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Sexual Harassment, Abuse Alleged at Oklahoma Halfway House for Women by Joe Watson Ownership of a privately-operated Oklahoma Department of Corrections (ODOC) halfway house near Tulsa has changed hands in the midst of at least two lawsuits and possible criminal charges stemming from allegations that the owner of a sandwich …
Article • February 29, 2016 • from PLN March, 2016
$65,000 Settlement Plus Fees and Costs in New York City Jail Assault Suit by A New York federal district court awarded $47,429.27 in attorney fees and costs in a lawsuit seeking damages for assaults upon a prisoner by guards employed by the New York City Department of Correction (NYCDOC). In …
Kansas Sex Offender Civil Commitment Program Under Scrutiny by Matthew Clarke The Sexual Predator Treatment Program, operated by the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services, is at the heart of a debate over whether civil commitment programs are truly designed to rehabilitate offenders convicted of sex crimes, or are …
Article • February 29, 2016 • from PLN March, 2016
New Mexico Corrections Department Bans Prisoner Social Media, Pen Pal Postings by Mark Wilson New Mexico prison officials are enforcing a rule that prohibits prisoners from maintaining online profiles, such as social media pages or web-based pen pal ads, including through third parties. Prisoners who violate the rule are subject …
Reproductive Health Care in Women’s Prisons “Painful” and “Traumatic” by Victoria Law By Victoria Law, Truthout It was Kim Dadou’s second day at New York’s Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. As part of the prison’s intake process, she was brought to the prison’s medical unit for a gynecological exam and pap smear. …
Article • February 29, 2016 • from PLN March, 2016
Prison Policy Initiative Releases Report on Email Services for Prisoners by Derek Gilna The non-profit, Massachusetts-based Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) has released a comprehensive study on communication options for prisoners, focusing on email services while also citing issues related to phone calls, visitation and postal mail. According to the January …
Article • February 29, 2016 • from PLN March, 2016
Professor Urges Study of Unintended Consequences of Court-ordered Prison Reform by Derek Gilna Prison reform, including reforms mandated by the judiciary, is an issue that everyone but shareholders in private prison companies thinks is a positive development, for a number of reasons. Even former advocates of mass incarceration now generally …
Article • February 29, 2016 • from PLN March, 2016
U.S. Court of Claims Awards Federal Prisoner $172,465.75 for Wrongful Conviction by Derek Gilna Michael Alan Crooker, wrongfully convicted in Massachusetts on a federal charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm, had his conviction reversed on appeal by the First Circuit in 2010, setting the stage for …
Article • February 29, 2016 • from PLN March, 2016
Prison Ecology and the Water Crisis in Flint, Michigan by Panagioti Tsolkas “Here’s your water filtration system. By the way, you have a warrant for your arrest.” Jody Cramer, a former prisoner recently released from Michigan’s Genesee County Jail, said that was the story he heard from multiple other people …
Article • February 29, 2016 • from PLN March, 2016
Oklahoma DOC, Sheriffs Challenge FCC’s Prison Phone Reforms by Carrie Wilkinson A petition for review has been filed in the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals challenging the Second Order and Third Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking released by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on November 4, 2015, which made sweeping …
Article • February 29, 2016 • from PLN March, 2016
Filed under: Private Prisons
Mississippi: More Contraband Found at Private Prisons by On March 25, 2015, state corrections officials conducted a shakedown at the privately-operated Marshall County Correctional Facility and seized weapons, cell phones and other contraband. Mississippi DOC Commissioner Marshall Fisher said it was believed that some staff members were complicit in bringing …
Suicides, Poor Conditions at D.C. Jail Remain Critical Issues Despite Progress by Derek Gilna The February 8, 2015 suicide of a woman held at the Washington, D.C. Jail and a recent report that blasted the facility for “non-compliance with basic standards established by national corrections authorities” have once again focused …
From the Editor by Paul Wright One downside of publishing a magazine like Prison Legal News for 26 years is that in some respects we are not covering a one-off or isolated story but rather are reporting an ongoing and developing issue. This month’s cover story about the epic abuse, …
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 …
Racism Complaint Forces Oregon Police Chief’s Retirement; Reporting Officer Receives Death Threats, Retaliation and Cold Shoulder by Mark Wilson An Oregon police officer, who brought a racism complaint against his Police Chief forcing him to retire, has received death threats and suffered other retaliatory backlash. Clatskanie police officer Alex Stone …
Article • February 18, 2016
8,000 Oregon Victims Incorrectly Alerted of Prisoner Releases by Mark Wilson Approximately 8,000 Oregon crime victims were recently alarmed when they were erroneously alerted that the prisoners who committed crimes against them would be released. Since 2001, the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) has been one of 47 states that …
BOP Settles Lawsuit by Recognizing Humanism as Religion by Mark Wilson The federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has agreed to recognize "Humanism" as an official "religion" to settle a prisoner's lawsuit. Jason Michael Holden is a BOP prisoner who was confined at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Sheridan, Oregon. …
Article • February 18, 2016
Oregon Court Explains DNA Testing Prima Facie Requirement by Mark Wilson The Oregon Court of Appeals held that a prisoner failed to make a prima facie showing warranting post-conviction DNA testing. Oregon first adopted a post-conviction DNA testing law in 2002. The person requesting DNA testing must: (1) submit an …
Article • February 18, 2016
Oregon PCR Judgments Must Satisfy "Clear-Statement Rule" by Mark Wilson The Oregon Court of Appeals held that trial court judgments denying post-conviction relief (PCR) must satisfy the "clear-statement rule" required by Oregon law. ORS 138.640(1) mandates that a PCR judgment "must clearly state the grounds on which the cause was …
Article • February 18, 2016
Unauthorized, Unpreserved Oregon Court-Appointed Attorney Fees Reversed by Mark Wilson The Oregon Court of Appeals reversed lower court assessments of attorney fees against criminal defendants without finding that they are, or may be, able to pay. Clifford Graham was convicted of four sex crimes. Since he had previously been twice …
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