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Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
Ohio DNA Specimen Law Ruled Not Retroactive by The Ohio Supreme Court held that a state law requiring convicted felons and some misdemeanants to provide DNA specimens could not be applied retroactively to offenders placed on supervised release before the law’s May 2005 effective date. On August 6, 2002, Craig …
Not the Usual Suspects: The Politics of the Prison Boom by Marie Gottschalk Throughout American history, politicians and public officials have exploited public anxieties about crime and disorder for political gain. The difference today is that these political strategies and public anxieties have come together in the perfect storm. They …
Arkansas Law Discloses Legislators’ Business Ties to State by David Reutter Of concern to taxpayers should be the private business interests of their legislators. An Arkansas law enacted in 2007 requires disclosure of those interests when a lawmaker or his or her spouse owns at least 10 percent of a …
Article • July 15, 2008 • from PLN July, 2008
Wisconsin County Bans Profiteering in Jail Phone Contracts by On September 20, 2007, the Board of Supervisors for Dane County, Wisconsin enacted an ordinance amending the way the county contracts for jail telephone services. The ordinance requires that jail phone contracts (1) must not generate revenue to the county and …
Article • July 15, 2008 • from PLN July, 2008
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief: by Alabama: On September 26, 2007, Leigh Cochran, 33, a guard at the Houston County Jail was sentenced to five years probation after pleading guilty to felony custodial sexual misconduct and two misdemeanor counts of promoting prison contraband. California: On February 23, 2008, 21 prisoners were injured, …
Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
New Jersey Abolishes the Death Penalty by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On December 12, 2007, New Jersey became the second state since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976 to legislatively abolish the death penalty, replacing it with life without parole. That same day, New Jersey Governor Jon …
Iowa Faith-Based Program Finally Closed by After a five-year court battle and public controversy, the Iowa Department of Corrections (IDOC) has decided to close a Bible-oriented re-entry program at the Newton Correctional Facility. The program, operated by Virginia-based Prison Fellowship Ministries, was part of the InnerChange Freedom Initiative. PLN has …
Vermont Prisons Subject to Human Rights Commission Jurisdiction by The Vermont Supreme Court has held that the Vermont Fair Housing and Public Accommodations Act (The Act) applies to state prisons. That holding affirmed an order by the Washington Superior Court denying the Vermont Department of Corrections’ (VDOC) motion to quash …
Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
Nevada Criminalizes Cell Phones in State Prisons by On May 10, 2007, Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons signed into law AB-106, a bill making it a felony for prisoners to possess a cell phone in prison or for a person to furnish a prisoner with a cell phone. Anyone charged with …
CA Uses Jail Inmate Welfare Funds for Reentry; Expands Early Release for Permanently Disabled CDCR Prisoners by In September 2007, Governor Schwarzenegger signed Senate Bill (SB) 718 into law, which amends penal code § 4025 to permit the use of Inmate Welfare Funds (IWF) collected in eight California counties to …
Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief: by Australia: In 2007 a law was passed making it illegal for anyone to provide erectile dysfunction drugs to prisoners or for prisoners to sell their artwork. The law was enacted after media disclosed that Bevan Spencer von Einem, a prisoner serving a life sentence for the …
Article • June 15, 2008
Filed under: Food, News
Taste-Testing Nutraloaf: The prison food that just might be unconstitutionally bad by Arin Greenwood By Arin Greenwood Posted Tuesday, June 24, 2008, at 8:07 AM ET Nobody thinks prison food is haute cuisine, but could it be so bad it's unconstitutional? The question comes up more often than you might …
My Space Becomes “No Space” for Online Sex Offenders by David Reutter My Space Becomes "No Space" for Online Sex Offenders by David M. Reutter After online social networking giant MySpace.com, under pressure, disclosed on July 24, 2007 that it had purged 29,000 sex offender profiles from its website, state …
Washington DOC Pays PLN $541,000 for Illegally Withholding Records by Michael Rigby The Washington Department of Corrections will pay Prison Legal News $541,000 for illegally withholding public records. It is the largest records-related settlement in Washington state history, and it brings the total amount PLN has won against the state …
Article • May 15, 2008 • from PLN May, 2008
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief: by Alabama: On September 11, 2007, Morgan County Community Corrections Director Alison Nix resigned her job as head of the county?s sentencing alternative program after the Community Corrections and Court Services Commission voted to fire her after it was learned she was improperly billing the county $504 …
Article • May 15, 2008 • from PLN May, 2008
Innocent California Prisoner Paid $3,171,000 For 12 Years Wrongful incarceration by An East Palo Alto, California auto mechanic who served 12 years in state prison for a first degree murder he did not commit was paid $421,000 by the state plus $2.75 million by the County of Santa Clara. Rick …
As Connecticut's Prison Population Increases, So Does the Number of Imprisoned Mentally Ill by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Like other prison systems throughout the nation, Connecticut's is reaching peak capacity. In the midst of dealing with overcrowding and parole issues, the Connecticut Department of Correction (CDOC) must also …
California Sex Offenders Uprooted by New Restrictive Residency Law by California?s pernicious ?Jessica?s Law,? overwhelmingly approved by voters on November 7, 2006 as a result of Proposition 83, restricts certain paroled sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of a school, park or other areas where children are present. As …
Article • April 15, 2008 • from PLN April, 2008
California’s Compassionate Release Law Expanded to Include the Medically Incapacitated by California's Compassionate Release Law Expanded to Include the Medically Incapacitated California's compassionate release law, which already provided that prisoners who were physician-certified to have less than six months to live may apply for recall of sentence and release, was …
Article • April 15, 2008 • from PLN April, 2008
Overcrowded, Understaffed California DOC Pays $471 Million in Overtime by John Dannenberg A combination of prison overcrowding and a 10.9% staff vacancy rate in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) resulted in $471 million in overtime being paid in fiscal year 2006-2007 ? a 17% increase over 2005-2006. …
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