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Article • November 8, 2014 • from PLN November, 2014
Norris Henderson: A Profile of Commitment to Criminal Justice Reform by Gary Hunter Norris Henderson: A Profile of Commitment to Criminal Justice Reform by Gary Hunter In 1977, Norris Henderson arrived at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, more commonly known, then and now, as just Angola. With the weight …
Publication • October 31, 2014
Filed under: Voting, HRDC Publications
Letter to USCCR re felon voting rights in Tennessee Jan 2013 HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights www.prisonlegalnews.org afriedmann@prisonlegalnews.org Please Reply to Tennessee Office: Direct Dial: 615-495-6568 5331 Mt. View Rd. #130 Antioch, TN 37013 January 28, 2013 SENT VIA EMAIL ONLY Gregory Grisham Jackson Lewis LLP …
Publication • October 30, 2014
Filed under: Advocacy, HRDC Publications
HRDC comments to EEOC re hiring ex-felons June 2011 HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights www.prisonlegalnews.org afriedmann@prisonlegalnews.org Please Reply to Tennessee Office: Direct Dial: 615-495-6568 5331 Mt. View Rd. #130 Antioch, TN 37013 July 30, 2011 SENT VIA EMAIL ONLY Commission Meeting EEOC Executive Officer 131 M …
Publication • October 30, 2014
Letter to President Obama, Ban the Box Executive Order and Pell Grant Restoration, 2014 October 30, 2014 President Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C., 20500 Dear Mr. President, As a national coalition of formerly incarcerated people and their families, we write to urge you to …
Article • October 10, 2014 • from PLN October, 2014
Filed under: Protests
Pennsylvania Activists Arrested for Protesting Construction of New Prison Complex by Pennsylvania Activists Arrested for Protesting Construction of New Prison Complex Seven members of Decarcerate PA, a grassroots coalition working to end mass incarceration in Pennsylvania, were arrested while protesting the construction of a new two-prison complex in that state. …
Article • October 10, 2014 • from PLN October, 2014
“Ban the Box” Movement Spreads Nationwide by Joe Watson “Ban the Box” Movement Spreads Nationwide by Joe Watson Prisoner advocacy groups are hailing recent successes in “Ban the Box” campaigns to remove questions related to criminal records from employment applications, and say they hope to expand the movement even further …
Article • October 10, 2014 • from PLN October, 2014
Leading with Conviction: JustLeadershipUSA by Glenn E. Martin Leading with Conviction: JustLeadershipUSA by Glenn Martin and Sasha Graham For decades, advocates and scholars alike have publicly decried the crippling financial and human costs of mass incarceration. Today their calls for reform are amplified by an emerging bipartisan consensus that current …
Pay to Prey Report on the Privatization of Public Services Center for Media and Democracy 2014 Pay to Prey Governors Facilitate the Predatory Outsourcing of America’s Public Services CENTER FOR MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY October 2014 © 2014 Center for Media and Democracy. All rights reserved. No part of this document …
Article • September 20, 2014 • from PLN September, 2014
Filed under: Voting
Volunteers Help Prisoners Vote at D.C. Jail by Volunteers Help Prisoners Vote at D.C. Jail For most prisoners in jail awaiting trial, voting is an afterthought. But volunteers at the District of Columbia jail manned the polls for the first two days of early voting in October 2012 and instructed …
SEC Rejects CCA, GEO Group Shareholder Resolutions to Reduce Prison Phone Rates by SEC Rejects CCA, GEO Group Shareholder Resolutions to Reduce Prison Phone Rates On February 18, 2014, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) granted a request filed by for-profit prison company GEO Group to exclude a shareholder resolution …
Article • July 11, 2014 • from PLN July, 2014
New York Prisoner Awarded Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence; Case Settles for $500,000 by Mark Wilson New York Prisoner Awarded Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence; Case Settles for $500,000 by Mark Wilson On September 4, 2013, a New York federal district court held that a jail official was precluded from …
Article • July 9, 2014 • from PLN July, 2014
Bonnie Kerness: Pioneer in the Struggle Against Solitary Confinement by Lance Tapley Bonnie Kerness: Pioneer in the Struggle Against Solitary Confinement by Lance Tapley In 1986, Ojore Lutalo, a black revolutionary in Trenton State Prison – now the New Jersey State Prison – wrote to Bonnie Kerness’ American Friends Service …
Bock v. Count of Sutter, CA, Recommendations, Improve Care and Avoid Preventable Deaths at Sutter County Jail, 2014 Case 2:11-cv-00536-MCE-KJN Document 105 Filed 07/02/14 Page 1 of 30 1 MICHAEL W. BIEN – 096891 ERNEST GALVAN – 196065 2 KATHRYN G. MANTOAN – 239649 AARON J. FISCHER – 247391 3 …
A Way Forward - Diverting People with Mental Illness from Inhumane and Expensive Jails into Community-Based Treatment that Works, ACLU & Bazelon, 2014 A WAY FORWARD: Diverting People with Mental Illness from Inhumane and Expensive Jails into Community-Based Treatment that Works TABLE OF CONTENTS I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.......................................................................................................... 1 A. FINDINGS............................................................................................................................ …
CCA Guard Killed During Riot was on Prisoners’ “Hit List” by Matthew Clarke CCA Guard Killed During Riot was on Prisoners’ “Hit List” by Matt Clarke A federal lawsuit filed by the family of a guard murdered during a riot at a Mississippi facility claims that prison officials knew the …
Article • June 6, 2014 • from PLN June, 2014
Filed under: Voting, Statistics/Trends
5.85 Million People Disenfranchised in Supposedly Democratic America by David Reutter 5.85 Million People Disenfranchised in Supposedly Democratic America by David M. Reutter The United States is billed as the world’s largest and greatest democracy. However, it is also “one of the world’s strictest nations when it comes to denying …
Publication • June 1, 2014
Filed under: Voting
U.S. Commission on Human Rights - Report on Felon Disenfranchisement in Tennesse, 2014 The Right to Vote and Ex-Felon Disenfranchisement in Tennessee A Report of the Tennessee Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights June 2014 Letter of Transmittal Tennessee Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil …
Publication • June 1, 2014
Florida Felon Disenfranchisement Report to U.S. Comm'n on Human Rights, 2014
Skewed Justice: Report on Lobbying's Effect on Sentencing Trends - American Constitution Society, 2014 10/22/2014 FireShot Capture - Skewed Justice - http___skewedjustice.org_ Summary The e::-.:plosion in spending on television attack a dve1tisements in state supreme court elections accelerated by the Citizens United decision has m ade courts less likely to …
Publication • 2014
Filed under: Advocacy
Blueprint to Ending Mass Incarceration in Wisconsin, WISDOM, 2014 11X15 BLUEPRINT FOR ENDING MASS INCARCERATION IN WISCONSIN EXECUTIVE SUMMARY WELCOME TO WISCONSIN where, in many communities, being taken away to jail or prison is more common than being sent off to college. The prison population in this state has more …
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