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News in Brief
Article • August 2, 2016 • from PLN August, 2016
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Arkansas: Two guards were placed on paid leave after they shot and killed prisoner Christopher Wilson during an April 7, 2016 escape attempt from the Varner Unit of the Arkansas Department of Correction. According to DOC spokesperson Solomon Graves, “Officers gave [Wilson] a demand to cease …
UK Prisoner Pen Pal Program Relieves Feelings of Isolation
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Filed under: Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Mail, Mental Health
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 …
Female Prisoners in United Kingdom Make Designer Bags
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Filed under: Gender Discrimination -- Women, Prison Labor
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 …
UK Supreme Court Rules Against Unlawful Use of Solitary Confinement
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Filed under: Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Mental Health
UK Supreme Court Rules Against Unlawful Use of Solitary Confinement by Christopher Zoukis On July 29, 2015, the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court unanimously ruled against prison officials in an action brought by prisoners Kamal Bourgass and Tanvir Hussain concerning their prolonged solitary confinement. According to British laws related to solitary, …
News in Brief
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by California: Rafael Rodriguez, Matthew Farris and Jereh Lubrin lost a fierce battle to keep a judge from remanding them to trial on murder charges on March 3, 2016. The Santa Clara County jail guards were accused of beating Michael Tyree, a 31-year-old mentally ill prisoner, to …
UK Supreme Court Rules Against Unlawful Use of Solitary Confinement
Article • May 5, 2016 • from PLN May, 2016
Filed under: Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement
UK Supreme Court Rules Against Unlawful Use of Solitary Confinement by Christopher Zoukis On July 29, 2015, the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court unanimously ruled against prison officials in an action brought by prisoners Kamal Bourgass and Tanvir Hussain concerning their prolonged solitary confinement. According to British laws related to solitary, …
News in Brief
Article • May 5, 2016 • from PLN May, 2016
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Australia: An anal-retentive prisoner in the supermax unit at the Goulburn Jail claimed for 12 days that a metal object detected inside his body was a fragment of a surgical instrument, but his claims were proven false when his bowels finally moved on February 24, 2016 …
News in Brief
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Arizona: On October 28, 2015, Maricopa County youth detention guard Patrice Dawson was arrested on felony charges of sexual misconduct. Dawson, who supervised juvenile offenders, was accused of having sexual relations with an underage prisoner; she was fired from the department after confessing to the relationship. …
News in Brief
Article • February 29, 2016 • from PLN March, 2016
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by Arizona: On December 3, 2015, Brama Koroma walked into a Westwood bar wearing a black-and-white striped Maricopa County jail uniform that he had purchased online. Krystina Smith was at the bar and thought it was a delayed Halloween costume. “He was acting normal,” she said. Phoenix …
Annual Report 2006-2007, Forum for Preventing Deaths in Custody (UK), 2007
Publication • February 24, 2016
Filed under: International, Wrongful Death, Police
Annual Report 2006-2007, Forum for Preventing Deaths in Custody (UK), 2007 Forum for Preventing Deaths in Custody ANNUAL REPORT 2006-2007 1 Designed and printed by the Independent Police Complaints Commission on behalf of the Forum for Preventing Deaths in Custody 2 Forum for Preventing Deaths in Custody Annual Report 2006-2007 …
Forum for Preventing Deaths in Custody - Annual Report 2006 - 2007, IPCC, 2007
Publication • February 15, 2016
Filed under: Wrongful Death, Police
Forum for Preventing Deaths in Custody - Annual Report 2006 - 2007, IPCC, 2007 Forum for Preventing Deaths in Custody ANNUAL REPORT 2006-2007 1 Designed and printed by the Independent Police Complaints Commission on behalf of the Forum for Preventing Deaths in Custody 2 Forum for Preventing Deaths in Custody …
Imagining more than just a prisoner - Prisoners Penfriends, Warwick Law School, 2015
Publication • February 12, 2016
Filed under: Prisoner Privileges, Mail
Imagining more than just a prisoner - Prisoners Penfriends, Warwick Law School, 2015 University of Warwick School of Law Legal Studies RESEARCH Paper No. 2015/12 Imagining more than just a prisoner: The work of Prisoners’ Penfriends Jacqueline Hodgson and Juliet Horne APRIL 2015 Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2607575 Imagining more …
European Human Rights Court Finds UK Prisoners Wrongfully Denied Vote
Article • February 2, 2016 • from PLN February, 2016
Filed under: Voting, International
European Human Rights Court Finds UK Prisoners Wrongfully Denied Vote by Derek Gilna In August 2014, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, France ruled against the United Kingdom and in favor of UK prisoners who were denied the right to vote in the 2009 European elections. The …
News in Brief
Article • February 2, 2016 • from PLN February, 2016
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alaska: Two prisoners walked away from the GEO Group-operated minimum-security Northstar Center, a transitional living facility near Fairbanks, in separate incidents on October 2, 2015. Steven David Luten, 30, absconded at around 11:00 a.m. but was tracked by his footprints in the snow and recaptured nearby. …
News in Brief
Article • December 31, 2015 • from PLN January, 2016
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: Former Dale County jail prisoner Trawick Redding, Jr. filed a federal lawsuit on July 28, 2015 claiming guards Zeneth Glenn and Ryan Mittlebach tortured and assaulted him, and inflicted cruel and unusual punishment, by using a large Burmese python to intimidate him during his jail …
Report Says Prison Privatization Expanding Internationally
Article • October 16, 2015
Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, GEO Group/Wackenhut, G4S/Group 4, International, Immigration
Report Says Prison Privatization Expanding Internationally by Joe Watson A recent report from The Sentencing Project, based in Washington, D.C., concludes that the mass-privatization of American prisons has encouraged, not deterred, many countries—including the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Brazil—to hand over the responsibility of its prisoners to for-profit companies. …
News in Brief
Article • August 31, 2015 • from PLN September, 2015
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by News in Brief Alabama: Ricky Deangelo Hinkle, 47, began threatening other prisoners and disrupting the lunch meal at the Jefferson County Jail on September 11, 2014. As jailers were placing him in a segregation cell, he allegedly started to fight. A guard then used his Taser …
British Banking Giant Fined for Laundering Mexican Drug Money Through U.S. Banks
Article • August 31, 2015 • from PLN September, 2015
Filed under: War on Drugs
British Banking Giant Fined for Laundering Mexican Drug Money Through U.S. Banks by Matthew Clarke British Banking Giant Fined for Laundering Mexican Drug Money Through U.S. Banks by Matt Clarke In December 2012, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) fined major British bank HSBC almost $2 billion following an investigation …
Two Reports Find at Least 54 Countries Complicit in Secret CIA Prisons
Article • August 29, 2015 • from PLN September, 2015
Filed under: Excessive Force, Political Prisoners (International), Terrorism, CIA
Two Reports Find at Least 54 Countries Complicit in Secret CIA Prisons by Matthew Clarke Two Reports Find at Least 54 Countries Complicit in Secret CIA Prisons by Matt Clarke The Central Intelligence Agency operated a network of prisons around the globe where suspected terrorists were routinely tortured, and in …
Terrorism Suspect Moves to Suppress Statements Made to FBI due to Torture Threats
Article • August 28, 2015 • from PLN September, 2015
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Staff-Prisoner Harassment, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Terrorism
Terrorism Suspect Moves to Suppress Statements Made to FBI due to Torture Threats by Matthew Clarke Terrorism Suspect Moves to Suppress Statements Made to FBI due to Torture Threats by Matt Clarke A former British citizen with ties to the U.S.-designated terrorist group al-Shabaab asked a court to suppress statements …
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