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attempted to spin the story of what had caused unrest among the prisoners. According to the company, some prisoners feared for their safety if they were deported to Mexico from the Willacy prison ...
was excited to be singled out, she said, and eager for advanced instruction. When she arrived, Villarreal told The Huffington Post, Dewitt said he knew exactly what she needed: to be touched. Intimately ...
that I reside in a different prison. But I was happy with Jill Lepore’s accounting of our team’s historical travails. What the article didn’t capture, though, was that our official ...
Article • August 23, 2016
clothes. "I was trying to find a better life," he explains, speaking through a translator. "I've worked all my life. I don't care what kind of work I do. I feel humiliated if I can't work. I will do any ...
. Many cannot find family members to volunteer to bring in their children when their longtime girlfriends are turned away. In speaking to prison officials since the implementation of the policy, what ...
. They perform what are described by Koger as “cell extractions.” Once individuals are removed, they perform “shakedowns,” or searches of all personal belongings, often confiscating ...
, but neither dealt with anything that took place inside the jail or revealed what led to Mitchell’s death.” The Behavioral Health report, released in late March 2016, detailed the failures across ...
, and they often lack details about a prisoner’s health. “A parole board may get a disciplinary record that doesn’t have any context with respect to the person’s medical condition and to what ...
Article • June 9, 2017 • from PLN June, 2017
of anxiety and stress. What people remember about a particular situation or event is easily influenced by the language others use to describe it, and scientists now say that the mere process of recalling ...
Article • June 15, 2011 • from PLN June, 2011
of the three organizations being in such incestuous proximity. “I think it’s questionable that they have these organizations that claim to be separate running out of what appears to be the same office,” said ...
Article • May 20, 2014 • from PLN May, 2014
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] might as well have left them serving a life sentence, because that’s pretty much what that is.” Meanwhile, the ACLU announced its opposition to three bills introduced in the Iowa legislature ...
Article • May 20, 2014 • from PLN May, 2014
. Increasingly, the aging prison population is comprised of offenders who received long sentences for nonviolent crimes and are thus remaining in prison into their old age. From 1986 to 1995, what the ACLU calls ...
Article • May 23, 2014
male.” This is a description of what has happened when women are taken to solitary confinement at the Western Massachusetts Regional Women’s Correctional Center (WCC) in Chicopee ...
Article • March 28, 2017
cell for owing $838 in fines and fees. What Thompson experienced is called “pay-only” probation. It’s part of the growing private business of what’s euphemistically dubbed &ldquo ...
Article • October 12, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
to be what we call a ‘tough guard,’” Jaffe said in the recorded conversation. “Serious Fraud” The timing of Prof. Zimbardo’s study was important, as it was conducted in 1971 ...
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
to which I have dedicated my life, and inconsistent with what I believe the department should represent.” To his credit, President Obama met the challenge presented by Leff’s resignation ...
about the claim. Within two weeks, 15 youths confirmed the allegation. “I will put a honey bun on your head if you don’t do what I say,” a detainee told his lawyer, quoting a guard ...
in the doorway to the bathroom to watch me shower. Why did the CO need to be there? Why did I need to be shackled? I had just given birth! What was I going to do?” After her release from jail, Kenzie ...
Article • May 5, 2017 • from PLN May, 2017
that practice. “These regulations don’t just impact the inmate’s right to speech [but also] everyone else’s right to understand what’s going on in a prison,” said Dave Maass ...
. “What I would like to see is some provisional language in this budget that would allow more safeguards and more oversight because what I have found is that we have a lot of spending going on but we ...
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