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Article • August 5, 2016
Prison Guard Guilty of Stealing Mail by On September  23, 2014, a guard at a Virginia state prison entered a guilty plea to one count of mail theft for stealing mail intended for prisoners. Ezra Lamont Price was employed as a guard at the Danville Adult Detention Center when mail …
Article • August 5, 2016
Porn and Referral Fee Scandals Force Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice’s Retirement by David Reutter In the midst of a pornographic email scandal, Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Seamus P. McCaffery retired. That move came just a week after his colleagues issued an order suspending him from all judicial work and instructing …
Locked-Up Sex Offenders Run for Office in Small-Town Minnesota by Joe Watson Frustrated by legislative inaction, a group of civilly-committed sex offenders in Moose Lake, Minnesota, ran a voter-registration drive in the small town for four months leading up to this year's midterm elections, hoping to get as many as …
Article • August 5, 2016
Indefinite Pre-incident Detention of Indigents by Mississippi Challenged in Class Action Law Suit by David Reutter A class action challenging the indefinite jailing of persons in a Mississippi’s Scott County Detention Center without indictment or representation by counsel was filed on September 23, 2014. The lead plaintiffs are indigents who …
Article • August 5, 2016
Florida Cancels Youth Prison Contract Due to Abusive Atmosphere by David Reutter The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) cancelled the contract for a residential youth program run by Youth Services International (YSI). DJJ defaulted on the contract for the Santa Rosa Substance Abuse Treatment Center because the facility’s staff …
Cuban-American Prisoner Exchange Signals a Renewal of Diplomatic Contacts by Derek Gilna In a development few could have foreseen, President Obama has carried out an exchange of five convicted Cuban spies languishing in federal prison in return for the release of American aid contractor Alan Gross, held captive in Cuba …
Article • August 5, 2016
DOJ and Department of Education Focus on Education of Juvenile Detainees by Derek Gilna There’s always been plenty of money available to incarcerate juvenile offenders in the United States, but finding funds and motivation to educate those young people has often been sadly lacking.  Recently, however, Attorney General Eric Holder …
DNA Keeps Overturning Convictions, But Spike in Exonerations Owed to Other Factors by Joe Watson Nicole Harris, Henry Lee McCollum and Leon Brown have lived through their own nightmares of injustice. All three were wrongfully convicted of the heinous murders of children. Combined, they spent nearly 70 years in prison …
Article • August 4, 2016
State Indigent Legal Costs Hold Steady at $2.3 billion in Past Year by Derek Gilna State-paid expenditures for indigent defendants’ legal fees held steady in fiscal year 2012, the last year for which statistics are available.  In 2012, according to the newest report by the Bureau of Justice (BJS) statistics, …
Article • August 4, 2016
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Successful Parole Program in Colorado Appears to be 86'ed Without Clements by Joe Watson A one-of-a-kind parole program in Colorado that boasts an otherworldly 98%-success rate now faces an uncertain future without Tom Clements—the former Colorado DOC chief who was murdered in 2013—advocating for the program and the prisoners who …
Article • August 4, 2016
Meriden, Connecticut Police Officer Remains in Prison as Appeal Denied by Derek Gilna In May, 2010, Evan Cossette, a former Meriden police officer, pushed a handcuffed and helpless prisoner Pedro Temich backwards into a concrete bench, knocking him unconscious.  That was bad enough, but what Officer Cossette did thereafter was …
Fourth Circuit Holds Private Prison Guards to be Under Supervision of DOJ by Derek Gilna Some enterprising prison guards at the River Correctional Institution set up a profitable smuggling operation for several years, accepting bribes from prisoners to smuggle cell phones and other contraband such as tobacco products into the …
Woman Dies during 1,000 Mile Private Prisoner Transport Trip by David Reutter The death of a woman on a private transport van raised a much needed spotlight on the private prisoner transport industry. The 54-year-old woman was found slumped over in the back of the Prisoner Transportation Services of America …
Pennsylvania Blames Prison Clerk for Her Rape by Prisoner by David Reutter In response to a female secretary who was raped by a prisoner at Pennsylvania’s State Correctional Institution – Rockview in 2013, the State Attorney General’s office filed a pleading that blamed the woman for her rape. As PLN …
New York Pushing Enforcement of Law Prohibiting Discrimination in Felon Hiring by The New York Attorney General’s Office (AG) reached a settlement with a national retailer doing business in the state to end discrimination in the hiring of individuals with criminal records. the terms of settlement provide  the company will …
Louisiana Police Chief Faces Civil and Criminal Actions for Sexual Assault of Detainee by A Louisiana woman offered to accept $500,000 to settle a federal lawsuit alleging that she was sexually assaulted after her arrest by Sorrento police chief Earl Theriot, Jr. The offer came about a month after US …
ISIS Forces Kill Iraqi Shiite Prisoners after Iraqi Guards Flee by Derek Gilna Iraqi Shiites unfortunate enough to be confined in Badush prison, 25 kilometers from Mosul, Iraq, were summarily slaughtered by ISIS forces after their Iraqi prison guards fled the advancing insurgents.  Lieutenant Colonel Ali Mohammed, who apparently served …
Study Shows How Juvenile System Criminalizes Girls Who are Victimized by Sexual Abuse by Joe Watson A Norman, Oklahoma high school student, raped by a male peer and repeatedly harassed and touted by her classmates, is suspended from school after she lashes out and swings at another student. A girl, …
Oregon Prisoner Assailant Shot to Death by On August 29, 2014, an Oregon prison guard shot and killed a prisoner for the first time in at least 30 years. Jayson Matthew Withers entered Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) custody on May 13, 2010. Sentenced to eight and a half years …
Oregon Prison Officials Admit Negligence in Prisoner’s Murder by Mark Wilson In the rarest of moves, Oregon prison officials have quickly admitted that negligence was a “substantial factor” in a prisoner’s murder. In July, 2010, Michael Clarence Hagen began serving a 17 year prison term at the Snake River Correctional …
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