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New York Expands "Son of Sam" Law Giving Crime Victims More "Clout" by Lonnie Burton New York Expands "Son of Sam" Law Giving Crime Victims More "Clout" by Lonnie Burton In June 2001, the State of New York amended its socalled "Son of Sam" law to allow crime victims to …
Article • March 15, 2002 • from PLN March, 2002
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News in Brief by Alaska: The state of Alaska has launched its first drive to recruit prison guards since 1988 to fill 40 guard positions when it opens a state jail in Anchorage. Applicants must be 21 years old, no experience is required. Starting pay is $33,300 a year, one …
Article • February 15, 2002 • from PLN February, 2002
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: On October 3, 2001, Teresa Wheeler, 24, collapsed and died while taking a physical training course to become a Department of Corrections guard. Wheeler had previously failed the physical exam but was trying to pass it again. Brazil: On November 26, 2001, over 100 prisoners …
Article • January 15, 2002 • from PLN January, 2002
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News in Brief by California: On October 24, 2001, a riot at the Santa Clara County Jail in San Jose left 22 prisoners and one guard injured. Guards broke up a fight between four prisoners and placed them in holding cells. Twenty-four prisoners then barricaded themselves in a recreation room …
Texas Gives $2 Million to Proselytizing Prison Program by by Matthew T. Clarke The Texas Legislature appropriated an additional $1.5 million to expand the Interchange Freedom Initiative (IFI) to include prisoners who expect to be paroled to the DallasFort Worth area. Sponsored by Prison Fellowship Ministries, an organization founded by …
Article • January 15, 2002 • from PLN January, 2002
ALEC in the House: Corporate Bias in Criminal Justice Legislation by Brigette Sarabi The past twenty years have marked a dramatic shift to more harsh criminal justice policies. While it is common knowledge that politicians beat the "tough on crime" drum to win elections, one has to wonder where they …
Article • January 15, 2002 • from PLN January, 2002
Ohio Eliminates Prison Oversight Committee; Reduces Prison Funding by Ronald Young The Ohio legislature reduced funding for the state prison system that will result in the elimination of 1,100 jobs within the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DORC). The May 2001 legislative action also eliminates a prison oversight committee. Ohio …
Article • January 15, 2002 • from PLN January, 2002
Private Prison Lobbying Group Founded by Ronald Young A group of private prison has formed an alliance to promote the growth of the private prison industry and to further develop prisoners as a marketable commodity. Among the founding members of the Association of Private Correctional and Treatment Organizations (APTCO) are …
Washington Enacts Sweeping New Sentencing Laws, Creates Parole Board for Sex Offenders by Lonnie Burton Washington Governor Gary Locke recently signed into law the biggest changes to that state's sentencing laws since the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 (SRA) was established. The Bill, known formally as Third Engrossed Substitute Senate …
Article • December 15, 2001 • from PLN December, 2001
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News in Brief by News in Brief: Arkansas: On August 23, 2001, Joseph Davis, 39, and Bobby Green, 51, prisoners at a state prison in Varner feigned illness and jumped a guard. The men then stole the guard's truck and kidnapped an unidentified off duty guard and his daughter. The …
Article • December 15, 2001 • from PLN December, 2001
Connecticut and Florida Change Felon Disenfranchisement Laws by Connecticut and Florida take different approaches as they address the disenfranchisement of convicted felons. In Connecticut, state lawmakers, after intense debate and much legislative maneuvering, passed a bill that gives back the right to vote to convicted felons on probation. In a …
Article • November 15, 2001 • from PLN November, 2001
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News in Brief by Alabama: In April 2001, four unnamed guards at the Morgan County jail in Decatur were fired for leaving their posts on April Fools Day to play jokes on each other. The jokes included smearing shaving cream on each other, covering their cars with toilet paper and …
Mississippi Taxpayers Fund Welfare Payments to Private Prisons by Ronald Young Mississippi Taxpayers Fund Welfare Payments To Private Prisons by Ronald A. Young Mississippi taxpayers will pay about $6 million a year to private and regional prisons for "ghost inmates" under a bill the legislature approved on March 26, 2001. …
Article • October 15, 2001 • from PLN October, 2001
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News in Brief by Canada: On July 16, 2001, at least 31 prisoners at the maximum security Atlantic Institution rioted. After ransacking the canteen, breaking through walls and refusing to return to their cells, the protest ended July 19, 2001. Media accounts did not state the cause of the uprising. …
Article • October 15, 2001 • from PLN October, 2001
The Prison Payoff: The Role of Politics & Private Prisons in the Incarceration Boom by by Brigette Sarabi and Edwin Bender The popularity of the term "prison-industrial complex" in recent years, and especially since the groundbreaking Critical Resistance conference in Berkeley in September 1998, has produced a few critics who …
Article • September 15, 2001 • from PLN September, 2001
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News in Brief by Brazil: On June 29, 2001, former police colonel Ubiratan Guimaraes, 58, was convicted of killing 102 prisoners in 1992 when he commanded the police takeover of Carandiru Prison after an uprising by prisoners. Officially 111 prisoners were killed in the uprising, including 9 stabbed to death …
Article • August 15, 2001 • from PLN August, 2001
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News in Brief by Bolivia: On June 4, 2001, prisoners at the Palmasola jail became fed up with a gang of prisoners who called themselves the "smurfs" who beat, assaulted and extorted other prisoners and their visitors at the jail. Taking matters into their own hands, a mob of prisoners …
Article • July 15, 2001 • from PLN July, 2001
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News in Brief by Alaska: On May 4, 2001, Anchorage superior court judge Elaine Andrews terminated the 20-year-old Cleary conditions case. Andrews ruled that the overcrowding and related problems that were at the root of the class action lawsuit have been resolved. Andrews said she would file an opinion addressing …
Article • July 15, 2001 • from PLN July, 2001
The Strangest of Bedfellows by Noel Brinkerhoff In 1988, a Chino prison guard was killed when a juvenile prisoner he was escorting to a Los Angeles hospital for medical treatment tried to escape. Like other prison guards killed in the line of duty, the veteran officer left behind a grieving …
Class Action Medical Neglect Suit Filed Against CDC by Alleging that the California Department of Corrections (CDC) violates the Eighth Amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment by providing seriously inadequate medical care to state prisoners, the Prison Law Office and the law firms Pillsbury Winthrop and McCutchen Doyle Brown …
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