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Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
Planned GEO Prison in Adelanto, California Faces Sewage Hurdles by In January 2011, the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board called for a cease and desist order to prevent the City of Adelanto, California from establishing any new sewer connections. The board said that Adelanto’s water utility authority had created …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
Filed under: Sentencing
Drug Courts Need an Intervention, Reports Say by Joe Watson Drug courts in the U.S. are increasingly like the people they purportedly aim to help – indulging their pathological tendencies with enabling self-talk that ignores the harsh reality of their failings. So argues the New York-based Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) …
$1 Million Settlement in Texas Wrongful Conviction Suit by On March 31, 2011, a man who had been falsely convicted of burglary, rape and sexual abuse accepted a $1 million settlement after being exonerated by DNA evidence. Donald Wayne Good filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil rights suit in …
Report Highlights Dual Loyalties in Immigration Detention Health Care by A recent report by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) focuses on the “dual loyalties” that medical professionals face when providing health care to detainees in the U.S. immigration system. The March 28, 2011 report highlights the conflicts that arise when …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
CMS Nurses Disciplined in Kentucky Prisoner’s Death by The Kentucky Board of Nursing has disciplined two nurses who were on duty when a prisoner died one day after he was booked into the Fayette County Jail. Prisoner Dean Ferguson, 54, died of a pulmonary embolism on July 10, 2010 after …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
Recording of Nashville, Tennessee Jail Prisoners’ Attorney Calls Criticized by In February 2011 it was revealed that the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office in Nashville, Tennessee had recorded approximately 300 phone calls between jail prisoners and their lawyers, then gave the recordings to federal prosecutors. The calls were recorded despite the …
Class-Action Lawsuit Filed Over Sexual Abuse of Female Detainees at CCA Facility in Texas by A guard at a privately-run immigration detention facility in Texas has pleaded guilty to sexually molesting numerous female immigration detainees while they were being transported to the bus station or airport for release. The facility, …
New York’s Sex Offender Civil Commitment Program Proves Expensive, Problematic by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke At an annual cost of $175,000 per civilly-committed sex offender, New York’s civil commitment program is the second most expensive in the country (Washington state is first at a cost of $177,000 per prisoner). …
Article • November 15, 2011 • from PLN November, 2011
From the Editor by Paul Wright In April 1990, the month before PLN published its first issue, Washington state enacted the nation’s first civil commitment law targeting sex offenders for indefinite imprisonment once they had completed their criminal sentences. Our results-oriented judiciary has upheld civil commitment against assorted legal challenges, …
Article • November 15, 2011
Traffic Tickets Lead to Kansas Jail Reform by The U.S. District Court of Kansas determined that the totality of conditions at the Sedgwick County Jail violated detainee’s Constitutional rights. Sedgwick County Jail was built in the early 1950s, and was designed to hold a maximum of 135 prisoners. The number …
Article • November 15, 2011
$200,000 Jury Award in Illinois False Arrest, Malicious Prosecution Suit by An Illinois state jury awarded $200,000 in a malicious prosecution suit brought by Rodolfo Rivera. While he was at a social gathering around midnight on June 24, 2006, other people arrived in the area looking for trouble. Someone called …
Article • November 15, 2011
Vermont Sex Offenders May Not Challenge DOC Programming Decisions by Vermont prisoners may not challenge sex offender programming requirements, the Vermont Supreme Court decided on July 1, 2011. Allen Rheaume, a sex offender serving a life sentence, sought review of the Vermont Department of Corrections (DOC) decision to classify him …
Article • November 15, 2011 • from PLN November, 2011
Pennsylvania Councilman Takes Private Prison Company’s Donation, then Opposes Detention Center by A $3,000 campaign contribution from private prison firm GEO Group has put a spotlight on a county councilman in Pennsylvania. The contribution was made only days after Ron Angle, president of the Northampton County Council, urged his colleagues …
Article • November 15, 2011 • from PLN November, 2011
“Public Concern” Test Does Not Apply to Prisoner Retaliation Claims; Speech Must be Consistent with Status as a Prisoner by Brandon Sample The “public concern” test does not apply to prisoner claims of retaliation, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held on March 31, 2010. Nonetheless, to …
Article • November 15, 2011 • from PLN November, 2011
Prospect of Prison Rape Used to Deter DUIs in South Africa by Brandon Sample A South African ad campaign intended to prevent drinking and driving has garnered the ire of human rights groups. The ads – the idea of Brandhouse Beverages – show a group of men talking about the …
Article • November 15, 2011 • from PLN November, 2011
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
Washington Community Custody Violators Entitled to Time Served by The Washington State Court of Appeals has held that prisoners are entitled to credit for all time spent in custody on alleged community custody violations. On June 30, 2003, Anthony Bakari Louis Bovan was sentenced to 73.5 months in prison and …
Article • November 15, 2011 • from PLN November, 2011
Filed under: Sentencing, Good Time
Second Circuit Holds BOP Correct in Not Granting Good Conduct Credits for Time Spent in State Custody by Brandon Sample On March 26, 2010, U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Holwell granted a habeas corpus petition filed by a federal prisoner challenging the refusal of the federal Bureau of Prisons …
Article • November 15, 2011 • from PLN November, 2011
Incarceration Alone Insufficient to Terminate Parental Rights in Michigan by In addition to finding that a lower court committed legal errors in terminating a prisoner’s parental rights, the Michigan Supreme Court held that incarceration alone is not a sufficient reason for termination of parental rights. While serving a prison sentence …
Article • November 15, 2011 • from PLN November, 2011
Does Less Punishment Mean Less Crime? by The fiscal crisis facing virtually all state governments has brought to the forefront of public debate the following question: When do longer prison sentences and harsher punishment become counter-productive? Has the clock finally run out after four decades during which politicians at all …
Article • November 15, 2011 • from PLN November, 2011
BOP Evidence-Handling “Grave Miscarriage of Justice”; Charges Dismissed by Federal Judge by On March 18, 2011, a federal judge in Oregon dismissed criminal charges against a federal prisoner due to mishandling of evidence by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP). In August 2009, BOP prisoner Jose Sanchez-Arce, 32, and another …
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