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Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN March, 2003
BJS Releases New Recidivism Study by The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), a division of the Department of Justice, has published a recidivism study of prisoners released in 1994, the first since its 1989 report on 1983 releasees. The report studied the recidivism rate of 272,111 prisoners released from 15 …
California Internet Mail Ban Enjoined by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The US District Court (N.D. Cal.) issued a permanent injunction against the California Department of Corrections' (CDC) policy that prohibits prisoners from receiving mail that contains Internet-generated information. Frank Clement, a prisoner at Pelican Bay State Prison …
Article • January 15, 2003 • from PLN January, 2003
Book Review: From Prison to Home by Roger Hummel by Jeremy Travis, Amy Solomon and Michelle Waul Justice Policy Center, the Urban Institute, Washington DC, 2001, 56 pages, paper Review by Roger Hummel In a remarkable new book from the Urban Institute's Justice Policy Center, the dimensions of prisoner reentry …
Ohio Prisons Make Almost $5 Million in Improper Food and Education Payments by Roger Hummel After receiving an anonymous tip about billing irregularities, the Ohio State Auditor conducted a special audit of the two state prisons: the Noble Correctional Institution (NCI) at Caldwell and the Belmont Correctional Institution (BCI) in …
Article • November 15, 2002 • from PLN November, 2002
Advocacy Groups Challenge Arizona Internet Communications Ban by On July 18, 2002, the Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty(CCADP), Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty(CUADP) and Stop Prisoner Rape(SPR), filed a federal law suit against Terry L. Stewart Director of the Arizona Department Of Corrections(ADOC) pursuant to 42 …
Settlement Agreement Reached in Wisconsin Supermax Suit by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC) officials settled the 42 USC § 1983 class action civil rights suit brought by seriously mentally ill prisoners housed in the Boscobel, WI Supermax state prison by agreeing not to …
Boot Camp or Boot Hill? Troubled Teens Suffer From Too Much Tough Love by Roger Hummel Boot Camp Or Boot Hill? Troubled Teens Suffer From Too Much Tough Love by Roger Hummel On February 15, 2002, Charles Long II was arrested on murder and child abuse charges growing from the …
Article • August 15, 2002 • from PLN August, 2002
Prisoner's Guerrilla Handbook to Correspondence Programs in The United States and Canada , 2 nd Ed. by Hans Sherrer by Jon Marc Taylor, Biddle Publishing Co., 2002, pb. 341 pages Review by Hans Sherrer All across the country DOC educational programs available to prisoners are being reduced or eliminated. That …
BOP Policy Denying Electric Musical Instruments Upheld; Religious Exception Enjoined by The United States District Court for the District of Columbia has upheld the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) policy prohibiting prisoners from using or possessing electric guitars or electronic musical instruments. The court enjoined BOP's exception that permitted electric …
Texas Gives $2 Million to Proselytizing Prison Program by by Matthew T. Clarke The Texas Legislature appropriated an additional $1.5 million to expand the Interchange Freedom Initiative (IFI) to include prisoners who expect to be paroled to the DallasFort Worth area. Sponsored by Prison Fellowship Ministries, an organization founded by …
Philadelphia City Prison Fined $1 Million by The Commonwealth Court, Pennsylvania's intermediate appellate court, upheld a trial court order for the City of Philadelphia to pay more than $1 million in fines for failure to provide prisoners with sufficient clothing, laundry access, services, social workers, and vocational training. In 1971, …
Washington Supreme Court Rules Imprisoned Children Entitled to Education by Patricia Arthur In a case of first impression, the Washington Supreme Court has ruled that prisoners in Washington State under the age of eighteen have a fundamental right under the Washington State Constitution to an education while in prison. [See: …
Article • November 15, 2001 • from PLN November, 2001
Children Strip-Searched While Touring DC Jail by In April and May 2001, school children were strip searched while touring a jail in Washington, D.C. A lawsuit seeking $4 million for each of six girls and one boy is forthcoming. D.C. schools routinely schedule these tours for children with behavioral problems. …
Prisoners Riot in Dartmouth Jail by Gary Hunter On April 15, 2001, the scene at the Dartmouth House of Correction in Massachusetts could have been lifted straight from the pages of a medieval novel. Prisoners stormed the woodshop, armed themselves with boards, then set the shop afire. While one group …
Article • November 15, 2001 • from PLN November, 2001
Notes from the Unrepenitentiary: A Matter of the Past by Marilyn Buck In Charlottesville, Virginia, Mary Smith, a Black working class woman, got fired from her job at the University of Virginia Medical Center. So did eight other workers. They all had prior felony convictions. Ms. Smith's was for $200 …
Article • August 15, 2001 • from PLN August, 2001
Pelican Bay Policy Banning Internet-Generated Mail Upheld by The California Court of Appeal held that a policy adopted only at Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP) preventing prisoners from receiving through the US Mail any material that had been downloaded from the Internet was facially valid and reasonably related to legitimate …
Court to Determine if Louisiana Must Treat Male and Female Prisoners Equally by The court of appeals for the Fifth Circuit has held that the issue of whether Louisiana violated the Equal Protection Clause by treating female prisoners more favorable than male prisoners cannot be resolved at the motion to …
Damages Awarded in New York Retaliation Suit by Damages Awarded In New York Retaliation Suit A Federal District Court in New York awarded a prisoner $4,221.40 for back wages and educational costs, but denied punitive damages in a successful retaliation suit. The court later denied the defendants' motion for reconsideration. …
Maynor v. Morgan County, AL, Complaint, Inmate Funds Misappropriation, 2001 Case 5:01-cv-00851-AKK Document 1 Filed 04/05/01 Page 1 of 17 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA C. / "~i - 3 i.. ; ~·: NORTHERN DMSION JOHNNY MAYNOR, Anthony Murphree, Christopher Nichols, Yvette Barbee, …
Fraud Charged by Washington DOC Whistleblower by Dan Pens An employee of the Washington Department of Corrections Office of Correctional Operations contacted the state auditor's office in August 1997 pursuant to the State Whistleblower Act. The unnamed whistleblower [we'll call him/her "Doe"] told the auditor that the DOC used improper …
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