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Article • June 2, 2017
Filed under: Databases, FBI
FBI to Overhaul Crime Tracking Program and Encourage Local Agency Cooperation by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton For more than eighty years the FBI has operated the Uniform Crime Report (UCR), which allows law enforcement agencies to report and compile numbers and types of crimes that were reported to them. …
America's Private-Prison Industry Has Always Been All Right by Rick Paulas President Donald Trump has restored consumer confidence in private prisons—but they were never in danger of failing to begin with. by Rick Paulas For the country's largest private prison corporation, the last six months at the stock market have …
Opposition to Prison Is an Environmental Fight in Appalachia by Sara Imperiale by Sara Imperiale A proposed federal prison has become the focus of opposition for advocates concerned about the project's most notable feature: it’s slated for a mountaintop coal removal site. Coal companies mine by mountaintop removal predominately in …
Article • May 16, 2017
She was Desperate. She Tried to End Her Own Pregnancy. She was Thrown in Jail by Nina Liss-Schultz by Nina Liss-Schultz, Mother Jones "I was a mess, I was crying, I didn't know what to do." One night in May 2009, Jocelyn packed a backpack and left the ramshackle house in …
Article • May 10, 2017
How Our User-Pay Justice System Drives Mass Incarceration by Jon Wool by Jon Wool (Director, Vera Institute of Justice New Orleans Office) A few years ago, when the district attorney in New Orleans proposed shifting misdemeanor marijuana cases from the state court to the municipal court, the state court judges …
Solitary Confinement Is Used to Break People -- I Know Because I Endured It by Monica Cosby by Monica Cosby, Truthout Solitary confinement. Administrative segregation. Administrative detention. Restrictive housing. Temporary confinement. Protective custody. Appropriate placement. There are many names for solitary confinement. In the Illinois prisons where I was incarcerated, it …
Registration, Tracking of Sex Offenders Drives Mass Incarceration Numbers and Costs by Rick Anderson by Rick Anderson The September 1988 rape and murder of 29-year-old Diane Ballasiotes in Seattle, Washington, followed by the 1989 rape and sexual mutilation of a 7-year-old Tacoma boy, were the seedlings of today’s nationwide sex …
Article • May 5, 2017 • from PLN May, 2017
Filed under: Pepper Spray/Tear Gas
Congress Passes Legislation Allowing BOP Guards to Carry Pepper Spray by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The “Eric Williams Correctional Officers Protection Act” (S.238), named after a federal prison guard murdered by a prisoner at USP Canaan in Pennsylvania, passed both houses of Congress by unanimous votes. The bill provides …
Article • May 5, 2017 • from PLN May, 2017
Federal Court Awards Virginia Prisoner $500 for Excessive Force Claim by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton Following a bench trial on November 15, 2015, a magistrate judge in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia recommended awarding a state prisoner $500 after determining that two prison guards …
Article • May 5, 2017 • from PLN May, 2017
Las Vegas Judge Ousted after Ordering Public Defender Handcuffed by On February 28, 2017, the Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline ordered former Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Conrad Hafen to never again serve as a judge in the state. Hafen also agreed to a public censure after admitting he …
Article • May 5, 2017 • from PLN May, 2017
$25,000 Federal Jury Award in Suit over Teenager Raped in Oklahoma Jail by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On March 2, 2016, a federal jury awarded $25,000 to a woman who had been repeatedly sexually assaulted by a Tulsa, Oklahoma jailer when she was a minor held at the Tulsa …
Article • May 5, 2017 • from PLN May, 2017
Filed under: Racial Discrimination
The Sentencing Project Explores Impact of Race and Ethnicity on U.S. Prison System by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna A June 2016 report by The Sentencing Project found that blacks are incarcerated in state prisons at much higher rates than whites – up to ten times the incarceration rate in …
Article • May 5, 2017 • from PLN May, 2017
Four Prisoners Murdered at South Carolina Facility by On April 7, 2017, four minimum-security prisoners at the Kirkland Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina were found dead in a cell. A South Carolina Law Enforcement Division investigation revealed that John King, 52; Jason Kelley, 35; Jimmy Ham, 56; and William …
Article • May 5, 2017 • from PLN May, 2017
Fifth Circuit Upholds $2.85 Million Award in Suit over Jail Prisoner’s Death by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On November 29, 2016, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a jury award of $1.5 million for pain and suffering and $917,000 for wrongful death in a lawsuit brought by survivors …
Article • May 5, 2017 • from PLN May, 2017
Oregon Prison System’s Medical Rule and Policy Invalidated by The Oregon Court of Appeals held in March 2016 that an Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) rule which authorized the Health Services clinical director to appoint the chief medical officer for each state prison was invalid because it conflicted with a …
Article • May 5, 2017 • from PLN May, 2017
Filed under: Statistics/Trends, Trials
The Case of the Disappearing Criminal Jury Trial by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Every person accused of a crime has the right to a trial by jury. That right is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, and is available to anyone charged with a serious criminal offense. But the number …
Article • May 5, 2017 • from PLN May, 2017
Filed under: Cost of Prison Systems
Bonds Used to Finance Private Prisons, Jails Turn into Junk by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The promise of safe, humane and less costly prisons has been used for decades by the private prison industry to sell its products. As prison populations skyrocketed, local, state and federal governments became convinced …
Article • May 5, 2017 • from PLN May, 2017
Iowa Prisoner Awarded $1,000 for Jail Beating by A late December 2016 decision by the Board of Supervisors for Black Hawk County, Iowa not to appeal a federal judge’s ruling paved the way for a $1,000 judgment won by a prisoner who was beaten by other prisoners. James Robert Ernst …
Article • May 5, 2017 • from PLN May, 2017
Filed under: Cost of Prison Systems
White House Justice Initiative Seeks Economic Boost from Policy Change by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Former President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors produced a report in April 2016 that concluded the United States would gain an economic boost by reducing the nation’s level of imprisonment. According to the report, …
Article • May 5, 2017 • from PLN May, 2017
Filed under: Death Penalty
Delaware Supreme Court Strikes Down Death Penalty, Following Hurst Decision by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna On August 2, 2016, the Delaware Supreme Court, in Rauf v. State of Delaware, struck down the state’s death penalty in a closely-watched decision. Benjamin Rauf was charged with first-degree felony murder, and the …
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