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Article • August 9, 2016
Washington State Prison Brass Interferes in Release of Senator’s Son by Questions are swirling about whether a Washington State legislator’s son was released 103 days early due to his mother’s political clout. Despite warnings from community corrections officers that the release would violate Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC) policy, administrators …
Publication • August 9, 2016
Breach of Privilege: Spying on Lawyers in the United States, NLG , 2014 - A National Lawyers Guild Report - Breach of Privilege: Spying on Lawyers in the United States By Traci Yoder April 2014 About the Author Traci Yoder is Senior Researcher and Student Organizer at the National Lawyers …
Article • August 5, 2016
INS Detainees Not Entitled to Protections and Wages under Federal Fair Labor Standards Act by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has adopted a lower court’s judgment that held that Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) alien detainees were not employees a defined by the Fair Labor Standards …
Hawaii Prison Relocation Project Fails to Skirt Environmental Review by Panagioti Tsolkas While lawmakers in Hawaii have advanced bills to fast-track the relocation of a state prison, they were forced to concede that an environmental impact review could not be avoided. In February 2016, the state legislature held a pair of …
Will Ohio’s Prison Watchdog Agency be Silenced? by On May 25, 2016, Joanna Saul, 33, the executive director of Ohio’s Correctional Institution Inspection Committee (CIIC), was forced to resign due to infighting between the bipartisan prison watchdog agency, Republican legislators and Governor John Kasich. Saul first touched a nerve when …
USA v. Reddix, MS, Grand Jury Charges - Health Assurance, DOC Epps corruption indictment, 2016
Article • July 6, 2016 • from PLN July, 2016
Tennessee Enacts Contrary “Ban the Box” Bills by On March 14, 2016, the Tennessee legislature passed a bill to eliminate a question on state government job applications that asks about an applicant’s criminal history. The measure, commonly called “Ban the Box,” was signed into law by Governor Bill Haslam on …
From the Editor by Paul Wright Over the years PLN has reported extensively on the ACA and NCCHC, and the “accreditation” scams they run using taxpayer money to promote mass incarceration and the prison industry. They are not alone; many other groups like the American Jail Association and National Sheriffs’ …
Private Prison Firms Reap Large Profits from Immigration Detention by Gary Hunter Federal immigrant detention has long been a boon to private prison companies Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and the GEO Group, the nation’s two largest private prison firms, both of which trade on the New York Stock Exchange. …
Publication • 2016
Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General - Investigative Report Pursuant to Commonwealth v. Cotto, 2016 Office of the Attorney General Commonwealth of Massachusetts Maura Healey Attorney General Investigative Report Pursuant to Commonwealth v. Cotto, 471 Mass. 97 (2015) April 1, 2016 I. Introduction In April 2015, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial …
Publication • May 26, 2016
Political Contributions Report 2010, CCA, 2010 Political Contributions Report January 1, 2010 – December 31, 2010 Introduction POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS At CCA, we believe that participation in the political process is an important and appropriate part of our partnership relations efforts. We must educate federal, state and local officials …
Publication • May 26, 2016
Accountability Audit - Incarcerated Individuals Receiving Unemployment Benefits, WA SAO, 2016 NO V 11 , 1 8 8 9 SH INGT Washington State Auditor’s Office N AUD W A OR OF ST E AT IT O G over n m e n t t h a t wor k s …
Detainee Death Review - Bamenga, ICE, 2011 Office of Professional Responsibility U.S. Department of Homeland Security 950 L’ Enfant Plaza Washington, DC 20024 DETAINEE DEATH REVIEW Case Number Detainee Alien Number Citizenship Date of Death Detention Facility Facility Type 201111495 Irene BAMENGA (b)(6), (b)(7)c France July 27, 2011 Albany County …
Publication • May 26, 2016
CCA Political Contributions Report 2011 , CCA, 2011 CCA Political Contributions Report 2011 POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS January 1, 2011 – December 31, 2011 Introduction At CCA, we believe that participation in the political process is an important and appropriate part of our partnership relations efforts. We must educate federal, …
Article • May 12, 2016
Medicare Again Embarrassed by Funding Drugs For Prisoners by Derek Gilna At a time when both federal and state governments are struggling to pay their bills, a new government report by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) reveals that Medicare has improperly paid out …
Article • April 1, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Court’s Gag Order in Michigan Jail Corruption Case Reversed by In March 2015, the Michigan Supreme Court concluded that a gag order entered in criminal proceedings against Wayne County officials charged with corruption in a jail building project must be reviewed. Following an audit into the jail project that cost …
Article • March 30, 2016
New Thurston County, Washington Jail Finally Opens After Sitting Empty by It didn’t matter that in 2004, the citizens of Thurston County, Washington voted against building a new county jail. In 2010, County Commissioners took it upon themselves to borrow $44 million from county coffers to build the new facility …
Brief • March 19, 2016
Calvin et al v. Jefferson County, FL, Order re SJ, prison gerrymandering, 2016 Case 4:15-cv-00131-MW-CAS Document 49 Filed 03/19/16 Page 1 of 86 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA TALLAHASSEE DIVISION KATE CALVIN, JOHN NELSON, CHARLES J. PARRISH, LONNIE GRIFFIN, AND CONCERNED UNITED PEOPLE, Plaintiffs, v. CASE NO. …
Article • March 7, 2016
Medication Discontinuation by Private Medical Vendor Affects Administration of Justice by David Reutter A private medical vendor’s discontinuation of a pre-trial detainee’s psychotropic medication in the middle of a double-homicide trial was being called government misconduct that merited dismissal of the charges. Michael John Pierce, 39, suffers from schizophrenia. He …
Article • February 1, 2016
Georgia Judge Issues $20,000 Sanction for Whistleblower Suit Discovery Violation by David Reutter A Georgia state court ordered the state Attorney General and head of the state ethics commission to each pay $10,000 as sanctions for discovery violations in a whistleblower suit filed by the former executive director of the …
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