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Article • April 15, 2014 • from PLN April, 2014
GPS Monitoring System in Los Angeles Plagued by False Alerts, Ignored Alarms by Christopher Zoukis Los Angeles County’s GPS monitoring system, designed to keep track of high-risk probationers, has overwhelmed probation officers with thousands of false alerts each day – so many that some officers simply ignore them. As a …
Article • February 15, 2014 • from PLN February, 2014
Pennsylvania Jail Official Indicted for Groping Co-workers by Christopher Zoukis Ronald Edward Lensbouer, 44, the Chief Corrections Officer at a jail in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, faces charges of indecently assaulting two female guards at the facility. According to court records, Lensbouer was charged on June 5, 2013 in two separate …
Article • February 15, 2014 • from PLN February, 2014
Court Employee Fired for Helping Wrongfully Convicted Prisoner Prove His Innocence by Christopher Zoukis In 1984, Robert E. Nelson was convicted and sentenced by Jackson County, Missouri Circuit Court Judge David M. Byrn to 50 years in prison for forcible rape, 5 years for forcible sodomy and 15 years for …
Article • February 15, 2014 • from PLN February, 2014
Islamic Organization Petitions to Let Muslim Women Prisoners Wear Hijabs by Christopher Zoukis In May 2013, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) petitioned the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to establish a uniform policy for all local, state and federal correctional facilities to allow Muslim women to wear hijab head …
Article • February 15, 2014 • from PLN February, 2014
Crime Declines while Anti-crime Funding Increases by Christopher Zoukis Crime is down in the United States, but spending measures included in the $1.1 trillion federal budget passed by Congress in January 2014 will ensure that many law enforcement agencies receive more funding. Insiders give much of the credit for the …
Article • February 15, 2014 • from PLN February, 2014
Jails Market Electronic Cigarettes to Prisoners by Christopher Zoukis Jail administrators have found a new revenue stream: exploiting prisoners’ addiction to nicotine by selling them electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, for a substantial profit. Even as municipalities like Chicago, New York and Los Angeles enact restrictions on the sale of e-cigarettes, …
Sweden’s Shrinking Prison Population by Christopher Zoukis Sweden’s prison population has seen such a sharp drop in recent years that the nation’s prison service announced in November 2013 that it had closed four correctional facilities and a remand center. Prisons in Aby, Haja, Batshagen and Kristianstad were closed in 2013; …
East Mississippi Prison Nightmare by Christopher Zoukis On May 30, 2013, the American Civil Liberties Union, Southern Poverty Law Center and law office of civil rights attorney Elizabeth Alexander filed an 83-page complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, seeking class-action relief for mentally ill …
New York Prisoner Awarded Almost $16 Million Due to Poor Medical Treatment by Christopher Zoukis In March 2012, a New York state prisoner was awarded $15.7 million after being left a quadriplegic due to inadequate medical care. The judgment was entered by a New York Court of Claims which found …
Article • January 15, 2014 • from PLN January, 2014
Unwanted Reprieve from Execution Upheld by Oregon Supreme Court by Christopher Zoukis As previously reported in PLN, Oregon death row prisoner Gary Haugen filed a legal challenge to Governor John Kitzhaber’s November 2011 decision to impose a moratorium on the state’s death penalty, which had the effect of granting Haugen …
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
Book Review: Against Their Will: The Secret History of Medical Experimentation on Children in Cold War America by Christopher Zoukis by Allen M. Hornblum, Judith L. Newman and Gregory J. Dober (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013). 266 pages. $27.00 Book review by Christopher Zoukis According to Oswald Spengler, writing in The Decline …
Four West Virginia Officials, including Circuit Court Judge, Face Federal Charges by Christopher Zoukis A former West Virginia judge is facing up to ten years in federal prison after pleading guilty to charges that he conspired to protect a county sheriff from allegations of drug-related activity. Former Mingo County Circuit …
Article • October 15, 2013 • from PLN October, 2013
Former Georgia DOC Official Charged for Embezzling Public Funds by Christopher Zoukis A former deputy director of operations for the Georgia Department of Corrections has been indicted on 35 counts of identity fraud, after admitting he used his state purchasing privileges to buy electronic items and make other unauthorized purchases …
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
Filed under: Stun Guns/Tasers, Police
Missouri: Arrestees Billed for Cost of Police Tasers by Christopher Zoukis Police officers in St. Joseph, Missouri have successfully recouped payments from defendants for the cost of “tasing” them during an arrest. It costs $24.99 for a Taser cartridge and about $1.05 in battery use each time an officer tases …
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
Oklahoma’s DNA Law Means Post-Conviction Testing Available in All 50 States by Christopher Zoukis On May 24, 2013, Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin signed into law a comprehensive post-conviction DNA review process for defendants in cases involving violent felonies or resulting in sentences of 25 years or more. Oklahoma thus became …
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
500 Escape from Abu Ghraib and Taji Prisons in Iraq by Christopher Zoukis On July 21, 2013, military-style assaults at Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison and another prison in Taji resulted in the escape of more than 500 prisoners, including an unknown number of al-Qaida members. Many of the prisoners …
Article • August 15, 2013 • from PLN August, 2013
Filed under: Visiting
Utah DOC Ends "English Only" Visitation Requirement by Christopher Zoukis Utah DOC Ends "English Only" Visitation Requirement by Christopher Zoukis As of August 1, 2013, Utah state prisoners are able to talk to their visitors in languages other than English, reversing a longstanding policy. The change puts an end to …
TransCor May Face Punitive Damages for Prisoner's Death by Christopher Zoukis TransCor America, LLC, a for-profit prisoner transportation company and subsidiary of Corrections Corporation of America, may be held liable for punitive damages if it is found responsible for the death of a prisoner who died while being transported in …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Oklahoma: Hospital Sues Sheriff over Unpaid Medical Bills, for Third Time by Christopher Zoukis For the third time in the past eight years, Oklahoma County Sheriff John Whetsel has been sued for damages by a local hospital, which accuses him of releasing dozens of jail prisoners to avoid having to …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Maryland Repeals Death Penalty by Christopher Zoukis On May 2, 2013, Maryland became the sixth state in six years to abolish the death penalty, and the 18th state – along with the District of Columbia – that has rejected capital punishment. Maryland is the first Southern state to forgo executions …
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