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Full Senate Report on CIA Torture Remains Classified, Largely Unread by Matthew Clarke “I want to be absolutely clear with our people and the world. The United States does not torture” – George W. Bush On December 9, 2014, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a heavily-redacted, 525-page executive summary of …
CDCR Drug-sniffing Dog Trainer Resigns Over Switch to “Passive” Dogs by Joe Watson After resigning from his position, an expert dog trainer and veteran of California’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) for more than 25 years has criticized a new program to reduce prison drug smuggling. Wayne Conrad, 61, …
Colorado’s “Make My Day” Law No Longer Applies to Prisoners by David Reutter by David Reutter On the heels of the dismissal of murder charges against two Sterling Correctional Facility (SCF) prisoners under the state’s “Make My Day” law, lawmakers quickly rolled back the self-protection statute’s applicability to prisoners. Prosecutors …
Canadian Solitary Confinement Deaths Result in Rare Lawsuits, Eventual Reforms by Mark Wilson Deaths in Canadian federal prisons associated with the prolonged placement of prisoners in solitary confinement, as well as challenges to the use of segregation in provincial jails, have resulted in some limited reforms. Ashley Smith was sentenced …
Justice Policy Institute Report Challenges Reformers to Focus on Violent Crimes by Derek Gilna There is bipartisan consensus on both the state and federal levels that the number of incarcerated non-violent offenders should be reduced, and that process has slowly begun to build momentum. As the U.S. prison population has …
The Rape Victims Silenced by Their Prison Cells by A prison chaplain who admitted to sexually assaulting three prisoners may spend less than a year behind bars. Why don’t we seem to care? by Melissa Jeltsen, Huffington Post When Leticia Villarreal, 42, began her prison sentence at McPherson Unit, a …
Collecting Unpaid Booking Fees in Colorado may be Illegal, Experts Say by Joe Watson According to legal experts, unpaid jail booking fees that sheriff’s departments across Colorado have collected for years may violate state law if the fees are being taken from people who are repeatedly arrested, such as the …
Alaska Prisons and Jails Filled with Mentally Ill Prisoners by David Reutter Correctional facilities in Alaska are confronted with a record number of prisoners with mental illnesses. In February 2016, KTUU reported that 65% of Alaskan prisoners suffered from some form of mental health problem while 80% had drug or …
Article • November 7, 2016 • from PLN November, 2016
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Upholds Death Penalty Moratorium by David Reutter Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf imposed a moratorium on the death penalty in early 2015; predictably, the move was lauded by opponents of capital punishment and despised by those in favor of the death penalty. State prosecutors petitioned the Pennsylvania Supreme …
Oregon Prison Parenting Program Dramatically Reduces Recidivism by Mark Wilson Oregon prisoners who complete a parenting program are significantly less likely to engage in criminal behavior and substance abuse after release, a long-term study found. More than half of America’s 2.3 million prisoners have children under the age of 18 …
Wayward Prosecutors Go Unpunished as Prison Time for Victims Piles Up by by Brooke Williams & Shawn Musgrave Massachusetts prosecutors have violated defendants’ rights to a fair trial regularly and without punishment, even as wrongfully convicted victims of tainted prosecutions have spent years in prison before being freed, decades of …
Arizona Governor's Record on Clemency is Brutal, Unlikely to Change by In Arizona, where most residents throughout the state seldom experience thunderstorms, data shows that it's more likely criminal offenders will be struck by lightning than granted clemency by the governor. And the rarity of commutation is likely to be …
Article • November 1, 2016
Filed under: Work Release, Escapes
Florida Supreme Court: Unauthorized Absence from Work is 'Escape from Custody' for Work Release Prisoner by Lonnie Burton In a decision handed down on September 3, 2016, the Florida Supreme Court upheld the escape conviction of a man who left his work site without permission while he was on work …
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Upholds Conviction for Contacting Victim by Lonnie Burton On April 27, 2016, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals upheld the conviction of a Texas state prisoner for Improper Contact with a Victim. David Schlittler was convicted of aggravated sexual assault of his five-year-old stepdaughter. He …
Texas County has High Number of In-Custody Deaths by Between 2005 and October 2014, 91 prisoners from Lubbock County, Texas, died in custody. This included 61 who died while imprisoned in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), 16 in Lubbock Police Department custody, 12 in the custody of the …
Retaliation against Washington Whistleblowers for Reporting Faked Prison Statistics by Matthew Clarke It seemed like a great idea. The Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC) would try a pilot program in a couple of 130-bed pods at Airway Heights Corrections Center with the aim of improving prisoner behavior using positive …
Publication • November 1, 2016
Publicly Funded Forensic Crime Laboratories - Resources and Services 2014, DOJ BJS, 2016 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics November 2016, NCJ 250151 Matthew R. Durose and Andrea M. Burch, BJS Statisticians Kelly Walsh and Emily Tiry, Urban Institute I n 2014, the nation’s …
Brief • October 28, 2016
First Look Media Works, Inc. v. Department of Homeland Security, DC, Complaint, FOIA Violation, 2016 Case 1:16-cv-02165-CKK Document 1 Filed 10/28/16 Page 1 of 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FIRST LOOK MEDIA WORKS, INC., 114 Fifth Ave. 18th Floor New York, NY 10011, PLAINTIFF vs. …
Nearly 2% of U.S. Adults on Parole or Probation at Year-End 2013 by Matthew Clarke According to a statistical report released by the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics in October 2014, there were nearly 4.8 million U.S. adults on some form of community supervision at the end …
Kansas Supreme Court Holds State Immune from Suit Over Murder by Escapee by Matthew Clarke On April 22, 2016, the Supreme Court of Kansas held that the son of a woman murdered by an escaped state prisoner could not sue the state for her personal injuries and wrongful death. The …
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