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Article • December 15, 2013 • from PLN December, 2013
Filed under: Organizing, Voting
Iowa Voting Rights Restoration Process Becomes Slightly Less Onerous by Iowa is one of the toughest states in the nation for disenfranchised felons who want to obtain reinstatement of their voting rights, a review by the Associated Press found. When Republican Governor Terry Branstad took office in 2011, he reversed …
Article • November 15, 2013
This Draconian System of Punishment and Abuse: An Interview with Former Political Prisoner Ray Luc Levasseur by Aviva Stahl By Aviva Stahl The following is a partial transcript of an interview with Ray Luc Levasseur, a former political prisoner who spent over fifteen years in solitary confinement, primarily at USP …
From Tiger Cages to Control Units by Nancy Kurshan 1970 TRIP to VIETNAM As a 26 year old co-founder of the Yippies (the Youth International Party) I traveled to North Vietnam in 1970 as part of an all-women’s peace delegation. I believed that the Vietnamese people should have been able …
Hunger Striking Illinois Jail Prisoner Dies by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Against the backdrop of the recent hunger strike involving thousands of prisoners in California, the death last year of an Illinois jail prisoner who died after refusing to eat or drink is especially poignant. Lyvita Gomes, 52, died …
Brief • August 19, 2013
Plata v. Brown, CA, Jt. Motion for Order Authorizing Refeeding, Control Unit Hunger Strike, 2013 Case3:01-cv-01351-TEH Document2699 Filed08/19/13 Page1 of 5 1 2 3 4 5 FUTTERMAN DUPREE DODD CROLEY MAIER LLP MARTIN H. DODD (104363) 180 Sansome Street, 17th Floor San Francisco, California 94104 Telephone: (415) 399-3840 Facsimile: (415) …
Article • August 15, 2013
Massachusetts Incarcerated Felon Disenfranchisement Constitutional; Voting Rights Act Claim Survives by A federal court in Massachusetts held that retroactive state constitutional and statutory amendments disenfranchising incarcerated felons do not violate the federal ex post facto or equal protection clauses. It found, however, that Plaintiffs stated a viable Voting Rights Act …
Article • August 15, 2013 • from PLN August, 2013
Please Stop "Reforming" Pelican Bay by Maya Schenwar Please Stop "Reforming" Pelican Bay by Maya Schenwar "I took my first photograph last November. That's one picture in 17 years," Pelican Bay prisoner Jimmy Flores writes to me. He lives in the California prison's Secure Housing Units (SHUs) – solitary confinement …
Article • August 15, 2013 • from PLN August, 2013
Mexican Prison Guards Implicated in Deadly Riot by Investigators in Monterrey, Mexico believe that prison guards assisted members of a drug cartel in staging a riot – which killed 44 prisoners – as part of an escape plan. The riot occurred early in the morning on February 19, 2012 at …
Article • August 15, 2013
Washington’s Criminal Justice System Racially Biased; VRA Claim Fails by Despite holding that Washington State’s criminal justice system is racially biased, a Washington federal court has held that Washington’s felon disenfranchisement law does not result in discrimination in its electoral process on account of race. This case was originally filed …
Article • July 15, 2013 • from PLN July, 2013
Filed under: Organizing, Telephone Rates
Prisoners Respond to Call for Prison Phone Justice; SCI-Huntingdon Delivers! by Mel Motel In June 2012 we posted the first advertisement for the Campaign for Prison Phone Justice in Prison Legal News. We asked you, our readers, to send letters to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) describing how you and …
Article • July 13, 2013
Newest Texas Criminal Justice Lobbyist is Powerful Texas Business Group by Matthew Clarke By Matt Clarke The most powerful business group in Texas, the Texas Association of Businesses (TAB) has announced its intention to influence the future course of criminal justice reform in Texas. TAB president Bill Hammond said TAB …
New Hampshire Cancels Private Prison Bids, but Bill Prohibiting Prison Privatization Fails to Pass by After the state of New Hampshire hired a consulting group last year to help evaluate bid proposals for the "construction, operation and potential privatization" of the state's entire prison system, it was determined that all …
Prison Health Care Provider under Fire in Illinois by Christopher Zoukis In 2011, the State of Illinois signed a 10-year, $1.36 billion contract with Wexford Health Sources, a for-profit company, to provide medical services to Illinois prisoners. Since the contract went into effect there have been numerous complaints concerning the …
Article • May 15, 2013 • from PLN May, 2013
Utah: Private Company Offers to Pick Up Prison Tab by Eric S. Peterson One of the big efforts by the 2013 Utah legislature was authorizing the Prison Relocation and Development Authority to start taking proposals to relocate the Utah State Prison in Draper and unlock the prime real estate underneath …
Carithers v. CCA, MS, Complaint, wrongful death riot guard hit list, 2013 Case 5:13-cv-00066-DCB-MTP Document 1 Filed 05/08/13 Page 1 of 7 Case 5:13-cv-00066-DCB-MTP Document 1 Filed 05/08/13 Page 2 of 7 Case 5:13-cv-00066-DCB-MTP Document 1 Filed 05/08/13 Page 3 of 7 Case 5:13-cv-00066-DCB-MTP Document 1 Filed 05/08/13 Page 4 …
U.S. Immigration Policy: Dysfunctional, Profitable and Resistant to Reform by Derek Gilna The nation's economy remains fragile, U.S. troops continue to fight a losing war in Afghanistan, North Korea has recently threatened a nuclear attack, and in March 2013 Congress and President Obama failed to reach a compromise to prevent …
Article • April 15, 2013
Filed under: Organizing, Hunger Strikes
Connecticut Supreme Court Holds for DOC to End Hunger Strike by The Supreme Court of the State of Connecticut affirmed in March 2012 the judgment of trial court granting permanent injunction to the Commissioner of Correction authorizing her to cause to be force-fed a prisoner who initiated a hunger strike …
Cerveka v. Czech Republic, ECHR, Comment, Olmstead Mandate Segregating Prisoners with Mental Illness, 2013
Brief • March 27, 2013
Brown v. City of New York et al, NY, Complaint, NYPD false arrest Occupy Wall Street protest, 2013 Case 1:13-cv-02058-NRB Document 1 Filed 03/27/13 Page 1 of 14 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK -----------------------------------------------------------------x GABRIEL BROWN, COMPLAINT AND DEMAND FOR A JURY TRIAL Plaintiff, INDEX NO. …
Article • March 15, 2013
Martin Luther King: Letter from the Birmingham Jail 1963 by April 16, 1963 MY DEAR FELLOW CLERGYMEN: While confined here in the Birmingham City Jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities "unwise and untimely." Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. …
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