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Publication • February 6, 2017
Congressional Letter to Acting General Counsel, Congress of the United States, 2017 <!Longrenn of tl1e11tniteil~tate.n l!lilun~in911111, ii(!! 20515 Febniary6, 2017 Mr. Brendan Carr Acting General Counsel Federal Comm1111ications Commission 445 12th Street SW \Vashlngton, DC 20554-0004 Mr. Carr: We are writing to express our concerns regardir~ recent press reports that …
Publication • January 31, 2017
Delaying a Second Chance: The Declining Prospects for Parole on Life Sentences, The Sentencing Project, 2017 DELAYING A SECOND CHANCE: THE DECLINING PROSPECTS FOR PAROLE ON LIFE SENTENCES THIRTY-TWO JURISDICTION PROFILES For more information, contact: The Sentencing Project 1705 DeSales Street NW 8th Floor Washington, D.C. 20036 (202) 628-0871 sentencingproject.org …
Oseguenda v. Stanislaus County Public Safety Center, CA, Order on MTD - Gang Segregation, 2017 Case 1:16-cv-01218-LJO-BAM Document 21 Filed 01/17/17 Page 1 of 23 1 2 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 3 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 4 5 ARMANDO OSEGUEDA and ROBERT PALOMINO, Plaintiffs, 6 Case No. 1:16-CV-1218-LJO-BAM 7 v. …
Article • January 13, 2017
Analysis: Sen. Jeff Sessions’s Record on Criminal Justice by By Ames C. Grawert , Brennan Center for Justice This analysis provides a brief summary of Sen. Jeff Sessions&rsquo;s past statements, votes, and practices relating to criminal justice. Specifically, this analysis finds that: Sen. Sessions opposes efforts to reduce unnecessarily long …
How Union Contracts Shield Police Departments from DOJ Reforms by Adeshina Emmanuel Even when the federal government cracks down on police abuses, collective bargaining agreements often stymie reforms. By Adeshina Emmanuel, In These Times Few were surprised on December 7, 2015,&nbsp;when U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced a civil rights …
This cruel new policy makes it near impossible for kids to see their incarcerated parents by By&nbsp;Dana Bazelon, Vox Unless you are an attorney, it requires a great deal of effort and some organization to visit someone in prison. You have to want it. There are forms to be signed …
After Prisons: A Supervisory State? by James Kilgore After Prison? Freedom, Decarceration and Justice Disinvesment By William G. Martin and Joshua Price (eds.) Lexington 2016 Reviewed by James Kilgore, Daily Kos After Prisons?&nbsp;is a remarkable book for several reasons.&nbsp; First of all, it remains strong from start to finish.&nbsp; Every …
Krome Detention Center has Long History of Detainee Abuse by David Reutter Immigration reform was a recurring theme in the recent presidential election. The national debate has focused on what should be done with the millions of undocumented immigrants who reside in the United States, but as events at the …
Model Mental Health Care Diversion System Started by Miami Judge by David Reutter Thanks to the efforts of Florida Eleventh Circuit Court Judge Steve Leifman, Miami-Dade County is leading the way in how police and the courts deal with the mentally ill. As PLN has reported over the years, jails …
Article • January 10, 2017 • from PLN January, 2017
Constitutional Amendment Ensures Executions will Continue in Oklahoma by Christopher Zoukis Despite a number of botched executions in recent years &ndash; which drew widespread criticism for subjecting condemned prisoners to cruel lethal injection practices &ndash; Oklahomans have voted to add a provision to the state constitution enshrining and ensuring the …
Increased Access to Higher Education Programs for California Prisoners by Christopher Zoukis Some California prisoners, including those confined at the notorious Pelican Bay supermax, are enjoying access to higher education courses provided by the state&rsquo;s community colleges. A 2014 law eliminated the requirement that all classes taught by community colleges …
Mississippi: Hinds County Jails in Crisis, Face Mandated Reforms by David Reutter The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a letter in May 2015 that described the findings of an investigation which concluded two jails in Hinds County, Mississippi were violating prisoners&rsquo; rights. The county has since entered into a …
Report Finds Charging Criminal Justice Fees Perpetuates Mass Incarceration by Matthew Clarke The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University&rsquo;s School of Law released a report in May 2015 titled, &ldquo;Charging Inmates Perpetuates Mass Incarceration.&rdquo; Mass incarceration refers to the fact that the United States, which has around 5% …
Securus Phone Rates Spark Uprising at Alaska Prison by Joe Watson A riot at an Alaska prison &ldquo;kind of blew up&rdquo; because, according to prisoners, the phone service provided by Securus was shoddy and the company charged unreasonable rates. Sparked by a widespread disconnection of phone calls one Monday night …
State University of New York “Bans the Box” on Student Applications by On September 14, 2016, the Board of Trustees of the State University of New York voted to &ldquo;ban the box&rdquo; from the school&rsquo;s student application form. The move revised the university&rsquo;s prior policy which required applicants to declare …
Second Circuit Expands Protections from Sexual Abuse by Prison Staff by Derek Gilna In an October 7, 2015 corrected ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed a district court&rsquo;s dismissal of a lawsuit filed by two New York state prisoners alleging they had been sexually abused …
Child Support Relief Coming for Incarcerated Parents by In the last days of the Obama administration, regulators quietly ease the child support burden on parents in prison. by Eli Hager, The Marshall Project Squeezing in an executive action just a month before president-elect Donald Trump&rsquo;s inauguration, on December 20, 2016 …
Continued Need for Prison and Criminal Justice Reforms by Advocates for prisoners&rsquo; rights and criminal justice reform have never forgotten the September 1971 uprising at the Attica Correctional Facility in New York, which resulted in the deaths of 33 prisoners and 10 employees. The institutionalized brutality at Attica, which led …
Publication • January 4, 2017
Correcting Food Policy in Washington Prisons, Prison Voice Washington, 2016 This report describes how the unhealthy food served and sold to people incarcerated in state prisons directly violates the state’s Healthy Nutrition Guidelines and will lead to costly health care expenditures on preventable diseases, in violation of Executive Order 13-06. …
Correctional Education as a Crime Control Program, Bazos and Hausman, 2004 Correctional Education as a Crime Control Program by Audrey Bazos and Jessica Hausman UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research Department of Policy Studies March, 2004 TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary 2 Introduction 3 Correctional Education 3 Incarceration …
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