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In the Public Interest - An Examination of Private Financing for Correctional and Immigration Detention Facilities, 2018
Publication • June 1, 2018
Filed under: Sexual Assault, Staff-Staff Assault, Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Prison Industries, Workplace Injury, Work Conditions/Safety, Prison Gangs, Staffing, Security Systems, Guard Brutality/Beatings
In the Public Interest - An Examination of Private Financing for Correctional and Immigration Detention Facilities, 2018 An examination of private financing for correctional and immigration detention facilities Report · In the Public Interest · June 2018 While governments have traditionally used municipal bonds to finance the construction of correctional …
Families Against Mandatory Minimums: Everywhere and Nowhere -- Compassionate Release in the States, 2018
Publication • June 1, 2018
Filed under: Geriatric Classification, Prison Reform, Criminal justice system reform, Medical, Conditions of Confinement, Release and Reentry, Parole, Rehabilitation Act, Mental Health
Families Against Mandatory Minimums: Everywhere and Nowhere -- Compassionate Release in the States, 2018 Everywhere and Nowhere Compassionate Release in the States By Mary Price June 2018 1 About the Author Mary Price is general counsel of Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM). She directs the FAMM Litigation Project and advocates …
Big House Books v. Hall et al., complaint, non-religious free books to prisons, 2018
Brief • April 26, 2018
Filed under: Publications/Books, Media, Access to Media, First Amendment, First Amendment, rights, Fourteenth Amendment, rights
Big House Books v. Hall et al., complaint, non-religious free books to prisons, 2018 Case 3:18-cv-00259-DPJ-FKB Document 1 Filed 04/26/18 Page 1 of 8 Case 3:18-cv-00259-DPJ-FKB Document 1 Filed 04/26/18 Page 2 of 8 Case 3:18-cv-00259-DPJ-FKB Document 1 Filed 04/26/18 Page 3 of 8 Case 3:18-cv-00259-DPJ-FKB Document 1 Filed 04/26/18 …
Global Tel*Link Settles Mississippi Prison Bribery Case for $2.5 Million
Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Contractor Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct
Global Tel*Link Settles Mississippi Prison Bribery Case for $2.5 Million by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis As previously mentioned in PLN, Global Tel*Link Corp. (GTL), the largest provider of prison and jail phone services in the United States, has settled a lawsuit that accused the company of conspiring to bribe …
Declaratory Judgment in Mississippi Case Challenging Indefinite Jail Detention
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
Filed under: Declaratory Judgment, Overdetention
Declaratory Judgment in Mississippi Case Challenging Indefinite Jail Detention by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A Mississippi federal district court has issued an agreed declaratory judgment in a case brought by two defendants who were held for long periods of time in the Scott County Detention Center without an individualized …
Fifth Circuit Okays Mississippi County’s Strip Search of 12-Year-Old Girl
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
Filed under: Searches, Strip Searches, Juveniles
Fifth Circuit Okays Mississippi County’s Strip Search of 12-Year-Old Girl by On February 21, 2017, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court’s grant of summary judgment to Lee County, Mississippi in a lawsuit over a pre-teen girl who was strip searched after being brought to a county …
MS DOC Rates March 2018
Kickback publication • March 2, 2018
Filed under: Organizing, Advocacy, Prison Reform, Criminal justice system reform, Telephones, Telephone Rates
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Prisoner Abuse at Parchman: Minimum Punishment and Impeded Investigations
Article • January 31, 2018 • from PLN February, 2018
Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Guard Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Excessive Force
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 …
Poor and Mentally Ill Languish in Mississippi Jails for Months or Years Awaiting Indictments
Article • January 31, 2018 • from PLN February, 2018
Filed under: Appointment of Counsel, Public Defenders, Bail Bonds, Mental Health
Poor and Mentally Ill Languish in Mississippi Jails for Months or Years Awaiting Indictments by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Some people arrested on felony charges in Mississippi face months, a year or even longer in jail before they are indicted. Some are never indicted before their release. All …
US v. Fairley, MS, Appeal, Inapplicable Sentencing Enhancement, 2018
Brief • January 22, 2018
Filed under: Jury Instructions, U.S. Sentencing Guidelines
US v. Fairley, MS, Appeal, Inapplicable Sentencing Enhancement, 2018 Case: 17-60001 Document: 00514315299 Page: 1 Date Filed: 01/22/2018 IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT No. 17-60001 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff - Appellee United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit FILED January 22, 2018 Lyle …
Mississippi Court of Appeals Upholds Prisoner's Conviction for Assaulting Guard
Article • January 3, 2018
