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Article • May 1, 2023 • from PLN May, 2023
off a GPS tracking device. She was serving a five-year probated sentence handed down in September 2022, along with an order to pay restitution and complete 200 hours of community service.  Earlier ...
Article • May 1, 2023 • from PLN May, 2023
a suit challenging the ban. TDCJ allows two types of communal religious services. Of the 10 recognized religious groups – Catholic, Non-Roman Catholic Christian, Islamic, Sabbatarian, Jewish, Native ...
Article • May 1, 2023 • from PLN May, 2023
Filed under: Credits
) to house low-level offenders in county jails as opposed to prison, in order to provide them with access to community-based programs and to improve public safety. NCJ, where he was held, had opted out ...
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Filed under: Malpractice, State Actions
of Appeals refused to hold officials with the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) liable for malpractice committed on a state prisoner by Dr. Jun Wang. Why? Because Wang ...
/criminal activity.” The lawsuit further contended that Defendants used “their control of the mailroom to stop inmates [from] communicating complaints and grievances about prison conditions ...
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
for the Second Circuit affirmed the grant of summary judgment to Defendant officials with New York’s Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) in a state prisoner’s civil rights ...
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Commissioner John Hamm proposed creating a 15-member Family Services Unit at each of the state’s 14 major prisons tasked with facilitating communication to prisoners’ families, including death ...
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Filed under: Editorials
justice system remains to be seen. In a bizarre sense of déjà vu all over again, the Federal Communications Commission recently issued new regulations against the prison phone industry. Just ...
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
to community supervision by the state Department of Corrections (DOC). Blaylock, who is mentally ill, was living in transitional housing with 10 others on February 1, 2021, when he had a verbal altercation ...
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
in North Carolina have censored HRDC’s communications,” Meltzer said. “This settlement will bring that practice to an end and allow HRDC to continue—without interference—its ...
judge and prosecutor, and the views “of the community, victims of the crime or their families, institutional staff, Probation/Parole officers, or other interested parties,” as laid out ...
censorship case at Arkansas’ Baxter County Jail, where a federal district court had determined that HRDC was unconstitutionally hindered in its efforts to communicate with and educate detainees ...
In-the-News Article • June 10, 2014
. As long as private companies are running the system we will continue to see these problems. Incarceration is not a business, and we refuse to allow the FDJJ to give companies license to harm our communities ...
In-the-News Article • January 1, 2013
email, and phone calls are ridiculously expensive, so all you can communicate with is a postcard.” Prison Legal News was started by Wright in the 1990s from his jail cell in Washington state ...
In-the-News Article • January 1, 2014
. ‘The reality is, public safety-wise, we're shooting ourselves in the foot if we cut jail inmates off from a reasonable means of communications,’ he added. The county jail ...
force but did not intervene. As his complaint said, they “ignored Smith and left him to suffer.” In April 2020, after communicating with Regional Counsel for the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP ...
County found that the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) routinely violated Correctional Law § 137(6)(k)(ii), the Humane Alternatives to Long-Term Solitary ...
In-the-News Article • January 1, 2007
orders and respect the constitutional rights of prisoners in their custody and of publishers who wish to communicate with them," said PLN Associate Editor Alex Friedmann. "Sadly ...
In-the-News Article • January 1, 2010
that these policies and practices infringed on its First Amendment right to communicate with and distribute reading material to Virginia prisoners, and prevented PLN from challenging censorship decisions. To settle ...
In-the-News Article • January 1, 2010
for prisoners and prisoner advocates seeking to understand the rights guaranteed to prisoners by law and how to protect those rights. "We have a clear First Amendment right to communicate with the detainees ...
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