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California Guard Fights Prisoner, Faces Charges for Falsifying Reports by A California prison guard who challenged a prisoner to a fight, then engaged in a cover-up to avoid getting in trouble, is now facing criminal charges for filing false reports. In April 2012, state prison guard Christopher Cruse, 41, pleaded …
Article • July 15, 2013 • from PLN July, 2013
Third Circuit Discusses FRCP 17(c) Guardian Appointment; Evidence of Incompetency Requires Sua Sponte Inquiry by The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has held that "a court is not required to conduct a sua sponte determination whether an unrepresented litigant is incompetent unless there is some verifiable evidence of incompetence." Federal …
Deadly Prison Fire Kills Hundreds in Honduras by They screamed from their dilapidated cells as a scorching fire swept through the prison where they were held. But the cries of prisoners burning alive inside the overcrowded Comayagua National Penitentiary in Honduras on February 14, 2012 were met by gunshots fired …
Arizona Prison System Plagued by Politics, Privatization and Prisoner Deaths by Joe Watson By the time Jan Brewer replaced Janet Napolitano as Arizona’s governor in 2009, it had been 22 years since the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) built the first prison in the United States designed exclusively for permanent …
Article • July 13, 2013
Thirteen CEC Employees Indicted for Smuggling at Texas Private Prison by Matthew Clarke By Matthew Clarke On January 30, 2013, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it had arrested twelve guards and a cook who were employed by private prison company Community Education Centers (CEC) at the Ector County …
Article • July 13, 2013
Filed under: Resources, Grievances
"Prison Grievances: When to Write, How to Write" - Graphic Book on the Basics by Matthew Clarke By Matt Clarke In Prison Grievances: When to Write, How to Write by Terry LeClercq , you will find the basic information on how to get your grievances heard presented in an illustrated format …
Article • July 13, 2013
Newest Texas Criminal Justice Lobbyist is Powerful Texas Business Group by Matthew Clarke By Matt Clarke The most powerful business group in Texas, the Texas Association of Businesses (TAB) has announced its intention to influence the future course of criminal justice reform in Texas. TAB president Bill Hammond said TAB …
Article • July 13, 2013
Irregularities Undermine Legitimacy of Second Version of 9/11 Trials by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke When the American government first determined that it would proceed with trials by military tribunal against the prisoners it held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the decision was met with skepticism by human rights advocates. The …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Fourth Circuit: No Qualified Immunity for Bail Bondsmen; $100,000 Damages Award Upheld by The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a jury verdict and $100,000 damages award, concluding that bail bondsmen are not entitled to qualified immunity. South Carolina bail bondsman Jon E. Ham, through his company Quick Silver …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Filed under: Mental Health
CDCR to Open New Mental Health Facility by In response to intense pressure from the Plata v. Brown and Coleman v. Brown federal lawsuits demanding improved medical and mental health care for California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) prisoners, a new 50-bed mental health facility is scheduled to open …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Slowly Closing the Gates: A State-by-State Assessment of Recent Prison Closures by Christopher Petrella by Christopher Petrella and Alex Friedmann After nearly 40 years of unprecedented growth, our nation's expanding prison population has finally begun to sputter. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2010 marked the first year since …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Solidarity and Solitary: When Unions Clash with Prison Reform by James Ridgeway by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella On January 4, 2013, Tamms supermax in southern Illinois officially closed its doors. The prison, where some men had been in solitary confinement for more than a decade, had become notorious for …
TN Court of Appeals Rules Against CCA for Second Time in PLN Public Records Case by In February 2013, the Tennessee Court of Appeals issued its second ruling in a long-running lawsuit filed under the state's Public Records Act against Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation's largest for-profit private …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
From the Editor by Paul Wright Please note that as of June 10, 2013, Prison Legal News and its parent organization, the Human Rights Defense Center, will have a new mailing address: P.O. Box 1151, Lake Worth, FL 33460. Our website and e-mail addresses remain the same, and our new …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
New York Commission of Correction Says Jails Don't Need Law Libraries by According to the Albany Legislative Gazette, the New York State Commission of Correction will no longer require the county jails it oversees to provide law libraries for detainees, effective May 18, 2013. Although jails must provide prisoners with …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by Australia: Benjamin Lord pleaded guilty in Victoria County Court on January 21, 2013 to two counts of impersonating a public official with the intention of obtaining sexual services and two counts of obtaining a financial advantage by deception. While incarcerated, Lord, 31, had victimized a fellow …
How the Prison - Industrial Complex Destroys Lives by Mark Karlin by Mark Karlin, Truthout Marc Mauer is the Executive Director of The Sentencing Project and the author of Race to Incarcerate, which has just been released in graphic format, illustrated by Sabrina Jones, as Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Charting a New Justice Reinvestment by Nicole D. Porter by Nicole D. Porter, The Sentencing Project For more than forty years, the correctional system has been dominated by growth. In 1969, the crime rate was 3,680 per 100,000 population and the incarceration rate was 97 state and federal prisoners per …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Juveniles
Oregon Juvenile Department Employee Gets Jail Time for Sexualizing Booking Photos by "A jail sentence is called for," declared Clackamas County Circuit Court Judge Jeffrey S. Jones when sentencing a former Oregon Juvenile Department employee to two days in jail for altering mugshot photos of juvenile offenders to make them …
Florida Proceeds with Privatization of Prison Medical Care by The Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) is moving forward with a legislative mandate to privatize its entire medical system. Whether the plan is implemented, however, may depend on the outcome of a lawsuit filed by prison health care workers challenging the …
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