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In-the-News Article • January 1, 2011
the rights of publishers to communicate with prisoners the jail continues to try to defend the indefensible by banning our books and magazines," said Paul Wright, editor of Prison Legal News. A copy ...
In-the-News Article • January 1, 2012
the policy changes effectuated by this case, but by strengthening First Amendment protections for everyone, PLN is serving the interests of the community at large." PLN was represented by attorney ...
In-the-News Article • January 1, 2009
to challenge censorship decisions." "We have made good faith efforts to communicate with the VDOC to resolve these problems," added PLN editor Paul Wright, "but those efforts have been ...
In-the-News Article • January 1, 2009
Communications, 510-847-0599, carl@whitakercom.com Phoenix, AZ – Prison Legal News (PLN), a non-profit monthly publication that reports on criminal justice-related issues, filed suit today in U.S ...
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Filed under: Commissary, Federal Funds
– a sex-offender community notification – was not only an improper expenditure from the commissary fund, the IG said, but also violated the budget the Sheriff’s Office was allowed ...
Article • June 1, 2023
, an unnamed 18-year-old detainee was found dead of an apparent drug overdose at Los Angeles County’s Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall. The California Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC) ordered ...
recommended by the Offender Rehabilitation Coordinator. Following two rape convictions, Leroy Peoples was denied early release from the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS ...
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
industry who claim pretrial reform puts community safety at risk. Over the last three decades, the tough-on-crime movement led to a significant rise in pretrial detention. As a result, PPI reported, &ldquo ...
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
substance offense, Michael Matzell was sentenced to four years in custody of the state Department of Corrections and Community Services (DOCCS) on July 9, 2015, followed by three years of post-release ...
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
on July 27, 2023, to pay six state prisoners whose federal civil rights suit alleged they were sexually assaulted at Women’s Community Correction Center (WCCC) a $2 million settlement—after ...
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Filed under: Editorials
, litigated, investigated and exposed the abuses, corruption and exploitation of the prison phone industry. This has included extensive interactions with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) urging them ...
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
suspended sentence and a $100 fine, plus 10 hours of community service, while Cramer received a year of probation that deferred adjudication of his charges until June 2, 2025. With the aid of Oklahoma City ...
In-the-News Article • January 1, 2008
attorneys from their firms should be discounted. The letter in its opening references a City Paper story on growing Democratic support for Puryear among members of Nashville’s legal community. &amp ...
In-the-News Article • March 23, 2011
and donations. The operator of convictpenpals.com did not respond to an e-mail from The Associated Press. A press release on the site said inmates need communication with the outside world or they're more ...
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Filed under: Editorials
population centers to serve as something of a half assed jobs program for poor, rural white communities; make sure a lot of these prisons are not just in the middle of nowhere but also on abandoned mines ...
alternative conditions such as supervised release, involving monitoring and support from nonprofit agencies in the community. The reforms were designed to prevent jailing people for being too poor to afford ...
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
in 2006, holding that PRS may be imposed only by a court, not by the state Department of Corrections and Community Services (DOCCS). [See: PLN, Apr. 2010, p.46.] In March 2022, the federal court ...
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
;maximize the proximity of incarcerated individuals to their families and communities.” See: Dep’t of Justice Efforts to Ensure that Restrictive Housing in Federal Detention Facilities is Used ...
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
., as well as § 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, 29 U.S.C. § 701 et seq. Under those laws, deaf and hard-of-hearing prisoners are entitled to reasonable accommodations so that they can communicate ...
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Filed under: Public Records Act
reiterated that a prisoner’s “kite”—his communication with staff—is a public record subject to disclosure upon request. Moreover, the Court added, a prisoner may bring a petition ...
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