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Article • January 15, 2014 • from PLN January, 2014
but postcards will be delivered to prisoners, without notifying the senders about their right to challenge such censorship. PLN filed suit after dozens of issues of its monthly publication, as well ...
Article • February 15, 2014 • from PLN February, 2014
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
no words, often spiked with humorous cynicism. It could be described as a fun read were its subject matter not so serious and visceral. Arrested steels the reader who is faced with the difficult decision ...
Article • September 15, 2011
in the community) and the Alpha Faith-Based program. Mental health care at CIW was also lauded. CIW’s Prison Industry Authority (PIA) programs in carpentry apprenticeship and its textile factory (the latter with $3 ...
Article • October 12, 2015
Filed under: Cancer, Parole, Juveniles
person ever sentenced to LWOP in Iowa. For 18 years, Fetters lived with virtually no hope of ever leaving prison alive. That changed, however, when the United States Supreme Court issued its landmark 2012 ...
Article • October 16, 2015
its complaint in federal court. The DOJ and the City agreed to a proposed consent decree. As the action progressed, the City urged the court to approve the decree. When the court held a January 11, 2013 ...
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
to lawsuits filed by seven cancer-stricken Rikers employees. “That island is toxic and it’s killing people,” said guard Vanessa Parks, 49, who was diagnosed with uterine cancer in 2009. “I’ve spent 20 years ...
Article • October 3, 2014
$50,000 to settle a civil rights action that alleged its “negligence and reckless disregard to the health” of a prisoner caused his death.   The suit was brought by Tonja Brown, the sister ...
Article • October 5, 2014
), Chapter 861, Texas Health and Safety Code, need not be a physician or psychologist.   Michael Wayne Bohannan was convicted of several sex-related offenses and sex-related parole violations, including ...
Article • August 15, 2011 • from PLN August, 2011
into the law over the last 35 years. There have been complaints that the numerous exemptions weaken the law to the point that it’s viewed as a paper tiger and therefore ineffective. A legislative review ...
and found negligent work practices that violated the Washington State Industrial Safety and Health Act (WISHA). As a result, prisoner workers may have inhaled asbestos dust, which can cause lung disease ...
, and cruel and unusual punishment in its treatment of prisoners, according to a pair of lawsuits filed against DOC in 2014. Equally confounding is that reports by the independent monitor—Vermont Program ...
Article • June 5, 2019 • from PLN June, 2019
Over $980,000 in Damages, Fees Awarded in Deliberate Indifference Case Against Wexford by Kevin W. Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss Private prison medical care firm Wexford Health Sources, Inc. filed ...
Article • March 6, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
no woman, you have a dick, your breasts can’t give milk.” “CDCR and its employees have actively degraded and dehumanized its LGBTQ community by jeopardizing their privacy and safety ...
classification and housing policies; segregation policies and practices; the availability and effectiveness of medical and mental health services; the use of lockdowns; prisoner deaths; use of excessive force ...
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Filed under: Editorials
secret as no one outside of prisons can say what is on them as far as news content goes. It is likely that nothing critical of the American police state or its corporate collaborators is anywhere ...
In-the-News Article • January 1, 2009
of such releases in principle. Every dollar spent on prisons and incarceration is a dollar not spent on health care, education or social services for the state's needy families. But when people say something isn ...
Project of the ACLU, explores the history and effects of over-incarceration in Michigan and how the state has managed to reduce its prison population by roughly 8% during an era of unprecedented national ...
Article • January 15, 2011 • from PLN January, 2011
laws. The state has cut $25 million from its corrections budget since 2008, according to Kansas Secretary of Corrections Roger Werholtz. As a result, even though four minimum-security facilities were ...
, dental and mental health screenings upon entry. CCJ has already changed its policies to require the screenings, and to have a prisoner’s prescription verified or scheduled to see a doctor the next day ...
, in August 2022, the federal court for the Northern District of Illinois held DOC in contempt for failing to draft a remediation plan for its healthcare system, which the monitor in a long-running class-action ...
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