at any given time, around 646,000 are held in county jails. Of that population, seven in ten are pretrial detainees who have …
Krimes v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, PA, Motion for Preliminary Approval of Class Action Settlement, BOP Debit Cards, 2016 Case 2:15-cv-05087-ER Document 31 Filed 08/01/16 Page 1 of 25 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA JESSE KRIMES, on Behalf of Himself and All Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiff, …
Article • July 29, 2016
Filed under: Discrimination, Commissary
Blind Vendors Have Priority in Tennessee Law; Law Applicable to Jails and Prisons by A Tennessee Court of Appeals held state law requires that blind vendors be given “priority in the establishment and operation of vending facilities on public property in this state.”  The holding affirms a trial court’s decision …
Crowdfunding Projects Present Opportunities for Prisoners by Derek Gilna Kickstarter and other crowdfunding websites provide an interesting option for prisoners with imagination and originality to explore career-expanding opportunities, raise money and gain access to a commodity often in short supply behind bars – hope. Basically, crowdfunding involves developing online campaigns …
Article • July 6, 2016 • from PLN July, 2016
Georgia: Federal Court Finds Bond System Unfair to Indigent Defendants, Enters Injunction by Derek Gilna Maurice Walker, 54, was arrested in the City of Calhoun, Georgia for public intoxication in September 2015, and told that if he posted a $160 bond he could go free until his first court date. …
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