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Article • November 7, 2016 • from PLN November, 2016
that the New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) could deny prisoners the use of wheelchairs with electric motors because the Department’s use of prisoners assigned to push ...
Article • July 28, 2017 • from PLN August, 2017
-release work credits and wages from outside employment. The DOC’s two transitional-housing facilities hold prisoners classified at the lowest-security level, community trustee, who are within 18 ...
tecum, seeking J's email and "all internet activity and searches" from February 22, 2011 to March 31, 2011. Google refused to comply with the subpoena, arguing that the Electronic Communications Privacy ...
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
or his guards. “Sometimes it’s hard to put your finger on a particular problem or issue when talking about human lives,” he said. “It’s important for the community ...
Article • June 5, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
Filed under: Water
dangers including lead and other sediment from corroded pipes. The water, they said, was not only dark in color but also clogs filters in the communal sinks with sediment. Yet despite the inadequate ...
Article • June 5, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
Filed under: Prison Labor
. Florida’s Department of Corrections, for example, counted 6.6 million hours of prisoner labor on community projects in 2016 that saved taxpayers an estimated $59 million. Governor Rick Scott ...
Article • June 5, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
Filed under: Reviews
; of segregation. Practically speaking, Dr. Kupers proposes the adoption of a community mental health care model in prisons and jails. Prisoners, especially those suffering from mental illness, tend to cycle ...
Article • June 8, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
with the Vermont Department of Corrections and one of its community corrections officers, shot himself on October 18, 2017, just two years after he was named the state’s Corrections Officer of the Year; &bull ...
Article • June 8, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
that in the community rehabilitative opportunities have not expanded much.” Besides Ramos and Nielsen, not everyone is happy with the increased parole grant rates. In April 2018, family members of three children ...
. By the end of 2015 that number had soared to 24,661. “You would think that more reports [mean] a rise in incidents,” said Jesse Lerner-Kinglake, communications director for Just Detention ...
Article • December 7, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Filed under: Dental Care
as much as the community.” State Senator John Whitmire said he was happy the TDCJ had responded “correctly,” but disappointed that granting prisoner denture requests was a problem ...
Article • December 7, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
supply cheap labor to local communities, such as picking up trash on roadways or lawn care for public buildings. And some facilities offer work-release programs for offenders nearing the end ...
officials have taken steps to increase post-release housing by contracting with non-profit organizations. They hope to replicate the success in Georgia, which began investing more money toward community-based ...
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
to misdemeanors; Lesseps received one year of probation and was required to complete 50 hours of community service, attend AA meetings and attend a victim impact class provided by Mothers Against Drunk Driving ...
Article • August 23, 2016
ensure that the defendant would appear for trial and not pose a risk to the community." During the report period, 36% of federal criminal defendants were released pretrial. The type of criminal case ...
Article • August 22, 2016
Filed under: Restitution
simplistic." And, as already noted, probation officials seek a sort of middle ground, trying to balance the goal of reintegrating offenders into the community with the goal of collecting court-ordered ...
Article • January 10, 2017 • from PLN January, 2017
of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) as a supervisor in the tailor shop at Clinton, where both Matt and Sweat worked. Although married, she said she was enticed into a fantasy of helping the prisoners ...
and economic disenfranchisement. As Benchellali told Mother Jones, Muslims may turn to radical Islam because they “feel like France doesn’t want them.” Indeed, France’s Muslim community ...
Article • June 30, 2017 • from PLN July, 2017
to civil rights attorneys and prisoner advocates, staff-on-prisoner assaults in facilities operated by the New York Department of Corrections and Community Services (DOCCS) have become increasingly brutal ...
Article • July 28, 2017 • from PLN August, 2017
investigation, was merely to exploit the death of Sandra Bland to get a new Waller County jail,” said DeWayne Charleston, a community activist and former prisoner. “Not one thing has changed [since ...
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