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In-the-News Article • May 2, 2021
COVID-19, Rodents, Unpaid Labor: A Year In The Allegheny County Jail Kitchen May 2, 2021 Articles that mention PLN Pittsburgh Current By Brittany Hailer In many ways, the kitchen is the heartbeat of the Allegheny County Jail.  Forty workers at a time prepare food for more than 1,600 hungry men and …
Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021
The Punishment Economy: Winners and Losers in the Business of Mass Incarceration by Daniel A. Rosen by Daniel A. Rosen “This is an industry that profits from human suffering.” —David Fathi, Director, ACLU’s National Prison Project Starting with math may be a bad idea, but numbers help tell this story: …
Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright This issue of Prison Legal News marks our 31st anniversary since we first began publishing in May, 1990. During that time period we have witnessed many changes in the criminal justice system, pretty much all of them negative for prisoners and …
Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021
Use of Solitary Confinement During Pandemic Detrimental To Prisoners and Not Slowing Spread of COVID-19 by Chad Marks by Chad Marks Prisons have been locking prisoners in cells for up to 22 hours a day, and in some cases 24 hours a day, as the virus has swept through the …
Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: In February 2021, Huntsville TV station WHNT reported a delay in the trial on theft and ethics charges of Mike Blakely, sheriff of Limestone County, Alabama. According to the report, retired Colbert County Circuit Judge Pride Tompkins, who had been appointed to hear the case …
Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021
Repairing Credit After Release from Prison by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss After spending time in prison, rebuilding your credit can be a difficult but important task, and even more so if your credit score suffered because you couldn’t pay your debts while in prison.  Nick Cesare, a staff writer …
Report: Border Patrol Misappropriated Funds and Failed to Provide Proper Medical Care to Accurately Report Migrant Deaths by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney As a surge in migrants apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border made headlines in March 2020, the federal agency in charge was still trying to address deficiencies uncovered …
Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021
Filed under: Art
Banksy Artwork Appears on Jail in England by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Artwork that appeared on the side of Reading Prison in Berkshire, England, according to curator Vince John, appears to be a “new Banksy.” The painting shows a prisoner in stripped garb escaping on a rope made …
Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021
Filed under: COVID-19
COVID-19 Kills Jeffery Epstein’s Former Cellmate by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon On November 27, 2020, Efrain “Stone” Reyes died in his mother’s Bronx, New York apartment from COVID-19 he contracted while at the Queens, New York Correctional Center (QCC). He was 51. Prior to his stay at the Queens …
Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021
Narrowing the Remedial Gap: Damages for Disability Discrimination in Outsourced Federal Programs by Margo Schlanger by Margo Schlanger, University of Chicago Law Review Online, March 5, 2021 I. Introduction Kamyar Samimi, a sixty-four-year-old legal permanent resident from Iran, died in U.S. immigration detention in December 2017. After more than four …
Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021
Filed under: Federal Legislation
Biden’s Justice Department Nomination Faces Aggressive Opposition From Senate Republicans by Juliette LaMarr by Juliette LaMarr Kristen Clarke is President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ). As evidenced by her April 14, 2021 hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, many Republicans …
Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021
Lawsuit Over Pennsylvania Prisoner’s Fatal Asthma Attack Allegedly Triggered by Excessive Use of Pepper Spray by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The estate of a Philadelphia man who died of asthma in a Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) prison filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the DOC and officials …
Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021
Filed under: COVID-19
Why Did a St. Louis Man Die in a Federal Prison Coronavirus Hotspot? by Mike Fitzgerald by Mike Fitzgerald, originally published by the Riverfront Times Derrick Howard was tough — prison tough. Howard grew up in the St. Louis suburb of Normandy. In his late teens, before his first stretch …
Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021
Filed under: COVID-19, Staffing
Texas Prisons Close Amid Pandemic by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) shuttered its Wayne Scott Unit in Brazoria County on December 15, 2020. Its Neal Unit in Amarillo and Gurney Unit outside Palestine were also closed by the end of 2020. TDCJ said …
Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021
The Importance of Establishing Veterans Benefits While in Prison by Art Gage by Art Gage Imprisoned veterans across the country need to know about the service-connected disability compensation and rehabilitation benefits they may be eligible for. Even as prisoners, veterans still have options which are not available to the general …
Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021
Alabama Prisons, Among Deadliest for COVID-19, Not Prepared to Vaccinate Prisoners by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss The Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) has postponed COVID-19 vaccinations for prisoners, although a March 1, 2021 story by The Marshall Project and the Associated Press placed the state prison system eighth in …
Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021
ICE Holding Cuban Detainee for 11 Years and Counting Following Florida Prison Release by Daniel A. Rosen by Daniel A. Rosen Heriberto Delvalle’s story sounds like a Kafka novel, but it’s sadly true. After serving his 15-year sentence for attempted murder in a Florida state prison, he was detained by …
Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021
Massachusetts Uses Medical Parole to Avoid In-Custody Deaths From COVID-19 by Daniel A. Rosen by Daniel A. Rosen Joseph Messere, a 68-year-old prisoner in Massachusetts, was just days away from death in December 2020 when his attorney got a phone call from state officials. The Parole Board and state Department …
Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews
Amid Widespread Calls for Abolition, Mariame Kaba Sheds Light With Latest Book by Juliette LaMarr by Juliette LaMarr Mariame Kaba has released a book in response to the rise in abolitionist thinking in the last year, per a February 23, 2021 article for NBC News. Last summer, as thousands gathered …
Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021
Filed under: Tapes/Music
Music Project Brings Prisoners’ Stories to Life in Song by Daniel A. Rosen by Daniel A. Rosen Folsom Prison was once the setting for an iconic musical performance, when Johnny Cash first played live there in 1968. Now, Folsom prisoners are performing their own songs, and telling their stories with …
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