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Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Alabama Warden and Wife Busted for Making “Magic” Mushrooms by Warden Chadwick “Chad” Ray Crabtree, 45, of Alabama’s Limestone Correctional Facility (LCF), was behind bars at Limestone County Jail on April 19, 2024, after agents from the state Department of Corrections (DOC) joined local and state cops to execute five …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Watchdog Calls for Hawaii Prisons, Jails to Stop Using Restraint Chairs by On April 18, 2024, Hawaii’s Correctional System Oversight Commission (CSOC) called on lockups in the state to stop using restraint chairs over concerns they are dangerous. CSOC said it wasn’t aware that any of the devices were still …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Unequal Before the Law by Stephanie Woodard by Stephanie Woodard Native Americans serve astoundingly longer prison sentences—because they are Native. Federal charges ordinarily cover matters of national reach: immigration, voting rights, racketeering. Not in Indian Country. Tribal members frequently find themselves in federal court for all sorts of allegations— not …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
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America’s Prison Profiteers from Colonial Times Until Now by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In an April 2024 article, Willamette University Van Winkle Melton Professor of Law Laura I. Appleman traces the profit motive in American criminal punishment from colonial times, aiming to better understand and reform the way private …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Alaska Supreme Court: DOC Can’t Unilaterally Redefine ‘Parole Release Date’ by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On December 8, 2023, the Supreme Court of Alaska held that the state Department of Corrections (DOC) violated the rulemaking process laid out in the Administrative Procedures Act (APA) when it unilaterally changed the …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
North Carolina Expands Supervision for Mentally Ill Probationers by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso By the end of 2024, North Carolina’s Division of Community Supervision (DCS) will expand its Specialty Mental Health Probation (SMHP) to 56 of the state’s 100 counties. Employing 78 specially trained probation officers and 58 …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Mentally Ill Detainee Allegedly “Stomped” In the Head By South Carolina Jailer by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso A federal civil rights suit filed on March 12, 2024, accused a guard at South Carolina’s Marlboro County Detention Center of brutalizing a homeless mentally ill detainee—even stomping on his head. …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Nailing Down “Top Cop” Kamala Harris on Criminal Justice Reform by After becoming the surprise new Democratic nominee for the presidency in July 2024, U.S. Vice-Pres. Kamala Harris has leaned into her credentials as a former California prosecutor. But her record has enough to alienate both progressives and law-and-order voters. …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Florida Reentry “Success” Story: Convicted Embezzler Promoted to Oversee Miami-Dade County Contracts by Though convicted of stealing nearly $500,000 from the Florida town where he used to work, Christopher Kovanes was hired and promoted by Miami-Dade County. That is to the County’s credit, for giving the former prisoner a chance. …
Parole Denied for Indigenous Activist Leonard Peltier by A Native American activist incarcerated for nearly half a century was once again denied parole on June 10, 2024. Despite support from human rights groups and seven Democratic U.S. Senators, the U.S. Parole Commission decided to keep Leonard Peltier, 79, behind bars …
Ohio Pays $725,000 to Survivors of Two Prisoners Beaten to Death by Lying Guards by On July 17, 2024, the Ohio Court of Claims approved a settlement between the state Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC) and the Estate of mentally ill prisoner Dewey C. McVay, Jr., who died after …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Rural Washington County Shutters Its Jail by Under Sheriff Bob Songer and his administrator for the Klickitat County Jail (KCJ), Loren Culp, conditions at the rural southwestern Washington lockup have deteriorated so far that County Commissioners voted to close it on March 29, 2024. The fate of two Native Americans …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Advanced Correctional Healthcare Ends Two Suits Over Deaths at Ohio Jail by Private jail medical providers usually win contracts with promises to save a county money. But after two federal lawsuits filed in federal court for the Northern District of Ohio in 2023 against Ohio’s Richland County and its privately …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
At Oklahoma Lockup: Deputy Warden Fired and Arrested in Smuggling Scheme, Guards Charged in Prisoner’s Assault by Oklahoma’s Department of Corrections (DOC) fired Lexington Assessment and Reception Center (LARC) Deputy Warden Tasha Parker on May 9, 2024, one day before her arrest for smuggling contraband into the prison. Within a …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Second Circuit: New York Prisoner’s Religious Discrimination Need Not Show a “Substantial” Burden of Beliefs by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit waded into a contentious debate over religious rights on November 27, 2023, holding that prisoners claiming a violation of those rights under 42 …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Texas Holds 1 in 41 Prisoners in Solitary Confinement by As of March 2024, Texas state prisoner Ricky Smith, 56, had spent over 30 years in solitary confinement. Though the state Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) calls it “security detention,” he is one of 3,141 state prisoners held alone in …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Mistrial for Vermont Sheriff Who Kicked Shackled Detainee by On July 24, 2024, a Vermont jury hung on an assault charge against Franklin County Sheriff John Grismore, who is accused of kicking a shackled detainee at the county jail in 2022. That followed a report from the Impeachment Committee of …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Missouri Prisoners Losing Reentry Money to “Incarceration Reimbursement” by A little-known Missouri law allows the state to confiscate money from prisoners to pay for the costs of their incarceration. That alone is sadly not unusual; most states have some sort of “pay-to-stay” policy. But the severity of such laws—and how …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Georgia Guard Gets 15 Years for Using One Prisoner to Assault Another by Former Georgia Department of Corrections (DOC) guard Daniel Farmer, 33, was sentenced to 15 years in state prison on July 10, 2024, after pleading guilty to allowing one prisoner to attack another at Augusta State Medical Prison …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
$1.8 Million Jury Award for San Diego Jail Overdose Death by Matthew Clarke On April 25, 2024, a federal jury in Southern California awarded $1.8 million to the Estate of a detainee who died of a methamphetamine overdose while incarcerated at the San Diego Central Jail. The verdict was preceded …
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