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Article • May 5, 2017 • from PLN May, 2017
suit over the ban. Jim Blodgett, the warden at the Washington State Penitentiary at the time, told me there was no need to censor PLN because prisoners were not interested in what we had to say and we ...
Article • May 5, 2017 • from PLN May, 2017
participating at any time.” It was not clear, though, what privileges he would forfeit for choosing not to take part in the IFRP. See: Fontanez v. O’Brien, 807 F.3d 84 (4th Cir. 2015). Following ...
treatment and other programming activities. Such prisoners are supposed to be allowed out of their cells for 19 hours a week – more than three times what they received before the settlement. See ...
;for punishment, not to prevent self-harm despite what prison officials say,’ and ‘Eighth Circuit precedent makes clear that using a restraint board for punishment as opposed to incapacitation may ...
committed by staff members against prisoners. What was not surprising, though, is the lackluster investigations and nonexistent or lenient punishments meted out to abusive prison and jail employees ...
Article • October 10, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
to Raynor, Pugh said he didn’t care what Mullins did and ordered the two men into a cell. Housing Manager Pugh then watched as Mullins pummeled Raynor to the floor and smashed his television. According ...
Article • October 10, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
. Miller disclosed to individuals at UNICOR and to [Beaumont] Warden Upton what he perceived to be mismanagement of funds at the factory. On December 15, 2009, OIG conducted an on-site visit to the factory ...
Article • October 10, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
, pushing his forehead against a wall and kicking and stomping him. One guard, Gammone, allegedly grabbed Williams and said “this is what running your mouth gets you” as he punched him ...
Article • April 20, 2018
Filed under: Settlements, Police
closing arguments were to be made at trial, the city and Franco agreed to a $300,000 settlement with Murray. The city's claim against Velez was dismissed for lack of evidence showing what injuries could ...
Article • September 4, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
worker helped them enroll in Medicare and the food stamp program. Once Weekes and Pointer had a contract in hand, they urged the brothers to fire their attorneys. In what Weekes described as a “match ...
Article • September 3, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
, “What happened to my old friends from childhood?” As it turns out, many of Williams’ friends have been arrested and imprisoned. One of them, his childhood best friend Tommy, committed ...
Article • August 23, 2018
and staff involved in what they called a homicide, not a suicide. Stewart Katz represented the Durans, who demanded $6.75 million in their federal lawsuit. Katz said the $750,000 settlement was a significant ...
by special interest groups is wrong and politically motivated, resulting in some people reaching misguided conclusions about what we do.” There is no question, though, that CoreCivic holds contracts ...
Article • July 15, 2011 • from PLN July, 2011
simply can’t pay that puts the whole policy in question. “We don’t believe in debtor’s prisons in this country, and that’s what we’re doing here in some cases,” said Sears. The case of Randy Miller, 39 ...
Article • May 15, 2011 • from PLN May, 2011
is a treatment center and not a prison, though it operates as a secure facility and its residents are held under prison-like conditions. “It’s a de facto warehouse, regardless of what the intention is,” said Pete ...
.” And money is just what CCA has been “putting in” – mostly to Republicans, but a great deal to Democrats as well. In 2009, CCA gave $100,000 to Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s budget-reform ballot ...
-effects, including clinical depression, nightmares and crying fits after they were released from jail,” the ACLU noted. “This is what can happen when you have law enforcement treating the mentally ill ...
Article • June 15, 2011 • from PLN June, 2011
as a consultant, which is what Tierney said she believed her brother was doing, Eremian’s bank account collected more than $7 million in illegal gambling profits. Tierney received about $20,000 to $30,000 annually ...
the registry with people like Howard who are not what we typically thought of as [sex] offenders,” said Sarah Geraghty, a senior attorney for the Southern Center for Human Rights. “A more tailored registry ...
Article • September 15, 2012 • from PLN September, 2012
.” It’s difficult to extract from the GAO report what is considered “statistically significant.” The report’s footnotes assert that its findings are “statistically significant only if they were significant ...
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