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Deconstructing Gus: A Former CCA Prisoner Takes On, and Takes Down, CCA’s Top Lawyer by Paul Wright by Paul Wright, et al. On June 13, 2007, former President Bush nominated Gustavus A. Puryear IV, 40, for a lifetime appointment to the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. …
GEO Cancels Contract at Pennsylvania Jail, Looks Elsewhere for Business by David Reutter GEO Cancels Contract at Pennsylvania Jail, Looks Elsewhere for Business by David M. Reutter GEO Group, Inc. (formerly known as Wackenhut Corrections), the second-largest private prison company in the nation, has operated the jail in Delaware County, …
Article • March 15, 2009 • from PLN March, 2009
$295,000 Award to Wisconsin Prisoner in Moldy Mattress Case Reduced by Court by On September 17, 2008, a Wisconsin federal jury awarded a prisoner $295,000 for violation of his constitutional rights. Specifically, the jury found that state prisoner Reggie Townsend was “denied the minimal civilized measure of life’s necessities.” After …
Widespread Corruption in Private Halfway Houses by Derick Limberg by Derek S. Limburg Privately-operated halfway houses across the nation have become embroiled in scandals and mismanagement. The wrongdoing stretches from the top to the bottom, from former politicians and corrections commissioners to staff and prisoners. Reports surfaced in June 2008 …
Selling Segregation by Josh Rushing US high-security prisons are a big export, but critics doubt their success. Conflict has long been a source of misery for innocent people around the world. But it has equally long been a source of profit for big business. The Sofex exposition in Amman, Jordan, …
Article • March 15, 2009 • from PLN March, 2009
Filed under: Organizing, Voting
Reverend Sues, Wins Right to Register Alabama Prisoners to Vote by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Alabama Dept. of Corrections (ADOC) has agreed to let Reverend Kenneth Glasgow enter state prisons to register prisoners to vote. The settlement agreement came after the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed …
Former Illinois Prison Director Convicted and Fined by Former Director of the Illinois Department of Corrections Donald Snyder was sentenced, on July 30, 2008, to two years in federal prison for accepting $50,000 in bribes from lobbyists. Snyder tried to minimize the damage by admitting his guilt and turning state’s …
Article • February 15, 2009
$11,000 Settlement For Failure To Treat Federal Prisoner's Hepatitis "C" Virus by Illinois federal prisoner Louis Sheptin brought a combined federal tort and Bivens action against the United States in 2000 for the failure to treat and disclose to him that he was infected with Hepatitis "C." The $10 million …
Corruption in Orange County, CA Sheriff’s Department Revealed; Sheriff Resigns, Convicted on Criminal Charges by Marvin Mentor Corruption in Orange County, CA Sheriff’s Department Revealed; Sheriff Resigns, Convicted on Criminal Charges by Marvin Mentor Former Orange County, California Sheriff Michael S. Carona and many of his staff at the Theo …
Article • January 15, 2009 • from PLN January, 2009
115,000 Florida Ex-Felons Have Civil Rights Restored Under New Rules by Changes to Florida’s rules for restoration of civil rights were made in April 2007; since that time, 115,232 former felons have had their rights to vote, serve on juries, run for office, and obtain various business licenses restored. That …
Article • January 15, 2009 • from PLN January, 2009
Demonstrators Supporting Guantanamo Prisoners in Front of U.S. Supreme Court Found Guilty of Unlawful Assembly by Demonstrators Supporting Guantanamo Prisoners in Front of U.S. Supreme Court Found Guilty of Unlawful Assembly On May 29, 2008, thirty-four members of the civil rights group Witness Against Torture (WAT) were found guilty in …
Florida Sheriff Sued for Awarding No-Bid Health Care Contract, Receiving Gifts by Florida Sheriff Sued for Awarding No-Bid ?Health Care Contract, Receiving Gifts Prison Health Services (PHS) has sued the sheriff of Sarasota County, Florida for awarding the jail’s health care contract to rival Armor Correctional Health Services without taking …
Violence at Oklahoma Prisons Leaves Two Dead, Twenty-Five Injured by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On May 19, 2008, at approximately 12:30 p.m., a fight broke out between Native American and black prisoners at the Oklahoma State Reformatory (OSR) in Granite. When the skirmish ended five minutes later, two prisoners …
Article • December 15, 2008
Filed under: Organizing, Voting, Elections
Many Iowans Mistakenly Identified as Felons, Purged From Voter Lists by A large number of voters in Iowa were mistakenly purged from the voter rolls due to a faulty state-promulgated list that showed they were felons. Rick Brown, 47, of Madrid, a postal worker, was a typical case. Brown never …
Article • December 15, 2008 • from PLN December, 2008
An Execution in the Family: One Son’s Journey, by Robert Meeropol; St. Martin’s Griffin, 273 pages, $14.95 by David Preston An Execution in the Family: One Son’s Journey, by Robert Meeropol; St. Martin’s Griffin, 273 pages, $14.95 Reviewed by David Preston The Rosenberg case: for most Baby Boomers it is …
Private Prisons a Public Disgrace in Texas by Gary Hunter So much human feces covered the floors of a GEO Group-run juvenile prison in Coke County, Texas that departing inspectors stopped outside to wipe their shoes in the grass. The Coke County Juvenile Justice Center was in such bad shape …
Prison Legal News Attends CCA Shareholder Meeting by Alex Friedmann Prison Legal News Attends CCA Shareholder Meeting by Alex Friedmann From 1992 to 1998, I served time at the South Central Correctional Center in Wayne County, Tennessee, which is operated by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest private …
“I CAN Learn” Software Procurement for Kentucky DOC Questioned by Matthew Clarke “I CAN Learn” Software Procurement for Kentucky DOC Questioned by Matt Clarke The “I CAN Learn” educational software produced by New Orleans-based JRL Enterprises, which was adopted by the Kentucky Department of Corrections (KDOC), is under scrutiny for …
Article • August 15, 2008
Filed under: Protests, Police, False Arrest
Seattle Police Settle World Trade Organization Protest Wrongful Arrest Suit for $1,000,000 by In October of 2000, Kenneth Rankin, Denise Cooper, Jennifer Hudziec and Stephanie Lane, all Washington state residents, filed a class action in federal court challenging the constitutionality of their arrest by Seattle, Washington police during a protest …
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