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Article • January 12, 2015
, was brought against the Kalamazoo County Sheriff’s Office, the Michigan Department of Community Health (DCH), former guard Jeffrey Miller, Sgt. James DeLaBarre, and jail clinician Aki Nearcho. It alleges ...
screening, attention, distribution, and resources; and lack of policies and practices for identifying, tracking, responding, communicating, and providing accessibility for accommodations for prisoners ...
Article • September 25, 2015 • from PLN October, 2015
;That type of behavior will not be tolerated in our city, and we can work together bringing the community and the people together for the betterment of our city,” he added. Brookins termed ...
, it created a parallel chain of command. A lack of cooperation and communication caused some of the problems. For example, nurses were placing towels that were contaminated with blood or urine in plastic ...
as part of its community jail program for many years; the jail serves an area of approximately 35,000 square miles in the northwest region of Alaska." The jail's full operating costs were not covered ...
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
Act and similar programs; and c) the costs of supervising the 4,814,200 adults who are serving some form of community supervision such as probation, parole or supervised release – many for the rest ...
Article • August 15, 2013
, and use of prison instead of community-based alternatives have driven the increase. The report finds that 18 states have enacted criminal justice reforms designed to reduce costs and increase public safety ...
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
Filed under: Medical, Brain Injury
prisoners will be released, these problems will also pose challenges when they return to the community.” The CDC recognizes TBI in prisons and jails as “an important public health problem,” and notes ...
servants in corrections, inmates and the community,” stated SCDC Director Bryan P. Stirling. The first-year installment of the funding for the remedial plan was included in the governor’s ...
Article • August 4, 2015
Filed under: Editorials, Prison Reform
to redeem themselves is to honor those who have been wronged by doing something right in their former communities.   The author, Ronald Paul Hill, provided this article exclusively for Prison Legal News. ...
Article • April 15, 2012 • from PLN April, 2012
than 2.3 million people are incarcerated in the U.S. – many of them victims of a Drug War that targets communities of color, or, more generally, victims of a system that strives to keep people poor ...
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
contacting Szeremi, and informed him that he represented Szeremi and “it would be best that all communications from you be addressed to me and I will relay information to Beatrix as appropriate.” Despite ...
in immigration detention issues; the Partnership for Safety and Justice; Justice Policy Institute; and Enlace, an alliance of worker centers, unions and community organizations that works against corporate abuses ...
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
in the jails and prisons in their communities. Taxpayers in Custer County, Oklahoma, however, are now very concerned following a $10 million settlement in a lawsuit involving female prisoners who were subjected ...
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
, “it is important to recognize that slightly more than one-third of these releases remain in the community.” California’s three-year recidivism rate is significantly higher than the average national rate of 43.3 ...
the warden, assistant warden and department heads, did not visit the prison’s living and recreation areas on a weekly basis to communicate with prisoners and observe conditions, as required by DRC policy ...
Article • October 10, 2014 • from PLN October, 2014
that conditions for immigrant detainees placed in isolation not only endangered their health and safety, but also pressured them “to abandon their options for legal relief, their families, their communities ...
Article • October 26, 2015 • from PLN November, 2015
Filed under: Telephone Rates
From the Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor by Paul Wright As this issue of PLN goes to press the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced that on October 22, 2015 ...
Article • July 2, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019
Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption
; families were feeling, allowing evacuated prisoners to make phone calls home at no cost. Less than 10 of the state’s 55 prisons had to be evacuated.  Jerry Higgins, communications officer ...
Article • July 2, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019
’ ability to transition back into the community following their release. Consider that a 10-year sentence would cost a prisoner at least $182,500 if he or she filed a lawsuit and the state ...
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