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Article • April 1, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright This month’s cover story, an interview with former CIA officer John Kiriakou, is part of our ongoing series of interviews with interesting people who have experience with the U.S. criminal justice system. The interview with John is around 8,000 words. A …
Publication • April 1, 2017
Filed under: Mental Health
Self-Care On the Inside Guide, Sylvia Rivera Law Project, 2017 SELF-CARE ON THE INSIDE Tips & Activities to Take Care of Yourself 1 Self-Care on the Inside Guide First Edition April 2017 Written by: Everett Redente Featured artists: SRLP Prisoner Advisory Committee Members Shaylanna L., Miguel M., Nouchie V., S. …
Article • March 31, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
Filed under: Wrongful Death
Another Florida Prisoner Death, Another Cover Up? by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Faced with the death of yet another prisoner – one of 346 in 2014 alone – Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) officials have refused to release video surveillance of the prisoner’s cell, citing security concerns. The …
Article • March 31, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
Yale Law School Report Examines Variations in Death Row Housing Units by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The Arthur Liman Public Interest Program at Yale Law School published a report in July 2016 that examined in detail the living arrangements for death row prisoners held by state Departments of Corrections. …
Article • March 31, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
Supreme Court Reverses Criminal Conviction for Racial Bias by Juror by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna In a decision sure to reverberate throughout the nation’s criminal courts, in March 2017 the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the conviction of a Colorado defendant charged with sexual battery due to a juror’s racially …
Article • March 31, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
Video Calling Services vs. In-person Visitation by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Video calling* is gaining a significant foothold in local jails. The technology is seen both as less costly than in-person visitation and a potential profit generator for jailers. But it can also have a detrimental impact on prisoners’ …
Report: How Private Prison Companies Exercise Influence Over Public Officials by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis An October 2016 report released by In the Public Interest (ITPI), a research and policy group that opposes the privatization of government services, details the millions of dollars spent by for-profit prison companies to …
Article • March 31, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
Filed under: Private Prisons
Privately-run Montana Jail Remains Mostly Empty Since 2007 by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis In an odd twist in this age of prison and jail overcrowding, the Two Rivers Regional Detention Facility (TRRDF) in Hardin, Montana has had an awfully difficult time finding prisoners to fill its beds. Opened in …
Article • March 31, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
Arkansas Judge Charged with Trading Leniency for Sexual Favors by Federal authorities have indicted an Arkansas judge on charges of – among other things – trading sexual favors for leniency in sentencing. Former Cross County District Court Judge Joseph Boeckmann, Jr. was indicted in October 2016 by federal prosecutors, following …
Article • March 31, 2017
Filed under: Censorship, First Amendment
What If MLK’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” Had Been a Facebook Post? by Dave Maass by Dave Maass, Electronic Frontier Foundation Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham City Jail” is considered by many civil-rights historians to be one of the seminal writings of the era, on par with King’s “I …
Article • March 31, 2017
Thousands of American prisoners spend 23 hours a day in solitary confinement by Greg Rienzi by Greg Rienzi, John Hopkins Magazine Gabriel Eber has no shortage of macabre tales of life inside the East Mississippi Correctional Facility, a notoriously violent and chaotic men's prison on the outskirts of Meridian. Assaults (staff …
Article • March 31, 2017
Filed under: Mothers in Prison
The Pen by Rebecca Onion Inmates at America’s oldest women’s prison are writing a history of it—and exploding the myth of its benevolent founders. by Rebecca Onion, Slate In 1873, two Quaker reformers living in Indiana, shocked by allegations of sexual abuse of female prisoners at the state’s unisex institution, pushed …
Article • March 31, 2017
The Other Conspirator: Secret Origins of the CIA's Torture Program by Barbara Myers by Barbara Myers, TomDispatch, Truthout The witness reported men being hung by the feet or the thumbs, waterboarded, given electric shocks to the genitals, and suffering from extended solitary confinement in what he said were indescribably inhumane conditions. …
Article • March 31, 2017
Filed under: Crime, Statistics/Trends, Police
The Dangerous Notion of a Nationwide Crime Wave by Joseph Margulies by Joseph Margulies, Verdict In a recent Wall Street Journal Op-Ed, Heather MacDonald, a conservative analyst with the Manhattan Institute, blamed the so-called “Ferguson effect” for the increase in violent crime experienced in several U.S. cities last year. As MacDonald …
Article • March 31, 2017
Stop Kidding Yourself: The Police Were Created to Control Working Class and Poor People by Sam Mitrani by Sam Mitrani, The Labor and Working-Class History Association In most of the liberal discussions of the recent police killings of unarmed black men, there is an underlying assumption that the police are supposed to …
Article • March 31, 2017
Prison Reform, Proposition 47 and the California Shell Game by Nancy Heitzeg and Kay Whitlock by Nancy A. Heitzeg and Kay Whitlock, Truthout In the deep fog of the yard at Central California Facility for Women (CCFW), the bright shiny headlines declaring California Proposition 47 (which reclassifies certain property and drug …
Article • March 31, 2017
Poverty, Incarceration, and Criminal Justice Debt by Lauren-Brooke Eisen and Jessica Eaglin by Lauren-Brooke Eisen and Jessica Eaglin, Talk Poverty In today’s economy, overwhelming debt is an unfortunate reality for millions of Americans.  From credit card debt to mortgage debt to student loan debt, Americans increasingly live off of borrowed money. …
Article • March 31, 2017
Pipeline to Prison: Special Education Too Often Leads to Jail for Thousands of American Children by Jackie Mader and Sarah Butrymowicz by Jackie Mader and Sarah Butrymowicz, The Hechinger Report GRENADA, Miss.— Cody Beck was 12 years old when he was handcuffed in front of several classmates and put in the …
Paying for Your Time: How Charging Inmates Fees Behind Bars May Violate the Excessive Fines Clause by Lauren-Brooke Eisen by Lauren-Brooke Eisen, Loyola Journal of Public Interest Law Introduction In 1846, the United States saw the birth of the first correctional fee law when Michigan enacted legislation authorizing counties to charge …
One Survivor's Crusade Reveals a Plague of Errors in Nation's Sex Offender Registries by Steve Friess Estimates of the number of entries with crucial mistakes run into the tens of thousands. One man—and pretty much only one man—is trying to fix them. by Steve Friess, Take Part Tim Fisher steps slowly …
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