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by a paroled prison gang member, CDOC and its parole officers have been blasted for egregiously neglecting to prepare offenders for re-entry and failing to adequately monitor and support approximately 9,200 ...
justice reform. This has been and will continue to be an ongoing story. The problems of abysmal prison conditions, overcrowding, lack of basic medical care and inadequate mental health treatment, among ...
are typically “shelter, health care, and personal security,” according to Inmates of Occoquan v. Barry, 844 F.2d 828 (D.C. Cir. 1988). The court allowed the plaintiffs’ retaliation claims to proceed, noting ...
Article • August 2, 2016 • from PLN August, 2016
Filed under: Smoking, Eighth Amendment
in pulmonary deaths compared to prisons without bans. These findings suggest that smoking bans have had significant health benefits for prisoners, even though many resume smoking following their release from ...
Article • March 1, 2016 • from PLN March, 2016
; their private concerns about family relationships, health problems, and financial issues, among other things,” Doug Bonney, Legal Director of the ACLU Foundation of Kansas, said when the suit was filed ...
Article • October 10, 2014 • from PLN October, 2014
on Crime, spoke about what Texas has done to reduce its prison population through criminal justice reforms – although Texas presently has the largest state prison population in the nation. Levin ...
Article • August 15, 2011
with feces and told guards he had been eating his own excrement. Staff repeatedly took his mattress, clothing and other property. The only mental health counseling he received was monthly cell-front visits ...
Article • August 15, 2013 • from PLN August, 2013
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
homicide. "It's wonderful driving down the road and not seeing any barbed wire," Smithey said following her release. "I am lucky, so very lucky." [See: PLN, Dec. 2012, p.50]. However, other prisoners who ...
, the lack of adequate staff almost resulted in the facility losing its operating licenses, as there weren’t enough employees to unlock doors, take patients to showers or help disabled prisoners move ...
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
Anniversary Edition, 1992, page 411]. Against that background, we note that each year the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) dutifully publishes an “Annual Determination of Average Cost of Incarceration,” and its ...
Article • August 4, 2015
Filed under: Editorials, Prison Reform
relief but have negative consequences for their health. However, in the long-run many of these men decided to regain a sense of agency by educating themselves using formal and informal methods, along ...
Article • June 5, 2019 • from PLN June, 2019
held a press conference in late January 2019, claiming that court-ordered reforms in the county’s jail system had caused an increase in violence among its 18,000 prisoners &ndash ...
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Filed under: Transportation, Settlements
. Casias became ill on the way to the next facility, dry-heaving phlegm because he was so dehydrated.  Medical staff were waiting for the van at its next stop. Gonzales and Morgan forbade the prisoners ...
Brief • 2009
officer. Due to health complications, Plaintiff has been taking Norco as prescribed by his physician. COMPLAINT AND DEMAND FOR JURY TRIAL- 2 Case 1:09-cv-00671-EJL-CWD Document 1 Filed 12/22/09 Page 3 ...
Article • March 15, 2010 • from PLN March, 2010
to come up with a plan to reduce the state’s prison population – currently standing at 167,000 – by more than 40,000 prisoners within two years. The panel, which based its decision on unconstitutional ...
entered by a three-judge federal district court panel in California that would relieve overcrowding in that state’s prison system by requiring a reduction in its 172,000 prisoner population by 46,000 over ...
In-the-News Article • January 1, 2008
on Tuesday that CCA must abide by the state's public records laws. Nationwide, CCA has been under scrutiny for its treatment of prisoners. Since Richardson's death, the nation's largest for profit ...
Brief • June 2, 2011
stands to gain no commercial benefit. His requests for contracts the Defendant had relating to health services, commissary and photocopier charges sought only to advance the welfare of inmates generally ...
Brief • August 1, 2012
with the State of California Division of 0CCl!patlonal Safety and Health (Gal/OSHA), the Angel~ County Sl1eriffs Department Implemented a number of new; safety-related policies and procedures/protocols designed ...
Article • June 15, 1998 • from PLN June, 1998
of a cynical system that protects the perpetrators, not the victims." "The settlement," said Bien, "achieves plaintiffs' major goals: The BOP has agreed to remedy the serious deficiencies in its policies ...
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