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Misadventures in Mail Censorship by Robert Schaeffer by K. Robert Schaeffer How an incarcerated writer is fighting a sad new normal of censorship and mail obstruction in Pennsylvania prisons This essay originally appeared in Inquest on October 19, 2023. The original can be found at https://inquest.org/misadventures-in-mail-censorship/ From August into September …
$9,000 Settlement for Florida Prisoner’s Retaliation and Excessive Force Claims Against Guards by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On June 28, 2023, Florida prisoner Quincy Williams reached a settlement with the state and its Department of Corrections (DOC), which agreed to pay him $9,000 to resolve claims he was …
Eleventh Circuit Addresses First Amendment, Due Process Interests in Georgia Prisoner Emails by New communications technology introduced in prisons and jails has raised questions as to how prisoners’ First Amendment rights are implicated. Such concerns were addressed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on June 23, …
Brief • December 7, 2023
Filed under: Mail, Publications/Books
UnCommon Law-CDCR, Ltr Re Public Comment Re NCR 23-12 Proposed Reg Changes -Dec. 2023 (l) UNCOMMON LAW JUSTICE DONE DIFFERENTLY 318 Harrison Street, Suite 103, Oakland, CA 94607 Tel: (510) 271-0310 | Fax: (510) 817-4918 www.uncommonlaw.org December 7, 2023 CDCR Regulation and Policy Management Branch RPMB@cdcr.ca.gov CDCR Regulation and Policy …
Publication • December 7, 2023
LSPC-CDCR- Public Comments Re Ncr 23-12 Mail Processing - Dec. 2023 Legal Services for Prisoners with Children 4400 Market Street, Oakland, CA 94608 Regulation and Policy Management Branch Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation P.O. Box 942883 Sacramento, CA, 94283-0001 December 7, 2023 Re: Public Comment on NCR 23-12 Dear Regulation …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Prison Ministry Sues Indiana Jail Over Book Ban by Unshackled Hearts is a central Indiana prison ministry that says its mission is to bring spiritual “restoration and freedom” to incarcerated Hoosiers through bible study, positive communication, and heart healing. But it hit a wall at the Howard County Jail (HCJ) …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Five Years After Limiting Personal Visits and Banning Mail, Drug Use Worse in Pennsylvania Prisons by As reported by the Harrisburg Patriot News on April 21, 2023, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) implemented a solution to the drug problem in state prisons in September 2018 that has proved cruel …
Brief • September 1, 2023
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Article • June 22, 2023
California Appeal Court Won’t Let Prisoner Use Legal Mail to Send “Kites” by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On January 12, 2023, California&rsquo;s Sixth District Court of Appeal concluded that attorney-client privilege did not apply to a state prisoner&rsquo;s &ldquo;kites,&rdquo; even when included in an envelope addressed to his …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Ninth Circuit Says Arizona DOC Policy Cannot Be Used to Censor Prisoner’s Free Expression by David Reutter by David Reutter&nbsp; An Arizona prisoner&rsquo;s civil rights claim is headed to trial in June 2023, after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reinstated it, saying his prison&rsquo;s policy on …
Article • June 13, 2023
Filed under: Banned Book Lists
Florida DOC Bans Book About Wrongful Conviction by Gregory Teixeira by Gregory P. Teixeira There&rsquo;s a new victim in the troubling book-banning trend by the Florida Department of Corrections (DOC). Already boasting the nation&rsquo;s longest list of books banned behind bars &ndash;over 20,000 titles [See: PLN, Feb. 2, 2023, online] …
HRDC v. Ishee, et al., NC, Order Granting Motion to Compel, 2023 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA WESTERN DIVISION No. 5:21-CV-00469-FL Human Rights Defense Center, Plaintiff, Order v. Casandra Skinner Hoekstra, et al., Defendants. Plaintiff Human Rights Defense Center claims the North …
HRDC v. Ishee, et al., NC, Order to Recover Attorneys Fees and Expenses, 2023 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA WESTERN DIVISION No. 5:21-CV-00469-FL Human Rights Defense Center, Plaintiff, Order v. Casandra Skinner Hoekstra, et al., Defendants. The court has found that Plaintiff …
HRDC v. Ishee, et al., NC, Order Granting Motion to Compel, 2023 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA WESTERN DIVISION No. 5:21-CV-00469-FL Human Rights Defense Center, Plaintiff, Order v. Casandra Skinner Hoekstra, et al., Defendants. Plaintiff Human Rights Defense Center claims the North …
HRDC v. Ishee, et al., NC, Order to Recover Attorneys Fees and Expenses, 2023 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA WESTERN DIVISION No. 5:21-CV-00469-FL Human Rights Defense Center, Plaintiff, Order v. Casandra Skinner Hoekstra, et al., Defendants. The court has found that Plaintiff …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Despite Official Claims, Stopping Mail to Missouri Prisoners Has No Effect on Drug Overdoses by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart The drugs are coming in the mail. Or so they say. There&rsquo;s no question that the drugs are coming into Missouri state prisons; an average of 34 prisoner overdoses a …
Article • February 7, 2023
Michigan Prisons Ban 1,000 Books, Most Would Be Considered Harmless by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott&nbsp; After a review of public records from Michigan, online magazine and video channel Motherboard found that the state&rsquo;s Department of Corrections (DOC) has restricted prisoner access to at least 1,000 books between …
Article • February 2, 2023
Florida Tops the Nation for Number of Books Banned in Prisons by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On December 21, 2022, after a year of records requests and research by criminal justice nonprofit The Marshall Project, a database of 54,000 banned books was compiled from prisons in 18 …
Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022
Filed under: Due Process
Federal Judge Says Alaska DOC Policy Rejecting Prisoner Mail Without Notice Violates Due Process by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson Can a prisoner&rsquo;s mail be rejected without any notice whatsoever? Not without violating his Fourteenth Amendment due process rights. That was the decision of a federal court in Alaska on …
HRDC v. Ishee, et al., NC, First Amended Complaint, Censorship, 2022 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA WESTERN DIVISION CASE NO. CASE NO. 5:21-CV-469-FL HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT Plaintiff, vs. CASANDRA SKINNER HOEKSTRA, ERIK A. HOOKS, TIM MOOSE, DOUG PARDUE, …
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