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that explains how the prisons are being run, at what cost, and the extent to which they are engaging in abuses that deprive prisoners of their basic civil liberties,” the CREW report stated. Of the more ...
Article • August 1, 2016
million settlement.  See: Mendez v. City of Gardena, USDC, C.D. California, Case No 2:13-cv-9042. The public, said Mendez, should have access to the video.  “They need to see what happened ...
on in the process – in the development of the request for proposals has been cut out by this administration.” “What is it that they do not want to disclose?” she added. “Is it because ...
plea bargain in July 2016 and postponed his sentencing. What began as an investigation into civil rights abuses in the LA County jail system quickly became a drama that could have come right out ...
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
nothing, that’s not a relationship, that’s being used. It’s being degraded. It’s dirty. It’s not what I wanted. I am very ashamed.” Ballista was finally fired in September 2004 and convicted of crimes ...
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
Filed under: Organizing, Voting
York University’s Brennan Center for Justice. Simon decried not only the rule but the process involved in the change. “Just as troubling as what they did is how they did it – in secret, without advice ...
Article • August 15, 2011
possession for trafficking what they thought were multi-kilo loads of cocaine between Miami-Dade and Palm Beach Counties, although no real drugs were used in the sting operation. They were paid amounts ranging ...
for the purpose of withholding a right or benefit because of what he believes.” Unfortunately for Newman, however, the Third Circuit endorsed the Supreme Court’s view in McKune v. Lile, 536 U.S. 24 (2002) [PLN ...
problems yet lacks an in-house plumber. This is not the fault of Menard’s administration, which the report praised in several areas for doing what it could and being creative with solutions; rather ...
; said Friedmann. “This is what happens when essential public safety and criminal justice services, such as operating prisons, are contracted out to a private corporation without a conscience ...
Article • July 11, 2014 • from PLN July, 2014
.3d 696 (6th Cir. 2012), the appellate court found “the contours of Okoro’s Fourth Amendment rights were ‘sufficiently clear that a reasonable official would understand that what he ...
Article • July 9, 2014 • from PLN July, 2014
Filed under: Editorials
and anti-imperialists in Vietnam, South America and elsewhere. What began as a counter-insurgency tactic overseas is now routinely used against an estimated 80,000 U.S. prisoners on a daily basis &ndash ...
Article • June 7, 2014 • from PLN June, 2014
authorities, in what may be an example of hindsight bias, found fault with the jail’s suicide prevention policies,” the appellate court wrote. “Even if the sheriff was culpable for failing ...
Article • June 5, 2014 • from PLN June, 2014
the religious library or meeting with the Chaplain individually.” Atheism is not included on the form and prison officials do “not keep records of what religion inmates write in after selecting &lsquo ...
posted false information, the court shifted the burden by asking Chaker what evidence he had that Fazal had been “forced out” of the police department. When Chaker responded that he obtained ...
. In what the court called a “dubious” defense, prison officials had asserted that “any videotaping by male guards occurred without the male actually looking at the female he was actually ...
Article • February 17, 2016
Filed under: DOC/BOP misconduct
," warned Peters. Williamson did not attend the meeting, according to Craig. Peters terminated him effective October 23, 2015. Coincidentally, in what looks like a related move and demotion, Peters also moved ...
Article • January 15, 2012 • from PLN January, 2012
.” Richardson’s investigation also revealed that Cooper wanted to return to the maximum-security prison at McAlester and was convinced the only way to obtain a transfer was to kill someone. What was the prison ...
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
the lack of democratic process in what is basically a huge giveaway of taxpayer money to huge corporations, which duly kick back campaign contributions to their political lackeys in the legislative ...
and March 2011. “This research confirms what other studies over the years have found – that privately-operated prisons have higher rates of assaults and other violent incidents than their public counterparts ...
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