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Article • May 15, 2011 • from PLN May, 2011
Colorado Officials Lead Efforts to Modernize Afghan Prisons by Derek Gilna Bill Zalman is the leader of a team of prison officials from Colorado that has been tapped to help train the wardens of Afghanistan’s prisons in modern correctional practices. The head of the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law …
WA DOC Employee’s Federal Maritime Claims Not Precluded by State Law by The Court of Appeals for the State of Washington, Division II, has reversed and remanded a Department of Corrections (DOC) employee’s federal maritime claim against the DOC. One day while Scott Maziar was riding the ferry home from …
Court Orders ICE to Produce Metadata in Responding to FOIA Request by U.S. District Judge Shire A. Scheindlin has ordered the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) to turn over thousands of documents and emails in electronic format. The plaintiffs, immigration rights organizations, sought records from ICE concerning its …
Article • April 15, 2011
ICE Settles Deliberate Indifference Lawsuit for $47,500 by The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) paid $47,500 to settle a lawsuit alleging deliberate indifference to a detainee’s medical needs. A Haitian woman, identified only as “Rosemarie M.” in court documents, had suffered daily bleeding for months in the summer …
Prisoners’ Human Rights by Corey Weinstein by Corey Weinstein, MD It was a little more than sixty years ago that the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). For the first time in history, governments from around the world declared that …
Controversial Drug Given to All Guantanamo Detainees Akin to “Pharmacologic Waterboarding” by by Jason Leopold and Jeffrey Kaye The Defense Department forced all “war on terror” detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison to take a high dosage of a controversial antimalarial drug, mefloquine, an act that an Army public health …
U.K. Terrorism Suspects May Challenge Extradition Based on U.S. Prison Conditions by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 8, 2010, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, France held that four suspects being detained in the United Kingdom pending extradition to the United States on terrorism charges …
Article • April 15, 2011
Ohio Sheriff Agrees to Pay $100,000 After Illegal Immigration Raid by Richard Jones, the Sherriff of Butler County, Ohio has agreed to settle a civil rights lawsuit surrounding an immigration raid conducted by his deputies in 2007. Luis Roberto Rodriguez Trevino, an undocumented Mexican national, was doing construction work in …
Hernandez- Rojas v. USA, CA, Order App of Guardian ad Litem, detainee death Homeland Security, 2011 Case 3:11-cv-00522-L -NLS Document 7 Filed 03/24/11 Page 1 of 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 ) ) ) ) ) …
Study: CIA Doctors ‘Gave Green Light to Torture’ by Muriel Kane A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reveals that physicians with the CIA’s Office of Medical Services (OMS) played an even greater role in facilitating the torture of detainees than was previously recognized. As …
Is Operation Streamline a Billion Dollar Give-away to the Private Prison Industry? by Bob Libal A new “green paper” released on July 19, 2010, entitled Operation Streamline: Drowning Justice and Draining Dollars along the Rio Grande, takes a look at the impact of Operation Streamline on the private prison industry. …
Physicians for Human Rights: CIA Performed Illegal Medical Experiments While Torturing Prisoners by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke According to a report released by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) in June 2010, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) performed illegal non-consensual human medical experiments on high-value terrorism detainees in connection with …
Article • February 15, 2011 • from PLN February, 2011
Kenyan Prisoners Allowed to Vote in Constitutional Referendum by When Kenya was torn apart by bloody civil strife following contested national elections in December 2007, it was not apparent that the political chaos could lead to the reform of prisoners’ voting rights. Yet that is exactly what happened. To end …
Article • February 15, 2011 • from PLN February, 2011
Homeland Security Inspector General’s Report Finds Additional Controls Needed to Ensure Prisoners’ Access to Phones at ICE Facilities by A report issued by the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as part of an audit to determine whether Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials are …
Article • January 15, 2011 • from PLN January, 2011
Filed under: International, Immigration
Federal Rapid REPAT Program Not Working in Rhode Island by Derek Gilna A federally-funded program designed to help states remove illegal immigrants held in state prison systems if they agree to immediate deportation from the U.S. has had no impact in Rhode Island, according to Steve Brown, executive director of …
Brief • November 19, 2010
Galarza v. Szalczyk, PA, Complaint, ICE Detention US Citizen, 2010 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA ERNESTO GALARZA, CIVIL ACTION Plaintiff, No. 10-_ _ _ __ v. MARK SZALCZYK, STEPHANIE FRITZGES, ICE DOES 1-5, ALLENTOWN DOES 6-10, LEHIGH COUNTY DOES 11-15, individually and in …
Private Prison Companies Behind the Scenes of Arizona’s Immigration Law by Beau Hodai “Beside my brothers and my sisters, I’ll proudly take a stand. When liberty’s in jeopardy, I’ll always do what’s right. I’m out here on the frontline, sleep in peace tonight. American soldier, I’m an American soldier...” So …
Did Haitian Police Murder Over a Dozen Unarmed Prisoners? by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On January 12, 2010, Haiti suffered a major earthquake that killed more than 230,000 people and, as a side effect, allowed thousands of prisoners to escape from the country’s most secure lock-up, the national penitentiary …
Article • November 15, 2010 • from PLN November, 2010
Filed under: International, Immigration
Native American Firms Reap Large Profits from Immigrant Detention Contracts by Derek Gilna Native American companies, many of which have no experience in prison management, are earning large sums of money as conduits for Department of Homeland Security contracts which are then subcontracted out to other firms. Although apparently legal …
Article • November 15, 2010 • from PLN November, 2010
Texas Democrat Politicians Keep Private Prison Consulting in the Family by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In 2003 and 2004, Texas state Senator Eddie Lucio, Jr. (D) was a consultant for Management & Training Corporation, a private prison firm, and Corplan Corrections, a prison design and development company. Now his …
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