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Article • July 7, 2015 • from PLN July, 2015
Ten Law Enforcement Groups Among Worst Charities in America by Joe Watson Ten Law Enforcement Groups Among Worst Charities in America by Joe Watson Of America’s 48 worst charities, ten – or just over 20% – are affiliated with law enforcement groups, according to a joint investigation by the Tampa …
Article • June 10, 2015
Santa Clara County Fulfilled Meeting and Conferring Obligations in Reducing Peace Officer's Work Hours by Santa Clara County Fulfilled Meeting and Conferring Obligations in Reducing Peace Officer's Work Hours The California Appeals Court for the Sixth District has held that Santa Clara County (“County”) fulfilled its lawful obligations “to meet …
Article • June 3, 2015 • from PLN June, 2015
Arbitrator’s Award on Pay Raises for Prison Guards Costs Pennsylvania County $5 Million by David Reutter Arbitrator’s Award on Pay Raises for Prison Guards Costs Pennsylvania County $5 Million by David M. Reutter Pennsylvania’s Lancaster County Commission has been forced to dip into its reserve funds to comply with an …
Article • April 9, 2015 • from PLN April, 2015
Oregon Prison Guard Union Sues Mentally Ill Prisoners by Oregon Prison Guard Union Sues Mentally Ill Prisoners Oregon prison officials report that around 16 percent of the state’s 14,500 prisoners are “severely mentally ill.” In 2013 the union representing Oregon guards began suing some of those prisoners, in part to …
Article • February 4, 2015 • from PLN February, 2015
Filed under: Guard Unions
Wisconsin Prison Guard Union Faces Challenges by Derek Gilna Wisconsin Prison Guard Union Faces Challenges by Derek Gilna A 2013 memo issued by then-incoming Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC) Secretary Edward F. Wall, in which he warned DOC employees to stop spreading rumors, was apparently another example of contentious relations …
Article • January 13, 2015
Guards Union Complaints Prompt Funds Transfer to Avoid Sequester Furloughs by Derek Gilna Guards Union Complaints Prompt Funds Transfer to Avoid Sequester Furloughs by Derek Gilna Tightening budgets due to the 2013 sequester cuts have forced U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to transfer $150 million from other agencies to allow …
Brief • March 4, 2014
Michigan Corrections Organization v. MI DOC, MI, Judgment, Guards Sue over Overtime, 2014 RECOMMENDED FOR FULL-TEXT PUBLICATION Pursuant to Sixth Circuit I.O.P. 32.1(b) File Name: 14a0294p.06 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT _________________ MICHIGAN CORRECTIONS ORGANIZATION, Service ┐ Employees International Union, Local 526M, et al., │ Plaintiffs-Appellants, …
Mangaung and Beyond: Private Prison Exemplifies South Africa’s Criminal Justice Woes by James Kilgore In recent months a battle has erupted at Mangaung prison in South Africa. Mangaung, located near the city of Bloemfontein, is one of the country’s two privately-operated correctional facilities. Managed by British-based G4S, which bills itself …
Article • January 15, 2014 • from PLN January, 2014
Connecticut Guards File Grievances over Efforts to Stem Super Bowl Absenteeism by Connecticut prison guards filed almost 100 grievances over temporary changes in work rules intended to reduce the number of guards calling in sick on Super Bowl XLVI, which pitted the New York Giants against the New England Patriots. …
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
Federal Prisoners Paid During Government Shutdown, but Not Prison Guards by Derek Gilna One of the ironies of the recent 16-day federal government shutdown, which ended on October 16, 2013, is that prisoners in the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) continued to receive their paychecks while BOP workers did not. …
Article • October 15, 2013 • from PLN October, 2013
CDCR to Block Contraband Cell Phone Signals at all Facilities by The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has awarded a six-year system-wide telephone contract to Global Tel*Link (GTL), which requires the company to install equipment capable of blocking signals from contraband cell phones at the state’s 33 adult …
Article • August 15, 2013
California: Court Upholds Governor’s Authority to Contract with Out-of-State Private Prisons during Prison Overcrowding State of Emergency by The California Court of Appeal held in 2008 that Governor Schwarzenegger did not exceed his authority when, after invoking the Emergency Services Act (Gov. Code § 8550 et seq.) to issue a …
Article • July 15, 2013 • from PLN July, 2013
California: Eastern District Jury Pool Alleged to be Biased Against Prisoners by Defense attorneys representing two prisoners accused of murdering a federal prison guard have argued that the jury pool in the region – the Central Valley of California – is biased against prisoners due to the numerous correctional facilities …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Slowly Closing the Gates: A State-by-State Assessment of Recent Prison Closures by Christopher Petrella by Christopher Petrella and Alex Friedmann After nearly 40 years of unprecedented growth, our nation's expanding prison population has finally begun to sputter. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2010 marked the first year since …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Solidarity and Solitary: When Unions Clash with Prison Reform by James Ridgeway by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella On January 4, 2013, Tamms supermax in southern Illinois officially closed its doors. The prison, where some men had been in solitary confinement for more than a decade, had become notorious for …
Florida Proceeds with Privatization of Prison Medical Care by The Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) is moving forward with a legislative mandate to privatize its entire medical system. Whether the plan is implemented, however, may depend on the outcome of a lawsuit filed by prison health care workers challenging the …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Filed under: Guards/Staff, Guard Unions
Pennsylvania Prison Guards, Sergeants Out-earn Supervisors by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Life in prison has alwayss been far different than life in the free world. An investigation by the Pittsburgh-Gazette into the wages of Pennsylvania prison employees revealed one of those differences – an Alice-in-Wonderland quality to the …
Article • May 15, 2013
California Appellate Court Balks at Permitting Pay Raises for Corrections Medical Employees Without First Obtaining Legislative Approval by In October 2012, the Third District Court of Appeal overturned an arbitrator’s ruling that certain medical employees of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), requested by the Service Employees International …
Article • May 15, 2013
Oregon Guards Challenge Schedule Changes Without Collective Bargaining by The Oregon Supreme Court reversed a lower court's holding that the Department of Corrections (DOC) did not commit an unfair labor practice in failing to bargain with its employees' union, the Association of Oregon Corrections Employees (AOCE). AOCE and DOC were …
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
Iowa Pays Almost $500,000 to Fired Parole, Prison Supervisors by Joe Watson Non-union membership in the Hawkeye State apparently has its privileges, at least for parole and prison officials in management positions. Between August 2011 and early 2012, when Iowa’s Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) ruled in their favor, 18 …
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