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Article • September 8, 2016
Filed under: Voting, Attorney Fee Awards
Additional Attorney's Fees Allowed in Ohio Voter-Registration Suit by Derek Gilna The Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless (NEOCH) instituted a 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 case challenging the 2006 Voter ID law, which resulted in consent orders in 2006 and 2008. A similar action by the Service Employees International Union …
Article • September 8, 2016
Britain Allows Same-Sex Civil Partnerships Inside Prisons by Same-sex prisoner couples in Britain, including those in the highest security classification, have been given the go ahead to enter into civil partnership and have appropriate ceremonies. Prison Service Order 4445 outlines the requirements for prisoners seeking to enter into same-sex civil …
ACLU Report on Elderly Prisoners Calls for Common-Sense Reform by Taxpayers haven't thus far been persuaded by their sense or compassion to think twice about imprisoning nonviolent, elderly offenders. So the American Civil Liberties Union, in a June 2012 report on the mass incarceration of the elderly, has elucidated the …
China Pledges to Stop Taking Organs from Executed Prisoners by Prison officials in China—where prevailing religious beliefs dictate that humans he buried whole after their death—plan to stop taking organs from thousands of prisoners executed every year. But many doubt the practice will entirely cease because the need for organs …
China Vows to Finance Mass Incarceration with Public Funds, Not Prison Profits by Despite its atrocious human rights record, China appears to be trying to ensure prisoner safety while at the same time properly financing its prisons. Wu Aiying, China's Minister of Justice, announced in April 2012 while addressing a …
Article • September 6, 2016
Iowa Gov. Schemes to Keep Juvenile Lifers in Prison After SCOTUS Ruling by When judges make provocative rulings, they're labeled "activists" by peeved politicians. But when those same politicians execute controversial decisions, they purport to be mere protectors of the public interest. In Iowa, Governor Terry Branstad has pitted himself …
Article • September 6, 2016
Supreme Court Rules on Retroactivity of Miller v. Alabama by The Supreme Court’s prior decision in Miller v. Alabama, holding that sentencing juveniles to life without parole violates the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause, is a substantive constitutional rule that must be applied retroactively on state collateral review (unlike a …
Condoms Now Available to Prisoners in Three States by Joe Watson Legislation in California, signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown in September 2014, allows prisoners in the state’s 34 adult correctional facilities access to condoms. With the signing of Assembly Bill 999 – also known as the Prisoner Protections …
New York City’s Rikers Island Jail Agrees to Federal Consent Decree, Reforms by Derek Gilna The Rikers Island jail complex in New York City is notorious for excessive use of force against prisoners. It has been sued dozens of times by prisoners, prisoners’ rights organizations and even the U.S. Department …
Oregon DOC Sees Spike in Gang-related Murders by Mark Wilson “This is a systemic problem,” said attorney Dennis Steinman, who represented the widow of an Oregon prisoner murdered in his cell. “This is not only about Snake River. This is about the prisons statewide.” Steinman appears to be correct, given …
A Victory in the Fight to Stop Prisoner Rape by In 2012, Cornelius, a prisoner at a Florida state prison, wrote a letter to a nearby rape crisis center. Cornelius had been sexually assaulted multiple times while incarcerated. The first time was a gang rape that had happened 17 years …
Outcomes of California’s Proposition 47 by Joe Watson The passage of California’s Proposition 47 in November 2014 – which reduced many felony drug possession and property crimes to misdemeanors – might be a harbinger of criminal justice reform nationwide. But for now, reform advocates have gladly accepted the release of …
India’s Supreme Court Orders Prison and Jail Reforms by Derek Gilna The United States is not the only nation that has serious problems with the operation of its jails and prisons. Recently, an amicus curiae made a number of recommendations in a case being considered by the Supreme Court of …
Article • September 2, 2016 • from PLN September, 2016
Mexico: Drug Cartel Used Prison to Dispose of Bodies by Mexico’s national defense department calls the Zetas “the most formidable death squad to have worked for organized crime in Mexican history.” U.S. officials agree, saying the gang is “the most technologically advanced, sophisticated and dangerous cartel operating in Mexico.” One …
Department of Justice Announces Plan to Phase Out For-profit Prisons by On August 18, 2016, the Deputy Attorney General of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced, via a memo to the acting director of the federal Bureau of Prisons, that the DOJ plans to phase out contracts with private, …
Navy Nurse Refuses to Force-feed Guantanamo Prisoners by Derek Gilna An unnamed Navy nurse at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba that houses alleged terrorist detainees, who was facing expulsion from the Navy for his refusal to participate in force-feeding prisoners, has been allowed to return to his …
Brief • September 1, 2016
Cox v. Baxley, VA, Complaint, Failure to Protect, 2016 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA ROANOKE DIVISION COX, DEWAYNE JACKSON (a/k/a Dwayne Cox), Plaintiff v. BENJAMIN BAXLEY; JUSTIN MILES; JOSHUA PINKERMAN; AND BRADLEY QUINN; Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) …
Publication • September 1, 2016
Filed under: Prison Reform, Parole, Probation
Missouri Policy Shortens Probation and Parole Terms, Protects Public Safety, PEW, 2016 A brief from Aug 2016 Missouri Policy Shortens Probation and Parole Terms, Protects Public Safety Individuals on community supervision can earn credits to reduce their sentences Overview In 2012, Missouri established an “earned compliance credits” policy that allows …
PREA Review Panel: 'Cultural Change' Needed to Reduce Sexual Victimization in Prisons by Popular culture, as a recent federal report laments, continues to make jokes about sexual assaults in prison. But U.S. Department of Justice hearings on prison rape in the spring and fall of 2011 in Washington, D.C. produced …
MN Judge Sends HIV-Positive Prisoner to Psych Hospital, Blasts System that Jails Mentally Ill by A Minnesota judge in April 2012 blamed political indifference for a justice system that warehouses the mentally-ill in county jails and ultimately led to a guard's death 10 weeks after he fought with a schizophrenic …
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