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Article • July 28, 2017 • from PLN August, 2017
2016. Three months later the prison farms closed and their equipment was auctioned off in what Mabe called a “fire sale.” The state received about $4.5 million for 3,186 head of dairy ...
Article • July 20, 2017
of the available evidence or conflicting evidence. The decision as to what evidence should be presented is thus left to the prosecutor. For obvious reasons, this arrangement allows great power to reside ...
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
Filed under: Contractor Misconduct, Food
advocacy group that believes the companies’ merger presents a problem. MDOC spokesman Gautz disagreed. “We control the menu, we control what ingredients are used, we enforce the caloric amount ...
counseling. Prison officials stress that the department’s culture “is not what it once was,” touting a “zero tolerance policy” toward sexual harassment and gender bias ...
Article • August 24, 2016
] was able to introduce contraband into the institution through legal mail.” The court, however, said there was no discussion of what that evidence was, and no link between the prisoner’s escape ...
Article • January 10, 2017 • from PLN January, 2017
, p.44]. During Lockett’s execution, prison staff restricted what witnesses and the media could see. On August 25, 2014, the ACLU and the ACLU of Oklahoma filed suit against prison officials over ...
force injuries to his liver and spleen, resulting in internal bleeding. At a news conference, Sheriff Laurie Smith said she felt “disappointment and disgust” about what had happened, and noted ...
Bryan A. Stevenson, founder of the Montgomery, Alabama-based Equal Justice Initiative, which offers pro bono legal assistance to poor defendants and prisoners. “I think what these numbers dramatize ...
Article • November 7, 2017 • from PLN November, 2017
Filed under: Prison Labor
 and Belfor Property Restoration, for clearing out homeless encampments. But first, city workers visit the camp to inspect items found there and decide what can and cannot be thrown away ...
of me and I felt obligated. Degraded,” Buckmaster told Judge Bailey. “I want to see him be held accountable for what he did to me and some other people. That’s what I want.&rdquo ...
Article • July 1, 2018 • from PLN July, 2018
, if someone were to make it between the fences, it would detect weight here and it would also set off an alarm.” He added, “We would be able to respond to that alarm, find out who or what ...
, wondered how anyone is supposed to “get out and feel good about [herself] as a person” after being “talked down to like you don’t matter day after day.” What LCI prisoners ...
Article • August 10, 2016
closes “what seems to be a revolving door” and “bar those who have crafted or executed U.S. foreign policy from serving as HRW staff, advisors or board members.”  Finally ...
enough alone is what you'd expect says Byron E. Price, a professor of public administration at the City University of New York in Brooklyn and the author of Merchandizing Prisoners: Who Really Pays ...
Article • December 5, 2017 • from PLN December, 2017
’d say, ‘I’m going home,’” she observed. Crawford’s son had what seemed to be a cold when he slept with his father the last two nights of his life. The third morning ...
Bureau of Prisons. That move came as a number of state and local corrections agencies across the U.S. began to scale back what PLSM called an over-reliance on solitary confinement. In addition to limiting ...
Article • February 5, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019
What the Government Shutdown Looks Like Inside Federal Prisons by Eli Hager Family visits canceled, guards driving for Uber, rising tensions and more.  by Eli Hager, The Marshall Project ...
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
constraints, it’s critical that policy makers, corrections officials, taxpayers and legislators know exactly what their prisons cost,” noted Vera Institute director Michael Jacobson. “Many states are moving ...
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
kid, they’ll put them in jail.” He noted that tribal members wanted to find other ways besides prison to deal with what he termed “social dysfunction.” Marc Mauer, executive director of the Washington ...
Article • May 20, 2014 • from PLN May, 2014
constructive program[s] with specific performance standards.” “[The report] pointed out exactly what we assumed,” said U.S. Rep. Bobby Scott, who has been critical of mandatory minimum ...
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