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KY DOC - Evercom contract amendment 5/2016 #3
Kickback publication • December 6, 2018
Filed under: Telephones
KY DOC - Evercom contract amendment 5/2016 #3 Doc ID No: MA Page 1 758 M-05332599 12 of 5 Commonwealth of Kentucky IMPORTANT MASTER AGREEMENT Show Doc ID number on all packages, invoices and correspondence. Doc Description: Inmate Telephone Service Doc ID No: MA 758 M-05332599 12 Procurement Type: Standard …
KY DOC - Evercom contract amendment 5/2016 #4
Kickback publication • December 6, 2018
Filed under: Telephones
KY DOC - Evercom contract amendment 5/2016 #4 Doc ID No: MA 758 M-05332599 Page: 1 of 5 version 13 Commonwealth of Kentucky MASTER AGREEMENT MODIFICATION Inmate Telephone Service Doc Description: Doc ID No: MA 758 M-05332599 13 Procurement Type: Standard Services 06/01/2006 Effective Date: Issued By: SUSAN NOLAND Telephone: …
KY DOC - Evercom contract amendment 5/2014 #1
Kickback publication • December 6, 2018
Filed under: Telephones
KY DOC - Evercom contract amendment 5/2014 #1 Doc ID No: MA Page 1 758 M-05332599 8 of 5 Commonwealth of Kentucky IMPORTANT MASTER AGREEMENT Show Doc ID number on all packages, invoices and correspondence. Doc Description: Inmate Telephone Service Doc ID No: MA 758 M-05332599 8 Procurement Type: Standard …
KY DOC - Evercom contract amendment 5/2014 #2
Kickback publication • December 6, 2018
Filed under: Telephones
KY DOC - Evercom contract amendment 5/2014 #2 Doc ID No: MA Page 1 758 M-05332599 9 of 5 Commonwealth of Kentucky IMPORTANT MASTER AGREEMENT Show Doc ID number on all packages, invoices and correspondence. Doc Description: Inmate Telephone Service Doc ID No: MA 758 M-05332599 9 Procurement Type: Standard …
KY DOC - Evercom contract extension 2/2013
Kickback publication • December 6, 2018
Filed under: Telephones
KY DOC - Evercom contract extension 2/2013 Doc ID No: MA Page 1 758 M-05332599 6 of 5 Commonwealth of Kentucky IMPORTANT MASTER AGREEMENT Show Doc ID number on all packages, invoices and correspondence. Doc Description: Inmate Telephone Service Doc ID No: MA 758 M-05332599 6 Procurement Type: Standard Services …
Dismissal of Pro Se Prisoner’s Sexual Assault, Excessive Force Case Reversed
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Guard Brutality/Beatings
Dismissal of Pro Se Prisoner’s Sexual Assault, Excessive Force Case Reversed by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss The Third Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated a lawsuit filed by Pennsylvania state prisoner Gregory L. Ricks against Paul Keil and D. Shover, guards at SCI Graterford, after his case was dismissed by …
Prison Systems Solve Bed Space Problems by Using Out-of-State Facilities
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Filed under: Out of State Transfers, Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Overcrowding
Prison Systems Solve Bed Space Problems by Using Out-of-State Facilities by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Several state prison systems are facing a dilemma: too many prisoners and not enough beds. An increasingly popular solution to this problem is to transfer prisoners to facilities in other states, sometimes thousands of …
Long-Term Segregation Can Establish Imminent Danger of Serious Physical Injury for PLRA Purposes
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Filed under: Eighth Amendment, Physical Injury Rule, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness)
Long-Term Segregation Can Establish Imminent Danger of Serious Physical Injury for PLRA Purposes by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a mentally ill prisoner who spent 11 years in solitary confinement and had a history of attempted self-harm could plausibly allege that …
Wealthy? Upgrade to a First Class Criminal Justice Experience!
