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Article • January 15, 2013 • from PLN January, 2013
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
compromise to the security and daily operations of the Department of Corrections,” Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said. “Costs for communication to inmates should not be excessive or burden families wishing ...
facility, but during the course of the litigation were moved from ADX to one of the BOP’s two Communications Management Units (CMUs). The CMUs are located in Marion, Illinois and Terre Haute, Indiana. [See ...
lost. A few weeks later he was suspended from the practice of law for having sent an ex parte communication to a judge in a criminal case. Alexander then re-invented himself as a public defender. He ...
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
Roberts. “There’s a sense of fear among the employees, they do not want to have to default on a loan or have their credit affected or have a bad name within the community,” he noted. “The inmates who have ...
Article • April 9, 2015 • from PLN April, 2015
, the fly ash dump is apparently causing health problems for residents of one section of La Belle, a community on the other side of the site. “Residents say there are nine cases of cancer in the 18 ...
Article • May 6, 2015 • from PLN May, 2015
Filed under: Telephone Rates
in-state call. Under the DOC’s new phone contract, counties that join the contract can no longer receive kickbacks and must charge the lower rates. Following an order by the Federal Communications ...
Article • February 15, 2014 • from PLN February, 2014
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
Communications Commission (FCC) that imposed rate caps on interstate (long distance) prison and jail phone calls. There have since been several new developments on the prison phone front. As previously reported ...
;s first annual award for exceptional activism against the privatization of correctional services. Frank, who previously served as PCI’s field organizer assisting local communities in site fights ...
Article • March 15, 2014 • from PLN March, 2014
to pay attorney’s fees, community supervision fees, or court costs, including PSI and Crime Stoppers fees, was willful.” Therefore, the Court of Appeals held the trial court had abused its discretion ...
in Defontes’ legal action were John T. Rathman, the warden of the Federal Detention Center (FDC) in Miami; Carlos Rodriguez, Community Corrections Manager for the Southern District of Florida; and then-BOP ...
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
, however, lawmakers elected not to cut too deeply into prison program funding. They even gave the ODOC $1 million to move certain prisoners into community-based programs for the final months ...
Article • July 9, 2014 • from PLN July, 2014
Filed under: PLN Litigation, Censorship
considering the parties’ arguments, the federal district court found that Ventura County’s “restrictive mail policies violate [PLN’s] First Amendment right to communicate with inmates ...
Article • July 9, 2014 • from PLN July, 2014
Filed under: Telephone Rates
and community faith leaders testified at the hearing as to how the surcharges and high phone rates hurt prisoners’ families and the local community. Another PSC hearing, held in May 2014, was attended ...
Article • August 7, 2014 • from PLN August, 2014
Filed under: Private Prisons, Sentencing
to replace profit-seeking policies with proven, evidence-based ways to end mass incarceration while keeping our communities safe. Here are just a few of the changes we could make right now to pave a path ...
Article • July 9, 2014 • from PLN July, 2014
marriages in the state. “Effective immediately, all institutions must accept and process applications for a same sex marriage between an inmate and a non-incarcerated person in the community ...
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
Filed under: Sentencing
Approach to Drug Use. The Justice Policy institute (JPI) reached a similar conclusion in a report titled Addicted to Courts: How a Growing Dependence on Drug Courts Impacts People and Communities, also ...
Armendariz held that Alexander had violated three rules of professional conduct – communication with a represented party, moral turpitude and suppression of evidence – and that his “lack of insight into his ...
Article • March 4, 2015 • from PLN March, 2015
Filed under: Editorials
along with their prison and jail allies, which monetize human contact and literally hold love hostage as a money-making scheme. As the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) appears poised to limit ...
, Community Education Centers, Inc. (CEC). EHCA subcontracts with CEC for the “operation, support services, management, and maintenance” of EHCA’s halfway houses. This arrangement skirts a state law requiring ...
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