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Ninth Circuit Upholds Ban on Attorney Contact Visits

Article • February 15, 1994 • from PLN February, 1994

Filed under: Prison Labor, HIV/AIDS, Food, Attorney Client, Standing, Rehabilitation Act, Visiting, Attorney Visits

by phone. Documents are exchanged through a mail slot or in some facilities by giving them to a guard. The district court found that these arrangements violate the prisoners right of access to the courts ...

Capitalist Punishment: Prison Privatization & Human Rights

Article • June 15, 2004 • from PLN June, 2004

Filed under: Private Prisons, Reviews

. Instead, they have contributed to an unacceptable level of neglect and violence against [prisoners] and detainees, diminished rights for the guards and other employees, a risk to the community, and are set ...

No Death Penalty for Maine Prisoner

Article • April 15, 2014 • from PLN April, 2014

Filed under: Death Penalty

State Prison, in Warren, where he was serving 25 years for killing a drinking buddy in 2004. At Warren, Watland had plotted with his wife to have her smuggle a gun behind her belt buckle into the prison ...

Texas Begins Intercepting and Blocking Cell Phone Calls from Prisons

Article • January 7, 2016

Filed under: Telephone Monitoring

prisoner Richard Tabler in 2008. The resulting political drama resulted in a system wide lockdown and shakedown for contraband cellular phones. In February 2012, 17 guards and several members of the Raza ...

Missouri DOC Costs State Another $600,000 in Sexual Harassment Settlement

Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019

Filed under: Sexual Harassment, Staff-Staff Harassment, Settlements

to prisoners who began calling her at home. Internal affairs then began investigating the calls, accusing LaFleur of smuggling cell phones and other contraband. She received disciplinary reports ...

Iowa DOC Changes Policy After Ombudsman Calls Out Unfair Prisoner Discipline

Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023

Filed under: Retaliatory Discipline

changes had been made to address his concerns. Like many states, Iowa has struggled with K2, a synthetic drug easily smuggled into lockups. There it is cut into hundreds of doses and resold at a massive ...

After 13 Jail Deaths in Eight Months of 2022, California Sheriff Finally Reveals How They Happened

Article • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023

Filed under: Medical Neglect/Malpractice

chalked up to “medical reasons,” a term both broad and vague that includes “one inmate who swallowed a pencil and cut an artery.” The Sheriff also stated that his jail guards had ...

Tennessee Extends CoreCivic Contract Despite Deaths, Almost $18 Million in Fines

Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Settlements, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Fines

shareholder profits by cutting costs, ignoring guards’ drug smuggling, refusing to get outside medical treatment for prisoners, and failing to provide a safe atmosphere for prisoners.” PLN also ...

Russia Drops Charges Against Prison Torture Whistleblower

Article • July 14, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022

Filed under: Whistleblowing, Guard Brutality/Beatings

conviction. There he found videos of prisoners being tortured in several Russian prisons and jails, as well as a tuberculosis sanitarium. Savelyev copied the videos onto a thumb drive and smuggled them out ...

News In Brief:

Article • November 15, 2010 • from PLN November, 2010

Filed under: News, News in Brief

vendor. Aramark Correctional Services is overseeing the new laundry program. Illinois: Timothy Fuller, 42, a guard at the Cook County Jail for 15 years, was charged on October 4 with trying to smuggle ...

Millions Paid in Mississippi Jail Deaths; Ten Guards Sentenced for Abuses; Corruption Continues

Article • September 15, 2008 • from PLN September, 2008

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Private Prisons, Correctional Services Corp., Jail Misconduct, Judicial Misconduct, Prison Labor, OB/GYN, Criminal Prosecution, Failure to Protect (General), Overcrowding, Excessive Force, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Stun Guns/Tasers, Pepper Spray/Tear Gas, Restraints, Damages, Disclosure of Records, Telephone Access, Suicides, ACA

2007, and guard Stephen Sullivan, who smuggled drugs and a cell phone into the George County jail. In Greenwood, Mississippi, CCA guard Robert Earl Hannon, who said he did not like potatoes, had a large ...

News in Brief

Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012

Filed under: News, News in Brief

News in Brief by Arizona: ASPC Florence prison guard Jeffrey Williams, 46, was arrested and booked into the Pinal County jail on April 20, 2012 after child pornography was found on his ...

News in Brief

Article • April 15, 1999 • from PLN April, 1999

Filed under: News, News in Brief

News in Brief by Azerbaijan : On January 8, 1999, 11 prisoners at the Gobustan prison camp rioted and took 28 guards hostage. Government officials agreed to the prisoners' demand of being ...

Pennsylvania: $99,000 Settlement for 22 Years in Solitary Confinement

Article • February 7, 2017 • from PLN February, 2017

Filed under: Political Prisoners, Retaliation, Retaliatory Segregation, Escapes, Eighth Amendment, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement

. In 1977, Shoatz and three other prisoners escaped from SCI Huntingdon, injuring several guards. One prisoner was killed and Shoatz was captured a month later. While on the lam he entered a prison guard ...

Human Rights Groups Condemn Worsening Conditions in Venezuelan Prisons

Article • February 2, 2016 • from PLN February, 2016

Filed under: Overcrowding, Prisoners-International

about both the lack of food and various forms of physical abuse, including beatings with bats, chains and heavy wet cloths. One video smuggled out of the Centro Penitenciario Metropolitano Yare ...

News in Brief

Article • February 15, 1995 • from PLN February, 1995

Filed under: News, News in Brief

rights groups have claimed that Venezuela's prisons are the most dangerous in the continent. A local television station said that there were only 15 guards for the 1,800 prisoners at Tocuvito. CO ...

New Jersey Supreme Court Refuses Guard’s Challenge to Firing  for Failing to Report Kiss with Prisoner

Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Staff-Prisoner Harassment, Guard Misconduct, Employee Litigation

New Jersey Supreme Court Refuses Guard’s Challenge to Firing  for Failing to Report Kiss with Prisoner by Douglas Ankney On July 23, 2024, the saga of the kiss heard ‘round the New ...

How Corrupt is Too Corrupt for Atlanta Federal Prison?

Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022

Filed under: DOC/BOP misconduct

a former guard was convicted and sentenced to prison for accepting $3,500 in bribes to smuggle tobacco into USP-Atlanta. In 2014 another guard was charged with bringing a variety of drugs, including heroin ...

Video Documentary Reports on Florida Prisons – From the Inside

Article • February 4, 2020 • from PLN February, 2020

Filed under: Conditions of Confinement

conviction, is vice president of the project. He began filming in 2015, though only footage from 2017 and later was successfully smuggled out of the facility. Whitney, who had prisoners sign release waivers ...

When Going to Jail Means Giving Up the Meds that Saved Your Life

Article • September 5, 2019 • from PLN September, 2019

Filed under: Medication, Jail Specific, Americans with Disabilities Act

that they pose safety and security concerns. The drugs are frequently smuggled into facilities and sold or traded among prisoners. Pesce worried that while he went through withdrawal from methadone in jail ...