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Article • October 26, 2015 • from PLN November, 2015
tragedy that we have privatized prisons all over America,” Senator Sanders declared. “In my view, corporations should not be allowed to make a profit by building more jails and keeping more ...
Article • October 26, 2015 • from PLN November, 2015
Pvt. John A. Bennett was hanged six years after his 1955 conviction for the rape and attempted murder of an 11-year-old Austrian girl. “Me and my client were essentially expecting an execution ...
Article • February 29, 2016
, and there is a growing movement nationwide to challenge solitary, led by the hunger strikes organized by prisoners in California. In my line of work, I've met a number of people who have experienced ...
lingerie, sex toys and beauty products to residents. Pamela Smith, a volunteer who ran the “My Turning Point” program at the halfway house, alleged in a discrimination suit that her program ...
, was booked into the jail the day before she died on a misdemeanor charge of destruction of property, for allegedly breaking a window at her daughter’s apartment. “I was angry about my window being ...
Article • January 15, 2012 • from PLN January, 2012
Filed under: Overcrowding, News
of any reactivation decision, said Physical Plant Manager Roger Gilbertson. “I think, on my end, it can be ready in four or five days,” said Gilbertson. He also noted that he had carried out orders from ...
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
for drinking on the job and misdiagnosing several cases. “My thinking at the time was, ‘If I don’t give this guy a chance, who will?’” Peterson reminisced. Gill was rehired by FMG in 2007, but they let him go ...
Article • March 5, 2015 • from PLN March, 2015
in the torture programs to simply walk off the stage and lead lives where they are not held accountable. I’d like at this point to once again remind my dear readers of the words of the Convention Against ...
Article • February 4, 2015 • from PLN February, 2015
think someone should help them out. I am just walking the streets now. They even threw away my ID. I don’t think that’s fair.” Prisoners released by the Florida Department of Corrections ...
federal crimes. But the problem associated with mens rea is much broader than just the question of whether someone is “knowingly” breaking the law.  My concern is with the psychological ...
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
cost Kris, and perhaps thousands of other prisoners, their chance at freedom. “Even if it wasn’t me or my husband, there are families out there that are going through the same thing that I go ...
Article • July 15, 2012 • from PLN July, 2012
would not have tolerated any type of sexual misconduct out of my staff.” Sheriff Blackfox acknowledged that he received a letter of complaint in 2008 from female prisoners, which he said he immediately ...
wrote, “My resolution could not be filed with any other company outside the private prison industry because in no other industry do a company’s employees consistently engage in rape and sexual abuse ...
Article • July 15, 2013 • from PLN July, 2013
vulnerable; 71 percent of the prisoners who died of Valley Fever between 2006 and 2011 were black. Galgiani stated, "In my opinion African-American prisoners should be excluded from these two prisons along ...
Article • July 15, 2013 • from PLN July, 2013
. Recently, while preparing to ship my desk to Florida, I came across the last letter that Billy had sent me in April 2013. He said he thought he was going to be executed soon, and commented on the ongoing ...
Article • August 15, 2013 • from PLN August, 2013
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
are at an end. "I'm too damn old to do any robbing," he said. "I think I am anyway. My old ticker might kick out on me." Experts have commented on how difficult it is for long-term prisoners to adjust ...
my residence in person just because I filed a public records request with his agency,” Friedmann said after the trial. The court issued a judgment on June 13, 2014, with Chancellor J. B. Cox ...
Article • January 12, 2015
-page note and his intent.” Investigators found four letters from Burroughs that spoke to his despair and sadness about his life. He said his family “gave up on me in my time of need.&rdquo ...
in honoring any of my orders.... They need to honor the Court orders, which they have been acting like they don’t have to. They certainly do.” Six days after his release, Walker, who had subscribed ...
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
by my friend and former PLN columnist John Midgley, the executive director of Colombia Legal Services in Seattle. I asked him in the late 1990s if he thought things were better or worse for prisoners post ...
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