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The Prison Industries Enhancement Certification Program: Why Everyone Should be Concerned by Bob Sloan From the late 19th century into the depression years, Americans struggled economically. For the man and woman on the street to the businesses, companies and manufacturers vainly trying to keep their enterprises afloat, those were difficult …
Article • March 15, 2010 • from PLN March, 2010
Illinois Prisoners Bilked Out of Millions Through DOC Commissary Surcharges by Joseph R. Dole Few prisoners would be shocked to learn that they are paying too much for items sold in prison commissaries or canteens. The Illinois Dept. of Corrections (IDOC), however, has taken commissary price-gouging to an extreme level. …
Article • March 15, 2010 • from PLN March, 2010
Texas Counties Give Up on Probationer Restitution Centers by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In the 1980s, faced with overcrowded prisons and probationers who often failed to pay their court-ordered fees and fines, some Texas counties came up with what sounded like a good idea: the Probationer Restitution Center (PRC). …
Assessment of Prison Account Without Seizure of Funds Implicates Due Process in Third Circuit by Mark Wilson In an important case of first impression, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that an assessment of a prisoner’s trust account without an actual seizure of funds implicates a …
Article • February 15, 2010 • from PLN February, 2010
Maryland: Parole Supervision Fee Likely Does More Harm than Good by Bob Williams In a 2009 report by the Brennan Center for Justice, a think tank and public interest advocacy group at New York University School of Law, the authors conclude that the state of Maryland’s assessment of a $40 …
Article • February 15, 2010 • from PLN February, 2010
California Parents and Guardians Assessed Fees to Offset Juvenile Detention Costs by Michael Brodheim On February 13, 2009, following an investigation by the Los Angeles Times, the L.A. County Probation Department suspended its practice of billing parents and legal guardians for each day their children spent in juvenile detention. The …
Article • February 15, 2010 • from PLN February, 2010
Ineligible Texas Prisoners Receive Federal Stimulus Checks by Jimmy Franks Between May and June of last year, hundreds of federal economic stimulus checks began to arrive at various Texas prisons, addressed to prisoners who were thought to be eligible to receive them. Those payments were part of 1,700 stimulus checks …
Article • February 15, 2010 • from PLN February, 2010
Judge Enjoins Collection of Cost of Incarceration Fees From Federal Prisoner in Washington State Prison by On February 25, 2008, Judge William Thomas McPhee of the Thurston County Superior Court entered an injunction prohibiting the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) from withholding cost of incarceration and crime victim compensation from …
Article • January 15, 2010
Mother of Murdered Son not “Victim” Within Meaning of Crime Victims Rights Act by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has rejected a petition for mandamus filed by the mother of an individual murdered by Columbian paramilitaries. The mother had sought restitution under the Crime Victims Rights …
Article • January 15, 2010
Prisoners’ Right to Receive Subscription Mail Clearly Established in Ninth Circuit in 2001 by Eric K. Dannenberg, a California state prisoner, filed a pro se civil rights suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in federal district court alleging that, while he was incarcerated in the transient section at the Wasco …
Article • December 15, 2009
Court Okays Sale Of Unabomber’s Property by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has rejected an appeal by Theodore Kaczynski, better known as the “Unabomber,” challenging the sale and disposition of Kaczynski’s personal property that was seized during the underlying investigation into his bombings. In 2006, the …
California Pretrial Detainees Who Are Mentally Incompetent to Stand Trial Responsible for Treatment Costs by California’s Fifth District Court of Appeals has held “there is no equal-protection violation in the legislative determination that estates of individuals committed to state hospitals pursuant to Penal Code section 1368 as pretrial detainees may …
Article • December 15, 2009
Costs of Incarceration Assessed Upon Minnesota Detainees by Minnesota’s Court of Appeals has held that under Minn. Stat. § 641.12 subd. 3(a)(2008), a county may require a convicted offender to pay costs of confinement in a county jail that accrued before the offender was convicted. The statute provides, “A county …
Maine Prison in Turmoil by Lance Tapley By the time Warden Jeffrey Merrill revealed on June 3 that three Maine State Prison employees had been put on paid leave as a result of a state police investigation of an inmate’s death in April, probes of corruption and other issues at …
Article • October 15, 2009 • from PLN October, 2009
California Sheriffs Appropriate Rehabilitation Funds for Security Needs by Michael Brodheim As California’s budget crisis deepens, local law enforcement agencies are looking for creative ways to cover shortfalls in their budgets. Increasingly, county sheriffs are raiding funds intended by the Legislature to be expended “primarily for the benefit, education and …
Why False Imprisonment Recoveries Should Not Be Taxable by Robert Wood by Robert W. Wood1 Claims for false imprisonment may be brought in various ways under federal or state law. An individual who has been wrongfully incarcerated may sue under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 for a violation of his constitutional …
Article • September 15, 2009 • from PLN September, 2009
Philadelphia Tax Break for Hiring Ex-Prisoners a Bust by Giving employers a $10,000 tax break to hire ex-offenders was a good idea. At least until the Philadelphia City Council ruined it. While running for mayor of Philadelphia, Michael Nutter proposed a new way to cut crime: Help ex-cons get jobs …
Article • September 15, 2009
$2,824.70 Settlement in Lost Property by Washington State’s King County Jail has paid $2,824.70 to settle the lost property claim of James B. Trapp, who entered the jail on November 30, 2001. The jail lost his driver’s license, personal and work keys, a chain and cross, pants, sweatshirt, shirt, hat, …
Article • September 15, 2009
$1,000 Settlement for Lost Property by Seattle Jail by Washington State’s King County paid $1,000 to settle the claim of Anloueshawn Jerraine Brady for property lost at the Regional Justice Center Jail on March 19, 2001. Lost were 2 white gold men’s Figaro bracelets. Acting pro se, Brady settled the …
Article • September 15, 2009
$2,000 Settlement for Prisoner Property Lost by Seattle Jail by Washington State’s King County Jail paid $2,000 to settle the lost property lawsuit of Paul Brueggemann, who claimed that on October 16, 2006, the Jail seized his property without issuing a receipt and it was never seen again. Lost were …
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