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, dangerous and uncomfortable places to stay under the best of circumstances,” said Alan Mills of Uptown People’s Law Center. “Locked in a cell, completely dependent on your cellmate to let you know what ...
Article • January 15, 2012 • from PLN January, 2012
on a charge of having false identification. According to his lawsuit, the charges were dropped after prosecutors determined that he was in fact who he said he was. The mystery, of course – and no doubt what ...
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
. “This is about as clear a case of censorship as there can be,” stated ACLU of Florida Executive Director Howard Simon. “Government can’t censor material just because it doesn’t like what’s being published ...
a governmental entity has a monetary motive for incarcerating its citizens? And what about the prisoner workers – shouldn’t they be paid something for their labor? Nonetheless, the focus of the public debate ...
Article • May 15, 2013 • from PLN May, 2013
department. [See: PLN, April 2013, p.58]. “She can’t take it back,” said Montgomery, now 26. “She did what she did and she has to deal with the consequences.” In early November 2012, Hampton Circuit Court ...
in privately-operated prisons. No time frame for proposals for the revised contract was announced.   What led to the contract's cancellation were statistics showing that the prison population in Arizona has ...
Article • October 3, 2014
to choose between life without parole and death as the punishment for murder. "Lawmakers in Connecticut finally saw the death penalty for what it is – a barbaric and irreversible punishment that does ...
Article • October 5, 2014
told anyone what happened, he would kill him.   Hadley spurred an investigation by reporting the incident to a supervisor. Ramirez denied any role in the beating. He also said he had no clue why ...
Article • January 15, 2015
. That’s about what he received from Houston, including attorney fees, after six years of litigation. See: Rodriguez v. City of Houston, U.S.D.C.-S.D.Tex. Case No. 4:06-cv-02650. Additional source: Houston ...
Article • March 1, 2016 • from PLN March, 2016
27, 2015, Richards was appointed to the city’s Board of Correction by a unanimous vote. What makes his appointment unique is that he is a former prisoner. Released in 1991, he experienced ...
Juvenile Facility involved three prisoners, aged 18, 17, and 16, who beat a staff member nearly unconscious and locked him in a cell and then attempted to escape.  The prisoners bragged about what ...
and talking and I forget what I was trying to say mid-sentence," the prisoner wrote. "I've watched sane men slowly go insane, become a person I've never seen before. They lose their ability to rationalize ...
Article • March 7, 2016
Filed under: Aramark, Food, Jail Specific
and serve us like they serve the animals in exotic cages.” To get something more appetizing and filling when they want to eat, SFCJ prisoners make what they term “spreads” from items out ...
Article • March 30, 2016
with a metal object three times. One Tact Team member said, “this is what happens when you protest against Tact.”  When Williams complained to Reed, he replied “come off hunger strike ...
Article • June 15, 2011 • from PLN June, 2011
of stranded. It’s unfortunate. I mean, what is a guy supposed to do? You know? It almost makes guys want to steal bicycles or bother people, or hitch hike.” Becky Todd, who lives along the road that releasees ...
in fact consents” to be sued. “‘Appropriate relief’ is open-ended and ambiguous about what types of relief it includes, as many lower courts have recognized,” the Court wrote. The wording is context ...
by failing to verbally advise the consumers [who accepted collect calls from prisoners] to request or obtain the rates or charges for the call.” The court will determine what damages should be assessed, if any ...
Article • July 15, 2011
, the finder of fact must then address what, if any, justification existed for the act, as well as the reasonableness of that justification.” See: Dexter v. Bosko, 184 P.3d 592, 602 Utah Adv. Rep. 3, 2008 UT ...
Article • July 15, 2012 • from PLN July, 2012
and other offenses. Ultimately, Carona and Jaramillo had a falling out over what Jaramillo regarded as Carona’s practice of selling badges – “get-out-of-jail-free cards” – to campaign donors. No longer ...
Article • June 15, 2012 • from PLN June, 2012
and county financial consultant Larry Blachard, the Lake County Sheriff’s Department has not complied with the law. “We never received any reports. I can’t really say what was purchased was good or bad because ...
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