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Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Florida Legislator Resigns in Wake of Texting Scandal by A Florida state lawmaker who supported harsher criminal penalties for stalkers and people who commit sexual offenses using electronic means has resigned in the wake of a texting scandal. In August and September 2011, Democratic state representative Richard L. Steinberg used …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Oregon Pays Record $5.85 Million for Abuse of Foster Child and Abuser's Death in Prison by The State of Oregon has paid $3.75 million to a little girl who was injured by an abusive foster parent. Then, in an ironic twist, state officials agreed to pay another $2.1 million to …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Filed under: Guards/Staff, Guard Unions
Pennsylvania Prison Guards, Sergeants Out-earn Supervisors by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Life in prison has alwayss been far different than life in the free world. An investigation by the Pittsburgh-Gazette into the wages of Pennsylvania prison employees revealed one of those differences – an Alice-in-Wonderland quality to the …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Survey Finds Disturbing Trends in Childhood Violence, Racial Dynamics for Juvenile Lifers by An overwhelming majority of prisoners serving life sentences without parole for crimes committed as juveniles were exposed to domestic violence and lived in poverty, while significant numbers failed in school, were influenced by friends in trouble with …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Oregon State Police Handwriting Analysis Unit Closed, under Investigation by "We don't know if it's one isolated case or there are going to be others," said Oregon State Police (OSP) Lt. Gregg Hastings, when he announced that OSP handwriting examiners had made a mistake in a criminal case. In March …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Former Halfway House Director Sentenced to 18 Months by A former halfway house director, who embezzled up to $213,787 from a federally-funded non-profit Oregon halfway house, pleaded guilty and has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. As previously reported in PLN, Laura Marie Edwards, 39, served as executive director …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Escapes
Oklahoma Escapee Surrenders to Police after 14 Years on the Run by Christopher Zoukis On April 26, 2013, David Lee Kemp, 43, turned himself into the Comanche County, Oklahoma Sheriff's Office. He was actively being sought by the FBI, U.S. Marshals and other law enforcement agencies for escaping from the …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
Tennessee Supreme Court: No Separate Parole Dates for Consecutive Sentences by Matthew T. Clarke by Matt Clarke On May 25, 2012, the Supreme Court of Tennessee held that prisoners with consecutive sentences are not entitled to separate parole eligibility dates for each sentence. The Court also clarified that a prisoner …
Prison Visitation: A Fifty State Survey by Chesa Boudin by Chesa Boudin, Trevor Stutz and Aaron Littman This article presents a summary of the study’s findings. The full study and data set will be published in a forthcoming volume of the Yale Law and Policy Review: Chesa Boudin, Trevor Stutz …
Article • May 15, 2013 • from PLN May, 2013
Maine Prisoner’s Contraband Conviction Vacated by On May 29, 2012, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court reversed a prisoner’s conviction for trafficking in contraband. The Court found it was proper for the trial court to allow a guard to testify about details not contained in her written report of the incident, …
Pennsylvania: No Prison Time for Guards Convicted of Abusing Prisoners by Christopher Zoukis A former Pennsylvania prison guard who was convicted on 27 counts of abusing prisoners will serve no prison time of his own, after a state court sentenced him to five years’ probation and six months on house …
Article • May 15, 2013 • from PLN May, 2013
My Life with Lifers, by Dr. Elaine J. Leeder. (E-Books Unbound, 2012). 140 pages, $4.99 (e-book) or $14.95 (paperback) by John Dannenberg Book review by John E. Dannenberg Dr. Elaine Leeder, Dean of the of the School of Social Sciences at Sonoma State University, offers a concise, compassionate view of …
Article • May 15, 2013 • from PLN May, 2013
Filed under: News
North Carolina County Conned into Building $100 Million Jail by For evidence that the art of the slick-talking conman is very much alive, witness Guilford County, North Carolina. The county’s new $100 million, 1,032-bed lockup in downtown Greensboro was built based on spurious claims that the jail population would increase …
Article • May 15, 2013 • from PLN May, 2013
Seventh Circuit Vacates Summary Judgment for Nutriloaf Diet by Recognizing that “anal fissures” are “no fun at all,” the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held on March 27, 2012 that Wisconsin jail officials were not entitled to summary judgment for imposing an exclusive diet of Nutriloaf on a prisoner. Milwaukee …
Article • May 15, 2013 • from PLN May, 2013
Eighth Circuit Overturns Jury’s $850,000 Verdict for Nebraska Detainee’s Suicide by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a jury’s verdict in favor of the estate of a pre-trial detainee who committed suicide at Nebraska’s Dodge County Jail. Circuit Judge Kermit E. Bye filed a dissenting opinion that criticized …
Article • May 15, 2013 • from PLN May, 2013
Oklahoma Parole Board Members Charged with Violating Open Meeting Act by Christopher Zoukis Oklahoma City District Attorney David Prater announced on March 13, 2013 that all five members of the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board (“Board”) had been charged with criminal violations of the state’s Open Meeting Act in connection …
Article • May 15, 2013 • from PLN May, 2013
No Room for 900 New Washington Prison “Rugs” by “Every day I'm getting emails from staff staff who are concerned about safety,” said Tracey A. Thompson, the Secretary-Treasurer of Teamsters Local 117, which represents about 3,600 Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC) guards. With approximately 16,000 prisoners, Washington state prisons are …
CCA Excludes Shareholder Resolution Requiring Company to Fully Disclose Information about REIT Conversion by Previously, PLN reported that both Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and GEO Group, the nation’s two largest private prison companies, were converting their corporate structure into real estate investment trusts (REITs), primarily to benefit from the …
Article • May 15, 2013 • from PLN May, 2013
Faulty Background Checks Blamed on Digitized Records, Greedy Amateurs by Joe Watson Whoever said that living in the past is a fruitless endeavor never tried to make money off background checks. Billions of publicly-available records have resulted in a global army of unskilled, wanna-be detectives who make quick bucks by …
Prison Health Care Provider under Fire in Illinois by Christopher Zoukis In 2011, the State of Illinois signed a 10-year, $1.36 billion contract with Wexford Health Sources, a for-profit company, to provide medical services to Illinois prisoners. Since the contract went into effect there have been numerous complaints concerning the …
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