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The Failed Promise of Prison Privatization by Richard Culp, Ph.D. We have been experimenting with prison privatization in the U.S. now for over twenty-five years. The privatization idea originated out of a notion that the private sector, with its competition-driven efficiency and innovation, could operate prisons of higher quality and …
Article • October 15, 2011 • from PLN October, 2011
Pennsylvania Councilman Takes Private Prison Company’s Donation, then Opposes Detention Center by A $3,000 campaign contribution from private prison firm GEO Group has put a spotlight on a county councilman in Pennsylvania. The contribution was made only days after Ron Angle, president of the Northampton County Council, urged his colleagues …
Article • October 15, 2011 • from PLN October, 2011
Prisons Are Breeding Ground for Terrorists? by Mark Wilson “Prisons are often described as ‘hotbeds’ of terrorism,” but they can also become important “net contributors in the struggle against terrorism” according to a July 2010 joint study by the London-based International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence …
Adams v. CCA, CO, Testimony Transcript - Wojtalewicz, prison riot, 2011 Transcript of the Testimony of Randal Floyd Wojtalewicz Date: September 23, 2011 Volume: Case: Vance A. Adams, et al v. Corrections Corporation of America Printed On: January 17, 2013 Ak/Ret Reporting, Records & Video, Inc. Phone:361-882-9037 Fax:361-882-3355 Email:akretinc@aol.com Internet: …
The Sun Never Sets On Torture in American Military Prisons by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke PLN has reported extensively on some of the issues surrounding the treatment of prisoners in the American military prisons which were set up to hold people suspected of committing or supporting terrorism. This …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN October, 2004
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Voting
Two Empty Bottles With Different Labels: John Kerry on Criminal Justice Issues by Paul Wright By Paul Wright “Americans on the frontlines - our first responders, military forces, sheriffs, policemen, firefighters, and civil defense volunteers - must have the very best equipment, training and support possible. Our safety and freedom …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
Sixth Circuit Upholds Tennessee’s Financial Obligation Re-Enfranchisement Law by Mark Wilson The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a Tennessee statute that bars the restoration of voting rights to ex-felons who have outstanding restitution or child support obligations. Tennessee law disenfranchises convicted felons but allows reinstatement of their voting …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
Filed under: Organizing, Voting
Florida Reenacts Reconstruction-Era Felon Disenfranchisement Rule by David Reutter On March 9, 2011, Florida’s executive clemency board unanimously voted to make it more difficult for ex-felons to have their civil rights restored – including the right to vote, sit on a jury and hold public office. Rather than automatic restoration …
Remembering Attica Forty Years Later by Dennis Cunningham by Dennis Cunningham, Michael Deutsch & Elizabeth Fink This year, September 9 will mark the 40th anniversary of the rebellion at Attica State Prison in upstate New York. As one of the prisoner leaders, L.D. Barkley, announced to the world, the rebellion …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
800,000 Ex-Offenders Regain Voting Rights – 5.3 Million More to Go by Since 1997, an estimated 800,000 former offenders have regained their voting rights as 23 states eased or eliminated felony disenfranchisement statutes and policies, according to a recent report by The Sentencing Project. Still, only seven states – Texas, …
Adams v. CCA, CO, Plf Mot for PO, Disclosure of Medical Requests, 2011 DISTRICT COURT, COUNTY OF CROWLEY, STATE OF COLORADO Court Address: Sixteenth Judicial District Court Crowley County Courthouse 110 E. 6th Street, Room 303 Ordway, Colorado 81063 Telephone 719-267-4468 Plaintiffs: VANCE A. ADAMS et. al. Defendants: CORRECTIONS CORPORATION …
Publication • September 1, 2011
Filed under: Lobbying, Stun Guns/Tasers
Funding Bias in TASER Research American Heart Journal 2011 Electrophysiology Funding source and author affiliation in TASER research are strongly associated with a conclusion of device safety Peyman N. Azadani, MD, Zian H. Tseng, MD, Simon Ermakov, BA, Gregory M. Marcus, MD, and Byron K. Lee, MD San Francisco, CA …
Adams v. CCA, CO, Exhibit, Disclosure of Medical Requests, 2011 District Court, Crowley County, State of Colorado I 10 East 6th Street, Room 303 Ordway, CO 81063 719-267-4468 Plaintiffs: VANCE A. ADAMS et a!. Defendant: CORRECTIONS CORPORATION OF AMERICA Counterclaimant: CORRECTIONS CORPORATION OF AMERICA Counterclaim Defendants: RICHARD ALLISON, et a!. …
Article • August 15, 2011 • from PLN August, 2011
Filed under: Organizing, Voting
Ninth Circuit Upholds Arizona’s Felon Disenfranchisement Law by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held on May 27, 2010 that Arizona’s felon disenfranchisement law does not violate the Fourteenth Amendment. The law is based on Arizona’s Constitution, which provides that anyone convicted of treason …
Article • August 15, 2011 • from PLN August, 2011
Filed under: Organizing, Voting
Voting Rights Must Be “Earned” Back, Says Iowa Governor by Brandon Sample Regaining voting rights for former felons in Iowa just got harder. Making good on a campaign promise, the newly-elected governor of Iowa, Terry Branstad, a Republican, has rescinded a July 4, 2005 executive order that allowed felons to …
Adams v. CCA, CO, Index to List of Supporting Documents, prison riot, 2010 COURT OF APPEALS STATE OF COLORADO 101 West Colfax Ave., Ste. 800 Denver, CO 80202 Telephone: (303) 837-3785 _______________________________________________ Appeal From: Crowley County District Court Case No. 2005CV60, Consolidated With 2006CV8 The Honorable Michael Schiferl ▲ COURT …
Article • July 15, 2011
Filed under: Organizing, Voting
Alabama Court Bans Felon Disenfranchisement Until Legislature Defines Moral Turpitude Crimes by Alabama’s Jefferson County Circuit Court has held that Alabama’s Constitution permissibly disenfranchises felons convicted of crimes of moral turpitude, but the absence of legislation defining moral turpitude prevents any felon from being disenfranchised. Before the court was a …
Article • July 15, 2011 • from PLN July, 2011
In-Prison Filmmaker Prepares Next Release by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Compact video cameras smuggled into prison have allowed New Jersey prisoner Omar Broadway to become an amateur documentarian of life behind bars. His first video, taken inside a New Jersey state facility in 2004, has been turned into …
Adams v. CCA, CO, Plf Mot Proposed Order, public records indigents right to review depositions, 2011 DISTRICT COURT, COUNTY OF CROWLEY, STATE OF COLORADO Court Address: Sixteenth Judicial District Court Crowley County Courthouse 110 E. 6th Street, Room 303 Ordway, Colorado 81063 Telephone 719-267-4468 ▲COURT USE ONLY ▲ Plaintiffs: VANCE …
Publication • June 30, 2011
Making Your Life Your Own: How Olmstead Expands Rights and Opportunities for People with Serious Mental Illnesses, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, 2011 Making Your Life Your Own How Olmstead Expands Rights and Opportunities for People with Serious Mental Illnesses Updated June 30, 2011 On June 22, 1999, the …
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