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Article • April 26, 2024
After Stripping Crucial Jail Services, NYC Splurges on $90,000 in Submachine Guns for Rikers Island Guards by Jordan Arizmendi by Jordan Arizmendi According to a purchase order posted online by the New York City Department of Citywide Administrative Services on June 22, 2023, the city Department of Correction [DOC] paid …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Filed under: Education, Art, Tapes/Music
Lights, Camera, Action! “Dead Man Walking” Comes to Sing Sing by When a new production of “Dead Man Walking,” the opera based on the 1993 memoir of Louisiana death penalty abolitionist Sister Helen Prejean, opened at New York City’s Metropolitan Opera in September 2023, there was a rare offsite performance—at …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Federal Prisoners Released Under First Step Act Show 37% Reduction in Recidivism by Matthew Clarke
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
“More jobs than people”: Prisoners Training to Work on Ohio Infrastructure Projects after Release by With unemployment at historic lows, Ohio is preparing prisoners for jobs after release by offering training in technical skills. In December 2023, the first group of eight state prisoners completed one such program, after training …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Filed under: Art, Child Pornography
Federal Prisoner in Virginia Convicted on Fresh Kiddie Porn Charges After Drawing His Own by In a stunning example of government overreach, a federal judge in Virginia handed an additional child pornography conviction to a prisoner at the Federal Correctional Complex in Petersburg on August 7, 2023—not for possessing images …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Second Circuit Says New York Prisons Must Answer for Denying Court-Ordered Rehab by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On July 4, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed denial of qualified immunity (QI) to New York state prison officials who refused a prisoner’s judicially ordered …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Virginia Prisoner Wins Habeas Release on Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Claim by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney There was good news and bad news for former Virginia prisoner Jeramiah Chamberlain on December 22, 2021. That’s when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed dismissal of his suit …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
New York Jailhouse Lawyer Wins Resentencing, Release by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart At 28 years old, drug addicted and semi-homeless, Kelly Harnett was nobody’s idea of a model citizen. So when implicated along with boyfriend Thomas Donovan in a July 2010 murder in a public park in Queens, New …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Settlement Includes $78,000 in Damages Against Minnesota DOC for ADA Violations by On February 14, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a complaint in federal court for the District of Minnesota against the state Department of Corrections (DOC) concerning violations of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Filed under: Education, Video Visitation
The Lecturer at the Lockup: Maine Prisoner Is First to Teach College Courses from His Cell by Professor Leo Hylton’s class is like almost every other at Colby College in Maine. Students form a circle with their chairs around their professor. His course on prison abolition – the movement to …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Filed under: Education, halfway houses
California College Offers Housing, Services to Formally Incarcerated Students by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders For decades, prisoners were not eligible for federal financial aid for college education. So when Congress passed the Second Chance Act in 2020, rescinding ineligibility for felons and prisoners to access federal Pell Grant funding …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Filed under: Art
California Prisoners Embracing Arts by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss In November 2022, about 20 prisoners at California Institution for Men (CIM) in Chino staged a dance show. You read that right. Smashing what New York Times reporter Brian Selbert called “prison culture codes of masculine behavior,” the men …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
State Prison Systems Failing to Provide Meaningful Programming by Casey Bastian By Casey J. Bastian There are around 1.25 million prisoners in state prison systems. Prior to incarceration, most were poor, uneducated, disadvantaged or marginalized. But wait-lists for prison education and other programming indicate prisoners desire to better themselves. Yet …
Article • May 9, 2023
Former Federal Prisoner Markets Game App He Developed Behind Bars by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss Prison is often compared to as a pressure cooker, exerting powerful forces that can either make or break someone. With a stunning list of achievements, Eric Van Buren is not one of the …
Article • May 1, 2023 • from PLN May, 2023
Filed under: Education
College Education Disrupted for Washington Prisoners by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss At the same time the federal government is once again opening Pell Grants to prisoners, some have been left scrambling in Washington by closure of the State Reformatory (WSR) – which hosted the state’s primary college program …
Article • May 1, 2023 • from PLN May, 2023
Filed under: Art, Prisoner Media, TV/Movies
MTV Documentary Shines Light on Art Behind Bars by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Etymology, the study of word origins, provides insight into commonly used words. For instance, ‘cell’ and ‘hell’ share an ancient root meaning ‘hide’: A resident of either is unseen, hidden away from society and the realm …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Educating Prisoners: New Meta-Analysis Reinforces That It Reduces Recidivism by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders With the highest incarceration rate in the world – over six out of every 1,000 people – America has long known there is one thing that consistently reduces recidivism: education. A recent meta-analysis conducted by …
Article • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023
Fifth Circuit Greenlights Suit by Louisiana Prisoners Held in Local Jails Beyond Release Date by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 10, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that Louisiana prison officials were not entitled to qualified immunity (QI) for delays in calculating release …
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
Student Loan Debt and Prisoners by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon After Pres. Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D) took action in August 2022 to forgive up to $20,000 in federal or federally insured student loan debt, nearly 22 million of some 44 million Americans affected rushed to sign up. Prisoners …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
Filed under: Hepatitis, Tattoos
Minnesota Department of Corrections Searching for Tattooist for New Prison Program by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett The Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) began advertising for a new position in April 2022: A professional tattoo artist. The new hire will serve prisoners from a tattoo parlor being opened at Stillwater …
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