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Publication • May 26, 2016
Get To Work or Go To Jail - Workplace Rights Under Threat, UCLA, 2016 UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment UCLA Labor Center A New Way of Life Reentry Project RESEARCH BRIEF |MARCH 2016 Get To Work or Go To Jail: Workplace Rights Under Threat Contributors: Noah Zatz, …
Incident Report - Lee Adjustment Center, CCA, 2004 PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL FORM 5-IA REVISED: 12/01/02 CORRECTIONS CORPORATION OF AMERICA INCIDENT REPORT INCIDENT NUMBER:04-i205-245-I DATE OF INCIDENT:September 14.2004 I. Type of Incident: PRIORITY I q q q q Death - any person Escape Rape (forced sexual assault) Inmate disturbance (major property …
Article • May 13, 2016
$1.2 Million Settlement for Minor Injured in Detention Race Riot by The county of Los Angeles paid $1.2 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a juvenile who was seriously injured during a riot. According to the county’s Summary Corrective Action plan, a riot occurred at Camp Miller, a facility …
Death Penalty Opponent Delbert Tibbs Dies at 74 by David Reutter Delbert Tibbs, a peaceful advocate to abolish the death penalty, has lost his battle against cancer and died at the age of 74. His advocacy was borne of personal experience of being wrongfully convicted. Tibbs was born on June …
Article • May 13, 2016
Report: Six States Shuttered Prisons, Reduced Bed Space in 2013 by Joe Watson A new report from the Sentencing Project highlights prison closures and correctional bed reductions in a half-dozen states in 2013 and outlines the dynamics for more closures in 2014 and beyond. North Carolina led what the Sentencing …
Georgia Sentencing Reform Saving $20 Million a Year by David Reutter Georgia’s 2012 sentencing reform law is saving taxpayers $20 million annually, said Gov. Nathan Deal during a speech to a University of Georgia alumni group. The top priority for Deal going into the 2012 legislative session was House Bill …
Article • May 13, 2016
Filed under: Prison Reform
Shuttered Florida Prison Converted Into 'Empowerment Center' for Homeless by Joe Watson After Florida officials closed the Gainesville Correctional Institution (GCI) for good in March 2012, the state's Department of Corrections fought to keep the property and lobbied to use some of the space left behind for probation offices. Instead, …
Article • May 12, 2016
Spokane County Facing Overcrowding Crisis in Crumbling Jail by Christopher Zoukis Spokane County (WA) is facing an overcrowding crisis at its 28-year-old jail, which is in desperate need of renovation as it processes nearly double the annual bookings it was designed to handle. While Spokane County's overcrowding problem is hardly …
DOJ Increases Budget Even as Americans Tire of Costs of Drug War by Derek Gilna Sometimes the federal government just can’t help itself.  At a time when the majority of Americans still feel that their country is headed in the wrong direction, and have expressed their weariness of the “war …
Florida’s Private Prison Movement Alive and Well by David Reutter With the promise of saving taxpayer dollars to house a growing prisoner population during a cyclical crime wave in the early 1990s, Florida decided to experiment with private prisons. From the start, those involved in the push to privatize were …
Article • May 5, 2016 • from PLN May, 2016
Prisoner Rights Advocates Disappointed with Pace of Obama Clemency Initiative by Derek Gilna President Barack Obama made news in December 2015 when he commuted the sentences of 95 federal prisoners. However, with only one year left in his second term, it is unlikely that he will act on thousands of …
Former U.S. Attorney General’s Legacy: Too Little, Too Late by Derek Gilna The U.S. Sentencing Commission’s unanimous vote in April 2014 to reduce sentencing guidelines two levels for certain defendants convicted of nonviolent drug crimes was a major step in cutting the federal prison terms of both the newly-convicted and …
Idaho Prison Population Drops, Out-of-State Prisoners Re-turned by Christopher Zoukis In a positive sign of declining prison populations, on February 10, 2016, Idaho Department of Correction Director Kevin H. Kempf announced that all 173 state prisoners remaining at the Kit Carson Correctional Center, a Colorado facility operated by Corrections Corporation …
Article • May 5, 2016 • from PLN May, 2016
A “Quantum Leap” Isn’t Far Enough for the Prison Phone Industry by Carrie Wilkinson The December 2015 issue of Prison Legal News detailed a historic October 2015 rulemaking decision by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to comprehensively reform the prison phone industry. Regular PLN readers are all too familiar with …
From the Editor by Paul Wright Welcome to the 26th anniversary issue of Prison Legal News! I would like to thank all the people around the country who have helped PLN and the Human Rights Defense Center grow and prosper over the past 26 years. This includes all of our …
Publication • April 27, 2016
Center for Media and Democracy Alec Model Legislation Methamphetamine Reduction Act Exposed D I D Y O U K N O W ? Corporations VOTED to adopt this. Through ALEC, global companies ALEC EXPOSED Search ABOUT GO MEMBERS LOGIN | LOGOUT | HOME | JOIN ALEC | CONTACT EVENTS & …
Article • April 1, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Architects’ Ethics Panel to Consider Boycott of Execution Chambers and Prison Design by David Reutter by David Reutter An advocacy group composed of architects, building designers and planners is hailing a decision by the National Ethics Council of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) to reconsider a proposal to prohibit …
Article • April 1, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Colson Task Force Report Highlights BOP Issues, Makes Recommendations by Derek Gilna According to the Charles Colson Task Force on Federal Corrections, named after the former top advisor to President Richard Nixon who served a stint in federal prison before dedicating his life to prisoner rehabilitation and spiritual growth, “the …
Article • April 1, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Book Review: "Illegal to Legal: Business Success for (ex)Criminals, by R.L. Pelshaw" by Christopher Zoukis Illegal to Legal: Business Success for (ex)Criminals, by R.L. Pelshaw (The Pelshaw Group, 2014). 241 pages, $17.50 paperback Book review by Christopher Zoukis Criminal justice reform is an issue that has gained significant political and …
Article • April 1, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Filed under: Voting, Release and Reentry
The Will of the People: Ex-prisoners Voted into Public Office by Joe Watson What happens when voters elect a public official once deemed a public threat by the criminal justice system? From Connecticut to Virginia, Michigan to New Hampshire and Oregon to Oklahoma – just a few of the places …
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