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Article • August 3, 2017
Filed under: Overcrowding, Sewage
facilities multiple times a day. It's probably the most overlooked yet most consequential byproduct of prison overcrowding, and because California remains wedded to a purely punitive approach to corrections ...
Article • December 14, 2017
Officer of Health Care Services, denied Reyes' appeal of the PA's decision. Fong repeated that the "Pain Management Committee determined narcotics were not medically necessary." Fong also found that Reyes ...
Article • June 5, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
Filed under: PLN related
The Results are in: Prison Legal News Reader Survey! by Steve Horn by Steve Horn Prison Legal News has compiled the results of its last reader survey and this summary will report on the more ...
Article • December 7, 2016 • from PLN December, 2016
federal court, citing extreme overcrowding, ordered the CDCR to significantly reduce its population in late 2009. From the time of that mandate to 2015, the number of California prisoners declined by over ...
Article • August 12, 2016
) a danger to the health and safety of the community." OAR 255-032-0020(8). Despite putting the prisoner's mental state at issue, the Board does not order a psychological evaluation by a Board-contract ...
Article • August 12, 2016
, deficiency, condition or disorder predisposing (him) to the commission of a crime to a degree rendering (him) a danger to the health and safety of the community." OAR 255-032-0020(8). Despite putting ...
at the jails violated the constitutional rights of prisoners “by failing (a) to protect them from harm, (b) to provide adequate mental health care or medical care, and (c) to engage in adequate suicide ...
Article • August 25, 2016
Jersey. Under the terms of the settlement, overcrowding, Fire hazards, environmental hazards and deficiencies in medical and mental health care will be corrected. The settlement also awarded the prisoners ...
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Filed under: Private Prisons, News
, announced its 2016 awardees for individual activism, organizational advocacy and excellence in news reporting related to the private prison industry. PCI opposes the privatization of correctional services ...
Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
office, GTL paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in “consulting fees” to Sam Waggoner, who then funneled some of those fees to bribe Epps to ensure that Global Tel*Link maintained its contract ...
Article • September 4, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
With 27 Percent Unemployment, Jobs Crisis Hits Ex-prisoners the Hardest by Steve Horn by Steve Horn  A new study published by the Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) – the first of its ...
in a civil action alleging a prisoner received negligent medical care at the Hardin County Detention Center (HCDC). HCDC contracts with Southern Health Partners, Inc. (SHP), a for-profit company, to provide ...
Article • May 15, 2011 • from PLN May, 2011
is a treatment center and not a prison, though it operates as a secure facility and its residents are held under prison-like conditions. “It’s a de facto warehouse, regardless of what the intention is,” said Pete ...
Article • September 15, 2012 • from PLN September, 2012
.” It’s difficult to extract from the GAO report what is considered “statistically significant.” The report’s footnotes assert that its findings are “statistically significant only if they were significant ...
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
constitutional violations can fall within the sweep of Congress’s enforcement power even if in the process it prohibits conduct which is not itself unconstitutional,” its power under § 5 “is not unlimited ...
Article • August 15, 2013
health effects from a prison diet can be relevant to the substantial burden inquiry.” However, “the extent to which Shakur’s gastrointestinal problems interfered with his religious activities is a factual ...
Article • September 12, 2014 • from PLN September, 2014
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor by Paul Wright Since its inception, Prison Legal News has been reporting on prison slavery and the exploitation of prison slave labor ...
Article • October 3, 2014
Department of Health through December 2011.   The audit found that one parolee had been reported by a parole officer as "bedridden at home" long after his October 2011 death. Another officer claimed ...
hundreds of prisoners it knows suffer from mental illness in long-term administrative segregation. A new report, Out of Sight, Out Of Mind, issued by the ACLU of Colorado in August 2013, highlights its ...
, surgery, fracture, etc.)” may utilize those devices only in the jail’s handicapped unit. “According to the testimony of two attending physicians, who are employed by Cermak Health Services to provide ...
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