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Article • September 15, 2009 • from PLN September, 2009
Health Care Services would consistently apply proper contracting procedures in making future IT acquisitions. Then, in what may prove to be a concession to the ultimate inevitability of business-as-usual ...
wanting to blow things up – all relating to what had upset the guards about Miranda.” Miranda was finally able to get to his cell, but Healey did not unlock his door to be closed as requested. Kell entered ...
Article • August 15, 2009 • from PLN August, 2009
an article which reported what percentage of Texas prisoners who were receiving Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) for HIV while in prison accessed ART drugs after release. The article showed that only half ...
Article • September 15, 2009 • from PLN September, 2009
, the uneducated, men and women of color. What King gives the reader is not a lecture but a seasoned account. It is a picture of racism, guard beatings, corruption, torture, favors, snitches, and inhumane living ...
Article • November 15, 2009 • from PLN November, 2009
laws. What began with Megan’s Law in New Jersey as an effort to provide local communities with information about sex of-fenders in order to protect potential victims has become, in the words ...
Article • November 15, 2009 • from PLN November, 2009
no explanation as to why PLN’s coverage of criminal justice issues is considered detrimental to security or rehabilitation, or casts law enforcement in a negative light. “The news is what it is,” said PLN editor ...
Article • October 15, 2009
unanswered. Several hours later he was taken to a probable cause hearing that was conducted by closed-circuit television. Robertson advised the guard that he was unable to hear what was going on, but she did ...
Article • October 15, 2009
disagreed, calling such action “premature.” It found that the plaintiffs had done what was required by asserting grounds for their entitlement to relief by presenting factual allegations sufficient to raise ...
Linda Walker, Sjodin’s mother. “What we really wanted was something in writing from the state, ‘I’m sorry, we were wrong.’ That’s an important part of the healing on our part.” Because Rodriguez took ...
to the district court. In sum, the Fifth Circuit affirmed the lower court’s ruling with minor changes. Misconduct by government lawyers representing prison officials is all too common; what is unusual ...
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
legislation. What is clear is that when the legislation was being considered and voted upon, Jim Black was House Speaker; he had been a ten-term lawmaker and House Speaker for a record-setting eight years ...
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
). The court determined that White’s “actual injury” was his loss of another § 1983 complaint he had filed. Iowa appealed. The Eighth Circuit reviewed just what legal access is guaranteed. It found that while ...
Article • August 15, 2008
on six occasions. When arrested, a search of his vehicle yielded computer-derived instructions on what to do if arrested for child molestation. He received one year in county jail plus five years probation ...
Article • September 15, 2008 • from PLN September, 2008
. The study must be completed by September 30, 2008, and the Board of Commissioners will then vote as to what, if any, actions should be taken based on the study’s findings. The settlement did not include ...
Beach County Jail has revealed that top-ranked officials used their positions to obtain fraudulent overtime payments. What started as an internal investigation into a deputy’s complaint has morphed ...
Article • February 15, 2009 • from PLN February, 2009
contract costs. In response, GAO agreed that contract costs might increase by requiring the collection of comparable data. However, there was no way to tell, GAO concluded, what those costs were, or whether ...
despite his pleas for medical care. Franklin vomited in the presence of LASD deputies five times; one “poorly trained” deputy laughed and asked what drug he was taking. Franklin was unable to call his ...
. Prison doctors treated him for what they assumed was a back injury. Over the next two years, Jackson suffered from various symptoms that included pain and spasms in his back, polyps in his sinuses, pain ...
used and relatively precise.” Moreover, it was “beyond dispute that what he possessed was both an instrument and sharp.” By the same logic, the appellate court rejected Hutchins’ argument ...
Article • March 15, 2009
population was six times what it had been in 1972. Contrary to popular belief, the growing prison population has little or nothing to do with an increase in crime. In fact, crime rates fell steadily between ...
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