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, Thou Shalt Not Kill. While defending many of the methods used on Bagram prisoners, Jack loathingly described how the dogs were brought into a room where detainees were tied face-down on chairs. &ldquo ...
Article • June 5, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
Filed under: Settlements, Wrongful Death
at the county jail. A doctor reportedly diagnosed him with alcohol withdrawal despite his lack of a history of alcohol abuse. Nixon’s August 5, 2013 death was one of five in the first five years after ...
interviews and reviews of records, has not unearthed the kinds of egregious abuse or neglect at Southwest Key facilities that plagues more troubled institutions like some foster homes or other immigrant youth ...
Article • March 28, 2017
years. Prisons grew overcrowded, dangerous, expensive and filled with disease, and as The New York Times reported in 2012, California "dol[ed] out life sentences disproportionately to black defendants ...
into the jail in Monterey, California on January 18, 2013, the war veteran likely never envisioned ending up being back in court months later, not to face criminal charges, but to expose the abuse he would suffer ...
was an “economic decision” and defended the actions of its employees. See: Adams v. Corrections Corporation of America, Crowley County District Court (CO), Case No. 2005CV60. In an article published ...
Article • December 3, 2014 • from PLN December, 2014
lawsuit, settlement and subsequent reforms, the defendants admitted no wrongdoing and said they settled the case only for the sake of expediency. [See: PLN, March 2013, p.31]. “This settlement ...
In-the-News Article • January 1, 2007
after 9/11 and human rights abuses of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. His essays didn't reach a broad audience until the 1990s, and even then he refused to censor his message. His most ...
In-the-News Article • January 1, 2006
called the "criminal justice" system. This is the domain of public administrators: lawyers (75 percent of criminal defendants are indigent and rely on court-ordered representation), police ...
In-the-News Article • January 1, 2010
of the prison also emerges in many of the chapters in Prison Profiteers. One of the book’s editors, Tara Herivel, is a Portland public defender who began to cover prisons for the alternative press ...
Brief • 2007
. Sady Chief Deputy Federal Public Defender 101 SW Main Street, Suite 1700 Portland, Oregon 97204 (503) 326-2123 Attorney for Petitioners-Appellants TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Table of Authorities ii ...
Article • February 15, 2010 • from PLN February, 2010
Filed under: News, News in Brief
became convinced that the defendants, known as the West Memphis Three, deserved a new trial. Misskelley and Baldwin are serving life sentences, while Echols is on death row. They have maintained ...
Brief • July 25, 2002
Filed under: Racial Discrimination
Defendant is a state agency " ...... "-::.. .. '.. with its cffic:es anc a principal ~Iaee business "loc3ted in Travis Cour.~y. Taxas. Further, the ~ ~ .~~3 2: i: ~ ~: t. ; cr I (;O'd 6£16S617(;lS: xe.:l ...
Article • June 15, 2000 • from PLN June, 2000
, reported in 1996 that arresting, prosecuting, defending, jailing, imprisoning, and treating the mentally ill costs taxpayers between $1.2 and $1.8 billion a year. "Mentally ill inmates are not like typical ...
Brief • 2007
Ma v State of Oregon or Sex Abuse by Parole Officer Moon Settlement 2007 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT I:llE CoPy A. PARTIES The parties to this Settlement Agreement are Donovan M. Moon, formerly known ...
Brief • September 20, 2011
), the defendant, in response to a request for production of certain police personnel documents in a federal civil rights action, purported to invoke protections afforded by California Penal Code sections 832.7 ...
In-the-News Article • January 1, 2007
, it is a constitutional right, enshrined in international law, that offers a last line of defense for an imprisoned individual against the indifference of or abuse by the State. But why should we care whether someone like ...
. Surveillance video contradicted his incident report to show he kneed an unnamed prisoner in the head four times, two of which he admitted but defended as necessary to bring his victim “into compliance ...
In-the-News Article • December 1, 2019
won in states like California and Nevada. “Don’t be fooled: This is an effort to defend a multi-billion dollar industry that regularly gouges American taxpayers and take attention ...
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Filed under: Organizing, Prison Reform
closures. While funds to manage expensive prison systems have lessened, so too have resources for services such as treatment for substance abuse and mental health. For example, Minnesota lawmakers recently ...
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