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Filed under: Prisoner Privileges, Money/Property, Booking Fees
Wealthy? Upgrade to a First Class Criminal Justice Experience! by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis They say money can’t buy happiness, and more money just leads to more problems. But when it comes to the criminal justice system, wealth can get an accused murderer out on bail, a celebrity a …
Mentally Ill Wisconsin Prisoners Held in Solitary Improperly Reclassified
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Filed under: Classification, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Mental Health, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness)
Mentally Ill Wisconsin Prisoners Held in Solitary Improperly Reclassified by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon The Wisconsin Department of Corrections has employed a unique method to reduce the number of seriously mentally ill prisoners being housed in solitary confinement: Their mental health classification competency levels were administratively changed without an …
New York City Council Passes Ordinance to Make All Jail Phone Calls Free
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Filed under: Telephone Rates
New York City Council Passes Ordinance to Make All Jail Phone Calls Free by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna On July 18, 2018 the New York City Council passed Introduction No. 741-A, which ended the practice of telecom companies profiting from providing phone services for prisoners at inflated rates. Instead, …
Federal Judge Orders Washington Prison Officials to Properly Feed Ramadan Participants
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Filed under: Religious Discrimination, Food, Religious Diet, Denial of Religious Services, Religious Practices
Federal Judge Orders Washington Prison Officials to Properly Feed Ramadan Participants by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis In what could be the fastest injunction ever granted in a prison-related case, U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Leighton issued a temporary retraining order in favor of Muslim prisoners mere hours after they …
Under “In-House Parole,” New Mexico Prisoners Remain in Prison
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Filed under: Statistics/Trends, Release and Reentry, Parole, Parole Conditions, Overdetention, halfway houses
Under “In-House Parole,” New Mexico Prisoners Remain in Prison by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Parole is generally defined as conditional release from prison before a sentence has expired. But in New Mexico, every month dozens of “release-eligible” offenders join a pool of paroled state prisoners who nevertheless remain incarcerated. …
Former Prisoner, Jailhouse Lawyer Mujahid Farid Has Died
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Filed under: Geriatric Classification, Eulogies, Prison Reform, Criminal justice system reform
Former Prisoner, Jailhouse Lawyer Mujahid Farid Has Died by Laura Whitehorn by Laura Whitehorn This issue of Prison Legal News is dedicated to Mujahid Farid. Farid, 69, who died of cancer on November 20, 2018 in the Bronx, New York, often said he was only one of many people who …
Military-Style Attack on Brazilian Prison Kills 20 Prisoners, One Guard
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Filed under: Prison Rebellion, Prison/Jail Murders, Escapes
Military-Style Attack on Brazilian Prison Kills 20 Prisoners, One Guard by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin On April 10, 2018, a group of gunmen attacked the Santa Izabel Prison Complex near the northern Brazilian city of Belem. The state security service said 21 people were killed in the military-style assault …
Report on Capital Punishment in Pennsylvania Released; Moratorium Continues
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Filed under: Statistics/Trends, Sentencing, Death Penalty
Report on Capital Punishment in Pennsylvania Released; Moratorium Continues by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss In June 2018, a death penalty task force commissioned by Pennsylvania’s General Assembly in 2012 finally released its report. Finding that neither judicial economy nor fairness is served – because 97 percent of all …
Suicides Increasing in Massachusetts Prisons and Jails
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Filed under: Statistics/Trends, Suicides
Suicides Increasing in Massachusetts Prisons and Jails by In April 2017, former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez hanged himself in his cell at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, Massachusetts. His death focused the attention of state authorities, and the public, on the problem of prisoner suicides. Bristol …
Ohio Prison Officials Announce Measures to Prevent Another Transport Bus Murder
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Filed under: Prison/Jail Murders, Transportation
Ohio Prison Officials Announce Measures to Prevent Another Transport Bus Murder by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 8, 2018, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) announced new measures to prevent another murder from occurring on its transport buses. Those measures included replacing a “significant number” of …
Louisiana’s Rejection of $3.5 Million Prison Tracking Software to be Reconsidered
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Filed under: Corrections Audits, Databases
Louisiana’s Rejection of $3.5 Million Prison Tracking Software to be Reconsidered by R. Bailey by R. Bailey An audit recommended replacing outdated data management software used by Louisiana’s prison system with a previously-rejected upgrade, if the new system could be salvaged. The upgrade would help implement the Justice Reinvestment Act …
$17 Million Payout for Yet Another Wrongful Conviction in Chicago
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Filed under: Police Misconduct, Wrongful Conviction
$17 Million Payout for Yet Another Wrongful Conviction in Chicago by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis On June 29, 2018, a federal jury awarded over $17 million to a Chicago man who spent 21 years in a maximum-security prison for a murder he did not commit. Jacques Rivera, now 52, …
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