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Article • November 15, 2011 • from PLN November, 2011
From the Editor by Paul Wright In April 1990, the month before PLN published its first issue, Washington state enacted the nation’s first civil commitment law targeting sex offenders ...
and both of his feet. The charges against him were dismissed. Four years later the state of Hawaii, in conjunction with its insurer, reached a $7.2 million settlement with Persin, who now needs prosthetic ...
), with no cap. And in 2009 Texas lawmakers changed the compensation statute to $80,000 per year of wrongful imprisonment and added a monthly annuity in the same amount plus free state health insurance and free ...
Article • February 2, 2016 • from PLN February, 2016
Filed under: Bail, Bail Bonds
decisions.” Later that year, City Hall bragged that because of its Operation Spotlight, which targeted repeat misdemeanor offenders, “the percentage of defendants detained on bail has increased ...
Article • March 5, 2015 • from PLN March, 2015
in the case. Beginning in January 2012, the Walton County Jail (WCJ) censored 59 issues of PLN’s monthly publication, copies of the book Protecting Your Health and Safety, and informational brochures ...
Article • July 15, 2013 • from PLN July, 2013
) adopted a grooming policy that forbid prisoners from wearing beards. The policy stated that "beards ... could conceal contraband; promote identification with gangs; create a health, hygiene, or sanitation ...
Article • April 15, 2012 • from PLN April, 2012
Filed under: News, News in Brief
From the Editor by Paul Wright This month’s cover story on the prevalence of prisoner rape and sexual abuse by prison and jail staff is the third major article of its type PLN has run since ...
. "On its face, that's a huge disparity [between violence rates at private prisons and state prisons]. If inmates in private prisons are not as safe as those in the state [prisons], something needs to be done ...
Article • August 7, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
deprivation of medical and mental health services violated prisoners’ constitutional right against cruel and unusual punishment. [See: PLN, July 2011, p.1]. Since then, the CDCR’s population has ...
Article • May 15, 2010 • from PLN May, 2010
employment. Moore also believes the work experience is rehabilitative. Disciplinary problems are rare, and only three prisoners have been removed from the program during its two-year run. “When they finish ...
and thereafter implemented, violated the Eighth Amendment rights of inmates.... The lockdown and all ... its features was indeed a ‘policy or practice [which] created an unreasonable risk of ... Eighth Amendment ...
to satisfy its compelling security or safety interest, the Court said. DOC also raised a compelling hygiene and health interest in prohibiting an untrimmed beard, arguing that it increases the risk of guards ...
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
fiction that SCC residents are "mental patients," not prisoners; that they are detained for "treatment," not punishment; in a program administered by the state Department of Social and Health Services ...
Article • August 15, 1991 • from PLN August, 1991
on the U.S. Supreme Court, is resigning due to age and health reasons. Mr. Marshall was always a friend of prisoners and consistently opposed the death penalty and the expansion of police and government ...
a struggle with guards, Frazier was electrocuted 3 times by an Ultron II stun device that delivers up to 50,000 volts of electricity to its target. After being strapped to a gurney in a 5point restraint he ...
without assistance in the event of fire. Cease and desist orders were issued against Buckhannon, requiring the closure of its facilities within 30 days. Buckhannon, in turn, brought suit in federal ...
Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995
, and vagueness of content. Opponents also claim that the statute violates equal protection and due process and that the law sets up an Orwellian "dangerousness courts" masquerading as mental health treatment ...
Article • October 1, 2020 • from PLN October, 2020
back, including hundreds of Ford Fellows, criminal justice reform activists, public health advocates, grassroots organizations, and others. The Rikers jail has for years been plagued with deplorable ...
Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022
the Union Avenue Compounding Pharmacy in Tacoma. It sits across the street from the Walmart where Tewalt took his briefcase of cash. After repeated inspection violations, the Washington Department of Health ...
Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022
of California granted final approval to a class-action settlement resolving claims against California’s Orange County Jail (OCJ) over its response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The legal saga began ...
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