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Article • November 15, 2011 • from PLN November, 2011
Incarceration Alone Insufficient to Terminate Parental Rights in Michigan by In addition to finding that a lower court committed legal errors in terminating a prisoner’s parental rights, the Michigan Supreme Court held that incarceration alone is not a sufficient reason for termination of parental rights. While serving a prison sentence …
Article • October 15, 2011 • from PLN October, 2011
Tennessee Jail Detainee Shackled During Childbirth Awarded $200,000 by Juana Villegas won a $200,000 jury award in a § 1983 action against the Metro-Davidson County Sheriff’s Office in Nashville, Tennessee for being shackling while she was in the final stages of labor during her pregnancy and past-partum recovery. Villegas had …
Article • October 15, 2011 • from PLN October, 2011
Montana Jail Agrees to Provide Addiction Treatment for Pregnant Prisoners by The American Civil Liberties Union of Montana (ACLU) has reached a settlement with the Lake County Detention Center (LCDC) which requires LCDC to ensure that pregnant prisoners at risk of opiate withdrawal receive proper medical treatment. The ACLU filed …
Article • September 15, 2011
California Inspector General’s Audit of Women’s Prison And Warden Is Generally Favorable by John Dannenberg By John E. Dannenberg California law (Penal Code § 6126(a)(2)) requires the new warden of a state prison to be evaluated by the State Inspector General (IG) within twelve months prior to their state Senate …
Brief • June 16, 2011
Zaborowski v. Cook County, IL, Plt. Motion for Summary Judgment, Shackles During Child Birth2011 Case: 1:08-cv-06946 Document #: 229 Filed: 06/16/11 Page 1 of 20 PageID #:4596 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION Catherine Zaborowski and Simone Jackson, individually and on behalf …
California: State May Be Liable for Delaying Medical Care to Prisoner’s Infant Child by The California Court of Appeal has held that the State may be vicariously liable for the acts or omissions of its employees in failing to provide needed medical care for an infant living with its mother …
Article • December 15, 2010 • from PLN December, 2010
AMA Passes Resolution Prohibiting Shackling of Pregnant Prisoners in Labor by On June 15, 2010, the American Medical Association (AMA) adopted a resolution prohibiting the use of restraints on a female prisoner “in labor, delivering her baby or recuperating from the delivery,” absent compelling grounds to believe that she poses …
Article • December 15, 2010 • from PLN December, 2010
Washington State Federal Court: Unconstitutional to Shackle Prisoner in Labor by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On May 3, 2010, a U.S. District Court in Washington State held it was unconstitutional to shackle a prisoner in labor. Cassandra Brawley, 30, was a Washington state prisoner. In 2006 she was arrested …
Article • September 15, 2010 • from PLN September, 2010
Boulder Weekly Investigation Ends the Practice of Shackling Colorado Prisoners in Labor by Pamela White Ryan Owens caught her first case at age 27 after becoming addicted to methamphetamine. She was sent into treatment, but relapsed almost immediately after graduating. When she got into trouble again, she went on the …
Article • September 15, 2010 • from PLN September, 2010
Prison Nursery Programs Promote Bonding, Reduce Recidivism by Gary Hunter Several studies, highlighted by the Women’s Prison Association (WPA) in a recent report, have shown that allowing infants born in prison to remain with their incarcerated mothers enhances bonding and leads to decreased recidivism. Prior to the 1950s, nurseries for …
Article • April 15, 2010 • from PLN April, 2010
Kinship Care More Beneficial Than State Foster Care for Children of Incarcerated Parents by Jimmy Franks Published in May 2009, Kinship care when parents are incarcerated: What we know, what we can do, is an in-depth examination of current statistical and practical information regarding the plight of children with one …
Article • December 15, 2009
Living with Cellmate is “Cohabitation” in Florida and Voids Alimony by Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeals has held that a woman who was sentenced to serve nine years in prison was cohabitating with “another person” and it voided her alimony under her marital settlement agreement. That agreement provided that …
University of Arizona Releases Report on Women Immigration Prisoners by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In January 2009, the Southwest Institute for Research on Women (SWIRW) and the Bacon Immigration Law and Policy Program of the University of Arizona published a report on women held in Arizona immigration prisons. It …
Article • July 15, 2009
Prison’s Littlest Victims by David C Fathi By David Fathi The US criminal justice system may be on the verge of its biggest overhaul in decades. Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) is sponsoring a bill to establish a blue-ribbon commission to conduct a comprehensive review of the criminal justice system and …
Article • May 15, 2009
Writ of Mandate Granted in Child Custody Dispute by In October 2007, Orange County Social Services Agency (SSA), in California, took custody of a woman's two-year-old son following her incarceration for allegedly having sex with a minor. In January 2008, the Court ordered the SSA to prepare a case plan …
$300,000 for Family of Prisoner who Bled to Death Waiting on Ambulance by The County of San Bernardino has settled a lawsuit brought by the estate of a woman who bled to death due to an undiagnosed pregnancy condition while waiting on an ambulance. Luan Morales started hemorrhaging while at …
Article • April 15, 2009
Iowa Parental Rights Not Terminated Upon Imprisonment by The Iowa Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court’s order refusing to terminate the parental rights of a couple imprisoned for selling drugs in the presence of their minor children. On January 22, 2007, Juan and Maria were arrested for selling …
Article • April 15, 2009 • from PLN April, 2009
BJS Report Finds 53% of Prisoners Are Parents by Mark Wilson BJS Report Finds 53% of Prisoners Are Parents by Mark Wilson About 809,800 (53%) of America’s 1,518,535 prisoners in 2007 were parents of minor children, according to a Special Report of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice …
Article • April 15, 2009 • from PLN April, 2009
BOP Amends Policy On Shackling Of Pregnant Prisoners by BOP Amends Policy On Shackling Of Pregnant Prisoners The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has decided to bar the shackling of pregnant federal prisoners except in extreme situations. The policy change comes just six months after the Second Chance Act of 2007 …
Article • November 15, 2008 • from PLN November, 2008
Report Finds Incarceration Damages Children Psychologically, Emotionally by Gary Hunter Report Finds Incarceration Damages Children Psychologically, Emotionally by Gary Hunter Broken Bonds, a study by the Urban Institute Justice Policy Center shows that incarceration inflicts psychological and emotional damage on the children of incarcerated citizens. Unlike other forms of trauma …
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