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Article • July 28, 2017 • from PLN August, 2017
are likely the first few indications of what may be a much larger heat problem. “[TDCJ] has acknowledged the deaths because we proved we knew about them,” said Attorney Jeff Edwards, who ...
Article • June 9, 2017 • from PLN June, 2017
Filed under: Overcrowding, Staffing
a little troubled that there’s such disconnect between what we’re hearing from the media, from the people who are working in these facilities and what we’re hearing from the department ...
had failed to do was narrowly define what “significant cost” meant. This gave counties months to incur costs that could help an exemption. In San Antonio, for example, the county committed ...
Article • March 31, 2017
grades behind. They wrote that Cody “tries to do his best work and desires to learn.” Robert Beck, Cody’s father, said he also explained to Cody’s teachers what he found to work ...
Article • February 24, 2017
are more likely to be considered public safety or flight risks, which influences decisions about whether to set bail and at what amount. When bail is set, blacks and Latinos are more likely than whites ...
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
is just the first in a series of tragic events. If the arrest is traumatic, then their conviction and often lengthy incarceration is heart-rending. But such events merely set the stage for what happens ...
to learn how CCA has responded. “Is there any other way to see what really happens inside a private prison?” reporter Bauer, who was held hostage in Iran from 2009 to 2011,&nbsp ...
Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
control of the contraband trade, things can turn deadly – especially when prison staff is collaborating with one of the gangs. That is what investigators suspected in the September 2012 murder ...
A Puerto Rican Federal Prisoner’s Horrifying Account of What the Prison did After Hurricane Maria by Milton Pinilla describes a horrific week of violence, humiliation and fear. by Nick ...
in Alameda County have been asking about the sheriff, who was recently elected to his fourth term: “Why are you the only person on the ballot?” she asked. “That’s what I want to know ...
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
in Alabama and other states in the chicken belt continue to benefit from what is perhaps the most vulnerable workforce in the country – prisoners. Poultry processors employ them by the hundreds ...
Article • December 31, 2015 • from PLN January, 2016
Filed under: Corizon, OB/GYN
unconstitutional and illegal what the sheriff’s office is doing. Mandatory pregnancy testing is a clear invasion of a women’s right to privacy.” In short, the practice is “crazy,” she ...
cut of the profits to hire additional employees, purchase “more equipment than we know what to do with,” including squad cars, shotguns and bulletproof vests, and amass an impressive $1.5 million ...
Article • February 15, 2013 • from PLN February, 2013
. But having exhausted their remedies in state court, Jon and the Lifers’ Association were stuck. They had a lot of ideas on next steps, but, as Jon told me many times, “there are limits to what you can do ...
. Stubbs and MacClain were in protective custody at the time they were killed. “It shouldn’t have to take a total of four murders for people to say: ‘What’s going on? Something ain’t right in this prison ...
practice what, according to a 2004 report by CIA Inspector General John Helgerwon, are referred to as "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques." Such techniques include exposing the prisoners to extreme cold ...
Article • August 15, 2011
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews
. They are the ones that most obviously benefit from putting more people in prison for longer periods of time. But what are the side effects of for-profit incarceration as social policy? Frustrating Prison Reform ...
is an important clarification of what should be totally obvious to prison professionals but, unfortunately is lost on some judges,” said Zachary Margulis Ohnuma, an attorney representing Corley and Crawford ...
for the foreseeable future, Pender hopes the increased outrage about solitary confinement leads to concrete changes. What would she ask people to do? “They can help by contacting their legislators and judges ...
Article • March 4, 2016
on what collective bargaining deals have been brokered, similar procedures typically take place around the country. Trained investigators in internal affairs first look at whether or not an officer has ...
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