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Article • February 15, 2014 • from PLN February, 2014
Islamic Organization Petitions to Let Muslim Women Prisoners Wear Hijabs by Christopher Zoukis In May 2013, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) petitioned the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to establish a uniform policy for all local, state and federal correctional facilities to allow Muslim women to wear hijab head …
West Virginia Sex Offender Does Not Have Right to Attend Specified Church by The West Virginia Supreme Court held on February 22, 2013 that a convicted sex offender does not have an automatic right to attend religious services of his choice. The Court’s ruling was not based on the right …
Ninth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Wiccan Prisoners’ Establishment Clause Claim by On February 19, 2013, the Ninth Circuit reversed a district court’s dismissal of a lawsuit brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by two California prisoners who alleged that prison officials had violated their constitutional rights by failing to apply …
Article • February 15, 2014 • from PLN February, 2014
Lawsuit, Whistleblower Allege Rape by Guards at New Mexico Prison by A lawsuit filed in May 2012, alleging sexual abuse at the Central New Mexico Correctional Facility (CNMCF) in Los Lunas, compelled a retired prison guard to come forward and blow the whistle on several other officers, including one already …
Article • February 15, 2014 • from PLN February, 2014
Ninth Circuit: Immigration Detainees Must be Afforded Opportunity to Challenge Continued Detention after Six Months by On April 16, 2013, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court’s grant of preliminary injunctive relief to immigration detainees in Southern California, affording them an opportunity to challenge their continued detention …
Article • February 15, 2014 • from PLN February, 2014
Restitution Not Owed for Arrest Costs, West Virginia Court Holds by Derek Gilna Petitioner Michael John McGill appealed his December 2010 state conviction for escape from home confinement while on bail and the sentencing judge’s order that he pay $8,261.56 in “restitution to the State for costs associated with apprehending …
Article • February 15, 2014 • from PLN February, 2014
Discretionary Immunity Dismissal of Ohio Prisoner’s Negligence Claims Reversed by On March 12, 2013, the Ohio Court of Appeals overturned an earlier discretionary immunity decision and reversed a lower court’s dismissal of a prisoner’s negligence claims on the basis of discretionary immunity. Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) prisoner …
Article • February 15, 2014 • from PLN February, 2014
Crime Declines while Anti-crime Funding Increases by Christopher Zoukis Crime is down in the United States, but spending measures included in the $1.1 trillion federal budget passed by Congress in January 2014 will ensure that many law enforcement agencies receive more funding. Insiders give much of the credit for the …
Article • February 15, 2014 • from PLN February, 2014
Jails Market Electronic Cigarettes to Prisoners by Christopher Zoukis Jail administrators have found a new revenue stream: exploiting prisoners’ addiction to nicotine by selling them electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, for a substantial profit. Even as municipalities like Chicago, New York and Los Angeles enact restrictions on the sale of e-cigarettes, …
Article • February 15, 2014 • from PLN February, 2014
Justice Department Reports: Correctional Populations Declining at Slower Pace by Derek Gilna The Bureau of Justice Statistics has published two new reports, “Correctional Populations in the United States, 2012” and “Probation and Parole in the United States, 2012.” Both indicate that although correctional populations continue to drop, the rate of …
Article • February 15, 2014 • from PLN February, 2014
Washington: No Public Funds for Deferred Prosecution Treatment Programs by The en banc Washington state Supreme Court has held that the legislature did not intend to commit public funds to cover the full cost of treatment for indigent defendants participating in deferred prosecutions. A Washington defendant charged with a misdemeanor …
Article • February 15, 2014
Filed under: News
Dying in Prison by By Graham Kates In 2006, Edgar Barens went to prison every day for six months. The Iowa State Penitentiary had granted the Chicago-based film-maker unprecedented access to shoot a documentary about the prison’s fledgling hospice program. There, he met and filmed the eponymous lead of his …
Article • February 15, 2014
Filed under: Organizing, Hunger Strikes
A Prisoner's Salute to Bobby Sands by The Irish Hunger Striker Who Ignited a Generation A Prisoner's Salute to Bobby Sands by DENIS O'HEARN I attended a birthday party last week. It was in Ohio State Penitentiary, on the 60th birthday of Bobby Sands, the Irish political prisoner who died …
Article • February 1, 2014
Filed under: Overcrowding
Colorado County Jail Refuses to Accept Cities’ Prisoners by Matthew Clarke Colorado County Jail Refuses to Accept Cities’ Prisoners By Matt Clarke A spat over how many prisoners the county jail in Adams County, Colorado will accept went public when five chiefs of police for cities in Adams County called …
American Apartheid: Why Scandinavian Prisons Are Superior by Doran Larson “Open” prisons, in which detainees are allowed to live like regular citizens, should be a model for the U.S. by Doran Larson It’s a postcard-perfect day on Suomenlinna Island, in Helsinki’s South Harbor. Warm for the first week of June, …
Article • January 15, 2014 • from PLN January, 2014
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: On July 29, 2013 there was a break-in at the Draper Correctional Facility. According to the Department of Corrections, three sections of the prison were burglarized in the early morning hours, and laptop computers and multiple weapons were discovered missing when employees started arriving around …
Sweden’s Shrinking Prison Population by Christopher Zoukis Sweden’s prison population has seen such a sharp drop in recent years that the nation’s prison service announced in November 2013 that it had closed four correctional facilities and a remand center. Prisons in Aby, Haja, Batshagen and Kristianstad were closed in 2013; …
Article • January 15, 2014 • from PLN January, 2014
From the Editor by Paul Wright Welcome to the first issue of PLN for 2014. If you have not donated to our annual fundraiser, please do so now; it is not too late and we need your support to continue our advocacy work on issues like the Campaign for Prison …
Mangaung and Beyond: Private Prison Exemplifies South Africa’s Criminal Justice Woes by James Kilgore In recent months a battle has erupted at Mangaung prison in South Africa. Mangaung, located near the city of Bloemfontein, is one of the country’s two privately-operated correctional facilities. Managed by British-based G4S, which bills itself …
Article • January 15, 2014 • from PLN January, 2014
Hidden Agenda Fuels Challenge to Pivotal Death Penalty Case by David Protess Anthony Porter, the exonerated death row prisoner whose jubilant release from prison in February 1999 was the catalyst for abolishing the death penalty in Illinois, is back in the news after living in relative obscurity for years. A …
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