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Article • August 15, 2007 • from PLN August, 2007
$1.2 Million Compensation Package Approved For Wrongfully Convicted Georgia Man by Who can put a price on wrongful imprisonment? The Georgia legislature can. On March 19, 2007, the Georgia House of Representatives approved a $1.2 million compensation package for a man who spent 23 years in prison for a rape …
Article • August 15, 2007 • from PLN August, 2007
Connecticut: Victims’ Privacy Protection Saves Some Sex Offenders From Public Registration by John Dannenberg Connecticut: Victims' Privacy Protection Saves Some Sex Offenders From Public Registration by John E. Dannenberg In Connecticut, some convicted sex offenders' names will not show up on the state's public online registry. Under penal statute Section …
Government Segregates Muslim Prisoners Restricts Phone Calls and Visits by Government Segregates Muslim Prisoners, Restricts Phone Calls and Visits By William Fisher Legal authorities are charging that racial profiling is responsible for low-risk Muslim prisoners convicted for crimes the Justice Department intimates are terror-related being held in a segregated unit, …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief: by California: On April 20, 2007, John Whittle, a former guard at the Mule Creek State Prison was sentenced to two years in prison for smuggling methamphetamine to prisoners in exchange for five thousand dollars worth of bribes. Florida: On June 20, 2006, Nelson Mompierre, 43, a …
Florida Boot Camp Death Results in Manslaughter Charges Against 7 Guards and Nurse; Civil Claims Settled for $7,425,000 by After two autopsies and an 11-month investigation, aggravated manslaughter charges were issued in the death of 14-year-old Martin Lee Anderson at a Florida boot camp. Anderson?s death at the Bay County …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
Move From Texas Legislator To Lobbyist Poses Ethical Question by Gary Hunter After serving 12 years in the Texas Legislature state Representative Ray Allen resigned citing financial difficulties. ?I simply cannot afford to serve on a $600-a-month salary with no other source of income,? said Allen. Allen has since overcome …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
Satellite Surveillance Approved For Wisconsin Sex Offenders by Gary Hunter Tracking sex offenders just cost Wisconsin taxpayers millions of dollars and ensures that citizens will pay millions more every year. Governor Jim Doyle signed a bill on May 22, 2006 that requires GPS monitoring for certain child molesters. The vote …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
Florida Eliminates DNA Testing Deadline by During its 2006 Legislative session, the Florida Legislature enacted a law that eliminates deadlines for when prisoners can request DNA testing. That law comes on the heels of numerous prisoners being released from death row and imprisonment on lesser sentences for crimes they did …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
Arizona Enacts Three Strikes Law, Again by The Arizona Legislator and Governor have continued exploiting the ?get tough on poor criminals? bandwagon, enacting SB 1444, in April, 2006, a law that requires a life sentence for any person convicted of a third violent felony. That law prohibits ?suspension of sentence, …
Corporate Prison Boom, Immigration, And The Law by By Tilda Sosaya Prison construction is booming in the USA, and New Mexico has been the guinea pig for the largest of the private prison corporations like Corrections Corporation of America, Cornell, GEO Corp. (aka, Wackenhut, Group 4 Falk) and MTC. In …
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief: by Afghanistan: On May 6, 2007, two US army soldiers were shot and killed outside the Pul-i-Charki prison near Kabul and two others were wounded when an Afghan soldier opened fire on their vehicle as it was leaving the prison. The dead soldiers were training guards in …
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
Maryland Restores Voting Rights to 50,000 Felons by Annapolis, MD - Governor Martin O?Malley on April 24, 2007, signed legislation re-enfranchising more than 50,000 Maryland residents who have completed their felony sentences of prison, parole, and probation. O?Malley?s support of the ?Voting Registration Protection Act? ends the state?s draconian lifetime …
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
Missouri Legislature Allows Wrongfully Convicted to Receive Compensation by The Missouri Legislature has enacted legislation to compensate all persons declared "actually innocent" after DNA testing. In the last 15 years, five such prisoners in Missouri were released after being exonerated by DNA testing. The latest action by that legislature sought …
Article • May 15, 2007
No Application of Florida's Indigency Statute to Collateral Criminal Proceedings by No Application of Florida's Indigency Statute to Collateral Criminal Proceedings The Florida Supreme Court has held that Florida's Prisoner Indigency Statute (PIS), §57.085, Florida Statutes, does not apply to collateral criminal proceedings. PIS was enacted to reduce the filing …
Seventh Circuit Upholds RLUIPA as Constitutional Under Spending, Establishment Clauses by Seventh Circuit Upholds RLUIPA as Constitutional Under Spending, Establishment Clauses The U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, affirming the federal district court, Western District of Wisconsin, held that the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) was constitutional …
Article • May 15, 2007
Pennsylvania PLRA Unconstitutional; Obscenity Ban Upheld by The Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that two provisions of the Pennsylvania Prison Litigation Reform Act (PaPLRA) violate the Pennsylvania Constitution and are, therefore, invalid. In 1998 the Pennsylvania Legislature amended 18 Pa. C.S. § 5903(a)(7)-(9), the state's obscenity law, to make it a …
Article • May 15, 2007 • from PLN May, 2007
Registration Requirements Expanded to Non-Sex Crimes and Unconvicted Offenses by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke Ohio and Illinois have recently expanded the scope of persons required to register with the state as sex offenders to include persons who have never been charged with or convicted of a sex crime. …
Article • May 15, 2007 • from PLN May, 2007
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief: by Arizona: On May 1, 2006, Timothy Monk, 34, a prisoner at the Wilmot Prison, took prison guard Laurel Kennedy hostage while armed with a razor blade shank, demanding a transfer to the state of Montana in exchange for her release. Monk released Kennedy unharmed after six …
ABA Recommends Congress Repeal Portions of PLRA by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The American Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Section has issued a report that “urges Congress to repeal or amend specified portions of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA).” That report was sent for approval and action by …
Article • May 15, 2007 • from PLN May, 2007
Doing “Katrina Time” by Bob Williams Doing "Katrina Time" by Bob Williams Last month, PLN's cover story addressed the terrors and tribulations faced by prisoners when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans on August 29, 2005 -- not just the horrors of the storm, but also the brutality and abuse inflicted …
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