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Article • September 15, 2011
Filed under: Sentencing
. In 1991, Michael Fegans pled guilty to a federal bank robbery charge while unrelated charges were pending in Arkansas state courts. The federal court sentenced Fegans to 125 months in prison. He ...
articulated in Johnson v. Bi-State Justice Center/Arkansas Department of Corrections, 12 F.3d 133 (8th Cir. 1993). The Court of Appeals then held that Clubbs was not entitled to qualified immunity ...
Article • July 9, 2014 • from PLN July, 2014
Court of Appeals held on September 20, 2013 that an Arkansas jail guard was not entitled to qualified immunity for his deliberate indifference to a detainee’s serious medical condition which ...
Article • February 17, 2016
condition. Christopher Tantlinger, 33,   a Colorado state prisoner, was incarcerated at the Arkansas Valley Correctional Center when he had his wisdom teeth extracted.  He  began&nbsp ...
Article • March 7, 2016
suspended executions. California, North Carolina and Arkansas—all states that sanction the death penalty—have not executed a prisoner in more than seven years "because of their inability to settle ...
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
argument, as counsel conceded during argument before us.” In Holt, the Supreme Court struck down an Arkansas prison policy that barred a devout Muslim prisoner from growing a half-inch beard. The high ...
Article • November 15, 2011 • from PLN November, 2011
to an Arkansas jail guard who transported a prisoner in a K-9 cage covered with feces, urine and dog hair. In February 2007, jail guard Armand Zefferi transported Thomas Edward Morris III from the Crawford County ...
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
. Thirteen states – Arizona, Arkansas, California, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Missouri, Ohio, New York, North Carolina, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin – have made education a priority ...
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
rejected an appeal filed by officials at the Northeast Arkansas Community Corrections Center (NEACCC) in a lawsuit alleging they had failed to protect a prisoner from being physically and sexually harassed ...
Article • September 9, 2019 • from PLN September, 2019
by then-Sheriff Hutcheson and jail administrator Sally Yanez. At the time, Hutcheson’s law enforcement license had been suspended. He reported to FCI Forrest City Low in Arkansas on June 20, 2019 to begin ...
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
,’” often citing government accountability. Within the last few decades, though, a trend emerged of limiting prisoners’ access to public records. In 15 states – Arizona, Arkansas ...
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
COVID-19 mortality rate of American prisoners. The rate in 2020 totaled 15 deaths per 10,000 prisoners. Michigan had a rate over twice as high: 32 deaths per 10,000. Alabama, Arkansas, South Carolina ...
Article • April 15, 2002 • from PLN April, 2002
frequently. Many states test all prisoners upon admittance to the system. Only three states _ Arkansas, Nevada, and South Carolina _ and the federal Bureau of Prisons test all prisoners in custody at least ...
where that would necessarily require the appellate court to pre-decide unresolved trial court evidentiary disputes that went to the heart of the complaint. Arkansas state prisoner Ben Krein ...
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
per hour. West Virginia prisoners earn between .04¢ and .58¢ per hour for working. Arkansas and Texas are two of the four states that pay their prisoners nothing for the work they are required ...
Article • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023
Filed under: Editorials
to date. As this issue of PLN goes to print, I am in El Dorado, Arkansas, the day before a jury trial against the Union County jail, where we are challenging a ban on books and magazines. It will be our ...
In-the-News Article • June 2, 2015
Industries Association. Texas, Georgia and Arkansas are the only three U.S. states that don't pay inmates for work, although other states' wages are very low. Jason Clark, Texas&#39 ...
Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
. The imprisonment rate for women was highest in Oklahoma (157 per 100,000 female residents of the state). Louisiana, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas all share the dubious distinction of having more than one ...
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Filed under: Editorials
the Sonoma county jail in California and the Baxter county jail in Arkansas with the result that prisoners can receive publications now. Including books and magazines that inform them of their rights. We ...
Article • January 8, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
at the Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility after Contreras-Perez freed a kitchen knife from its wire-tether cable by chopping at the cable about 15 times. He first used the knife to fatally stab Ricard before ...
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