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Venezuelan TV Station Fined $2.16 Million for Prison Reporting by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Globovisión is the last remaining Venezuelan television station that is openly critical of President Hugo Chávez. In May 2010, Globovisión president Guillermo Zuloaga was arrested for making offensive comments about Chávez while discussing a government …
Iraqi Prison Breaks Likely Inside Jobs by On September 27, 2012, prisoners at the Tasfirat prison in Tikrit seized weapons after breaking into a storage room, overpowered guards and engaged in a gun battle with security forces during an escape attempt. The late evening incident, which lasted several hours, left …
Article • January 15, 2013 • from PLN January, 2013
Filed under: Organizing, Voting
California Lawsuit Challenges Voting Prohibition on County-level Offenders by On March 7, 2012, the League of Women Voters, two prisoners’ rights organizations and a female prisoner filed suit against California election officials, alleging that offenders in county jails or on county supervision were being improperly disenfranchised. In an attempt to …
Article • January 15, 2013 • from PLN January, 2013
California and Oregon Prison Guards Fire Shots to Break up Fights by Between September and November 2012, California state prison guards at three high-security facilities used live rounds to quell fights on prison yards. One prisoner was killed by the gunfire; two others were injured. On September 19, over 60 …
Adams v. CCA, CO, Def MoL re Wojtalewicz Testimony, prison riot, 2013 Plaintiffs: VANCE A. ADAMS et al. Defendant: CORRECTIONS CORPORATION OF AMERICA Counterclaimant: CORRECTIONS CORPORATION OF AMERICA ▲ COURT USE ONLY ▲ Counterclaim Defendants: RICHARD ALLISON, et al. Attorneys for Defendant and Counterclaimant: Case Number: 05 CV 60 Andrew …
Article • December 15, 2012 • from PLN December, 2012
Federal Court Upholds Maryland Law that Reclassifies Prisoners for Redistricting by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On December 23, 2011, a Maryland federal district court three-judge panel upheld a state law that counts prisoners as residents of their legal home address rather than their prison address for redistricting purposes. …
Article • December 15, 2012 • from PLN December, 2012
Momentum Builds to End Prison-Based Gerrymandering by Peter Wagner Four states and hundreds of local governments are standing up to reject one of the most repugnant aspects of the prison industrial complex: Legislators with prisons located in their districts who claim the people incarcerated there – who cannot vote – …
Bailing on Justice: The Dysfunctional System of Using Money to Buy Pretrial Freedom by Tracy Velázquez by Tracy Velázquez, Melissa Neal and Spike Bradford* The practice of requiring someone to pay money to a court in order to remain free while awaiting trial is known as “money bail.” While considerable …
Liberty for Sale: Should Ohio Prisoners be Commodities in a For-Profit Venture? by German Lopez by German Lopez, Cincinnati CityBeat In 1997, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) opened a private prison in Youngstown, Ohio. The Northeast Ohio Correctional Center was to hold out-of-state prisoners with the promise of profits and …
Article • November 15, 2012 • from PLN November, 2012
Filed under: Organizing, Telephone Rates
PLN Readers Flood the FCC with Letters; Campaign Fights for Prison Phone Justice by Mel Motel In June 2012, Prison Legal News began running a full-page flyer for the Campaign for Prison Phone Justice, asking people to get involved and take action. Within weeks, letters from PLN readers began flooding …
Private Prison Companies Use Political Influence to Increase Incarceration by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A June 2011 report by the Justice Policy Institute (JPI) reveals how for-profit private prison companies use political campaign donations, lobbyists and relationships with government officials to increase their profits by promoting policies that result …
Brief • November 9, 2012
Castillon v. CCA, ID, Complaint, Gang Partnership, 2012 TJ Angstman Wyatt B. Johnson ANGSTMAN JOHNSON 3649 Lakeharbor Lane Boise, Idaho 83703 Telephone: (208) 384-8588 Facsimile: (208) 853-0117 Johnson ISB: 5858 Angstman ISB: 5738 Nikki Smith 3649 Lakeharbor Lane Boise, Idaho 83703 Telephone: (208) 384-8588 Facsimile: (208) 853-0117 Smith ISB: 9030 …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
Filed under: Voting, News, State Legislation
New York Court Upholds Law Requiring Census Count to Use Prisoners’ Pre-Incarceration Address by On December 1, 2011, a New York Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit that sought a judicial declaration that a state statute requiring prisoners to be counted for reapportionment purposes in their last known residence prior to …
Article • October 15, 2012
Filed under: Organizing
What HRDC and Prison Legal News Accomplished in 2012! by Alex Friedmann Last January, the Center for Civic Media at MIT declared the work of Prison Legal News and PLN editor Paul Wright to be "The Front Line of the US Censorship Battle." See: https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/456_displayNews.aspx Interestingly, CCM provided the perfect …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
Private Prison Monopolies by Christopher Petrella As the late business historian Alfred Chandler, Jr. once said, the visible hand of the corporation has been of far greater importance to capitalism than has Adam Smith’s so-called invisible hand of the market. Although modern forms of capitalism are justified, and often sanitized, …
46 California Prisoners Injured in Disturbance at CCA-run Oklahoma Facility by Widespread fighting among black and Hispanic California prisoners at the privately-operated North Fork Correctional Facility in Sayre, Oklahoma last year left dozens of prisoners injured. The disturbance began shortly before noon on October 11, 2011 and was described by …
Article • October 15, 2012
Filed under: Organizing, Telephone Rates
"Strong Families, Safe Communities" Sends Clear Message for Phone Justice by Mel Motel Mel Motel: "Strong Families, Safe Communities" Sends Clear Message for Phone Justice 2012-11-15 The Campaign for Prison Phone Justice is a national effort challenging prison phone kickbacks and the U.S. Prison Telephone Industry. The campaign is jointly …
Article • September 15, 2012 • from PLN September, 2012
Bail Bond Companies Profit While Poorest Defendants Remain in Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter As America’s prison population has swelled over the past three decades to become the largest per capita in the world, the number of special interests that feed off the so-called prison industrial complex …
Brief • August 27, 2012
Filed under: Advocacy, First Amendment
Hershey v Goldstein, NY, Amended Complaint, literature distribution advocacy, 2012
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