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Article • September 8, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021
Filed under: Voting, Rural Prisons
Nominal Representation Without Actual Representation: One Person, No Vote by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon In the antebellum South, the Missouri Compromise allowed for every slave to count as four-fifths of a person for census and representative purposes. In our current, much more enlightened nation, every prisoner counts as an …
Article • September 1, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021
Filed under: Rural Prisons
Florida’s Brutal Prison System Will Continue to Subsidize Rural Economies, With No Meaningful Reform in Sight by David Reutter by David M. Reutter When the Florida Legislature opened for its annual 60-day session in March 2021, hopes were high that at least some of the criminal justice reform bills would …
Article • June 25, 2021
Filed under: Protests, Rural Prisons
Rural Citizens in North Carolina Resisting New Jail by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon   Haywood County, North Carolina is a conservative, rural political entity located in a mountainous region in the state’s west. Trump won his 2020 reelection bid there by 30 points with staunch republican Madison Cawthorn being …
Article • June 1, 2021 • from PLN June, 2021
Filed under: Rural Prisons
Texas Republican Representative Proposes Renaming Prisons With Names Honoring Enslavers, Oppressors and Convict Leasers by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke It may not be surprising to readers of Prison Legal News that many prisons throughout the US are named after people who were slave owners, officers in the Confederate Army, …
Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021
Filed under: Rural Prisons
Baltimore Demolishes Maryland’s Oldest Penitentiary, Burying Its Nostalgia And Nightmares by Michael Fortino, Ph.D by Michael Fortino, Ph.D. Sic semper tyrannis! “Death to tyrants!”one spectator angrily proclaimed, as the city of Baltimore demolished the State of Maryland’s oldest and most austere penitentiary, an 80-foot high, granite, medieval-style castle with roots …
Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021
"Conservative New York County Enacts Progressive Transgender Prisoner Policy" by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On July 22, 2020, a rural and politically conservative county in western New York implemented one of the nation’s most progressive transgender jail policies, also agreeing to pay a transgender woman $60,000 to settle a …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Filed under: Rural Prisons
Progress Made in Fight Against Prison Gerrymandering But Battle Continues by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Gerrymandering is defined in U.S. politics as “the dividing of a state, county, etc., into election districts so as to give one political party a majority in many districts while concentrating the voting strength …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Filed under: Rural Prisons
Urban Redo: Lorton, Virginia Prison Recreated as Liberty Village by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Developers in Fairfax County, Virginia, are remaking the Lorton Reformatory historical landmark into a suburban village. County officials are using the prime real estate just off I-95 with good roads to D.C. and a growing …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Filed under: Rural Prisons
Some Prisons Bear Names of Enslavers, Oppressors, Racists and Segregationists by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Questions are currently being raised about the historic figures in whose honor statues were erected and schools and streets were named. Names include those of segregationists, slave owners and racists. Now, attention is being …
Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
Filed under: Rural Prisons, Education
Failed Michigan Jail Site to Host Innovation Center by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The University of Michigan (UM) is building a graduate campus on the grounds of the former site for a new Wayne County Jail (WCJ). The 190,000 square-foot research and graduate education building for UM students …
Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
Filed under: Rural Prisons
Native Americans Protest Theft of Alcatraz Island by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon The dubious history of agreement, contract and treaty breaking by the United States and its state governments was briefly addressed in the February 2019 issue of Criminal Legal News [p. 33]. The federal government has been in …
Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
Filed under: Rural Prisons
Former Pennsylvania Prison All Solitary with Silence Mandatory by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon To be penitent is generally defined to be sorry for the wrongs, sins, misdeeds or offenses a person has committed. The word penitent is actually the root of the word penitentiary, which is another word for …
Article • October 1, 2020 • from PLN October, 2020
NYC Floating Jail May Finally be Closed by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins The Hunts Point neighborhood of the Bronx was emblematic of the Big Apple’s rotten core in the 1990s, an area saturated with drugs, homelessness and prostitution. Facing an influx of inmates from rising crime rates, the city …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19, Rural Prisons
Prioritizing Jails Over Hospitals Has Made Rural US More Vulnerable to COVID-19 by Jasmine Heiss, Jack Norton by Jasmine Heiss and Jack Norton, reprinted from Truthout Infrastructure development is a matter of life and death: This has always been true, and we are now in a clarifying moment. In the midst …
Brief • November 26, 2018
Barroca v. Bureau of Prisons, D.C., Complaint, Building Plans, 2018 Case 1:18-cv-02740 Document 1 Filed 11/26/18 Page 1 of 56 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Robert Barroca, Robert Black , David Cilla * CASE NO: 1:18-cv-2740 Auburn Calloway, Corvain Cooper, Manuel * Gauna, Christopher …
Article • November 6, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018
Surprise Shutdown of Maine Prison Leads to Controversy, Court Order by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis In a sudden move that local residents called a “Gestapo tactic,” Maine Governor Paul LePage ordered the closure of a small prison in rural Washington County. The Downeast Correctional Facility (DCF), with a capacity …
Vera Institute of Justice--The New Dynamics of Mass Incarceration Report, 2018 The New Dynamics of Mass Incarceration Jacob Kang-Brown, Oliver Hinds, Jasmine Heiss, and Olive Lu June 2018 From The Director The turn of the century marked a new direction for the nation’s prisons and jails: after three decades of …
Vera Institute of Justice--The New Dynamics of Mass Incarceration Fact Sheet, 2018 The New Dynamics of Mass Incarceration After decades of continuous and unified growth across all states from the 1970s to the early 2000s, the landscape of U.S. incarceration fragmented into distinct trends. The last decade has been characterized …
Texas Policy Foundation Center for Effective Justice--Open Roads and Overflowing Jails--Addressing High Rates of Rural Pretrial Incarceration, May 2018 OPEN ROADS AND OVERFLOWING JAILS: Addressing High Rates of Rural Pretrial Incarceration by Marc Levin and Michael Haugen May 2018 May 2018 by Marc Levin Michael Haugen Center for Effective Justice …
Article • March 28, 2017
The Politics of Prisons: Location Affects Legislators’ Voting on Criminal Reform by Tim Marema by Tim Marema, Daily Yonder Legislators representing rural areas with prisons are less likely to support lighter sentencing and other criminal reforms. A new study argues that's because these rural legislators think they have an economic interest …
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