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Kickback publication • October 11, 2018
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
Nevada Rates March 2016 10/11/2018 Inmate Phone Rates and Fees | Nevada Department of Corrections RATES AND FEES Inmate telephone charges and rates for Nevada Department of Corrections The Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC) provides inmate phone services to inmates through a contract with CenturyLink. Commissions received from the inmate …
Kickback publication • October 11, 2018
Michigan Rates February 2014 10/11/2018 CORRECTIONS - Telephone Calls with Prisoners - The Complete Guide Contact MDOC FAQs MDOC Home MI.gov CORRECTIONS / FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Telephone Calls with Prisoners - The Complete Guide NOTICE TO PRISONERS, FAMILY MEMBERS AND FRIENDS WARNING: Regarding Telephone Service Providers The Michigan Department of …
Kickback publication • October 11, 2018
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
Arizona Rates March 2016 Notification Number: ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS 09-16 INMATE NOTIFICATION Issue Date: MARCH 17, 2016 POSTING NOTIFICATION This information is to be posted for a minimum of 30 days in areas accessible to inmates and shall be made available to inmates who do not have access to …
Howard v. City and County of Denver, CO, Complaint, Bond Fee, 2018 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO Civil Action No. 18-cv-02593 MICKEY HOWARD Plaintiff, v. THE CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, COLORADO Defendant. ______________________________________________________________________________ COMPLAINT AND JURY DEMAND ______________________________________________________________________________ Plaintiff Mickey Howard, by and …
Sandoval v. County of Santa Clara, CA, Amended Complaint, Unlawful Arrest & False Charges, 2018 Case 5:18-cv-05464-NC Document 13 Filed 10/10/18 Page 1 of 53 5 ROBERT R. POWELL, SBN 159747 SARAH E. MARINHO, SBN 293690 POWELL & ASSOCIATES 925 West Hedding Street San Jose, California 95126 (408) 553-0201 Telephone …
Article • October 9, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Filed under: Food
Formerly Incarcerated Chef Plans to Revolutionize Ramen by Steve Horn by Steve Horn When Ron Freeman was released from prison in 1998, he returned to doing the two things he enjoyed the most: cooking and eating. He decided, after being incarcerated for nearly three years for drug possession at the …
Article • October 9, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Kentucky Law Requiring Abused Spouse to Pay for Abuser’s Divorce Attorney Abolished by The Kentucky legislature has closed a loophole in a statute that required a victim of domestic violence to pay the cost of an attorney for their incarcerated abuser when seeking a divorce. Kentucky law requires a person …
Article • October 9, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Fifth Circuit Upholds Convictions of Louisiana Jail Staff for Failing to Stop Abuse by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke In February 2018, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a former Louisiana jail lieutenant’s conviction for depriving a prisoner of his civil rights under color of state law in violation …
Article • October 9, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
North Carolina Fined $190,000 for Mismanagement of Prescription Medication by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin On July 11, 2018, Robert Higdon, Jr., the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announced that a $190,000 settlement had been reached with the state’s prison system over its failure to properly …
Article • October 9, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Arizona: Lawsuit Spurs Significant Reforms for Death Row Prisoners by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna A federal lawsuit that settled in March 2017 resulted in the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) drastically improving conditions of confinement for death row prisoners. Pursuant to the settlement, most of the state’s 120 condemned …
Article • October 9, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Oregon County Pays $2.85 Million for Dehydration Death of Mentally Ill Jail Prisoner by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Lincoln County, Oregon agreed to pay $2.85 million to settle a wrongful death suit filed by the family of a 55-year-old mentally ill prisoner who died of dehydration at the county …
Article • October 9, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Filed under: Parole
Black Liberation Army Members Convicted of Murdering Cops Granted Parole by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Herman Bell served 46 years behind bars in New York. The 70-year-old was convicted of the 1971 murders of two NYPD officers, and received a sentence of 25 years to life. Denied parole on …
Article • October 9, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Editorial: The Case Against Florida’s Amendment 4 on Felon Voting Rights by Paul Wright by Paul Wright Florida leads the nation with over 1 million citizens disenfranchised and unable to vote due to felony convictions. The path to having their voting rights restored is long and difficult, and has been …
Article • October 9, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Private Prison Company Pays to Play; Federal Election Commission Fails to Act by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis GEO Group, one of the nation’s largest for-profit prison companies, donated $225,000 to the pro-Trump Super PAC Rebuilding America Now during the 2016 election cycle. Within a few months after President Trump’s …
Article • October 9, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
The Big Business of Prisoner Care Packages: Inside the Booming Market for Food in Pouches by Taylor Elizabeth Eldridge by Taylor Elizabeth Eldridge, The Marshall Project Ed. Note: PLN’s August 2018 cover story examined prison food and commissary services. This article looks at prison and jail package services supplied by private vendors …
Solitary Confinement Reforms Sweeping the Nation but Still Not Enough by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Solitary confinement is “worse than any torment of the body” – so said famous British author Charles Dickens. French historian Alexis de Tocqueville, who toured American prisons in 1831, added that solitary “devours the …
Article • October 9, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright In 1992, the Washington Department of Corrections signed its first prison phone contract with AT&T that required the company to give the DOC a “commission” kickback in exchange for the monopoly contract. Previously, AT&T provided phone services to the DOC with …
Article • October 9, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Filed under: Visiting, Video Visitation
Advocacy Groups Call for End to Ban on In-person Visits at Tennessee Jail by A recent report on a ban on in-person visitation at the jail in Knox County, Tennessee concluded that the ban “makes the jail more dangerous, does nothing to stop the flow of contraband, and strips money …
Article • October 9, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alaska: On January 17, 2018, a 43-man riot flared and quickly dissipated on the yard of the maximum-security Spring Creek Correctional Center, leaving five prisoners with injuries and resulting in a facility-wide lockdown. Alaska Department of Corrections spokeswoman Megan Edge said guards deployed pepper spray when …
Filing • October 9, 2018
Filed under: PLN Litigation, Censorship
HRDC v. BOCC of the Co. of Santa Fe, et al., NM, Settlement, censorship, 2018
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