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Article • February 2, 2016 • from PLN February, 2016
Texas Prisons to Allow In-person Wedding Ceremonies after Prohibition on Proxy Marriages by Prisoners in Texas will once again be allowed to marry someone on the outside under new rules formulated by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDJC) in the wake of an outcry of public opinion following a …
Article • February 2, 2016 • from PLN February, 2016
PLN Settles Lawsuit against Florida Jail’s Postcard-only Policy by After PLN filed suit, a South Florida federal district court granted a preliminary injunction requiring the St. Lucie County Jail (SLCJ) to keep its amended postcard-only policy in effect during the litigation, which later resulted in a settlement. PLN filed a …
Article • February 2, 2016 • from PLN February, 2016
Use of Pseudonym Merited to Protect Prisoner from Victimization by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held on May 27, 2015 that a California death-sentenced prisoner had submitted sufficient evidence to proceed under a pseudonym rather than his real name. The appellate court noted this was an exceptional case that …
Article • February 2, 2016 • from PLN February, 2016
Oregon DOC Envelope Art Ban Violates First Amendment by Mark Wilson On November 14, 2013, a federal judge denied summary judgment to Oregon prison officials, finding that their enforcement of a policy banning “envelope art” violated the First Amendment. Following a bench trial in early 2015, the district court held …
$250,000 Settlement for Estate of PA Prisoner Killed by Mentally Ill Cellmate by David Reutter The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PDOC) paid $250,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the estate of an elderly, handicapped prisoner who was killed by his psychotic cellmate at State Correctional Institution Forest. Elwood Brasswell, …
Article • February 2, 2016 • from PLN February, 2016
Florida Jail Ends Postcard-Only Policy as Part of Settlement by David Reutter Last year, the Sheriff of Florida’s Flagler County agreed to a settlement that revoked a postcard-only policy at his jail and allowed prisoners to receive and send mail in envelopes. Jennifer Underwood’s husband was held at the Flagler …
Article • February 2, 2016 • from PLN February, 2016
Filed under: Environmental Law, Water, Zoning
Environmental Problems Taint Plan for New Prison in Utah by Panagioti Tsolkas   by Panagioti Tsolkas Utah is planning to open a 4,000-bed facility to replace the Utah State Prison in Draper. After several years of considering whether to relocate or rebuild the prison, the state has settled on relocation …
Article • February 2, 2016 • from PLN February, 2016
Filed under: Bail, Bail Bonds
The Slow, Painful Death of Bail in New York City by Jarrett Murphy by Jarrett Murphy, City Limits In September 2015, New York’s chief judge said he would order the review of all bails imposed in low-level cases where a defendant did not pay, and push courts to consider alternatives …
California’s Jail-building Boom: What Comes After Mass Incarceration? Local Incarceration. by Anat Rubin by Anat Rubin, Marshall Project In the desert city of Indio, California halfway between Los Angeles and the Arizona border, a small monument to the state’s prison downsizing experiment is materializing in a shopping center storefront, where …
Male Guards’ Videotaping of Female Prisoners Being Strip Searched Results in $675,000 Settlement by David Reutter In August 2014, a Massachusetts federal district court granted summary judgment to a class of 176 former and current prisoners who challenged a policy at the Western Regional Women’s Correctional Center (WCC) that allowed …
Article • February 2, 2016 • from PLN February, 2016
Filed under: Death Penalty, Death Row
Supreme Court Upholds Oklahoma’s Use of New Execution Drug by Derek Gilna Oklahoma death row prisoners filed a § 1983 civil rights lawsuit challenging the use of a new drug by prison officials to put them to death, but their effort fell short in the U.S. Supreme Court. The state …
Police State: How America’s Cops Get Away with Murder (Book Review) by Bill Trine Police State: How America’s Cops Get Away with Murder, by Gerry Spence (St. Martin’s Press, 2015). 338 pages, hard cover. $19.40 Book review by Bill Trine In recent years, the American public has witnessed shocking videos, …
Article • February 2, 2016 • from PLN February, 2016
Federal Judges Very Rarely Sanctioned for Misconduct by Matthew Clarke Federal judges, who have lifetime appointments, hold positions that give them unique power to control the future of defendants who appear before them in public proceedings. However, when it comes to examining the personal behavior of those same jurists, they …
$3 Million Settlement in Death of Mentally Ill Prisoner; Three Guards Indicted by Matthew Clarke A $3 million settlement was paid to the parents of a 23-year-old mental health patient killed by three guards at Bridgewater State Hospital who were attempting to strap him into four-point restraints on a small …
Florida’s Department of Corrections: A Culture of Corruption, Abuse and Deaths by David Reutter Florida, with the nation’s third-largest prison system, has a long and sordid history of abusing, neglecting and even killing its prisoners. Because most state prisons are in insular rural areas, the general public, aside from those …
Will Lawsuits and Exposés Lead to Reform of Florida’s Brutal Prisons? by Laura Cepero Florida’s prisons have become notorious for their abuse and neglect of the people in their care. Now, as per an agreement between the Florida Department of Corrections (DOC) and Disability Rights Florida, the state will be overhauling …
Sex Offenders Rally to Fight Discriminatory Laws by Mark Wilson Advocates for reforming laws restricting where registered sex offenders can live, and for challenging sex offender registries, have vowed to continue the fight despite facing roadblocks, which organizers admit make it difficult to eliminate the discriminatory treatment that many sex …
Computer Risk Assessments Gaining Popularity in Granting Paroles by Derek Gilna New diagnostic computer programs designed to predict whether an offender will re-offend are being credited with helping reduce the number of prisoners in correctional facilities across the nation, but experts caution that while useful, the software tools are not …
Article • February 2, 2016 • from PLN February, 2016
Supreme Court Sets Aside Florida’s Death Penalty Sentencing Procedure by Derek Gilna The U.S. Supreme Court, in an 8-1 decision, has ruled that Florida’s system of allowing juries to make death penalty recommendations that judges may or may not follow is unconstitutional. According to Justice Sonia Sotomayer, the “jury’s recommendation …
Article • February 2, 2016 • from PLN February, 2016
From the Editor by Paul Wright For the past 26 years PLN has reported on conditions within the Florida Department of Corrections that have generally ranged from horrible to abysmal in a system long characterized by medical neglect, brutality, corruption and murder by prison officials, and long-time indifference or outright …
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