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Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Michigan Makes Voting Rights Restoration Automatic for Prisoner’s at Release by On November 30, 2023, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmir (D) signed HB 4983, a measure that makes voter registration automatic for state prisoners upon release. With that, the state became the first in the nation to make voter registration the …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
Los Angeles County Makes Jail Phone Calls Free by On December 1, 2023, phone calls became free for detainees and prisoners in Los Angeles County jails. The county’s Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 on November 22, 2023, to amend the existing phone service contract with ViaPath Technologies—formerly Global Tel*Link (GTL)—to …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Two Ohio Prisoners and Two Guards Tried for Assaults by Two Ohio prisoners have pleaded guilty to assaulting guards, while trials of two other guards accused of assaulting jail detainees in the state resulted in one conviction and one acquittal. On October 25, 2023, Ohio prisoner Drequan K. Abdullah, 24, …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Dixie Prison Growth Drives Number of Incarcerated Americans Above 2 Million Once Again by After two years of decline driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of Americans held in federal and state prisons at the end of 2022 jumped 2% to a total of 1,230,143, according to a November …
Idaho Continues To Cell “Dangerously Mentally Ill” Without Charges by On November 14, 2023, Idaho Gov. Brad Little (R) secured a budget recommendation from the state Permanent Building Fund advisory council for a new $25 million facility jointly operated by the state’s Department of Health and Welfare (DHW) and its …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Harris County Shipping Detainees from Overcrowded Jail to Mississippi CoreCivic Prison by On December 1, 2023, Harris County, Texas, began sending up to 360 detainees from the county’s jails to a prison in Mississippi, under a contract with its private operator, CoreCivic. The County Commissioners Court approved the $11.3 million …
BOP Has a Halfway House Problem by The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has faced challenges in implementing the First Step Act (FSA) since it was signed into law in December 2018 by then-President Donald J. Trump (R). Aimed at reducing prisoner population and associated costs, the law provided sentence …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Florida Prisons Playing “Whack-a-Mole” With Jailbroken Tablets by In an essay published in Slate on December 14, 2023, former Florida prisoner Ryan Moser said that officials with the state Department of Corrections (DOC) were “essentially playing whack-a-mole” in their efforts to combat an epidemic of “jailbreaking” prison-issued electronic tablets. The …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
More Alabama Prisoners’ Families Say Their Corpses Were Returned Without Organs by More cases have surfaced in which families report organs missing from the bodies of loved ones who died in custody of the Alabama Department of Corrections (DOC). As PLN reported, the first was the family of Brandon Dotson, …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Tuberculosis Outbreak Exposed Weak Washington DOC Response by Washington’s Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department (TPCHD) issued an advisory to healthcare providers on December 13, 2023, to test for tuberculosis in anyone incarcerated by the state Department of Corrections (DOC) during an outbreak of the disease in 2021. Over 800 people were released from …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Texas Detainee Raped in Jail Sues Macy’s for False Facial-ID Match That Led to Arrest by A lawsuit filed on January 18, 2024, accuses retail giant Macy’s of employing faulty facial recognition technology that falsely identified a Texas man as an armed robbery suspect, landing him in a Houston jail …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Trans Detainee Sues Over Housing With Men on Rikers Island by Transgender Rikers Island jail detainee Dylan “Ali” Miles sued the City of New York and its Department of Correction on August 24, 2023, alleging her civil rights were violated when she was housed with men for two months before …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Filed under: Drug Overdose
Two Sentenced in Detainee’s Fentanyl Death at North Florida Jail by Two detainees at Florida’s Okaloosa County Jail were sentenced to federal prison on April 5, 2024, for smuggling fentanyl into the lockup and providing it to a detainee, who overdosed and died on Christmas Eve 2022. Gary Chase, 30, …
Conflicting Reports from New Hampshire Prison Officials Before Guard Charged in Psychiatric Detainee’s Death by Former New Hampshire prison guard Matthew Millar, 39, was arrested on February 8, 2024, and charged with second-degree murder in the death of Jason O. Rothe, 50, a detainee in the Secure Psychiatric Unit (SPU) …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright   This month’s cover article discusses the current state of prison slavery in America. This has been an ongoing topic of coverage for Prison Legal News since we first started in 1990. The legal slave status of American prisoners is currently …
Georgia Prisoner’s Challenge to “Deplorable” Conditions Survives Motion to Dismiss by On October 3, 2023, the federal court for the Middle District of Georgia denied a motion to dismiss filed by defendant state prison officials in a prisoner’s challenge to isolation in conditions he called “deplorable.” While incarcerated at Georgia …
Brief • 2024
Gilliam v. City of Aurora, CO, Settlement, Excessive Force, 2024 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE OF ALL CLAIMS I. Parties The Parties to this Settlement Agreement and Release of All Claims ("Agreement") are: A. B. II. The CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO, and its present and past employees, including elected officials, appointees, …
Bureau of Prisons-Additional Actions Needed to Improve Restrictive Housing Practices, Feb. 2024 United States Government Accountability Office Report to Congressional Requesters February 2024 BUREAU OF PRISONS Additional Actions Needed to Improve Restrictive Housing Practices GAO-24-105737 February 2024 GAO Highlights BUREAU OF PRISONS Additional Actions Needed to Improve Restrictive Housing Practices …
PHR REPORT-ICE-Solitary-Confinement-February 2024 Physicians for Human Rights TTT~~ HARVARO l '.\01 I C RAT I O :'( AND RtFIJGtE - - CLINI CAL PROGRAM- - “Endless Nightmare” Torture and Inhuman Treatment in Solitary Confinement in U.S. Immigration Detention February 2024 PEELER Immigration .£1.1'.L, • Lab Acknowledgments Contents 1 Executive Summary …
Publication • 2024
A Look Behind the Screens-Examining the Data Practices of Social Media and Video Streaming Services-FTC Sept. 2024 A Look Behind the Screens Examining the Data Practices of Social Media and Video Streaming Services Federal Trade Commission September 2024 A Look Behind the Screens Examining the Data Practices of Social Media …
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