Mississippi Court of Appeals Upholds Prisoner's Conviction for Assaulting Guard by On November 3, 2015, the Mississippi Court of Appeals upheld the conviction of state prisoner Tony Phillips for assaulting guard Mose Harmon at the Washington County Regional Correctional Facility. Phillips was prosecuted for simple assault and claimed self-defense. A …
Efforts to End “Scourge of Money Bail” Meeting with Success
Article • December 12, 2017
Filed under: Bail, Bail Bonds
Efforts to End “Scourge of Money Bail” Meeting with Success by David Reutter By David M. Reutter The initiative by Equal Justice Under Law to end the incarceration pending trial of persons too poor to post bail is reaping positive outcomes.  Each day, there are about 500,00 human beings who …
Brown v. City of Corinth, Judge John C. Ross, MS, signed Complaint, 'debtors' prison,' 2017
Brief • December 5, 2017
Filed under: Jail Specific, Public Defenders, Indigent Defense, Money/Property, Bond Fees, Bail Bonds, Fourteenth Amendment, rights, Fifth Amendment, Sixth Amendment
Brown v. City of Corinth, Judge John C. Ross, MS, signed Complaint, 'debtors' prison,' 2017 IN THE MISSISSIPPI COMMISSION ON JUDICIAL PERFORMANCE IN THE MATTER OF HON. JOHN C. ROSS CAUSE NO. ________ PRIVATE COMPLAINT 1 I. 1. INTRODUCTION Corinth, Mississippi Municipal Court Judge John C. Ross operates a modern-day …
Brown v. City of Corinth, MS, Class Action Complaint, 'debtors' prison,' 2017
Brief • December 5, 2017
Filed under: Indigent Defense, Money/Property, Bond Fees, Bail Bonds, Fourteenth Amendment, rights, Fifteenth Amendment, rights, Sixth Amendment
Brown v. City of Corinth, MS, Class Action Complaint, 'debtors' prison,' 2017 THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI ABERDEEN DIVISION FILED ~ SAMMY BROWN and BRIAN KEITH HOWELL, on behalf of themselves and all others simi larly situated. AVID . K pUfy Plaintiffs, Case No. …
Nelson v. Lauderdale County, MS, Complaint, Failure to Protect, 2017
Brief • November 15, 2017
Filed under: Failure to Protect (Staff)
Nelson v. Lauderdale County, MS, Complaint, Failure to Protect, 2017 Case 3:17-cv-00905-HSO-LRA Document 1 Filed 11/15/17 Page 1 of 22 ' "tR.'./ J Sm CT O=, ·.cs•cc,p,:, r------"-'[UQ IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI NORTHERN DIVISION JARRETT R. NELSON - ·-- ' WJV l : 2017 …
Blakeney v. State of Mississippi, MI, Death Penalty Appeal, Prosecutorial Misconduct, 2017
Brief • November 9, 2017
Filed under: Eighth Amendment, Death Penalty, Fourteenth Amendment, rights, Fifth Amendment, Sixth Amendment, Prosecutorial Misconduct
Blakeney v. State of Mississippi, MI, Death Penalty Appeal, Prosecutorial Misconduct, 2017 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF MISSISSIPPI NO. 2015-DP-00058-SCT JUSTIN BARRETT BLAKENEY a/k/a JUSTIN BLAKENEY v. STATE OF MISSISSIPPI DATE OF JUDGMENT: TRIAL JUDGE: TRIAL COURT ATTORNEYS: COURT FROM WHICH APPEALED: ATTORNEYS FOR APPELLANT: ATTORNEYS FOR APPELLEE: DISTRICT ATTORNEY: …
DOJ Audit Rips Privately-operated Federal Facility; Trump Administration Presses Forward
Article • October 9, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Corrections Audits, Private Contractors, Failure to Treat, Food, Staffing
DOJ Audit Rips Privately-operated Federal Facility; Trump Administration Presses Forward by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna In December 2016, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), a watchdog agency within the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), issued an audit of the federal Bureau of Prisons’ contract with private prisoner company …
Former Mississippi DOC Commissioner, Co-defendants Sentenced in Massive Bribery Scheme
Article • October 9, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
Filed under: Government Misconduct, Telephone Rates
Former Mississippi DOC Commissioner, Co-defendants Sentenced in Massive Bribery Scheme by In January 2017, U.S. District Court Judge Henry T. Wingate sentenced Sam Waggoner, 62, to five years in prison for his role in a bribery scheme involving Mississippi’s former corrections commissioner. The sentence also included two years of supervised …
Mississippi Closes Troubled Former Youth Prison
Article • August 30, 2017 • from PLN September, 2017
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Management and Training Corporation, Guard Misconduct, Cost of Prison Systems, Juvenile Prisons
Mississippi Closes Troubled Former Youth Prison by Citing budgetary cuts, the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) finally closed the troubled, privately-operated Walnut Grove Correctional Facility (WGCF) on September 15, 2016. As previously reported in PLN, Walnut Grove had been under a federal consent decree since 2012 over allegations of guards …
Extensive Contraband Found During Shakedowns at Mississippi Prisons
Article • August 30, 2017 • from PLN September, 2017
Filed under: Management and Training Corporation, Prison/Common Area Searches, Prisoner Property
Extensive Contraband Found During Shakedowns at Mississippi Prisons by A surprise predawn shakedown on March 3, 2017 yielded an “excessive amount of contraband” at one of Mississippi’s three privately-operated prisons, according to Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) Interim Commissioner Pelicia Hall. The search at the Wilkinson County Correctional Facility was …
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