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Videotape Confidentiality Claim Requires Specifics of Reasoning for Review by A New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division, has held that a generalized confidentiality assertion by the Department of Corrections (DOC) was improper, and the DOC must present sufficient evidence to enable the court to review its confidentiality claim. The ruling …
Article • January 15, 2008
Conflicting State Statutes Require Reversal of Massachusetts Riot Convictions by Defendant Randall Spearin and co defendant Gualter M. Camara, both Massachusetts State prisoners, appealed their convictions from a 2001 uprising at the Bristol County House of Corrections (Bristol), where they were incarcerated and led a riot. When they filed an …
Article • January 15, 2008 • from PLN January, 2008
Filed under: Organizing, Voting
Some Australian Prisoners Entitled to Vote by The High Court of Australia has held that a 2006 law prohibiting prisoners serving a sentence of less than three years from voting was invalid under the Commonwealth Constitution. The special action before The High Court challenged the Commonwealth Electoral Act amendment of …
Former Illinois DOC Director, Former Prisoner Advocate, Others Indicted on Federal Corruption Charges by The former Director of the Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) was indicted by a federal grand jury in July 2007 on charges of taking $50,000 in kickbacks from health care vendors that received state prison contracts. …
Pennsylvania County Jail System Overcrowded, Under-Regulated by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Almost everyone with experience on the incarceration side of America's criminal justice system will tell you they would rather do time in prison than in a jail. The primary reason is that the overall conditions of confinement …
Article • December 15, 2007
Attica And Coxsackie Riot Tapes' Production Ordered To Media With Appropriate Redaction by The New York Department of Correctional Services (DOCS) appealed an Albany County Supreme Court judgment ordering the disclosure of tapes during uprisings at two correctional facilities. Disclosure was affirmed. The Buffalo Broadcasting Company, Inc., (Media) requested tapes …
Bail Bond Businesses Getting Black Eye in Texas, California by Gary Hunter It's common knowledge that outside the federal Bureau of Prisons, California and Texas have the largest prison systems in the U.S. So it should come as no surprise that bail bonds are big business in both states. But …
Article • December 15, 2007 • from PLN December, 2007
Wisconsin Felon Convicted of Voter Fraud for Voting by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the conviction of a convicted felon for voter fraud. During the 2004 election cycle, Kimberly Prude was serving a term of supervised release for a forgery conviction in Wisconsin. Under Wisconsin law, Prude …
Policy Lock-Down, The Institute On Money In State Politics, 95 pp., softbound, April 2006 by John Dannenberg reviewed by John E. Dannenberg In a classic case of "follow the money," The Institute On Money In State Politics (IMSP) reviewed influence-peddling by private prison corporations (and their leaders, lobbyists, and subcontractors) …
Article • December 15, 2007
Tennessee Prisoners Entitled to Submit Public Records Act Requests by Tennessee State prisoner Robin Cole challenged an appellate affirmation of his denial to make Public Records Act (Act) requests. The denial was reversed in the case of first impression. Cole requested documents from the Commissioner of Corrections regarding a riot …
Arizona and Indiana Prisoner Uprising at GEO-Run Prison in Indiana by by Matt Clarke On April 24, 2007, about 500 Arizona and Illinois prisoners at a privately-run facility owned by the Indiana Department of Corrections (IDOC) participated in an uprising. The prison is operated by the Boca Raton, Florida-based GEO …
Article • November 15, 2007
TOWARD A MORE ELABORATE TYPOLOGY OF ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES: LIBERALIZING CRIMINAL DISENFRANCHISEMENT LAWS AND POLICIES by 33 New Eng. J. on Crim. & Civ. Confinement 283 TOWARD A MORE ELABORATE TYPOLOGY OF ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES: LIBERALIZING CRIMINAL DISENFRANCHISEMENT LAWS AND POLICIES [FN1] © Avi Brisman [FNa1] Copyright © 2007 by New England …
Article • October 15, 2007
Outlaw Joe - Phoenix New Times article on political schemes involving Sheriff Joe Arpaio by John Dougherty Outlaw Joe One of Arpaio's own deputies testifies about how the MCSO smeared Dan Saban. By John Dougherty Published: July 22, 2004 From here on out, 72-year-old Joe Arpaio isn't the Maricopa County …
Article • October 15, 2007 • from PLN October, 2007
Many Chinese Prisoners Retain Right to Vote by The Constitution of China guarantees every citizen the right to vote unless that right has been removed by law. In China?s 2,700-man Qingpu Prison, 723 prisoners retained the right to vote in the December 2006, election for the people?s congress of Qinpu …
Article • October 15, 2007
Filed under: Organizing, Elections
Recall Joe! - Phoenix New Times article on Sheriff Arpaio's relection campaign, past misdeeds by John Dougherty Recall Joe! That's what a group led by the well-connected family of one of Arpaio's own injured deputies is working to see happen By John Dougherty Published: February 10, 2005 Yeah, he won …
Article • October 15, 2007
Pariah Joe - Phoenix New Times article on Sheriff Arpaio's improprieties by John Dougherty Pariah Joe Dan Saban turns over materials to the FBI showing alleged improprieties by Arpaio and the MCSO. By John Dougherty Published: October 21, 2004 Let's face it, Joe Arpaio's going to win re-election November 2 …
Article • October 15, 2007
Special Treatment - Phoenix New Times article about special treatment of celebrity prisoners by Sheriff Apraio by John Dougherty Special Treatment Is justice for sale? Ask privileged characters like Jerry Colangelo. John Dougherty Published: August 19, 2004 We all know how Joe Arpaio serves up justice to average schmucks. He …
Little State, Big Problems: Maine’s Prison Crisis Continues Unabated by Lance Tapley Little State, Big Problems: Maine?s Prison Crisis Continues Unabated by Lance Tapley Only big prison systems mistreat prisoners, right? Only prison systems where racism, right-wing tough-on-crime attitudes, or prison-industrial-complex power have full reign, like in California or Texas, …
Adams v. CCA, CO, Plf App Reply Brief, prison riot, 2007 Certific:ltion of Word Count: 5,690 , i COURT OF APPEALS, STATE OF COLORADO 2 East 14'h Avenue, 3'd Floor I Denver, CO 80203 1 ! I i, Appeal from order entered by Judge Michael Schi ferl, i Crowley County …
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