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Prison Legal News Interviews CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou - Full Interview by   Note: This is the full PLN interview with John Kiriakou; a shorter version was published as our April 2017 cover story, here. John Kiriakou is a former CIA officer, former senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee …
Article • March 28, 2017
Locked Up for Being Poor by Jessica Pishko How private debt collectors contribute to a cycle of jail, unemployment, and poverty by Jessica Pishko, The Atlantic 19-year-old Kevin Thompson didn’t think that he was going to jail the day he pulled his car out of the garage to go to his …
Article • March 28, 2017
Filed under: War on Terror
Just Another Week in the War on Terror by Joseph Margulies by Joseph Margulies, Verdict (Justia) Last week witnessed four parallel developments—two on Tuesday and two more on Wednesday—that collectively reveal the casual, and therefore appalling, normality of the war on terror. The first arrived Tuesday morning, when the European Court …
Article • March 28, 2017
Jon Burge, Torturer of Over 100 Black Men, Is Out of Prison After Less Than Four Years by Flint Taylor Chicago’s notorious former police commander is released from prison. A human rights lawyer representing police torture victims responds. by Flint Taylor, In These Times Today, former Chicago police commander Jon Burge, …
Article • March 28, 2017
Filed under: Immigration
In Tijuana, Mexicans Deported by U.S. Struggle to Find ‘Home’ by Sam Quinones Obama is reining in deportations, but for many in the border city it’s too late. by Sam Quinones, National Geographic photography by Eros Hoagland TIJUANA, Mexico—On the U.S. side of the border, an immigration officer unlocked a padlock on …
Article • March 28, 2017
Housing the Unwanted by Jie Jenny Zou and Roger Miller by Jie Jenny Zou and Roger Miller, The New York World For the next three years of J. Mercado’s life, finding a suitable place to live in New York City will depend entirely on how close the building is to area …
Female Inmates and Sexual Assault by Christina Piecora by Christina Piecora, Jurist edited by Josh Guckert JURIST Guest Columnist Christina Piecora, St. John's University School of Law, Class of 2015, is the author of the first article in a twelve-part series from the staffers of the Journal of Civil Rights and Economic …
Article • March 28, 2017
Brutal Crimes Don't Justify Bad Laws by Jean Trounstine By Jean Trounstine, Truthout A true tragedy, driven by a media frenzy, often provokes a misguided need to do something as quickly as possible and leads to bad public policy - like California's Three Strikes sentencing law. Massachusetts Juvenile Judge Jay D. …
A Boy Among Men by Maurice Chammah What happens when you throw a teenager into an adult prison? Guess. by Maurice Chammah, The Marshall Project Three years ago, the young man who would later be known as John Doe 1 shuffled into the Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility in Ionia, Michigan. …
Article • March 28, 2017
Paying the Piper by David J. Krajicek by David J. Krajicek, The Crime Report Montgomery, Alabama’s City Court is a Debt-Collecting Machine Montgomery, Alabama--Anyone who wishes to enter Municipal Court in Alabama’s capital city must first be sanctioned by a court officer who scans your belongings, then polices your attire. “Tuck …
Article • March 28, 2017
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
America's Guilt Mill by David J. Krajicek by David J. Krajicek, The Crime Report Thousands of Americans, many of them poor, are wrongfully convicted each year for crimes that don’t make headlines. While innocence advocates focus on lifers, those falsely accused of lesser crimes are the overlooked casualties of our overburdened …
Article • March 28, 2017
The Response to ‘George Jackson in the Sun of Palestine’ by “This is an important event for the Palestinian prisoner.” – Dr. Sari Nussibeh “We have to reinforce solidarity with freedom-minded people all around the world.” – Issa Qaraka “The Abu Jihad center does solidarity work movements for liberation.” – …
Article • March 28, 2017
The Politics of Prisons: Location Affects Legislators’ Voting on Criminal Reform by Tim Marema by Tim Marema, Daily Yonder Legislators representing rural areas with prisons are less likely to support lighter sentencing and other criminal reforms. A new study argues that's because these rural legislators think they have an economic interest …
Article • March 28, 2017
Filed under: Police Misconduct, Costs
Police Misconduct Lawsuits Cost Taxpayers, Not Cops, Millions by by RT From big cities to small towns, American taxpayers are footing the bill for police gone rogue. When an officer or department is sued for police brutality or an in-custody death, the municipality is the one to pay up. And it’s …
Article • March 27, 2017
Filed under: Corizon, Medication, Hepatitis
The Class Action Cure by Mike Mosedale by Mike Mosedale, Minnesota Lawyer Among the peculiar ironies about the intersection of medicine, public policy and the law in contemporary American life, not many are weirder than the fact that only one segment of the nation’s population –and a largely reviled one, at …
Article • March 27, 2017
America’s Fortress of Blood: The Death of George Jackson and the Birth of the Prison-Industrial Complex by Dan Berger In 1971, activist George Jackson was mysteriously killed in San Quentin prison — a tragedy repeated time and again by Dan Berger, Salon A young black man gunned down by law enforcement. …
Article • March 27, 2017
Filed under: Death Penalty
The Slow Death of the Death Penalty by Maurice Chammah The public supports it, but the costs are lethal. by Maurice Chammah, The Marshall Project Just before sunrise on a spring morning last year, Larry Maples shot and killed his wife, Heather. He had tracked her to the home of a …
What Are Correction Officers So Afraid Of? by Dana Goldstein Besides the danger, being ignored. by Dana Goldstein, The Marshall Project If you're a correction officer (CO), you know what each day is likely to have in store: a treadmill of stress and often nastiness, in an environment outsiders rarely think …
Article • March 24, 2017
Spokane County Settles Class-Action Suit Over Jailing; Those Unable to Pay Fines by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 19, 2014, a Washington State federal court signed off on the preliminary settlement of a class-action lawsuit brought against Spokane County for routinely jailing people with court-ordered fines or other …
Article • March 24, 2017
New York Court of Claims Awards $90,000 for Overextended Incarceration/Parole by On April 2, 2015, the New York State Court of Claims awarded a former prisoner $90,000 for being incarcerated and subjected to parole after the expiration of his sentence. The New York Department of Corrections and Community Services failed …
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