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Video Visitation a Growing Trend, but Concerns Remain

Article • March 15, 2014 • from PLN March, 2014

Filed under: Visiting

County and other jails, the installation of video systems spelled the end of in-person visits. Hunger said not having to screen visitors and escort them through the jail frees up guards to perform other ...

CCA Loses Four Private Prison Contracts in One Month

Article • July 15, 2013 • from PLN July, 2013

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Misconduct/Corruption, Contractor Misconduct, Guard Misconduct, Systemic Medical Neglect

hundreds of prisoners, contraband smuggling and escapes. Additionally, on May 17, 2013, CCA lost its contract to operate the 1,000-bed Wilkinson County Correctional Facility in Mississippi after the state ...

Massachusetts Prisoners and Visitors Challenge Restrictive Visitation Rules

Article • September 8, 2019 • from PLN September, 2019

Filed under: Visiting

the need for security measures to prevent the introduction of illegal items, but I don’t see how these changes prevent such things from happening,” said Karen Pulido, a former prison guard whose ...

Nine Guilty So Far in Sprawling California Aryan Brotherhood Case

Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024

Filed under: Prison Gangs, Prison/Jail Murders

to smuggle meth to Sylvester during a legal visit at CSP-Sacramento. Sentencing is set for April 2024 for Demar, who is married to Sacramento Skinhead gang member Charles Gilbert “Boots” Demar. He ...

Censorship in Prisons and Jails: A War on the Written Word

Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018

Filed under: Reading Materials, Publications/Books, PLN Litigation, Censorship, First Amendment, rights

will overpower the guards using fart jokes.” James LaRue, director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association (ALA), said banning Where’s Waldo does not preserve order ...

News in Brief

Article • August 7, 2014 • from PLN August, 2014

Filed under: News in Brief

closed doors. The neighboring countries of Greece and Macedonia also were warned of the escape, which involved the prisoners disarming a guard and fleeing by car during severe weather, resulting ...

More Jurisdictions Don’t Renew Corizon Contracts – Including Big Loss in New York City

Article • September 24, 2015 • from PLN October, 2015

Filed under: Corizon, Contractor Misconduct, Private Contractors

and folding a T-shirt into the shape of a phallic symbol and waving it at a female guard. Little did Ballard realize that such simple, non-violent acts would result in his death at the jail. Ballard died a week ...

Sexual Abuse by Prison and Jail Staff Proves Persistent, Pandemic

Article • May 15, 2009 • from PLN May, 2009

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Cornell Corrections, GRW Corp., Staff-Prisoner Harassment, Guard Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Jail Misconduct, Criminal Prosecution

. They also represent recurring themes in our nation’s prisons – not only by prisoners, but also by guards and other staff members. PLN’s August 2006 cover story, Guards Rape of Prisoners ...

Appalling Prison and Jail Food Leaves Prisoners Hungry for Justice

Article • April 15, 2010 • from PLN April, 2010

Filed under: Food/Commissary (Private Prisons), Contractor Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Jail Misconduct, Conditions of Confinement, Food

to eat. In February 2006, Wayne County, Michigan jail guard Dorian J. Merriewether pleaded guilty to accepting $1,200 in bribes to smuggle food and beverages to a prisoner at the jail. He also smuggled ...

No Place for Old Men

Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016

Filed under: Geriatric Classification, Disabled Prisoners, Failure to Treat, Failure to Protect (General), Release and Reentry, Pardons/Clemency, Americans with Disabilities Act, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement

to a warden’s trustee who then smuggled them into Huntsville’s Walls Unit. San Antonio gangster Fred Carrasco used those guns in an 11-day hostage-taking and stand-off that culminated ...

Federal Crime Bill Passes

Article • December 15, 1994 • from PLN December, 1994

Filed under: Transfers, Police Misconduct, Gender Discrimination -- Women, Sex Offender Registration, Tuberculosis, DNA Testing/Samples, Drug Testing, Crime/Demographics, Crime, Databases, Overcrowding, Education, Disclosure of Records, Consent Decrees, Limitations, Good Time, Three Strikes, Immigration, Death Penalty, Federal Legislation, Fathers in Prison, Mothers in Prison

and killed someone, to kill a prison guard if the guard is transporting the defendant between states or if the state prisoner is also serving a federal sentence. Killing BOP guards also qualifies for the death ...

“A Living Nightmare”

Article • February 17, 2017

Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Jail Misconduct, Searches, Strip Searches, Visitor Searches, Body Cavity Searches, Pat Searches, Jail Specific, Visiting

“A Living Nightmare” by Women Visiting Loved Ones Jailed at Rikers Describe a Pattern of Invasive Searches by Guards By Raven Rakia, The Intercept Reprinted with permission from&nbsp ...

Unending ‘Crisis’ in San Diego County Jails: Hundreds Dead, Millions in Legal Payouts

Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022

covering one of the first big payouts for a wrongful death in a San Diego jail, when Marshawn Washington’s family accepted $400,000 to drop claims that guards hogtied him and watched him die. [See: PLN ...

The Response to ‘George Jackson in the Sun of Palestine’

Article • March 28, 2017

Filed under: Political Prisoners (International)

support for Palestinian prisoners who are caged in Israeli dungeons. “And let’s remember the moment after Jackson’s assassination, when the prison guards told his mother, ‘We killed ...

Gangs, Privatization Create “Chaotic” Conditions in Mississippi Prisons

Article • June 5, 2017

Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Prison Gangs, Totality of Conditions, Class Certification, Cell Phone Access, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death)

them.’ ” MDOC has referred 63 cases involving guards smuggling contraband since 2010. In April 2014, it was reported that two CMCF guards were charged with possession of prohibited ...

Female Prisoners Removed from CCA Facility in Kentucky

Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Systemic Medical Neglect, Totality of Conditions, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

of staff training in regard to prisoner mental health issues, and routine verbal abuse of prisoners by guards. Hovee reported that prison officials denied him access to OCCC dormitories where prisoners ...

News in Brief

Article • December 1, 2015 • from PLN December, 2015

Filed under: News in Brief

News in Brief by California: On May 13, 2015, attorneys for Carlos Carasquilla and his wife filed a $15 million lawsuit against Tulare County alleging that guards opened a cell door to allow ...

News in Brief

Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020

Filed under: News in Brief

-Rodriguez, 18, scaled the fifteen-foot fence and climbed a wall, as the prisoners were coming in from yard time and the duty guard was distracted by logging them back in on her sheet. After three nights ...

Wrongfully Convicted Man Freed for Murder of Oregon DOC Director, But State Wants Him Back In Prison

Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021

Filed under: Wrongful Conviction, Actual Innocence/Claim of Innocence

, the agency was struggling with prison overcrowding. A ten-month drug smuggling investigation of Oregon State Penitentiary (OSP) employees had also forced the 1986 resignation of the superintendent ...

First Step Act Passes – Includes Federal Sentencing, Prison Reforms

Article • January 8, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019

Filed under: Prison Reform, Criminal justice system reform, Sentencing, U.S. Sentencing Guidelines

aspects of federal sentencing and prison-related policies. They range from placing prisoners in facilities closer to their families to sentencing reform and de-escalation training for guards, plus creating ...