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Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
The Real Costs of Incarceration in the United States by It has long been an open secret that government officials go out of their way to hide from public view the true costs of the many, many different aspects of America’s top-heavy and constantly growing law enforcement system; and in …
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
Attorney Fees Not Exempt from Disclosure Under California Public Records Act by The California Court of Appeal held on November 16, 2012 that billing and payment records reflecting the amount of money a government agency paid in attorney fees to defend against a pending civil rights action were not exempt …
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
PLN Files Censorship Suit Against Nevada DOC by On June 27, 2013, Prison Legal News filed suit in U.S. District Court against Nevada Department of Corrections (DOC) Director James G. Cox and other defendants, seeking to enjoin unconstitutional censorship by state prison officials. The lawsuit contends that the Nevada DOC …
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
Filed under: Medical, Brain Injury
Traumatic Brain Injury Rate High Among Prisoners by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Studies have shown that the prevalence of traumatic brain injury (TBI) among adult prisoners is more than seven times higher than among non-incarcerated adults. Traumatic brain injury occurs when a person suffers a disruption of brain function …
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
Debtors' Prisons Returning to America by David Reutter As the United States was becoming an independent nation with its own values and form of government, it discarded an archaic English system that drove the poor into greater poverty. When the U.S. ended the practice of debtors’ prisons in 1833, it …
Hell on Earth: Sexual Victimization of the Criminally Insane by David Rosen Jan Brewer is the governor of Arizona and one of her three sons, Ronald, was charged in 1989 with the sexual assault and kidnapping of a Phoenix woman. He was diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia and, in 1990, …
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
China Vows to Finance Incarceration with Public Funds, Not Prison Profits by Despite its atrocious human rights record, China says it is taking steps to ensure that its prison system is publicly financed and that prisoners receive rehabilitative opportunities. Wu Aiying, China’s Minister of Justice, announced last year that profits …
GEO Group Pulls out of Mississippi Prisons by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Last year, the GEO Group – the nation’s second-largest for-profit prison company – announced that it was pulling out of its contracts to operate three Mississippi prisons. That development came shortly after a federal court announced …
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
PLN Challenges Postcard-only Policy at Tennessee Jail by On October 10, 2013, Prison Legal News filed a federal lawsuit against Sullivan County, Tennessee, the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office and Sheriff J. Wayne Anderson, alleging that the county jail unconstitutionally censored books, magazines, letters and other correspondence sent to prisoners and …
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
Oregon Considers Subsidizing Prison Medical Costs Through Medicaid by With health care expenses for prisoners consuming more than $208 million of the biennial budget for the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) – a 67% increase since 2005 – prison officials are desperate to contain costs. Correctional Health Partners (CHP), which …
Federal Justice Grants Favor Prosecution, Law Enforcement Over Indigent Defense by A report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has confirmed what many criminal defendants too poor to afford an attorney have long suspected: While hundreds of millions in federal tax dollars go to support prosecutors, law enforcement and prisons …
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
Minnesota Judge Condemns System that Jails Mentally Ill by A Minnesota state court judge blamed political indifference for a justice system that warehouses the mentally ill in county jails – a practice that may have resulted in the death of a guard ten weeks after he fought with a schizophrenic …
How Many Inmate Deaths is too Many? by Dave Maass by Dave Maass & Kelly Davis San Diego CityBeat Bernard Joseph Victorianne was a 28-year-old black male with a ticking time bomb in his stomach. Victorianne was arrested on September 12, 2012, less than two blocks from the San Diego …
Article • October 15, 2013 • from PLN October, 2013
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by Arkansas: The Phillips County jail closed on April 30, 2013 after it failed to pass a state inspection. Sheriff Neal Byrd would not go into detail as to why the 30-year-old facility failed the inspection, but said 60 prisoners had been transferred to other jails and …
Article • October 15, 2013 • from PLN October, 2013
From the Editor by Paul Wright This month’s cover story on the San Diego County jail system illustrates that while prisons often get slightly more media attention, it is not because they are necessarily more poorly run. On any given day some 735,000 detainees are confined in local jails, and …
Article • October 15, 2013 • from PLN October, 2013
Sex Offenders Who Fail to Register May Receive Life Sentence Under California’s “Three Strikes” Law by The California Supreme Court has held that, depending on the specifics of the underlying offense, failure to register as a sex offender may subject a defendant with two qualifying prior serious and/or violent convictions …
Five Prisoner Deaths in Eighteen Months at Small Ohio Jail by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The deaths of five prisoners in 18 months might pass without notice in a large jail system, but that many deaths at the 270-bed Portage County jail, located about 30 miles southeast of Cleveland, …
New York Promised Help for Mentally Ill Prisoners – But Still Sticks Many in Solitary by Christie Thompson When Amir Hall entered New York state prison for a parole violation in November 2009, he came with a long list of psychological problems. Hall arrived at the prison from a state …
Article • October 15, 2013 • from PLN October, 2013
Widespread Sexual Abuse Alleged at Alabama Women’s Prison by On March 4, 2013, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division launched a formal inquiry into widespread sexual abuse of female prisoners by male guards at the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka, Alabama. The investigation was opened following …
Idaho: Federal Court Unseals Pleadings, Holds CCA in Contempt for Violating Settlement Agreement by On August 16, 2013, U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter, sitting by designation, unsealed a number of court documents related to a contempt motion seeking sanctions against Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest …
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