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Article • April 20, 2017
Federal Bureau of Prisons Director Denies Use of Solitary Confinement in Testimony before Congress by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Numerous federal prisoners have voiced strong condemnations of the Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Charles Samuels, after Samuels told a Senate committee that the BOP does not use …
Report Finds Alabama Prisons Are Deliberately Indifferent to Prisoner’s Medical Needs by David Reutter by David Reutter Alabama prisoners live in “human warehouses” where “systemic indifference discrimination and dangerous – even life-threatening – conditions are the norm.” That factual finding was drawn in a 2014 report that followed an investigation …
Article • April 20, 2017
Filed under: Death Penalty
Connecticut Supreme Court Abolishes Death Penalty as Cruel and Unusual Punishment by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna In a decision rendered in August 2015, after the filing of numerous amicus briefs by the American Civil Liberties Union and other prisoner rights organizations, the Connecticut Supreme Court, in a 4-3 ruling, …
Videos Show the Dark Side of Shadow Mountain Youth Psych Facility by Rosalind Adams by Rosalind Adams, BuzzFeed TULSA, Oklahoma — By the time police arrived at the psychiatric hospital, one of the adolescent units was out of control. The new manager had been attacked, a handful of its teenage patients …
Article • April 13, 2017
Alabama Guard Shortage Results in Huge Overtime Pay by David Reutter by David Reutter Alabama paid $20.8 million in overtime to guards for staffing of its prisons in calendar year 2013. That is an increase of an average of $13 million over the previous for years. From 2000 to 2012, …
Article • April 13, 2017
Filed under: Medical Misconduct, CIA
New Study Links American Psychological Association to CIA Torture of Terror Detainees by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Psychologists are supposed to operate by a strict code of conduct that prohibits questionable practices such as facilitating potential physical and psychological damage to individuals, but a new study has revealed that …
Article • April 13, 2017
Political Contributions Push Privatization in Florida’s Prison System by David Reutter by David Reutter Privatization has been all the rage in Florida’s prison system for some time. By 2003, the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC), had contracts with private companies to operate its canteen, food service, and telephone operations. By …
Article • April 13, 2017
Prison Rape Elimination Act Finally Extended to ICE Detention Facilities, But Not to Private or County Jails by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Ten years after the federal government passed the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), which applied to Bureau of Prison (BOP) facilities, the Justice Department by rule has …
Article • April 13, 2017
States Adopt Limited Collateral Consequence Reforms; More Needed for Meaningful Impact by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson Between 2009 and 2014, forty-one states and the District of Columbia enacted 155 laws - 93 in 2013 and 2014, alone - to ease the impact of some “collateral consequences of criminal convictions,” …
Article • April 13, 2017
Filed under: News, Arrest Warrants
South Carolina Woman Arrested, Jailed for Overdue Jennifer Lopez Movie Rental by Joe Watson by Joe Watson Spending good money to rent the movie "Monster-In-Law," starring Jennifer Lopez and Jane Fonda, is bad enough. Not returning it after nine years is downright criminal, at least in Pickens County, South Carolina, …
Guard’s Lethal Scalding of Prisoner Unresolved after Two Years by David Reutter by David Reutter More than two years after prisoners Darren Rainey’s dead body was removed from the shower in the mental health unit at Florida’s Dade Correctional Institution (DCI), no official cause of death has been ruled and …
Article • April 13, 2017
Filed under: Pardons/Clemency
Dramatic Changes to Boost Number of Clemency Petitions and Pardons by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on April 23rd, 2014, announced significant changes in the Office of Pardon Attorney (OPA), which processes Pardons, Clemencies, and Commutations.  The former head of the pardon office, Ronald …
Article • April 13, 2017
California District Court Certifies Immigration Detainee Phone Access Class Action by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The United States District Court for the Northern District of California has certified for class action status a lawsuit by various immigration detainees against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs …
Article • April 13, 2017
Study: Public Misperceptions About Sex Offenders Skew Policy-Making by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton Public opinion toward crime is complex. Research shows that Americans strongly favor punitive measures to address criminal behavior while also demanding the rehabilitation and treatment of offenders. When it comes to sex offenses, it gets even …
Article • April 13, 2017
Mother Jones Reporter Discovered Working in CCA Prison by David Reutter by David Reutter Private prison operator Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) recently made a statement to Mother Jones magazine in response to the discovery of reporter who had been employed at one of its prisons in Louisiana. The operation …
Article • April 11, 2017
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Jail Time for Overdue Library Books Trending Nationwide by Joe Watson by Joe Watson When police in Copperas Cove, Texas, enforced a city ordinance in 2013 criminalizing the failure to return public library books on time, they illustrated perfectly the perpetuation of misspent tax dollars. In October 2013, after being called …
National Jail Experts Decry Conditions at Monterey County, California Jail by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna A lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union has highlighted substandard conditions at the Monterey, California County Jail.  Plaintiffs’ attorneys Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP charged that jail officials have failed to …
Article • April 11, 2017
Filed under: Accidents, Suicides
Self-Inflicted Prisoner Deaths Continue to Rise in Great Britain by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Self-inflicted prisoner deaths continued to rise in Great Britain in 2013. 74 prisoners either committed suicide or died accidentally due to their own actions.  There were an additional 123 deaths from natural causes, 4 apparent …
Article • April 11, 2017
Mentally Ill, Disabled CDCR Prisoner Dies Following Use of Force Incident by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis On September 7, 2013, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) prisoner Joseph Duran, 35, a mentally ill inmate who breathed through the use of a tube in his throat, died following a …
Article • April 11, 2017
American Institute of Architects Rejects Petition to Protect Human Rights by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The leading organization for the nation's architects has rejected a call from some of its members to reject employment that would involve the design of certain prison facilities, such as execution chambers and Special …
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