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Case • 2006
) (per curiam), we considered what types of mental disorders could qualify for civil commitment [*13] under Washington's Sexually Violent Predator Act. See WASH. REV. CODE § 71.09.020. Brock clarified ...
. A palpable sense of fear sinks in during those moments. What's to keep prisoners from attacking once they realize the guards are exhausted, outnumbered, and don't have functional radios? “It’s ...
Article • July 18, 2017
not refer to that person as "Mr." or "Ms." The Name and Dignity Act won't stop staff members from using the wrong name, gender pronoun or salutation for trans people incarcerated in California. What ...
Article • November 6, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018
to pursue her, even sending her roses. Her complaints eventually reached Chief Judge Harry Lee Hudspeth on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. “What exactly do you want me to do about this?&rdquo ...
at what you’re saying here in your testimony.” In fact, in early April 2017, shortly after Mayor de Blasio called for the closure of Rikers Island, a report published by a federal court ...
their services for a cheaper price than what the government would pay to operate their own facilities. The inmates and staff who work in private prisons pay the biggest price, as cheaper costs usually mean poorer ...
Article • December 5, 2017 • from PLN December, 2017
prison time on their record. The prison system takes care of basic needs like food and shelter, but after a sentence is completed, a person must go back to the real world and start paying rent. “What ...
to stand up or sit by the door or else she can't see me." It's not just the distance that worries him. It's the inability to know what's happening. "When you don't hear from her, there's always that worry ...
Article • March 31, 2017
the capital who occasionally come to check prison compliance with any number of court-ordered reforms: "They aren't Sacramento." But what would it matter if we were? The Golden Gulag: Excessive ...
Article • May 5, 2017 • from PLN May, 2017
of the pills that ground him in reality. “I have a serious mental disorder, which is what caused me to commit my crime in the first place,” said Ernest, who asked reporters to use only his middle ...
Article • May 7, 2018 • from PLN May, 2018
signed the paper because I couldn’t get him to answer whenever I yelled for his name in the section,” Toler said. “He didn’t come so that’s what I thought I needed to do. I ...
Article • September 12, 2014 • from PLN September, 2014
[from the debt collection firms] come on letterhead from the district attorneys. That’s a lie. They’re not from the district attorneys.... What the DAs are doing is renting out ...
Article • January 15, 2014 • from PLN January, 2014
Filed under: News, News in Brief
.” Florida: On July 24, 2013, Lowell Correctional Institution prisoner Yvonne Eugena McBride died from what family members were told was pneumonia. The day prior to McBride’s death, a mysterious “flu-like ...
be gone in a year and the issue would go away. I think ultimately, that’s what they were counting on.” Mullins said instead that in pushing the bill, Fallin’s office wanted to see the group overseeing ...
Article • March 15, 2014 • from PLN March, 2014
Filed under: News, News in Brief
with the August 30, 2013 incident. New York: On August 25, 2013, Robert Smalls, an off-duty prison guard, shot his 17-year-old son. There were conflicting accounts regarding what happened. Smalls told ...
Article • August 15, 2013 • from PLN August, 2013
Filed under: News, News in Brief
-down shower chair and a handheld shower head. McCabe claims that he has fallen in the shower facilities in the past and faces the risk of future injuries. "We've got what we've got," said Jerome County ...
Article • July 15, 2013 • from PLN July, 2013
Filed under: News, News in Brief
. He then began screaming and pounding on the cell door. "[What] if I was unhealthy ... had a heart attack? What if I had diabetes and had a sugar issue?" Lopez asked. "If they hadn't heard me ...
at the outset that the Standing Investigating Committee’s findings were “more notable for what they do not say, and for the lack of evidentiary support for the conclusions they reach, than for what they do say ...
Article • November 8, 2014 • from PLN November, 2014
Filed under: News in Brief
similar to dirt, dog food and dog excrement. Arpaio, in his usual elegant form, stated, “They ought to shut up and eat what they have.” He claimed the new soy-based meals save the county a half ...
Article • November 17, 2014
. Privatizing Health Care - But at What Cost? Handling prisoner accounts is not the only service that has been privatized. Across the country, jails and prisons have been contracting with private, for-profit ...
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