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Article • May 15, 2013
North Carolina Court Dismisses Petition for Judicial Review and Upholds Execution Protocol by North Carolina Department of Corrections' death row prisoners petitioned the Superior Court of North Carolina for judicial review of the Council of State's approval of an execution protocol order under G.S. 15-188 that would be carried out …
Article • May 15, 2013
Supreme Court Rules on Terrorist Issue by The U.S. Supreme Court reversed and remanded in May 2011, a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmation of an Idaho district court’s holding that U.S. Attorney General John D. Ashcroft was ineligible for both qualified and absolute immunity in a Fourth Amendment issue …
Article • May 15, 2013
Texas Pays $230,000 to Settle Lawsuit under the Texas Whistleblower Act by In September 2008, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) settled a suit under the Texas Whistleblower Act filed by former employees William Douglas Bloodworth II and John O'Neill Green. In exchange for the lawsuit dismissal, the TDCJ …
U.S. Immigration Policy: Dysfunctional, Profitable and Resistant to Reform by Derek Gilna The nation's economy remains fragile, U.S. troops continue to fight a losing war in Afghanistan, North Korea has recently threatened a nuclear attack, and in March 2013 Congress and President Obama failed to reach a compromise to prevent …
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
Anti-Immigrant Arizona Sheriff Outed by His Mexican Ex-Boyfriend by Paul Bebeu, Sheriff of Pinal County, Arizona and a former police officer, was a rising Republican star within the state in 2012 – crusading in support of the anti-immigrant legislation SB1070, co-chairing Arizona’s campaign for Mitt Romney’s presidential bid and espousing …
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
Report: Total State Prison Costs at Least $5.4 Billion Over Budget Nationwide by For decades, tough-on-crime rhetoric has convinced taxpayers to finance ballooning prison budgets with no questions asked. But the price tag of mass incarceration has so grossly surpassed state corrections budgets that legislators across the country have become …
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
From the Editor by Paul Wright As we publish our second issue with PLN’s new design, the feedback we have received so far has been overwhelmingly positive, including with respect to our expanded size. The additional pages are important as they allow us to include even more news and legal …
Los Angeles Jail Undersheriff Steps Down by PLN's March 2013 cover story detailed a long-standing pattern of abuse and corruption in the nation’s largest jail system, operated by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD). Some of that misconduct was attributed to LASD Undersheriff Paul K. Tanaka, the right-hand man …
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
A ‘Nobody’s’ Legacy: How a Semi-literate Ex-con Changed the Legal System by M. Alex Johnson by M. Alex Johnson and Vidya Rao, NBC News If you've heard of Clarence Earl Gideon at all, it’s probably because of a movie you had to watch in school. He deserves better, though, because …
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
Iowa Pays Almost $500,000 to Fired Parole, Prison Supervisors by Joe Watson Non-union membership in the Hawkeye State apparently has its privileges, at least for parole and prison officials in management positions. Between August 2011 and early 2012, when Iowa’s Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) ruled in their favor, 18 …
California: Thousands of Sex Offenders Remove GPS Monitors by Taking advantage of the lack of available bed space to house parole violators in California jails following the state’s “realignment” initiative, thousands of paroled sex offenders fitted with GPS ankle bracelets have disabled or removed them – with few consequences. Under …
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
Fortresses of Solitude by James Ridgeway Supermax prisons and solitary confinement units are our domestic black sites – hidden places where human beings endure unspeakable punishments, without benefit of due process in any court of law. On the say-so of corrections officials, American prisoners can be placed in conditions of …
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
New York: Provision Requiring Independent Jail Oversight Board Ignored for 23 Years by Joe Watson For more than two decades, the Nassau County Jail in East Meadow, New York has lacked accountability in the form of an oversight board. But that lapse may be coming to an end after prisoner …
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
CDCR Tried to Conceal Report on Prisoner Suicides by A report that linked oppressive conditions in California prisons to preventable prisoner suicides was suppressed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), while the state tried to convince a federal judge that court oversight was no longer needed in …
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
Calls for Better Pregnancy Care in Georgia Jails after Death of Prisoner’s Baby by A lawsuit filed against Clayton County, Georgia and the county’s sheriff, Kem Kimbrough, has prompted human rights organizations and Georgia lawmakers to examine guidelines for the treatment of pregnant women held in jails across the state. …
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
Life on the Inside and Death on the Outside: Complexities in Health Disparities Inside and Outside U.S. Prisons by Evelyn J. Patterson by Evelyn J. Patterson, Ph.D. As a scholar of criminology and demography (the study of how and why populations change), I seek to contribute to the discourse on …
Colorado Pays for Unneeded Private Prison Beds to Subsidize Local Jobs by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Even amid a declining prison population, Colorado is paying million of dollars to private prison contractors for unneeded cells in order to protect the economic base of small, rural communities that have …
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
Seventh Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Case Challenging Conditions in Illinois Jail where Mentally Ill Prisoner Died by David Reutter Seventh Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Case Challenging Conditions in Illinois Jail where Mentally Ill Prisoner Died On March 20, 2012, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court’s grant …
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
Illinois: Scathing Study on Solitary Buried by Politics by Adam Klasfeld by Adam Klasfeld, Courthouse News Reeling from the criticism of its last effort at prison reform, Illinois buried its study of the ineffectiveness of long-term solitary confinement. As Gov. Pat Quinn struggled to hold onto the seat he acquired …
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
Louisiana Public Service Commission Postpones Prison Phone Reforms by Mel Motel After heated hearings and postponement, on December 12, 2012, the Louisiana Public Service Commission (LPSC) voted to lower the cost of phone calls made from Louisiana prisons and jails by cutting the rates of most calls by 25% and …
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