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Article • August 9, 2016
rates," said Shelly Seiber, whose husband was incarcerated. "It's not right." ODOC officials agreed. "We immediately launched an investigation into what happened and why the department wasn't alerted ...
Article • June 30, 2017 • from PLN July, 2017
taken away, eating jail food, with unsavory characters. It doesn’t mean dying because your basic medical needs are ignored,” Belzley stated. Yet that is exactly what happened to Kenneth Marcum ...
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
, compared the mistreatment and ultimate deaths of addicts in local jails to a nefarious research study. “What’s happening in jails, it’s kind of a natural experiment to see what happens ...
Article • November 6, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018
to protest what they called modern-day slavery in the state’s prisons. As of March, not only had the Florida Department of Corrections not responded to the demand for paid labor and improved living ...
Article • January 10, 2017 • from PLN January, 2017
release as soon as you become eligible, or devise a plan on your own that will give the parole board what it needs to release you when your hearing comes up and counsel is appointed for you. For a concise ...
Article • January 31, 2018 • from PLN February, 2018
, issued a 193-page opinion on April 28, 2017 that effectively gutted what she termed a “discriminatory money bail system” in Harris County, which includes Houston. PLN has long covered problems ...
Article • July 1, 2018 • from PLN July, 2018
will conduct a full and vigorous investigation until we know what happened, and we’ll take all appropriate steps thereafter to see that justice is done.” No one has apologized to Martini Smith since ...
Private Prison Firms Use Revolving Door Lobbying, Generous Campaign Donations by Steve Horn by Steve Horn It’s an even-numbered year, which makes sense because, as is the norm, what ...
Article • August 25, 2016
prisoners. (PLN, Nov. 2010, pp. 18-20). Six victims testified at Golden's trial that he had abused them. A mother of four said Golden forced her to perform oral sex in what prisoner's called the "rape shed ...
Article • March 27, 2017
Filed under: Corizon, Medication, Hepatitis
for many years. Because I respect his intelligence, I listened to what he had to say about his exposure to hepatitis c and the difficulty prisoners were having getting the new drugs. As I began to understand ...
what he thought was a rape charge. Such misunderstandings are surprisingly common in state and local courts. Because many states and localities don’t use tested court interpreters and ignore ...
,” continued “to be cause for concern.” Crews said in the letter that prisons failing to meet 80% of auditing standards would have payments withheld. Concern is an understatement for what ...
Article • September 15, 2014 • from PLN September, 2014
Filed under: Informants, Sentencing
. What about the old saying, “snitches get stitches?” Don’t rats end up at the bottom of the nearest river? If that’s true, then the river bottom is a very crowded place. Nationwide ...
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN October, 2004
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Voting
done what American presidents historically do. But presidents do not act alone, they need legislative approval for these things and John Kerry has been in the U.S. senate for almost 20 years. Plenty ...
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
emailed BIA to explain what happened and to request the removal of her husband’s photo, BIA began flooding her inbox with messages. It then proceeded to publish her email in its entirety, including her name ...
Article • March 4, 2015 • from PLN March, 2015
, even though we asked them over and over what their plans were,” fumed state Senator John Whitmire, who chairs the Senate Criminal Justice Committee. “[Then-OVSOM director Alison Taylor ...
Article • September 22, 2015
broke prison regulations. What’s worse: these new documents obtained by EFF show Facebook may have taken down profiles when there were no allegations at all that inmates had violated prison policies ...
disorders. It’s unclear what exactly is driving the drop in “serious” diagnoses. But “whenever you draw a magic line, and somebody gets all these rights above it and none below it,” said Jack Beck, director ...
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
Filed under: Sentencing, Habeas Corpus, AEDPA
, it’s usually best for your family or supporters to save what they have and use it to retain private counsel on habeas corpus after you’ve used up your right to court-appointed counsel on your first ...
-managed South Bay Correctional Facility. Senator Don Gaetz, who strongly supported the private prison bills, said savings of 7% would be guaranteed by law. However, that is what existing state law requires ...
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