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Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
California: City Council Hears Proposal to Repurpose Empty Prison as Pot Farm by The Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga houses around 2,300 prisoners and employs about 1,000 area residents, but the local economy was hit hard by the 2011 closure of the smaller, city-owned Claremont Custody Center. In a …
San Bernardino County Jail Named in Federal Lawsuit by Christopher Zoukis On May 7, 2014, six detainees held at the West Valley Detention Center in San Bernardino filed a civil rights complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Their lawsuit alleged that they were repeatedly …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Illinois Prisoner Wins $125,000 Civil Rights Jury Verdict by Derek Gilna Illinois state prisoner Lincoln Lee had a bad feeling about his new cellmate, who was bigger and younger than him, and prone to repeated verbal threats. The Illinois River Correctional Center, like most state prisons, was overcrowded – so …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Seventh Circuit Reverses Denial of Former Prison Guard’s Marriage to Prisoner by Derek Gilna Rebecca Riker, a kitchen supervisor at the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility in Indiana, became romantically involved with prisoner Paul Vest, who also worked in the kitchen. When their relationship was exposed, Riker resigned her position and …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Bail Bond Payment Plans Face Scrutiny, Criticism in New Jersey by Joe Watson In May 2014, New Jersey’s State Commission of Investigation (SCI) concluded a “broad-based” probe into the state’s bail bond industry for allowing criminal defendants to get out of jail with lower upfront costs and weekly or monthly …
Private Prison Firms Reap Large Profits from Immigration Detention by Gary Hunter Federal immigrant detention has long been a boon to private prison companies Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and the GEO Group, the nation’s two largest private prison firms, both of which trade on the New York Stock Exchange. …
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Seventh Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Illinois Prisoner’s § 1983 Action by Derek Gilna William Nally, incarcerated at the Stateville Correctional Center in Illinois, was given eleven diabetes tests by prison medical staff over a period of five years starting in 2005. Despite the fact that several of those tests showed …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Crime, Incarceration Rates Decline in New York City by Mark Wilson Over the past five years the crime rate has steadily declined in New York City. Meanwhile, the city’s incarceration rate has decreased, too. “New York’s crime rate has gone down more quickly and more steeply than the rest of …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Tenth Circuit Affirms Murder Conviction Called into Question by New DNA Evidence by Derek Gilna In 2005, federal prisoner Mark Jordan was convicted of the June 1999 recreation-yard murder of fellow prisoner David Stone at USP Florence in Florence, Colorado. In 2012, another prisoner who had been present at the …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Fifth Circuit Holds Texas Prisoner Has Right to Grow “Fist-Length” Beard by Pursuant to the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Holt v. Hobbs, 135 S.Ct. 853 (2015) [PLN, Aug. 2015, p.50], the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) changed its grooming policy on August 1, 2015. The new policy …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
UK Prisoner Pen Pal Program Relieves Feelings of Isolation by Derek Gilna Prison is not a place conducive to maintaining good mental health, whether in the United States or elsewhere. The Ministry of Justice in the United Kingdom has found that depression and suicide are major problems in that nation’s …
Another WA DOC Asbestos Abatement Program Shut Down; Prison Officials Fined by Mark Wilson The Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC) was fined $141,000 after an inspection found code violations that exposed prisoners working in an asbestos abatement program to elevated risks of cancer and lung disease. Since 1990, the WDOC …
Prisoners Protest Solitary Confinement at Illinois Facility by Joe Watson More than two dozen prisoners at the Menard Correctional Center in Illinois protested conditions in the prison’s high security unit (HSU) by staging a series of hunger strikes, most of them sustained for weeks. The protests at the Menard facility, …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Filed under: Guard Misconduct
Former Pennsylvania Prison Guard and Prisoner Charged with Child Sex Trafficking by David Reutter An unlikely alliance between a prison guard and a former prisoner ended in both being charged with enslaving two teenagers and forcing them into prostitution. While serving time for a parole violation and drug offense from …
Exonerees Fulfill Dreams, Help Other Prisoners Overcome Wrongful Convictions by David Reutter by David Reutter and Joe Watson Former Louisiana death row prisoner John Thompson has spearheaded an organization that aims to help the wrongfully convicted and former prisoners successfully rebuild their lives. Thompson was sentenced to death for the …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Florida: Drug Arrest Costs Former Prison Official Retirement Benefits by On May 10, 2016, Administrative Law Judge G.W. Chisenhall upheld a decision by the Florida State Board of Administration (Board) to strip retirement benefits from Charles G. Combs, a former major at the Florida State Prison who was arrested for …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
New York Court of Claims Awards $1.75 Million to Prisoner’s Estate by Derek Gilna Scott Degina, a New York state prisoner, sued the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) for damages as a result of negligent treatment of his severe urological problems. He further alleged that due to the …
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Female Prisoners in United Kingdom Make Designer Bags by Derek Gilna Female prisoners at the HM Prison Bronzefield in Surrey, England are paid around $15 per week to produce designer “dust bags” for high-end purses sold in the most exclusive shops. The prison, operated by for-profit company Sodexo, said the …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Washington DOC Ends Marijuana Testing for Parolees by Christopher Zoukis The Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) announced on June 1, 2014 that it will no longer test parolees for marijuana use – a move that will allow some 14,000 parolees to enjoy recreational marijuana like other citizens in the state. …
Sixth Circuit Rejects Qualified Immunity Defense by Guards in Wrongful Death Suit by Derek Gilna On August 21, 2015, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected an appeal filed by jail officials seeking reversal of a district court’s denial of qualified and statutory immunity in a case involving a prisoner’s …
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