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Teeth Extraction Policy for CA Women Prisoners Rescinded by John Dannenberg Teeth Extraction Policy for CA Women Prisoners Rescinded by John E. Dannenberg As part of a bizarre medical policy, the California Dept. of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has for years imposed a rule that requires women prisoners who apply …
Article • December 15, 2007 • from PLN December, 2007
California’s Mother-Child Alternative Prison Centers Investigated by California's Mother-Child Alternative Prison Centers Investigated by John E. Dannenberg California has five alternative prison centers housing 140 women with their children as the mothers serve prison terms for non-violent crimes. Contracted out to Center Point, Inc. of San Rafael, CA, the five …
Article • December 15, 2007
Pregnant Woman’s Ingestion of Cocaine Not Delivery to Her Baby in Texas by Pregnant Woman's Ingestion of Cocaine Not Delivery to Her Baby in Texas by Matthew T. Clarke On February 14, 2007, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (CCA) held that a pregnant woman who ingested cocaine did not …
Article • October 15, 2007 • from PLN October, 2007
Mere Possibility of Parole Insufficient to Prevent Texas Prisoners’ Parental Rights Termination by Matthew Clarke The Texas Supreme Court held that the mere possibility of parole within the two-year imprisonment requirement of § 161.001(1)(Q), Texas Family Code, was insufficient to prevent termination of a prisoner's parental rights. William Keith M. …
Article • September 15, 2007 • from PLN September, 2007
Texas Court of Appeals Reverses Termination of Prisoner’s Parental Rights by Matthew Clarke Texas Court of Appeals Reverses Termination of Prisoner's Parental Rights by Matthew T. Clarke A Texas court of appeals held that when terminating a prisoner's parental rights the two-year period of incarceration used to justify the termination …
Article • May 15, 2007
Injunctive Relief Granted For Pregnant NJ Jail Prisoners by Prisoners in the Monmouth County Correctional Institution, a New Jersey county jail, filed a class action suit on behalf of pregnant female prisoners alleging that they were being denied "essential" health care. The prisoners alleged, in particular, that the women were …
Article • May 15, 2007
Child Visitation Permitted; Receipt of Non Publisher Publications Banned by The California Court of Appeals held the "publishers only" rule for receiving publications did not violate pre-trial detainees' freedom of expression or rights to equal protection. However, the prevention of minor children visits is unconstitutional. Three pre-trial detainees filed a …
Article • May 15, 2007
WI Mother's Incarceration Not Enough to Terminate Her Parental Rights by Jodie W., a Wisconsin state prisoner, was incarcerated in July of 2002 for drunk driving. Her earliest possible release date was in March of 2006. She left her two-year-old son Max with her mother who soon contacted social services …
Article • May 15, 2007
Prisoner's Denial of Court Access for Divorce Defined, Confuses Court by In this case, where en banc rehearing was denied, the three-judge panel produces four separate opinions--a per curiam opinion, two concurrences with contradictory rationales, and one dissent. The plaintiff alleged that he tried to file a divorce petition pro …
Jail Staff Not Liable for Violating No Contact Order by The female plaintiff had a court order barring Smith, the father of her child, who was in the Marathon, Wisconsin, jail for trying to have her murdered, from having any contact with her. She was then brought to the jail …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Family, Mothers in Prison
No Right to Breastfeed by The court of appeals for the Fifth circuit held that neither a woman prisoner nor her child had any right to breastfeed the child while she was imprisoned. See: Southerland v. Thigpen, 784 F.2d 713 (5th Cir. 1986).
Article • May 15, 2007
Court Orders Minor Child Visitation in NJ Jail by A federal court in New Jersey ordered that visits by minor children be allowed for pretrial detainees at the Passaic County jail in New Jersey. The court also ordered a special master to file a report on the adequacy of visiting …
Article • May 15, 2007
Federal Parole Condition Denying Parolee Contact with His Minor Daughter Upheld by In January of 2004, Gregory Smith completed a 10-year sentence for drug and firearm violations. His parole officer ordered him to stay away from his minor daughter. Even so, he went to several schools looking for her and …
Article • December 15, 2006 • from PLN December, 2006
Many U.S. Prisoners Give Birth In Chains by Michael Rigby Childbirth is sacred in most cultures. But for many female prisoners in the U.S., the process can be cruel and degrading. According to a March 1, 2006, report by the human rights group Amnesty International U.S.A., 23 state prison systems …
Article • March 15, 2006 • from PLN March, 2006
NY DOC's 60% Telephone Call Surcharge" Violates First and Fourteenth Amendments by NY DOC's 60% Telephone Call Surcharge" Violates First and Fourteenth Amendments by John E. Dannenberg The U.S. District Court (S.D. N.Y.) ruled that the 60% surcharge (kickback) that the New York State Department of Corrections (NYDOC) receives from …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Filed under: Family, Mothers in Prison
All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated by By Nell Bernstein, The New Press; 303 Pages; $25.95 Reviewed by Sheerly Avni In part because of the war on drugs, in part because of mandatory sentencing laws such as California's three strikes" law, and in part because we have …
Parole for Women in California: Promise or Pathos by Corey Weinstein by Corey Weinstein, MD, CCHP Women are not men, but the California Department of Corrections (CDoC) has treated them as such until very recently. They are housed in mega prisons, denied contact with their children and denied important gender …
Article • October 15, 2005
Many U.S. Prisoners Give Birth In Chains by Michael Rigby Childbirth is sacred in most cultures. But for many female prisoners in the U.S., the process can be cruel and degrading. According to a March 1, 2006, report by the human rights group Amnesty International U.S.A., 23 state prison systems …
Article • September 15, 2005 • from PLN September, 2005
Massachusetts DOC Fails to Meet Women's Special Needs by by Michael Rigby The failure of the Massachusetts Department of Corrections (MDOC) to address the special needs of women in prison impedes the effective maintenance of family ties, according to a March 2005 research report by the University of Massachusetts's Center …
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