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Article • April 15, 2003 • from PLN April, 2003
Texas Grants Prisoners Right to Forensic DNA Testing by by Matthew T. Clarke The Texas state legislature has enacted what may be the most pro-prisoner post-conviction DNA testing entitlement law in the country. Codified at Chapter 64 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, the law gives any convicted person …
PI Issued in Arizona Internet Communications Ban by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg On December 16, 2002, the U.S. District Court (D. Ariz.) granted plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction (PI) enjoining the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADOC) from enforcing laws arising from Arizona House Bill 2376 (HB …
Article • April 15, 2003 • from PLN April, 2003
California Approves Forced DNA Extractions by California's Governor Gray Davis authorized the use of force to take DNA samples from state prisoners, when he signed Senate Bill 1242 into law on Sept. 17, 2002. Existing California Penal Code §§ 296, 296.1 and 296.2 codify the requirement and procedure for taking …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004
California Awards Wrongly Incarcerated Man $428,000 by The State of California awarded $428,000 on September 24, 2003 for the 12 years of false incarceration served by an East Palo Alto, California man whose murder conviction had been abated when Santa Clara County prosecutors became convinced they had put the wrong …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004
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News in Brief by Alabama: In May, 2004, Gail Munnerlyn sued the Alabama Department of Corrections for its practice of allowing uninsured prisoners to drive DOC vehicles. Munnerlyn was injured when her car was struck by a DOC work release van driven by an uninsured prisoner. Her attorney, Kenny Mendelsohn, …
Georgia Parole Corruption Deepens by Gary Hunter A trail of corruption, greed, and cronyism has led to the indictment of a Georgia senator, the dismissal of an assistant attorney general and the resignation of six parole board members including the director and the chairman. Van Streat was suspended from his …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN March, 2003
Virginia Law Repeals Phone Rate Ruling by Matthew T. Clarke Effective July 1, 2002, the Virginia legislature has enacted a law specifically designed to undercut a favorable ruling on prison phone rates by the State Corporation Commission (SCC). Robert Lee Jones, a Virginia state prisoner, filed a complaint with the …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN March, 2003
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News in Brief by Arizona: Protesting the seizure of property sold to them by the prison but which does not meet current prison property rules, on November 18, 2002, hundreds of prisoners at the Arizona State Prison Complex in Florence started fires from electrical outlets in their cells and threw …
Article • February 15, 2003 • from PLN February, 2003
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News in Brief by Arkansas: In early January, 2003, Little Rock district court judge Rodney Owens, 55, resigned from the bench a day after he qualified for a state pension. Owens was convicted in July, 2002, of registering a motor home at a fictional address in Oregon to avoid paying …
Article • January 15, 2003 • from PLN January, 2003
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News in Brief by Alabama: On May 8, 2002, Mobile county sheriff Jack Tillman fired jail warden Kenneth Cooper for making false statements on his job application. Cooper claimed he had graduated from Valdosta State with a bachelor's degree in physical education. School records indicate he never graduated. Alaska: On …
Article • December 15, 2002 • from PLN December, 2002
Son of Sam II Law Enacted in California by Son Of Sam II Law Enacted in California In a legislative move designed to circumvent a recent California Supreme Court ruling holding that California's "Son of Sam" law (which prohibited prisoners from profiting from their crime stories) was unconstitutional, Senate Bill …
Article • December 15, 2002 • from PLN December, 2002
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News in Brief by California: On April 1, 2002, 30 prisoners at the Pelican Bay State Prison were involved in a riot. Eight Asian and Native American prisoners attacked 20 white prisoners. One prisoner suffered a superficial stab wound and other participants received minor injuries. The riot was halted by …
Article • November 15, 2002 • from PLN November, 2002
Prisoners, Politics, Money and the Census by Gary Hunter It's a standing joke that the Texas economy has been grounded in the 3 C's: cattle, crude, and convicts. But while Texas gets most of the publicity for its massive prison build-up, the human-warehousing trend is literally sweeping the countrysideand it …
Article • November 15, 2002 • from PLN November, 2002
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News in Brief by Brazil: On September 15, 2002, the state of Sao Paulo closed the notorious Catandiru prison in Sao Paulo. The 46 year old prison had been Latin America's largest, with more than 8,000 prisoners held in a space designed for 3,250. Its long history of violence included …
Article • October 15, 2002 • from PLN October, 2002
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News in Brief by Alabama: Faced with a state budget crunch that had led the state parole board to discontinue Thursday hearings and to consider laying off staff, in July, 2002, governor Don Siegelman found $438,000 in state and federal money to give the parole board to hire four new …
Article • September 15, 2002 • from PLN September, 2002
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News in Brief by California: On June 24, 2002, San Francisco prosecutor Floyd Andrews pleaded not guilty to felony assault charges stemming from his stabbing of Martin Stanley when he caught Stanley urinating on a fence in front of his home. Andrews stabbed Stanley seriously enough to expose his intestines …
Article • August 15, 2002 • from PLN August, 2002
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News in Brief by California: On May 1, 2002, the Wasco State Prison banned all smoking by prisoners at the facility, becoming the second state prison in California to do so. Prison officials claimed it was costing $250,000 a year to reprimand prisoners smoking in non smoking areas and to …
Article • July 15, 2002 • from PLN July, 2002
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News in Brief by Alaska: On April 11, 2002, Cynthia Cooper, the head prosecutor in the state attorney general's office, resigned after being judicially admonished for pursuing felony charges against a public defender who crashed his car into a light pole. Anchorage prosecutors had agreed to a misdemeanor plea bargain …
Article • June 15, 2002 • from PLN June, 2002
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News in Brief by Bolivia: On March 27, 2002, prosecutor Alex Alipaz, was stabbed four times by two prisoners while walking through a prison corridor in the San Pedro prison. Alipaz was seriously injured in the attack but survived. Alipaz said he had no idea why he was attacked, and …
Article • June 15, 2002 • from PLN June, 2002
New Mexico Caps High Telephone Rates by The governor of New Mexico signed a bill in February 2001, prohibiting prisons from profiting on prisoners' phone calls, which was exceeding 10 times the regular competitive rates with a 15 minute call costing up to $20. The Public Communications Services, a Los …
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