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dangerous situation than what this was,” he said. “It’s not like they took over the facility and burned the place down or assaulted staff.” Then again, two prisoners died. It seems that prisoners’ lives must ...
Article • February 15, 2009 • from PLN February, 2009
, that the prison abuses condoned or ignored by previous administrations will stop. While steps are being taken to close the notorious prison at Guantanamo, let’s do what we can closer to home to ensure civil ...
Article • July 15, 2009 • from PLN July, 2009
with UNICOR, the prison labor arm of the federal Bureau of Prisons. But that is exactly what a group of more than 300 Pennsylvania employees are going through. The workers, employed by private defense ...
Article • August 15, 2009 • from PLN August, 2009
their cases. Because these he was willing to suffer for the constitutional rights of others, what started as a ten-page newsletter has become a nationally recognized, award winning, human rights magazine ...
to challenge the assessment of fees on appeal. What will happen if writs are filed claiming ineffective counsel on this point is unknown, as that issue has not yet reached the courts. Texas prisoners of today ...
Article • November 15, 2009 • from PLN November, 2009
closures were “short sighted.” In what sounded like political posturing, Suthers stated, “I realize there are a lot of competing interests, but public safety has got to be number one.” Not to worry ...
limits of what one can hope for by using prison-based rehabilitative and treatment programs. The authors research historical parole and probation success rates, analyzing whether “failures” were in fact ...
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
to learn about a possible drug exchange. In a deposition taken by Powell, Hill admitted he had listened to the conversations. Later, however, Hill wrote a memo to the State Attorney’s office recanting what ...
Article • September 15, 2008 • from PLN September, 2008
, within such a small area, sheds light on what the report calls a “revolving door” process of incarceration. Of the 700,000 U.S. prisoners released each year “two-thirds are re-arrested within three years ...
Article • November 15, 2008 • from PLN November, 2008
resort in high-profile racketeering and murder cases to being a freely traded commodity in what could be called the trafficking of justice. Informant testimony, both voluntary and coerced, has proliferated ...
), the WDOC defendants enjoyed qualified immunity, because a “reasonable official would [not] understand that what he is doing violates that right.” The dissent rejected the majority’s logic ...
Article • February 15, 2009 • from PLN February, 2009
her. After a week in jail, Baker visited Shields, telling her he wanted to see what she looked like, which is why he placed the hold on her. He then told her she was attractive, advising her he could ...
Article • February 15, 2009 • from PLN February, 2009
. Later that afternoon Shepherd was discovered on the floor of his cell convulsing from what appeared to be a seizure. Guards reported his condition to the medical department. Fifteen minutes dragged ...
conditions caused by such crowded confinement, the court noted “one must not live in the clouds about what happens sexually in such a charged atmosphere.” The district court found the federal sentencing ...
a cell in a fellow guard’s cellblock. That guard ignored Martin’s request to stop what he suspected was the planned assault. Martin did not call for back up or take any other action ...
Article • April 15, 2009 • from PLN April, 2009
;What’s at stake is not just the jobs lost but also the jobs not created because employers feared the competition from companies using prison labor.” Sources: Lufkin Daily News, Press ...
Article • March 15, 2009 • from PLN March, 2009
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what are you going to do, arrest me?” Arizona: On January 15, 2009, a federal Bureau of Prisons bus was hit by another vehicle which left the scene. Eight prisoners were treated for minor injuries ...
Article • April 15, 2009 • from PLN April, 2009
suicide watch either a few hours or weeks earlier. Six had documented mental health histories and five had previous suicide attempts. Hayes found MDOC was lacking in what is the key to suicide prevention ...
that there was insufficient evidence to sustain the grievance, with no indication of what had been done to investigate the complaint. This sham grievance procedure cannot be adequately evaluated by an audit that fails to take ...
action, including the public release of the full Gumport report. But Hansberger stated, “It’s the public’s business. They have a right to know what the heck we’re doing. None ...
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