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Article • September 15, 2010 • from PLN September, 2010
Prison Nursery Programs Promote Bonding, Reduce Recidivism by Gary Hunter Several studies, highlighted by the Women’s Prison Association (WPA) in a recent report, have shown that allowing infants born in prison to remain with their incarcerated mothers enhances bonding and leads to decreased recidivism. Prior to the 1950s, nurseries for …
Article • September 15, 2010 • from PLN September, 2010
Texas Judge Sharon “Killer” Keller Receives Sanctions by by Matt Clarke On January 20, 2010, San Antonio judge David A. Berchelmann, Jr., acting as a special master for the Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct, issued findings of fact in a disciplinary complaint against Sharon Keller, the presiding judge of …
Article • September 15, 2010 • from PLN September, 2010
Court Rebuffs BOP for Third Time in PLN Records Suit by Brandon Sample The score is now PLN - 3, BOP - 0 in a protracted legal battle over the disclosure of records related to settlements and judgments paid by the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). In August 2003, PLN …
Failed Extortion Scheme Led to Washington Prisoner’s Suicide Attempt, Lawsuit Says by David Reutter by David M. Reutter According to a suit filed on behalf of a Washington state prisoner who attempted to commit suicide, a guard at the McNeil Island Corrections Center retaliated against prisoners who failed to pay …
Deplorable Conditions at Los Angeles ICE Facility Result in Settlement by Brandon Sample Being locked up is bad enough. But imagine being held in a basement without basic essentials like drinking water, clean clothes, the ability to shower, a toothbrush and toothpaste, and medical care. Thousands of immigration detainees in …
Article • September 15, 2010 • from PLN September, 2010
$2 Million in Settlements for Wrongful Arrest, Conviction in Ohio by Two former Ohio prisoners have accepted settlements totaling $2 million after being wrongly imprisoned for crimes they did not commit. One of the men, Derris Lewis, spent 18 months in jail pending trial on murder charges. The other, Robert …
Article • September 15, 2010 • from PLN September, 2010
Five Sentenced in Oregon Prison Food Bribery Scandal by Mark Wilson Four men who paid Oregon’s prison food services administrator $1.2 million in bribes to obtain state contracts have been sentenced to 3 months in prison for their role in the worst corruption case in Oregon’s history. As previously reported …
Article • September 15, 2010 • from PLN September, 2010
Technology, Budget Cuts Make Sex Offender Monitoring More Difficult by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Technological innovations and tech-savvy sex offenders, combined with budget cuts, have made it harder for law enforcement authorities to monitor the nation’s estimated 716,750 registered sex offenders (RSOs). That does not include all RSOs, as …
Article • September 15, 2010 • from PLN September, 2010
Wisconsin Doctor Sentenced for Sexually Abusing Prisoner Patients by In March 2010, a former doctor employed at the Stanley Correctional Institution in Wisconsin pleaded no contest to seven misdemeanors related to abusing or mistreating prisoners at that facility. In exchange for entering into a plea agreement, prosecutors reduced the charges …
Article • September 15, 2010 • from PLN September, 2010
Congress Passes Law to Reduce Crack/Powder Cocaine Sentencing Disparity by Anthony Papa On August 3, 2010, President Obama signed into law historic legislation that reduces the two-decades-old sentencing disparity between federal crack and powder cocaine offenses. House Republicans and Democrats are in agreement that U.S. drug laws are too harsh …
Article • September 15, 2010 • from PLN September, 2010
Former Prisoner Accepts $179,000 for Wrongful Conviction Under New Florida Law by David Reutter After initially declining to accept $179,000 under Florida’s Victims of Wrongful Incarceration Compensation Act, Leroy McGee agreed to receive compensation pursuant to that statute for serving 43 months in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. …
Article • September 15, 2010 • from PLN September, 2010
Ohio Cuts Prison Industry Jobs by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In February 2010, Ohio Penal Industries (OPI) announced it planned to close several prison industry programs and reduce its prisoner work force from 1,554 to 1,269 due to budget cuts. Previously, OPI stated in December 2009 that it was …
Article • September 15, 2010 • from PLN September, 2010
Alabama’s Indigent Defense System “Perfect Storm” for Ineffective Assistance by David Reutter by David M. Reutter “Alabama’s right-to-counsel system has the ‘perfect storm’ of characteristics that virtually guarantee ineffective assistance of counsel to the poor,” observed David Carroll, research director for the National Legal Aid & Defender Association. Carroll was …
$130,000 Settlement in Tennessee Jail Prisoner’s Beating, Rape by Local officials in Shelby County, Tennessee paid $130,000 to settle a lawsuit by a man who was beaten and raped while held at the Shelby County Jail. The plaintiff, identified in federal court documents as E.R. to protect his privacy, was …
Article • September 15, 2010 • from PLN September, 2010
New Jersey Prison Guards Fake Electrocution by Brandon Sample Three New Jersey guards accused of faking the electrocution of a prisoner at the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center in Avenel have been suspended. Sergeants Mark Percoco and Steven Russo received 105-day suspensions without pay following the October 3, 2009 incident, …
Article • September 15, 2010 • from PLN September, 2010
$2.9 Million Settlement in Suit against GEO over Suspicionless Strip Searches by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On May 20, 2010, a $2.9 million settlement was reached in a Pennsylvania federal civil rights lawsuit against GEO Group for performing suspicionless strip searches of people arrested for minor, non-violent, non-drug offenses. …
Article • September 15, 2010 • from PLN September, 2010
Mississippi Stops Segregating HIV-positive Prisoners by On March 17, 2010, the American Civil Liberties Union announced that the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) had agreed to stop segregating prisoners with HIV. The policy change followed two decades of efforts by the ACLU, Human Rights Watch (HRW) and other advocacy organizations. …
New York City Jail Prisoner Awarded $1.3 Million in Deliberate Indifference to Assault Claim by A New York federal jury awarded $1 million to Steve Tatum for severe injuries he sustained as a pre-trial detainee when he was assaulted by other prisoners at the Rikers Island jail. The district court …
GEO Group Settles $47.5 Million Texas Prisoner Wrongful Death Suit by On January 7, 2010, GEO Group settled a lawsuit over the beating death of a prisoner in Willacy County, Texas that had already resulted in a jury verdict of $47.5 million – one of the largest prisoner wrongful death …
Article • September 15, 2010 • from PLN September, 2010
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News in Brief: by Arizona: On July 25, 2010, the troubled Corrections Corporation of America-run Saguaro Correctional Center was placed on lockdown after 30 prisoners from Hawaii were involved in a scuffle over an Xbox. During the melee the prison’s “gang intelligence officer” was beaten and suffered a broken nose, …
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