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Article • July 6, 2016 • from PLN July, 2016
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: Federal and state officials raided the Sumter County Jail on March 8, 2016 as part of an investigation into the Sumter County Sheriff’s Department. The search led a grand jury to recommend the impeachment of Sheriff Tyrone Clark and issue an indictment against him the …
From the Editor by Paul Wright Over the years PLN has reported extensively on the ACA and NCCHC, and the “accreditation” scams they run using taxpayer money to promote mass incarceration and the prison industry. They are not alone; many other groups like the American Jail Association and National Sheriffs’ …
Article • July 1, 2016
If You're Poor, Justice in America Doesn't Look the Same by Being poor has become a crime. And this makes mass incarceration the most pressing civil rights issue of our era. By Chris Hedges / Truthdig If you are poor, you will almost never go to trial—instead you will be forced to accept …
Does Smarter Sentencing Equal Lower Prison Numbers? by By Adam Wisnieski, The Crime Report The United States has the world’s highest incarceration rate—and efforts to reduce it have been the focus of studies by leading academics, advocacy groups and policymakers. Most recognize that if significant change is going to come, it …
Aging, Sick and Incarcerated: The Need for Compassionate Release by Victoria Law By Victoria Law, Truthout.org Mary Ziman already had debilitating fibromyalgia and, unable to work, was on permanent disability. Then she was arrested and sentenced to 27 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute marijuana, methamphetamine and cocaine, charges she says …
Why Sex Criminals Get Locked Up Forever by Aviva Stahl By Aviva Stahl, VICE Gilbert Greenfield sits upright in the chair, his body tense, a blood-pressure cuff attached to his left arm. A sensor is strapped around his chest, and two more cap his fingertips to measure how much he's sweating. …
When Jail is Used as Drug Treatment by Brian Dolinar By Brian Dolinar, Smile Politely Some in our community say that those in the local jail are dangerous people that shouldn’t be let out on the streets. Yet the tragic story of Toya Frazier, who recently died in the jail, …
Ending local detention quotas, secret perks for corporations in federal contracts and profiting off jailing immigrant families by By Ghita Schwarz and Silky Shah, The Hill In May, the nation’s two largest private prison contractors announced dramatic increases in their first-quarter earnings for the year. The GEO Group, Inc. (GEO) reported a 17 …
Article • June 27, 2016
Awful Prisons: How They Can Be Changed by Adam Hochschild, The New York Review of Books Mr. Smith Goes to Prison: What My Year Behind Bars Taught Me About America’s Prison Crisis by Jeff Smith St. Martin’s, 272 pp., $25.99 Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People’s Guide to the Key Civil …
Article • June 27, 2016
Machine Bias by There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it’s biased against blacks. by Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Surya Mattu and Lauren Kirchner, ProPublica On a spring afternoon in 2014, Brisha Borden was running late to pick up her god-sister from school when she spotted an …
Formerly Incarcerated Moms Fight for Reforms to Save Families by Victoria Law By Victoria Law, Yes! Magazine Diana waited at the bus stop for her children to arrive from school one afternoon 20 years ago. She had planned a party to celebrate her daughter’s sixth birthday. The party, however, never happened. …
Article • June 27, 2016
Filed under: Police Misconduct
NYPD Was Systematically Ticketing Legally Parked Cars for Millions of Dollars a Year by By I Quant NY, TruthVoice New York City is a complex place to drive.  And when it comes to parking, there are plenty of rules and regulations to follow.  It’s no wonder that sometimes people get confused …
Welcome to Appalachia’s Gulag Archipelago by By Skyler Simmons / Earth First! Newswire Exile in the Mountains It is hard to imagine the hollers and hills of southern Appalachia ever being a place of punishment. With its lush coves filled with ginseng, ramps, towering oaks, and tulip poplars. Its abundant springs, …
Article • June 27, 2016
Are Shows Like "Serial" and "Making a Murderer" Clouding the Wider Struggle for Justice? by By James Kilgore, Truthout How many US prisoners are wrongfully convicted? And how many are technically "guilty" but still should not be locked up? This original story saw the light of day thanks to support from …
Saudi executions: beyond the numbers by By Halim Shebaya, openDemocracy This article was originally published by openDemocracy on January 8, 2016. Copyright, openDemocracy. Reprinted with permission. https://www.opendemocracy.net/arab-awakening/halim-shebaya/saudi-executions-beyond-numbers  The inability to recognise an affront to the rule of law, regardless of the identity of the perpetrator, reveals the region’s dire state of affairs, politically, morally, …
Incarceration, Justice and the Planet: How the Fight Against Toxic Prisons May Shape the Future of Environmentalism by Panagioti Tsolkas Prisons inspire little in terms of natural wonder. It might be a weed rises through a crack and blooms for a moment. It might be a prisoner notices. But prisoners, …
U.S. Prisons Filled with America’s Mentally Ill by Derek Gilna In April 2014, the National Sheriffs’ Association and Treatment Advocacy Center released a comprehensive joint report titled “The Treatment of Persons with Mental Illness in Prisons and Jails: A State Survey.” Authored by both experts in mental illness and law …
$8,000 Settlement for Medical Maltreatment by BOP; Court Finds Experts Not Required by Derek Gilna Federal prisoner Michael Alan Crooker filed suit under the Federal Tort Claims Act alleging “malicious prosecution, negligence, and medical maltreatment by the United States Marshal’s Service (USMS) and the United States Bureau of Prisons (BOP).” …
Three California Jail Guards Charged in “Fight Club” Case by Scott Neu, the San Francisco deputy identified as the ringleader of a gladiator-style jailhouse “fight club,” was charged with four felony counts of assault under color of authority, four felony counts of making threats, four misdemeanor counts of inhumanity to …
No Place for Old Men by Texas prisons are filling up with the old and the ill — at enormous expense. by Dick J. Reavis, Texas Observer Benito Alonzo is a short, 140-pound 80-year-old. His quiet-spoken manner, drooping jowls and gray hair, trimmed in a buzz, give him the appearance …
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