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Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: In February 2021, Huntsville TV station WHNT reported a delay in the trial on theft and ethics charges of Mike Blakely, sheriff of Limestone County, Alabama. According to the report, retired Colbert County Circuit Judge Pride Tompkins, who had been appointed to hear the case …
Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021
Filed under: Federal Legislation
Biden’s Justice Department Nomination Faces Aggressive Opposition From Senate Republicans by Juliette LaMarr by Juliette LaMarr Kristen Clarke is President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ). As evidenced by her April 14, 2021 hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, many Republicans …
Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: Two Alabama jail guards were arrested in just two months for allegedly smuggling cellphones to inmates. In February 2021, 27-year-old D’Mario Jones was fired and charged with two counts of promoting prison contraband at the Lee County Detention Center in Opelika where he worked. According …
Article • March 1, 2021 • from PLN March, 2021
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News in Brief by Arizona: In January 2021, two women who worked at an Arizona state prison operated by Florida-based GEO Group pleaded guilty to having sex with inmates there. Melony Petrovffsky, 50, ran the commissary for the private contractor at a prison in Golden Valley, where she was allegedly …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Afghanistan: As fighting continued between Taliban forces and the Afghan military on September 3, 3020, both parties announced they had nearly completed a prisoner exchange negotiated the previous February. According to a report by Japan’s public broadcasting company, HNK, the Taliban said all 1,000 Afghan prisoners …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
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News in Brief by Alabama: Chanting “not one more,” about 30 carloads of protesters from “Alabamians Who Care” caravanned to the governor’s mansion in Montgomery on August 1, 2020, protesting a plan by Gov. Kay Ivey (R) to build three new “mega-prisons.” According to a report by Montgomery TV station …
Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: The Birmingham News reported that an Alabama prison guard had been arrested for drug trafficking after a search of his vehicle when he arrived for work at the St. Clair County prison turned up 138 grams of methamphetamine and 16 grams of heroin. Ivan Caldwell, …
Article • October 1, 2020 • from PLN October, 2020
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News in Brief by Alabama: In February 2020, a grand jury in Limestone County, Alabama, returned an indictment for “possession/receipt of a controlled substance” against Travis Wales, a former guard at the Limestone County Correctional Facility in Harvest. According to Columbus, Georgia, TV station WBRL, Wales was arrested in September …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by California:In June 2020, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) commuted 21 state prisoners’ sentences, a dozen of them were for murder convictions, patch.com reported. Seven were committed when the prisoner was 22 or younger. Half of the prisoners are now 59 or older. One commutation went to …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Record Number of Laws Passed Reducing Barriers for People With Criminal Records by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney   Forty-three states, along with the District of Columbia and the federal government, passed “consequential legislation” in 2019 aimed at reducing barriers faced by people with criminal records. The 152 laws significantly or …
Article • August 1, 2020 • from PLN August, 2020
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by California: Beyond Prison Walls, now in its eighth year with Playwrights Project partners at San Diego State University, spotlights the works of prisoner playwrights participating in Out of the Yard programs at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility, Centinela State Prison and Community Transition Center. This year, …
Article • July 1, 2020 • from PLN July, 2020
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News in Brief by Arizona: A Maricopa County grand jury indicted Daniel Davitt, 60, on January 14,  2020 on charges of second-degree murder in the death of Lower Buckeye Jail guard Gene Lee on October 30. Buckeye Jail video shows Davitt talking to Lee on October 29, then suddenly grabbing …
Article • June 1, 2020 • from PLN June, 2020
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From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright It seems like an eternity since the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in the U.S. in January of this year and the first deaths began occurring in March. Now, each day brings grim news for American prisoners. Everyone I know in the prisoner rights …
Article • June 1, 2020 • from PLN June, 2020
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News in Brief by Alabama: Doctors have warned about the toxicity of K2, a common synthetic marijuana smuggled into prisons. Alabama Department of Corrections narcotics dog Jake, a 5-year-old Belgian Malinois, died after an allergic reaction to the substance found in a July 2019 contraband search at Staton Correctional Facility …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
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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 • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
Filed under: Voting, State Legislation
More States Restore Felony Voting Rights by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter In 2019, Colorado, Louisiana, New Jersey, and Nevada enacted legislation to restore voting rights to felons who have been released from prison but are still under such supervision, the latest of 24 states to make similar …
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
Fund to Pay Wrongfully Convicted Prisoners in Michigan Is Broke Once Again by David Reutter by David M. Reutter With the 2016 passage if its Wrongful Imprisonment Act, Michigan became one of 33 states with legislation creating a fund to compensate wrongfully convicted people, paying them $50,000 per year of …
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
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News in Brief by Afghanistan:  The Ministry of Interior Affairs is working on a draft proposal aimed at reducing jail time, while promoting “reading culture.” By the end of 2019, Afghanistan had at least 35,000 prisoners in jails across the country. If the proposal is adopted, a prisoner could receive …
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
Funding and Leadership Failures Result in Less Criminal Justice Data by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso Several late or missing reports from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) highlights a trend toward less reporting and accountability by the federal government. The Crime and Justice Research Alliance, a nonprofit group …
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
The Ongoing Push to End Outrageous Prison Phone Charges by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso Groups in several states are drawing increased attention to the high cost of jail and prison phone rates, and pushing to reduce or eliminate such charges. HRDC, the publisher of PLN, has been a …
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