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Settlement in Suit Challenging Conditions in Illinois Juvenile Prisons by Matthew Clarke On September 12, 2012, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) helped youth incarcerated in secure Illinois Youth Centers operated by the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice (IDJJ) file a class-action federal lawsuit alleging that conditions in the IDJJ …
Article • August 25, 2016
Forced to Die Alone – A Lonely Bed to Substitute God and Family by An epidemic is slowly taking root throughout the United States prison system. As of 2010, State and federal prisons house more than 26,000 inmates 65+ years old and nearly five times that number 55 and up.1 …
Article • August 25, 2016
Filed under: DOC/BOP misconduct
Washington State Prisons Chief Resigns as Video of Affair with Subordinate Emerges by Matthew Clarke Eldon Vail, Corrections Secretary in Washington State, turned in a letter of resignation on July 1, 2011, after it was made public that he had been having an affair with a subordinate. Shortly before Vail …
Missouri Jail Head Receives Ten-Year Federal Sentence for Assaulting Prisoners by Matthew Clarke On July 13, 2011, a Missouri federal judge sentenced a former chief jailer to ten years in prison for violating the civil rights of prisoners and lying to the FBI. The jailer's daughter, a deputy sheriff, pleaded …
Article • August 25, 2016
Study Shows High Rate of Sexually-Transmitted Infections at Maricopa County Jails by A study by Arizona State University's Center for Prevention and Community Safety has shown a high rate of infection with sexually-transmitted infections (STIs) among prisoners in the Maricopa County jails in Phoenix, Arizona. 130,000 people are booked into …
Article • August 25, 2016
Arkansas Federal Court Holds No First Amendment Right to Lower Prison Phone Rates by Matthew Clarke On January 21, 2011, an Arkansas federal court held that state prisoners in Arkansas had no First Amendment right to a specific telephone rate. Arkansas state prisoners Winston Holloway and Joseph Breault filed a …
Article • August 25, 2016
Filed under: Private Prisons
Private Prisons Are a Risky Business for Local Governments by Matthew Clarke Local governments in Texas and across the nation are bearing high costs for building private prisons that are now unwanted due to a sharp decline in incarceration rates. This has led some local governments to adopt radical strategies …
Family of Dead Registered Sex Offender Still Receiving Registry Letters by Matthew Clarke When 17-year-old Justin Fawcett admitted to having consensual sex with a 14-year-old student at the same West Bloomfield, Michigan high school he attended he probably never thought that he would die for his crime, but he did. …
Article • August 25, 2016
Filed under: Police Misconduct
New Mexico Sheriff Pleads Guilty to Selling Stolen County Property on eBay by On July 20, 2011, the former Sheriff of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, Greg Solano, 47, pleaded guilty to five counts of fraud for selling county property on eBay and keeping the money. The property sold included …
Article • August 25, 2016
Vermont Prisoners Riot in Massachusetts County Jail by Derek Gilna Eleven prisoners from Vermont were the principal participants in a recent disturbance at the Franklin County, Masschusetts county jail, according to Vermont Corrections Commissioner Andy Pallito. Three other prisoners from Massachusetts also took part in the incident, which resulted in …
Article • August 25, 2016
Filed under: Prison Labor
Wisconsin Uses Prisoner Workers to Cut Labor Costs by Derek Gilna The recent news that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker was planning to utilize prisoners to perform work previously done by state employees has ignited controversy from those who feel that such work will reduce the number of public employees. In …
Article • August 25, 2016
Filed under: DOC/BOP misconduct, Food
Tainted BOP Chicken Sickens 300 Pennsylvania Prisoners by More than 300 prisoners at the U.S.P. Canaan in Waymont, Pennsylvania near Philadelphia, fell ill of salmonella after eating "tainted chicken" used to make fajitas. Four of the 300 were ill enough to necessitate treatment at a local hospital's emergency room for …
Article • August 25, 2016
Federal Bureau of Prisons claims DNA backlog no longer exists by Derek Gilna A recent announcement by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) stated that it had eliminated a previous backlog of over 90,000 prisoners DNA test results. However, a Florida congressman who had drawn attention to the backlog, while …
Article • August 25, 2016
Texas Criminal Court Fees Are a Secret Tax on the Poor by The Texas Legislature has erected such a mishmash of criminal court fees that even the- court administrators and clerks don't know how to apply them. These fees, which are frequently not used for their intended purposes amount to …
Article • August 25, 2016
Oklahoma DPS Hires Former DOC Guard Dismissed for Excessive Force by Matthew Clarke On November 15, 2011, Oklahoma Department of Public Safety (DPS) Commissioner Michael Thompson 'created a high-rank, $60,000-per-year job and hired an old friend, who had been fired for beating prisoners while a guard captain in the Oklahoma …
Article • August 25, 2016
Wyoming Court of Appeals Permits Delay in Prison Allowing Public Records Access by Jonmichael Guy, a Wyoming Department of Corrections (DOC) prisoner sent Steve Hargett, warden of the Wyoming Medium Correctional Institute, an internal inmate communication form requesting permission to view the DOC's Policy and Procedure # 1.215, Code of …
Article • August 25, 2016
$23,000 Settlement in Assault on Prisoner at Halfway House by The District of Columbia (DC) paid $23,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by Timothy Cofield for injuries sustained when a halfway house employee assaulted him. As Cofield returned to DC’s halfway house called the Extended House on April 13, 2002, …
Article • August 25, 2016
Tucson Federal Jury Awards Couple $1.25 Million in False Arrest Case by Lonnie Burton On April 22, 2015, a federal jury sitting in the U.S. District Court in Arizona awarded a Tucson couple a total of $1.25 million after a trial on their claims of false arrest and unconstitutional search …
Article • August 25, 2016
Texas Court of Appeals Affirms Termination of Prisoner's Parental Rights by On January 21, 2016, a Texas court of appeals affirmed the termination of a prisoner's parental rights to his two minor children. At the time of the termination jury trial in the district court, the father was incarcerated on …
Sixth Circuit Reverses Consent Decree in Kentucky Religious Foster Care Provider Case by Lonnie Burton On October 6, 2015, the United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, overturned the terms of a settlement agreement between taxpayer group and the state of Kentucky in a case challenging the manner in which …
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