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Publication • 2022
Filed under: Prison Gangs
Audit Report-Dept of Public Safety's Texas Gang Intelligence Database-Aug. 2022 Lisa R. Collier, CPA, CFE, CIDA State Auditor An Audit Report on The Department of Public Safety’s Texas Gang Intelligence Database August 2022 Report No. 22-039 State Auditor’s Office reports are available on the Internet at https://sao.texas.gov/. An Audit Report …
Article • May 23, 2022
“Jailhouse Politician” Withdraws from Indiana Race, But Another Wins in DC by Jo Ellen Nott By Jo Ellen Nott On May 18, 2022, an Indiana jail detainee who had advanced in the GOP primary for the Clinton Township Board—while being held in the Boone County Jail without bond—signed to formally …
Four BOP Employees, Eight Prisoners Indicted in Widening NYC Federal Jail Smuggling Scandal by Casey Bastian By Casey J. Bastian On March 18, 2022, a federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) guard was indicted in federal court in New York City on charges he smuggled a loaded gun into the now-shuttered …
Brief • May 3, 2022
Filed under: Protests
Dundon v. Kirchmeier, USA, Amicus Curiae, Protest, 2022 No. 22-1246 IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT Vanessa Dundon et. al. Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Kyle Kirchmeier, et. al. Defendants-Appellees. Appeal from the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota Case No. 1:16-cv-406 DMT ARS The …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: Prison Reform
Ecuador’s Prison System in Catastrophic Crisis by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon After a riot in Ecuador’s El Turi prison left 20 prisoners dead on April 4, 2022, Interior Minister Patricio Castillo responded with a vow to “drain the cesspit” that his nation’s prisons have become. But how exactly? Castillo …
Article • May 1, 2022
Oklahoma Prison Guard and Gilbert Postelle’s Brother Among 125 Convicted in Drug Ring by Jo Ellen Nott By Jo Ellen Nott On April 5, 2022, federal prosecutors announced convictions in a massive drug-trafficking conspiracy for 125 associates of an Oklahoma-based prison gang, one of whom was a state prison guard …
Article • April 12, 2022
ICE Continues to Abuse and Traumatize Under Biden. Immigrants Are Fighting Back. by Panagioti Tsolkas, Rebecca Talbot This story is published in partnership with Truthout   Just after dawn on September 16, 2021, E.E. and six other African immigrant men were resting in their bunks at the Glades County Detention Center …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Filed under: Advocacy
Advocating for Objective Standards in a Post-Kingsley World by Megha Ram by Megha Ram, Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center A fight over the correct standard for jail conditions cases is playing out in courts across the country. This is an important fight with far-reaching consequences for the constitutional rights …
Brief • February 22, 2022
Filed under: Protests, Excessive Force
Epps v. City and County of Denver, CO, Supplemental Expert Report of Edward R. Maguire, Excessive Force- Protesting, 2022 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT OF THE DISTRICT COURT OF COLORADO Civil Action Nos. 1:20-cv-01878-RBJ & 1:20-cv-01922-RBJ-MEH (consolidated) ELISABETH EPPS, et al. Plaintiffs, v. CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, et …
Article • February 19, 2022
$20,000 Paid by Santa Clara County to Settle Claims of Medical Neglect and Failure to Protect Disabled Prisoner Beaten by Gang Members in County Jail by Chuck Sharman By Chuck Sharman   A settlement was executed on August 27, 2019, by lawyers for Santa Clara County, California, agreeing to pay …
Brief • February 16, 2022
Filed under: Protests, Excessive Force
Epps v. City and County of Denver, CO, Supplemental Expert Report of Norman Stamper, Excessive Force- Protesting, 2022 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT OF THE DISTRICT COURT OF COLORADO Civil Action Nos. 1:20-cv-01878-RBJ & 1:20-cv-01922-RBJ-MEH (consolidated) ELISABETH EPPS, et al. Plaintiffs, v. CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, et al., …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
California Appeals Court Reverses Dismissal of Charges Against Prisoners Charged in Pelican Bay Riot by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On June 9, 2021, the California Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal to a decision handed down by the state’s First District Court of Appeal on March 29, …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
Activists Play Whack-a-Mole Closing ICE Detention Centers by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A Bloomberg Equality report published on January 11, 2022, gave little hope that the omicron variant behind a resurgence in the COVID-19 pandemic would spare immigrant detainees held for federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), with …
Brief • December 22, 2021
Filed under: Protests, Excessive Force
Epps v. City and County Denver, CO, Rebuttal Expert Report of Norman Stamper, Excessive Force-Protesting, 2021 CONTAINS REFERENCE TO MATERIALS DESIGNATED AS CONFIDENTIAL IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT OF THE DISTRICT COURT OF COLORADO Civil Action Nos. 1:20-cv-01878-RBJ & 1:20-cv-01922-RBJ-MEH (consolidated) ELISABETH EPPS, et al. Plaintiffs, v. CITY AND …
Brief • December 22, 2021
Filed under: Protests, Excessive Force
Epps v. City and County of Denver, CO, Rebuttal Expert Report of Dr. Edward R. Maguire, Excessive Force-Protesting, 2021 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT OF THE DISTRICT COURT OF COLORADO Civil Action Nos. 1:20-cv-01878-RBJ & 1:20-cv-01922-RBJ-MEH (consolidated) ELISABETH EPPS, et al. Plaintiffs, v. CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, et …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Report Highlights Force Feeding of Hunger Striking Asylum Seekers by ICE and GEO by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Regardless of what people without first-hand knowledge of prisons or detention centers believe, prisoners are generally not the blood-thirsty, brutal animals depicted in the media. In fact, especially in the face …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Massachusetts Prisons Pledge to End Solitary by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins The Massachusetts Department of Corrections (DOC) surprised many critics with a June 2021 announcement of its intent to eliminate solitary confinement as it currently exists in the state prison system. State Public Safety and Security Secretary Thomas Turco …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
First Prisoner Elected to Hold Public Office in Washington DC by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Joel Castón, 44, a prisoner of the District of Columbia Jail, may be the first incarcerated elected official in the nation. He won the special election June 15, 2021 for the Ward 7 Advisory …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Company Surveils Activists Opposing Construction of Prisons and Jails by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders As if building prisons were not enough, companies are now engaged in what are called “corporate counterinsurgency” measures designed to influence public opinion by monitoring and surveilling groups opposing the construction of new prisons and …
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
Pay-to-Play Lives in FEC Decision Not to Enforce Ban on Political Contributions by Boca Prison Contractor The GEO Group by Dan Christensen by Dan Christensen, Florida Bulldog, September 20, 2021 In a ruling that undermines an 81-year-old anti-corruption law prohibiting pay-to-play political contributions by federal contractors, an impotent Federal Election …
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