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Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
NBA Owner Capitalizes on Mass Incarceration; Players Silent by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Members of National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) maintained their place at the forefront of the movement for racial justice even while encapsulated in the National Basketball Association (NBA) bubble during the 2020 championship playoffs. The basketball …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
Arkansas Governor Hutchinson Grants Commutation for Blind Mother by Kevin Bliss Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson agreed to commute Willie Mae Harris’ sentence after 34 years in prison for accidentally shooting her abusive husband. She was released on June 5, 2020. Harris, 72, from Bradley, Arkansas was charged with murder in …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright Welcome to the last issue of PLN for 2020. It has been an eventful year that no one expected or planned for in January. Two companies, Pfizer and Moderna, have announced vaccines for COVID-19 claiming effectiveness rates of over 90%. So far, we have …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
$6 Million Payout in Montana Wrongful Conviction Case by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Three Montana counties agreed on November 26, 2019, to pay $6 million to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit that accused their county sheriffs and employees of egregious civil rights violations that led to an innocent …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
Filed under: Prison Labor
University of Florida Still Using Prison Labor, But End in Sight by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss The University of Florida (UF) released a statement June 18, 2020 in response to a letter written by the Coalition to Abolish Prison Slavery (CAPS). The statement included initiatives addressing racism and inequality …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
Texas Disguising Deaths in Custody by Diana Claitor by Diana Claitor In 2012, a 53-year-old Black woman named Edwinta Deckard was arrested on a misdemeanor theft charge and held in the Nacogdoches County Jail where she died after three days. Her death was an ordeal of dehydration and trauma, as …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
Administrator of “Whitey” Bulger’s Estate Sues BOP Over His Murder by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The administrator of the estate of the late James J. “Whitey” Bulger, Jr. filed suit on October 30, 2020, in federal district court in West Virginia, alleging that the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
North Carolina Case Involving Death of Black Prisoner: “I Can’t Breathe,” Revisited by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon In late July 2020, about 30 protesters stood all day in the rain in Bailey Park near the Forsyth County Detention Center (FCDC) in downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to demand answers and …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19, Telephone Rates
Cost of Communicating with Prisoners Breaking Family Budgets During Pandemic by David Reutter by David M. Reutter For those with loved ones in prisons, the coronavirus pandemic has increased the desire for communication to ensure the well-being of the imprisoned. The exorbitant cost of such calls is straining already-stretched budgets. …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
New Jersey Releases 2,258 Prisoners to Combat COVID-19 Spread by David Reutter by David M. Reutter After releasing almost 1,000 inmates from state prisons and 700 more from county jails in April 2020, New Jersey’s Department of Corrections (DOC) announced it would release another 2,258  prisoners on November 5, 2020, …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
Innovative Vermont Prison Superintendent’s Demotion for Sexist Language Proves Controversial by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Former Vermont prison Superintendent Ed Adams has found himself the subject of repeated media scrutiny over the last few years, and his story is illustrative of the problems that surround prison reform, public records …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
Missouri Executes Prisoner During COVID-19 Crisis by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Whenever the subject of the death penalty comes up, people usually think of Texas, the capital of capital punishment in the United States. [PLN, November 2018, p. 15] However, even the death merchants in the nation’s most carceral, …
Pennsylvania Prisoner Off Death Row After 33 Years by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A Pennsylvania prisoner whose death sentence was tossed by a federal court 17 years ago has finally won release from the state’s death row after spending more than three decades in solitary confinement there. In …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
Federal Judge Approves $25 Million Class Action Settlement Against Global Tel*Link by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna On October 22, 2020, New Jersey federal district court Judge William J. Martini ended a seven-year class action brought by New Jersey Department of Correction (DOC) prisoners complaining of excessive phone fees levied …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
Connecticut Prisoner Commits Suicide With COVID-19 Protective Mask by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Daniel Ocasio committed suicide on August 12, 2020 at the Corrigan-Radkowski Correctional Center in Uncasville, Connecticut by tying the strings of his protective mask around his throat. His death made national news because it is the …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
Prisoners Exonerated in Michigan After Police Misconduct Revealed by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon On March 24, 2020, Darell Chancellor and Darrell Richmond were ordered to be released from prison by a Wayne County, Michigan district judge who vacated their drug convictions. Chancellor had served nearly eight years, Richmond almost …
Woman Sues Mississippi Parole Board for Discrimination and Retaliation by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso On March 27, 2020, a lawsuit filed in a county court the previous year against the Mississippi Parole Board (MPB) by state prisoner Anita Krecic was refiled in federal court, alleging MPB has discriminated …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
Maine Jail Gets a Pass for Using Pepper Spray on Mentally Ill Prisoners by Kevin Bliss, Daniel A. Rosen by Kevin Bliss and Daniel A. Rosen In a June 2020 report, an official with the Maine Department of Corrections (DOC) determined that employees at the Cumberland County Jail (CCJ) in …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
$177,500 Settlement in Lawsuit Over Five Louisiana Prisoners Pepper-Sprayed While Handcuffed by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke  Thanks to a public records request by The Associated Press, news broke in March 2020 that Louisiana-based private prison firm LaSalle Management Company had settled for $177,500 a lawsuit over a 2016 incident …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
Another Prisoner’s Needless Death, Another Lawsuit at LaSalle-Run Texarkana Jail by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 16, 2020, the estate of a woman who died while incarcerated at the Bi-State Justice Center Jail in Texarkana filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Bowie County, Texas, LaSalle Corrections and …
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