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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 ...
, but at this point it’s not clear for which offenders or at what stage of the process.” Driving the trend of increased electronic monitoring is the fact that the technology is enticing in its effectiveness ...
Article • September 4, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
or notified by any member of our Management team that Asbestos is present in our environment and to what extent,” they wrote on March 21, 2018. “Asbestos, in general, if it’s undisturbed ...
Article • February 20, 2019
to deploy California's draconian three-strikes law.  These are early bright spots in what is otherwise a troubling record. A judge excoriated her DA’s office for its “levels of indifference ...
Article • September 15, 2012 • from PLN September, 2012
of suicide among these inmates,” he said. “There is a greater risk to people who are vulnerable as a result of their mental illness.” In what Russell described as the “craziest brainstorm,” in the fall ...
Article • September 20, 2014 • from PLN September, 2014
Filed under: Victims, Restitution
to live with trying to get restitution probably for the rest of our lives.” “The Supreme Court said we should keep going back to the district courts over and over again, but that’s what I ...
Article • January 1, 2016 • from PLN January, 2016
offenders. The ban did not apply to any other crimes – only drug offenses. The reforms were part of a wide-ranging initiative to reduce welfare fraud and welfare dependency, and to combat what lawmakers ...
what the non-profit organization called an “increasingly dangerous security situation” and “extraordinarily high rate of violence” at the St. Clair Correctional Facility ...
and human rights of older persons are gaining national and international momentum, we must not neglect the safety and protection of older adults in prison. So what is meant by elder abuse? According ...
Article • December 15, 2013 • from PLN December, 2013
Filed under: Mental Health, Suicides
for disciplinary segregation. When asked what had happened to the 25 percent of prisoners who had been removed from the SHUs, a Bureau of Prisons spokesperson had no concrete numbers but said that they either were ...
Article • April 9, 2015 • from PLN April, 2015
Filed under: Judicial Misconduct
for lying to the grand jury or FBI in an attempt to cover up their part in what prosecutors called a pattern of “consideration” – granting special treatment to friends, family members ...
Article • May 6, 2015 • from PLN May, 2015
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
said, “there is a need to move beyond awareness and take steps to address mass incarceration in real ways.” What are the “Real Ways”? The question is: what are these “real ...
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