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Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Filed under: DNA Testing/Samples, Asylum
DOJ to Treat Immigrants Like Criminals by Collecting DNA Samples by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss In March 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that federal Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents will begin collecting DNA samples for criminal investigation from immigrants designated for detention in Immigration and …
Texas Prison Health Care Costs at Record High Despite Population Reduction by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Despite a reduction in the Texas prisoner population, state prisons are spending record amounts on prisoner health care. The reason is not an improvement in the health care afforded prisoners. Pending lawsuits allege …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Minnesota Prison Bans “No Touch” Rule by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Back in 2011, the United States Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) performed an anonymous survey at the Minnesota Department of Corrections’ (MDOC) Shakopee women’s prison. The survey’s results showed that Shakopee was among the worst …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19
ICE Diverts Needed Face Masks from Medical Professionals by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) placed a request for bids on its website in March 2020 for 45,000 N95 protective face masks for 26 of its enforcement and removal operation field offices. This came at a …
Alabama Grandma Sentenced to Life on Drug Charge Finally Paroled by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In recent years many states have made changes to their criminal codes in an effort to reduce their prison populations. Those amendments, however, are rarely retroactive and leave those already imprisoned to serve …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by California: On March 28, 2020, death row prisoner Lonnie Franklin Jr., 67, aka “Grim Sleeper,” was found unresponsive in his San Quentin cell. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokeswoman Terry Thornton told reporters, “There were no signs of trauma. They don’t know why he died.” …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Coalition Fights to Ensure Jailed Voters in Arizona Can Vote by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer In 1974, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that jail detainees who are under no voting disability — which essentially means that they have not yet been convicted of a felony and lost their right …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Paroled New Yorker Wrongfully Confined; Awarded $3,250 by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Clarence Delaney, Jr. was granted $40 per day for 88 days of unlawful confinement by the State of New York, receiving a total payment of $3,250. He also was able to recover his 42 USC § 1983 …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Michigan Permits Prisoners to Seek Financial Assistance for College by Bill Barton by Bill Barton In October 2019, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed into law a 2020 budget that allowed prisoners to seek college financial aid through a state program that had long been out-of-bounds to prisoners. The Tuition Incentive …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Arizona DOC Raids Prisoner-Generated Funds to Pay for Lock Repairs; Whistleblower Says Records Being Falsified by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke After the Arizona Department of Corrections (DOC) received $17.7 million from the state legislature’s Joint Committee on Capital Review to repair defective cell locks at a maximum-security prison, a …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Recent Exonerees Give the Public Advice on Being Locked Down: You Have No Idea by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Now the whole country is incarcerated,” Theophalis “Binky Bilal” Wilson said after being released in January 2020, exonerated after 28 years wrongfully in prison, only to find himself locked in …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Lawsuit: Release Prisoners in Virus Tinderbox to Home Confinement by David Reutter Patrick Jones first federal prisoner to die after judge rejects plea by David M. Reutter A non-violent federal drug offender who pleaded for early release in the months prior to the COVID-19 pandemic hitting America died of the …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19
Prison Postcards: Prisoners Write About Fears, Incompetence, at Their Facilities by Ken Silverstein by Ken Silverstein On April 15, President Donald Trump announced that the coronavirus pandemic had peaked in the United States. That same day, nearly 2,300 people in the country died from COVID-19, the disease cause by the …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Filed under: Prison Labor, COVID-19
Rikers Island Prisoners Helped with Preparations to Bury the Coronavirus Dead by Prisoners jailed with a conviction at New York’s Rikers Island were offered $6 an hour to dig mass graves at Hart Island, where more than 1 million mostly indigent city residents are already buried. In a city with …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Federal Judge “Troubled” by Arizona Prison Director’s Response to Coronavirus; State Rep Calls it “Reckless” by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Court-appointed advocates filed a motion in federal court concerning the Arizona prison director’s response to the coronavirus, which federal Judge Roslyn Silver called “troubling,” writing that it “may reflect …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
California Publishes Use of Force in Prisons Report by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso In June 2019, California’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) published its annual report, “Monitoring the Use of Force,” for incidents the previous year at all juvenile and adult facilities operated by the Department of …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Connecticut Prisoners Win Lawsuit After Hepatitis Exposure by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon In May 2019, a final settlement agreement was approved for 15 prisoners who were exposed to Hepatitis C when a Correctional Managed Health Care (CMHC) nurse at MacDougall-Walker State Prison in Suffield, Connecticut, used the same needle …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Nevada Prisoner Prevails in Good Time Deprivation Appeal by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon On June 20, 2019, a two-justice majority on a Nevada court of appeals panel reversed and remanded a district court’s dismissal of a state prisoner’s civil rights complaint over the removal of good time credits. The …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
California Three-Judge Court Denies Emergency Motion to Reduce Prison Population During Pandemic by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis On April 4, 2020, a three-judge court in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California denied a motion seeking an order requiring the California Department of Corrections and …
Arkansas Supreme Court Denies Prisoner Preliminary Injunction on Religious Issues by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso On June 6, 2019 the Supreme Court of Arkansas denied a prisoner’s appeal of a circuit court’s refusal to issue a preliminary injunction regarding Arkansas Department of Corrections (ADC) policies as applied to …
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