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Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Filed under: Escapes
U.S. Marshals Pull Out of Virginia Jail After Two Escapes in One Day by After two detainees escaped from Virginia’s Piedmont Regional Jail (PRJ) on April 30, 2022, the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) announced it was relocating its detainees while the jail “works to improve security measures.” This is bad …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Five Years After Limiting Personal Visits and Banning Mail, Drug Use Worse in Pennsylvania Prisons by As reported by the Harrisburg Patriot News on April 21, 2023, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) implemented a solution to the drug problem in state prisons in September 2018 that has proved cruel …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Filed under: Databases, FBI, Police Bias
FBI Crime Report Lacking Data from Police Agencies Serving 25 Percent of U.S. Population by In October 2022, the FBI released its 2021 report titled Crime in the U.S. Published annually for a century, it is considered the gold standard for data on criminal activity in the U.S. However, the …
Prolonged COVID-19 Visitation Restrictions Net Georgia Jails Over $1.5 Million in Telecom Kickbacks by Jordan Arizmendi by Jordan Arizmendi According to a report by the Georgia Current on April 14, 2023, jails in several of the state’s coastal counties were still profiting by extending COVID-19 visitation bans, forcing detainees and …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Life Sentence for Alabama Jail Escapee After Suicide of Guard Lover Who Helped Him by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On June 8, 2023, a judge in Alabama’s Lauderdale County handed a life sentence without parole to a state prisoner for escaping the county lockup with his jail-guard lover, who …
Article • June 27, 2023
Filed under: Escapes, Staffing
Two Philadelphia Jail Escapees Recaptured After Ten Days on the Run by Jordan Arizmendi by Jordan Arizmendi On May 7, 2023, at roughly 8:30 p.m., two detainees escaped from the Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center. But it was not until the next day that guards realize they were missing. That was …
Article • June 22, 2023
Millionaire Florida Child Porn Convict’s Escape Thwarted by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott April 12, 2023, would have been Independence Day for Florida millionaire and child porn collector John Manchec – if only someone had not ratted him out, according to Indian River County Sheriff Eric Flowers. Manchec, …
Article • June 22, 2023
Filed under: Escapes
Ohio Prisoner Escapes in Dumpster, Drowns River by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott An escapee from Ohio’s Allen Oakwood Correctional Institution in Lima was able to get almost 300 miles away by first hiding in a dumpster then fleeing in a stolen car. His escape ended badly then …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
New York Finding Closed Prisons a Tough Sell by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Since its peak nearly two decades ago, New York’s prisoner population has fallen by half. Added to the millions of dollars it cost the state Department of Corrections and Community Services (DOCCS) to build the prisons …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Bureau of Justice Statistics Releases Latest First Step Act Data by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian The First Step Act of 2018 (FSA) was signed into law in December 2018. Among other hoped-for benefits was that the legislation would help reduce recidivism and decrease the overall prison population. However, …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Filed under: Escapes
Four Escape Troubled Mississippi Jail After Fifth Circuit Postpones Federal Receivership by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders Two of four detainees have been recaptured after escaping from jail in Mississippi’s Hinds County on April 29, 2023. The other two are dead. Meanwhile control of the Raymond Detention Center (RDC) remains …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
U.S. Prisoner Numbers Slowly Declining by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon New data released in December 2022 by the federal Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) showed a steady decline in prison population from 2011 to 2021 – nearly 25% overall. The number of people imprisoned today – …
Article • June 1, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Prisoners Caught in Ukraine War Crossfire by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman During Ukraine’s successful offensive to liberate the southern city of Kherson in October 2022, retreating Russian forces took 2,500 Ukrainian prisoners with them. What followed was a Kafka-esque journey through five countries, at the end of which the …
Article • June 1, 2023
Fewer Juveniles in U.S. Detention Facilities, But Problems Persist by Jordan Arizmendi by Jordan Arizmendi Anyone who watches news or primetime television shows may think that crime by violent youths is on the rise. However, a study released by The Sentencing Project in May 2023 proves the opposite is true: …
Article • May 9, 2023
Filed under: Cell Searches, War on Drugs
Four Charged with Using Drones to Smuggle Drugs into California Prisons by Jordan Arizmendi by Jordan Arizmendi In an indictment unsealed on April 13, 2023, four people were accused of using drone aircraft to deliver drugs into California state prisons. The indictment was brought in federal court for the Eastern …
Article • May 9, 2023
Filed under: Escapes, Food
“Come Hungry, Leave Handcuffed”: Virginia Detainees Who Tunneled Through Jail Wall Recaptured at IHOP by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss On March 20, 2023, two detainees escaped from the jail annex in Newport News, Virginia, after tunneling through their cell wall. But their freedom lasted less than a day …
Article • May 2, 2023
Filed under: Cost of Prison Systems
Alabama No-Bid Prison Contract Costs More Per Bed Than State’s Average Home by Jordan Arizmendi by Jordan Arizmendi The Alabama Corrections Institution Finance Authority recently approved a $975 million no-bid contract for a single new prison – roughly equal to the budget of Alabama’s entire Department of Mental Health. Dividing …
Ninth Circuit Upholds Order Vacating Conviction in Oregon Prison Director’s 1989 Murder; SCOTUS Declines Review by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On September 29, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld a lower court’s decision to toss the murder conviction of Frank Gable, now 62, in …
Article • May 1, 2023 • from PLN May, 2023
Arizona Prisoner Condemned Again for Cellmate’s Murder by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins On April 17, 2023, Arizona prisoner Jasper Rushing, 43, was again sentenced to death for the grizzly murder of his cellmate. He was first condemned for the killing in 2015, but the state supreme court tossed that …
Article • May 1, 2023 • from PLN May, 2023
Filed under: Census, Rural Prisons
Montana Becomes 13th State to End Prison Gerrymandering by Chuck Sharman   by Chuck Sharman On February 14, 2023, Montana joined a dozen other states to end prison gerrymandering, the practice of having census takers count prisoners where they are incarcerated, rather than in their hometowns. It is also the …
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