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Article • February 11, 2019
‘I Didn’t Lay Down’: How A California Man Convicted Of Murder May Have Saved His Own Life by Maura Ewing Death penalty mitigation offers juries a chance to see defendants in a different light by Maura Ewing, The Appeal The odds were stacked against Ernesto Martinez. Last fall, he was on …
SPLC Americans for Immigrant Justice: Prison by Any Other Name - A Report on South Florida Detention Facilities, 2019 PRISON BY ANY OTHER NAME A REPORT ON SOUTH FLORIDA DE TENTION FACILITIES ABOUT THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER The Southern Poverty Law Center, based in Montgomery, Alabama, is a nonprofit …
Article • February 8, 2019
Corizon, the Prison Healthcare Giant, Stumbles Again by  This article was co-published in partnership with The Appeal on February 8, 2019, at https://theappeal.org/corizon-the-prison-healthcare-giant-stumbles-again. Copyright The Appeal, 2019.   by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg Feb 08, 2019 The company recently lost its contract with Arizona after allegations of serious—and sometimes fatal—medical neglect that have echoes across the country. …
Brief • February 8, 2019
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Article • February 6, 2019
Filed under: Federal Funds
Mississippi’s Prison Bribery Scandal Is in the Past, But the State Still Hasn’t Learned Its Lesson by Madison Pauly by Madison Pauly, Mother Jones, Feb. 6, 2019   Since 2014, a massive bribery scandal involving some of the most powerful prison industry corporations in America has hung like a cloud …
Article • February 6, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: Joshua Wade Ray’s girlfriend was busted by undercover sheriff’s investigators while she passed methamphetamine, marijuana, tobacco, a lighter, rolling papers and two syringes to him during a March 7, 2018 court appearance. Lauren Whitney Foust, 33, taped a package containing the contraband to the Jefferson …
Article • February 6, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019
Ninth Circuit Grants Habeas Relief for Ineffective Assistance of Resentencing Counsel by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 11, 2018, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals granted habeas relief to an Arizona death row prisoner based on ineffective assistance of counsel at resentencing.  Michael Ray White was manipulated by …
Article • February 6, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019
Filed under: Parole, Probation
One in 55 Adults on Probation or Parole, Study Finds by Rick Anderson by Rick Anderson The number of people on probation and parole increased 239 percent from 1980 to 2016, according to a September 2018 report by the Pew Research Center. That spurred a dramatic rise in the per …
Article • February 6, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019
Print Media and Prisoner Activism by Stephen Wilson by Stephen Wilson Because America’s prisons are its most opaque institutions, prisoners and their allies have always employed strategies of visibility to create awareness and understanding of who is being held captive and the conditions of their captivity. Print media – books, …
Article • February 6, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019
Taser Misuse at California Jail Costs County $1.15 Million by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna On March 5, 2018, the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department in California settled a federal civil rights lawsuit that alleged deputies at the Rancho Cucamonga jail engaged in a practice of “tasing” prisoners for their own …
Article • February 6, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019
Baby Dies Days After Prisoner Gives Birth in Isolation Cell at Texas Jail by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On May 17, 2018, baby Cashh arrived in the world, slipping out of his mother onto the floor of an isolation cell at the Ellis County Jail in Texas. Cashh survived …
Article • February 6, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019
Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption
Mississippi: More Indictments from Former DOC Commissioner Epps Corruption Scandal by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss In September 2018, Michael LeBlanc, Sr., Michael LeBlanc, Jr., Tawasky L. Ventroy and Jacque B. Jackson were indicted on bribery and conspiracy charges stemming from a 2014 corruption investigation centered on former Mississippi Department …
Tennessee: Class-Action Suit Against Private Prison Over Diabetic Care Can Proceed by In October 2018, a federal district court declined to dismiss a class-action lawsuit that claimed insulin-dependent diabetic prisoners at the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center in Tennessee are denied basic care for their medical condition. Trousdale is operated by …
Article • February 6, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019
Federal Judge Orders Prison Doctor to Face Deliberate Indifference Claims by Chad Marks by Chad Marks A federal judge in Indiana ruled on June 12, 2018 that prison doctor Paul Talbot must answer a complaint filed by state prisoner Billy J. Lemond. Lemond was incarcerated at the Pendleton Correctional Facility …
Florida Prisoner’s Gender Dysphoria Requires Hormone Therapy, Social Transitioning Treatment by Following a bench trial, on August 22, 2018 a Florida federal district court held that state prison officials were deliberately indifferent to transgender prisoner Reiyn Keohane’s serious medical condition of gender dysphoria. The court said the denial of hormone …
Article • February 6, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019
Filed under: Prison Reform, Sentencing
Report Outlines Eight Ways to Shorten Excessive Prison Sentences by Chad Marks by Chad Marks The United States is home to five percent of the world’s population and around 25 percent of the world’s prisoners. Our incarceration rate is 19 percent higher than Turkmenistan’s, 36 percent higher than Cuba’s and …
Article • February 6, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019
$1 Million Settlement in Lawsuit Over Texas Jail Prisoner’s Death by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A federal civil rights lawsuit brought by the family of a Texas prisoner who died after jailers ignored his rapidly deteriorating mental and physical condition settled for $1 million.  When Fernando Longoria, 29, reported …
Article • February 6, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019
Oklahoma is Number One ... in Incarceration Rates by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke According to a June 2018 report by the Prison Policy Initiative (PPI), Oklahoma’s incarceration rate has surpassed not only that of every other state in the U.S., but also of almost every other nation. To calculate …
Article • February 6, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019
$10 Million Award for Wrongly Jailed Philadelphia Man by A Philadelphia jury awarded Khanefah Boozer $10 million in a state court lawsuit that alleged police officer Ryan Waltman had falsely accused Boozer of firing shots at him. Boozer was the designated driver during a January 22, 2011 night out with friends. …
Article • February 6, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019
Seventh Circuit Denies Wisconsin Prisoner’s Claims Against Medical Staff by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna In an August 23, 2018 ruling, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals denied the deliberate indifference and state law negligence claims raised by Oshkosh Correctional Institution prisoner Donald C. Wilson, who filed a federal civil …
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