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Article • December 7, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Amid Scandal, Missouri Governor Issues Commutations and Pardons, Passes New Laws Before Resigning by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell As his resignation was about to take effect late on June 1, 2018, scandal-plagued Missouri Governor Eric Greitens pardoned five convicted felons, commuted the sentences of four others and signed 77 …
Article • December 7, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Filed under: News
Land Swap Seeks to Reinstate Construction of New Jail in Detroit by A three-party land swap has apparently cleared a logjam that has left the Wayne County jail in Detroit unfinished since 2013. The county commission voted in June 2018 to ratify a deal made by County Executive Warren Evans …
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Angola Closes its Notorious Camp J, “A Microcosm of a Lot of Things That are Wrong” by Grace Toohey by Grace Toohey, The Advocate After more than 40 years as one of the most restrictive housing units within Louisiana’s Angola prison, corrections officials have closed Camp J – which at its …
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Arizona: On March 16, 2018, the Arizona Department of Corrections issued a report that concluded private prison operator CoreCivic (formerly CCA) had properly responded to a February 25, 2018 riot at the Red Rock Correctional Center. The two-hour “major disturbance,” which left 13 prisoners and two …
Article • November 6, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018
Surprise Shutdown of Maine Prison Leads to Controversy, Court Order by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis In a sudden move that local residents called a “Gestapo tactic,” Maine Governor Paul LePage ordered the closure of a small prison in rural Washington County. The Downeast Correctional Facility (DCF), with a capacity …
Article • November 6, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018
San Diego County Targets Reporter Who Exposed Sky-High Jail Death Rate by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell When the widow of a prisoner who committed suicide at a San Diego County jail filed suit claiming staff had been made aware of the jail’s high death rate due to a reporter’s …
Article • November 6, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: Antwone Wilson broke out of the St. Clair County Correctional Facility on December 4, 2017 along with fellow prisoner Ronald Odell King. The pair separated, and King was quickly captured. While on the lam, Wilson contacted a TV station in his hometown to clarify why …
Article • October 12, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Landmark Stanford Prison Experiment Criticized as a Sham by Steve Horn by Steve Horn It’s a study widely taught in high school and college psychology textbooks as a prime example of how, as Lord Acton put it, “Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” It’s also a study whose …
Article • October 9, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Kentucky Law Requiring Abused Spouse to Pay for Abuser’s Divorce Attorney Abolished by The Kentucky legislature has closed a loophole in a statute that required a victim of domestic violence to pay the cost of an attorney for their incarcerated abuser when seeking a divorce. Kentucky law requires a person …
Article • October 9, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alaska: On January 17, 2018, a 43-man riot flared and quickly dissipated on the yard of the maximum-security Spring Creek Correctional Center, leaving five prisoners with injuries and resulting in a facility-wide lockdown. Alaska Department of Corrections spokeswoman Megan Edge said guards deployed pepper spray when …
Article • September 2, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
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News in Brief by Arizona: The Pima County Board of Supervisors passed a historic resolution on December 19, 2017 to prohibit the county from entering into contracts with private prison companies like CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America) and GEO Group. “Big for-profit corporations operate on the cheap by cutting …
Article • August 4, 2018 • from PLN August, 2018
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alaska: An internal investigation was launched by the Alaska Department of Corrections after five female prisoners at the Hiland Mountain Correctional Center in Eagle River overdosed on an unknown substance over a two-day period. DOC spokeswoman Megan Edge said four of the prisoners were transported to …
Article • July 6, 2018 • from PLN July, 2018
Filed under: Guards/Staff, News
BOP Director Resigns in Protest of Prison Reform Bill Clash by Steve Horn by Steve Horn Mark Inch, director of the federal Bureau of Prisons, resigned on May 18, 2018. At first it was unclear why he stepped down, but The New York Times has since reported that sources told …
New Virginia Law Requires Oversight of Jail Deaths by As of May 2018, Virginia’s Board of Corrections (BOC) had counted 21 jail deaths in the state since the start of the year. But thanks to a new law passed in 2017, the BOC now has authority to review deaths in …
Article • July 2, 2018 • from PLN July, 2018
State Criminal Justice Reform Efforts Gaining Traction by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis On the federal level, hopes for criminal justice reform have fallen victim to partisan bickering in Congress and a lack of substantive interest from the White House. Fortunately, state officials are not waiting around, and state-level reform …
Article • July 1, 2018 • from PLN July, 2018
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Arkansas: On August 7, 2017, for approximately three hours, a group of six prisoners in the Maximum Security Unit at the Tucker facility refused to release three guards they had overpowered and taken hostage by using stolen keys to control the doors in that area of …
Article • June 8, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
Guantanamo Bay Prison to Remain Open, Trump Announces by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna In his State of the Union address in January 2018, President Donald Trump announced that he had signed an executive order to ensure the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba, commonly known as Gitmo, would remain …
Article • June 5, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
Crisis in Maryland as Mentally Incompetent Defendants Languish in County Jails by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis When criminal defendants are found mentally incompetent to stand trial, a judge typically orders their transfer to a psychiatric hospital for treatment to restore competency. But many states struggle with a shortage of …
Article • June 5, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: Former Draper Correctional Facility guard Johntarance Henriquis McCray was sentenced on July 27, 2017 to 54 months in federal prison for bringing crack cocaine, powder cocaine, methamphetamine, marijuana, Xanax and Suboxone into the facility. A search of his vehicle had also uncovered a duffle bag …
Article • May 9, 2018 • from PLN May, 2018
Porn Reading Rooms in Iowa Prisons Placed on Legislative Hit List by A proposed law, Senate Study Bill 3035, would put an end to “pornography reading rooms” in Iowa prisons. The rooms have existed since a 1988 federal court ruling that held the Iowa DOC’s rules on pornography were unconstitutionally …
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