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Brief • February 1, 2018
The People v. The Superior Court of Riverside County, CA, Opinion, Retroactive Sentencing of Juvenile Defendant, 2018 Filed 2/1/18 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA THE PEOPLE, ) ) Petitioner, ) ) v. ) ) THE SUPERIOR COURT OF RIVERSIDE ) COUNTY, ) ) Respondent; ) ) PABLO ULLISSES LARA, …
Smith v. Champaign Sheriff, IL, Complaint, Wrongful Death, 2017 2:17-cv-02070-EIL # 42 E-FILED Page 1 of 31 Thursday, 01 February, 2018 05:00:45 PM Clerk, U.S. District Court, ILCD UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE CENTRAL DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS URBANA DIVISION LILLIE SMITH, INDEPENDENT ADMINISTRATOR of the ESTATE of PAUL E. …
Bread for the World Institute - Mass Incarceration: A Major Cause of Hunger, 2018 BRIEFING PAPER NUMBER 35, FEBRUARY 2018 Mass Incarceration: A Major Cause of Hunger by Marlysa D. Gamblin Bread for the World Institute provides policy analysis on hunger and poverty, as well as strategies to end it. …
Publication • February 1, 2018
Filed under: Immigration
Rebuilding Trust - CIVIC Report Rebuilding Trust: A Case Study for Closing & Repurposing Immigration Detention Facilities Copyright © February 2018 Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (CIVIC) All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Cover Design by Liz Martinez The primary author and editor of …
Publication • February 1, 2018
A Pound of Flesh, the Criminalization of Private Debt, ACLU, 2018 A Pound of Flesh The Criminalization of Private Debt A Pound of Flesh The Criminalization of Private Debt © 2018 AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION Contents Executive Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . …
Kickback publication • February 1, 2018
HI DPS - GTL Announcement - Effective 2-1-2018 8/28/2019 Department of Public Safety State of Hawaii Department of Public Safety Home » Effective February 1, 2018, all inmate phone calls (local, inter-island, mainland, and international) are provided by Global Tel Link (GTL). This provider allows calls to landline and wireless …
Article • January 31, 2018 • from PLN February, 2018
Ninth Circuit Blocks Deportation of ICE Detainee Who Received $125,000 for County Jail Rape by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna In August 2017, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals stayed the deportation of Audemio Orozco-Ramirez, an undocumented Mexican immigrant who was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in 2013, …
Article • January 31, 2018 • from PLN February, 2018
Oregon Juvenile Prisoners Denied Law Libraries, Legal Assistance; Claims Not Heck-Barred by On June 5, 2017, an Oregon federal district court refused to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a state prisoner who alleged he was denied access to a law library and legal assistance while confined in a juvenile facility. …
Report Critical of BOP’s Solitary Confinement Policy for Mentally Ill Prisoners by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna In July 2017, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issued a report highly critical of the Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) policy of confining mentally ill prisoners in Restrictive …
Article • January 31, 2018 • from PLN February, 2018
French Officials to Install Phones in 50,000 Prison Cells by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin In a bold move designed to reduce cell phone trafficking and improve rehabilitative efforts, on January 2, 2018, French officials opened the bidding process for a telecom provider to install landline telephones in each of …
Article • January 31, 2018 • from PLN February, 2018
Total Cost of Pretrial Detention Estimated at up to $140 Billion Annually by According to a report by the Pretrial Justice Institute (PJI) released in January 2017, U.S. taxpayers “spend approximately $38 million per day to jail people who are awaiting trial (63% of the total jail population, or more …
Article • January 31, 2018 • from PLN February, 2018
$637,500 Settlement for Texas Jail Suicide by On March 9, 2017, Ochiltree County, Texas settled a lawsuit brought by the family of a woman who committed suicide at the local jail, agreeing to pay $637,500. The county also paid guardian ad litem fees of $10,100 and agreed to change policies …
Article • January 31, 2018 • from PLN February, 2018
California Jail Doctor Faces Medical Board Discipline for Negligent Care by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin According to an October 2017 news report, an investigation by the Medical Board of California found that Dr. Michelle A. Thomas was negligent in the care of five prisoners at the Fresno County Jail …
Article • January 31, 2018 • from PLN February, 2018
Filed under: Wrongful Imprisonment
North Carolina Brothers Settle Lawsuit Over 31 Years of Wrongful Imprisonment by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On April 11, 2017, two North Carolina brothers who had been wrongfully convicted and spent 31 years in prison before being exonerated of a rape-murder by DNA evidence moved to dismiss their lawsuit …
Article • January 31, 2018 • from PLN February, 2018
Prison Policy Initiative Report Addresses Jail Populations by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The non-profit, Massachusetts-based Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) published a report on May 31, 2017 that argued local jails, which hold “one of every three people behind bars” in the United States, have for too long been ignored …
Article • January 31, 2018 • from PLN February, 2018
California Billionaire Pushes States to Adopt “Marsy’s Law” by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke California billionaire Dr. Henry T. Nicholas and his mother entered a grocery store in 1983, a few days after his sister, Marsalee, was murdered. There they ran into her boyfriend, who had been arrested for the …
Article • January 31, 2018 • from PLN February, 2018
Record Number of Florida Prisoners Died in 2016, 2017 by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A record number of prisoners – 356 – died while in the custody of the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) in 2016. Even more died during 2017. Topping the chart in 2016 was Dade …
Article • January 31, 2018 • from PLN February, 2018
Canada to Apologize, Pay $10.5 Million to Former Guantanamo Detainee by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The Canadian government has agreed to pay $10.5 million to Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen who was held at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as an enemy combatant for over a …
Article • January 31, 2018 • from PLN February, 2018
Prisoner Abuse at Parchman: Minimum Punishment and Impeded Investigations by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A federal investigation into an assault on a prisoner by guards at Mississippi’s State Penitentiary at Parchman included a claim that then-Superintendent Earnest Lee impeded the prison’s own review of the incident. As previously …
Article • January 31, 2018 • from PLN February, 2018
Louisiana Prisons Present Immense Environmental Dangers by Daniel Horowitz by Daniel Horowitz For many people it will come as no surprise that Louisiana has an extensive prison system. Considered the world’s prison capital, the state imprisons more adults per capita than any other state in the U.S. With 132 detention …
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