Skip navigation

Search

40577 results
Page 602 of 2029. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 ... 598 599 600 601 602 603 604 605 606 ... 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029 | Next »

Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Filed under: Work, Release and Reentry
Study Examines Professional License Restrictions for Ex-offenders by Derek Gilna The National Employment Law Project (NELP) released a study in April 2016 that cataloged the thousands of state laws and regulations which restrict or bar people with criminal records from obtaining licenses needed to work in various professions. NELP cited …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Federal Strikes Do Not Count as Strikes for Georgia PLRA by A Georgia Court of Appeals held in March 2016 that strikes for dismissed frivolous federal lawsuits do not count as strikes under Georgia’s Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA). Since his imprisonment in 2010, Georgia state prisoner Willie Wright, Jr. …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Delaware Prisoners Demand Education, Rehabilitation by Monte McCoin At 1:59 p.m. on February 1, 2017, the tip line rang in the newsroom at Delaware’s largest paper. Reporters from The News Journal were the first members of the media to hear about a disturbance and hostage situation at the James T. …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
$60,000 for Nevada Prisoner Forced to Remove His Own Teeth by Derek Gilna Michael Sanzo, formerly incarcerated at the High Desert State Prison near Indian Springs, Nevada, received a $60,000 settlement as a result of “unbearable pain” that forced him to remove six of his own teeth after he was …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Chicago Pays $4.95 Million to Family of Prisoner Who Died After Police Beating by Lonnie Burton In April 2016, the City of Chicago agreed to pay $4.95 million to the estate of a man who was brutally beaten by police officers while in custody in 2012. The settlement came after …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Filed under: Contractor Misconduct
Red Light Traffic Camera CEO Sentenced for Corruption in Ohio and Illinois by The former CEO of Redflex Traffic Systems, Inc. was sentenced on October 19, 2016 to 14 months in federal prison for a bribes-for-contracts scheme in Ohio. Karen Finley, who was ousted from her position with the company …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Filed under: Work, Release and Reentry
Ban the Box Movement Spreads to More States, Municipalities by An executive order issued by Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe in April 2015 made it easier for people with criminal records to be considered for state jobs. The order was another victory for the “ban the box” movement, which seeks to …
New York Prisoner’s $150,001 Judgment Reversed Due to Hearsay Evidence by In April 2016, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a $150,001 judgment awarded to a New York prisoner, holding the district court had erred in admitting a hearsay report as evidence. Isidro Abascal filed a civil rights action …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Filed under: Medication, Death Penalty
Judge Orders Missouri DOC to Disclose Names of Pharmacies that Supply Execution Drugs; Appellate Court Reverses by Lonnie Burton On March 21, 2016, a circuit court judge in Cole County, Missouri ruled in favor of several news media agencies and ordered the state’s Department of Corrections (DOC) to release the …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Medicare Penalties Await Released Prisoners Who Apply After Age 65 by Derek Gilna Add potential penalties for late Medicare registration to the list of hurdles that prisoners must clear if they are released after their 65th birthday. Medicare regulations impose a penalty of 10% per year for each year of …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
$1.5M Settlement in Oklahoma Jail Beating by Lonnie Burton Cherokee County, Oklahoma officials agreed to pay $1.5 million to the estate of a man who was brutally beaten by jail guards in 2011. The Cherokee County Governmental Building Authority approved the settlement in an executive session meeting on January 27, …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Filed under: Private Prisons, News
PCI Announces 2016 Awards for Private Prison Activism, Advocacy and News Reporting by On February 8, 2017, the Private Corrections Institute (PCI), a non-profit citizen watchdog organization, announced its 2016 awardees for individual activism, organizational advocacy and excellence in news reporting related to the private prison industry. PCI opposes the …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
Tragic Justice: Wrongfully Convicted Prisoners Die Shortly After Exoneration by Matthew Clarke For many people who are wrongfully convicted, being arrested for a crime they did not commit is just the first in a series of tragic events. If the arrest is traumatic, then their conviction and often lengthy incarceration …
The Violent American Epidemic You Won’t Hear About: Why Prison Abuse Goes Unreported and Unpunished by Daniel Denvir A culture of silence pervades America’s penal system, where victims have little recourse against powerful abusers by Daniel Denvir, Salon In April 2015, New York Administrative Law Judge Faye Lewis recommended that Rikers …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Filed under: CRIPA
When an Old Law Makes it Hard to Fix a Troubled Jail by Alysia Santo A federal statute from the Carter era favors negotiation, but that can take a long time. by Alysia Santo, The Marshall Project The Harris County jail in Houston is among the nation’s largest, and it’s also …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Obama Sets Record for Commutations Granted, and for Those Denied by Derek Gilna Former President Barack Obama has been widely commended for granting a record 1,927 applications for clemency during his two terms in office from January 20, 2009 through January 19, 2017, consisting of 1,715 commutations and 212 pardons. …
Federal Court Certifies Class in Texas Prison Excessive Heat Lawsuit by Matthew Clarke On January 22, 2016, a federal district court in Texas certified a class and two subclasses, and appointed class counsel, in a lawsuit challenging excessive heat at a state prison. Keith Cole, Ray Wilson, Jackie Brannum, Dean …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright This issue’s cover story on release debit cards continues our coverage of this relatively recent phenomenon which exploits prisoners and arrestees by charging them fees to access their own money and all too often takes all or most of their funds when they are …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Escape is Latest Problem at Troubled Privately-run Texas Jail by Matthew Clarke In October 2015, Phillip Henry Freeman disappeared from the Liberty County Jail near Houston, Texas. He was recaptured living in a wooded area in Arkansas in late January 2016. His escape was the latest in a slew of …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by California: For each of the last five years, members of the Golden State Warriors basketball team have visited San Quentin State Prison. Superstars Kevin Durant and Draymond Green sat among the prisoners and observed from the sidelines as members of the Warriors front office staff played …
Page 602 of 2029. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 ... 598 599 600 601 602 603 604 605 606 ... 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029 | Next »