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Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
Filed under: Voting, Rural Prisons
New Connecticut Law Eliminates Prison Gerrymandering by On May 26, 2021, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed S.B. 753, Public Act 21-13, which created a new statute requiring the state to count most imprisoned persons as residents of the district where they were living before they were imprisoned for purposes of …
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
Hunger Strike, Ceiling Collapse, Lawsuit Spotlight Deteriorating Conditions at Women’s Prison in Illinois by Brian Dolinar, Panagioti Tsolkas by Brian Dolinar and Panagioti Tsolkas "I’ve been incarcerated since the age of 18, I grew up in the penal system,” shares Mishunda Davis. “I went from the Cook County jail, to …
Brief • September 20, 2021
City of New York v. Correction Officers Benevolent Association, NY, Complaint, Collective Bargaining & Strikes, 2021 CAUTION: THIS DOCUMENT HAS NOT YET BEEN REVIEWED BY THE COUNTY CLERK. (See below.) NYSCEF DOC. NO. 2 INDEX NO. UNASSIGNED RECEIVED NYSCEF: 09/20/2021 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF …
Article • September 8, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021
Filed under: Voting, Rural Prisons
Nominal Representation Without Actual Representation: One Person, No Vote by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon In the antebellum South, the Missouri Compromise allowed for every slave to count as four-fifths of a person for census and representative purposes. In our current, much more enlightened nation, every prisoner counts as an …
Thomas v. City of Chicago, IL, Settlement, Excessive Force Against Protestors, 2021 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION MARKEL THOMAS, Plaintiff, V. CITY OF CHICAGO, ET AL., Defendants. ) ) Case No. 21 C 421 ) ) Judge Sara Ellis ) ) …
Brief • September 7, 2021
Small v. New York City Department of Corrections, NY, Exhibit a - Verdict Form, Failure to Protect, 2021 Case 1:09-cv-01912-RA-SDA Document 377-1 Filed 09/07/21 Page 1 of 8 EXHIBIT A Case 1:09-cv-01912-RA-SDA Document 377-1 Filed 09/07/21 Page 2 of 8 Case 1:09-cv-01912-RA-SDA Document 350-8 Filed 06/03/21 Page 1 of 7 …
Article • September 1, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021
Modest Decline in Prison and Jail Populations in Spring 2021 by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In June 2021, the Vera Institute of Justice issued a report entitled People in Jail and Prison in Spring 2021, detailing the changes in jail and prison populations through the end of March 2021. …
Article • September 1, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021
Criminal Justice System Encourages Racism According to MIT Study by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Michigan Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Economics professor Peter Temin released a report last April titled “Mass Incarceration Retards Racial Integration.” He says that it was systemic racial prejudice which initiated the move toward …
Brief • August 30, 2021
Williams v. City of West Palm Beach, FL, Complaint, Panhandling, 2021 Case 9:21-cv-81537-XXXX Document 1 Entered on FLSD Docket 08/30/2021 Page 1 of 23 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA WEST PALM BEACH DIVISION Case No.: 9:21-cv-81537 ROSA WILLIAMS, GARY FRASHAW, and THOMAS HYLAND, Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF …
Brief • August 30, 2021
Williams v. City of West Palm Beach, FL, Motion for Preliminary Injunction, Panhandling, 2021 Case 9:21-cv-81537-DMM Document 4 Entered on FLSD Docket 08/30/2021 Page 1 of 21 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA WEST PALM BEACH DIVISION Case No. 9:21-cv-81537-DMM ROSA WILLIAMS, GARY FRASHAW, and THOMAS HYLAND, Plaintiffs, …
Publication • August 9, 2021
Struggle-For-Power-The-Ongoing-Persecution-of-Black-Movement-by-the-U.S.-Government STRU R E W O P R O F E L GG LACK B F ON O I T ENT U M C N E VER ERS O P G G . U.S GOIN E N H T O THE T BY N E M E MOV In the …
Brief • August 2, 2021
Filed under: Protests, Excessive Force
Epps v. City and County of Denver, CO, Expert Report of Dr. Edward R. Maguire, Excessive Force- Protesting, 2021 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT OF THE DISTRICT COURT OF COLORADO Civil Action Nos. 1:20-cv-01878-RBJ & 1:20-cv-01922-RBJ-MEH (consolidated) ELISABETH EPPS, et al. Plaintiffs, v. CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, et …
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
Scores of Ecuadoran Prisoners Die in Coordinated Melees by Ecuador’s prison system has been operating in crisis mode for three years. Beginning in 2019, 24 prisoners were killed in overcrowded prisons holding over 38,000 prisoners which was designed and built to hold 27,000. That number soared to 103 deaths in …
Federal Judge Rejects BOP’s Attempts to Keep Videos of Force-Feeding Prisoners at ADX Secret by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell   A federal judge has rejected attempts by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to keep videos of staff force-feeding a prisoner on a hunger strike at the Administrative Maximum Facility …
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
Ohio Enacts Criminal Justice Reform in 2020 by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Criminal justice reform advocates scored multiple wins in the closing weeks of the 2020 session of Ohio’s General Assembly. The new laws end the shackling of pregnant prisoners giving birth, allow people to do community service …
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
Rebellion at GEO-Run Prison in New Mexico by A three-hour uprising at a privately-run medium security prison in New Mexico on November 2, 2020, led to a few prisoner injuries, a fire and property destruction. It was an “incident [that] absolutely could have been prevented,” said said the state’s Corrections …
Article • July 13, 2021
Filed under: Protests, Jail Specific
Health Professionals Join the Fight Against Jail Construction in Los Angeles by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   Los Angeles has historically been a trail blazer in the expansion of policing and incarceration. Its 2020 abandonment of jail expansion plans revealed a new group of advocates against expansion of …
Article • July 8, 2021
Debunking the ‘Superpredator’ Myth by Kevin Bliss Report Suggests Lock ‘Em Up Mentality Counterproductive to Public Safety by Kevin Bliss The Sentencing Project of Washington, D.C. issued a report in May of 2021 titled “A Second Look at Injustice.” This report stated that the justice system should have goals of …
Brief • July 7, 2021
NAACP of San Jose-Silicone Valley v. City of San Jose, Plaintiff's Opposition to Dft's Motion to Dismiss, Protest, 2021 Case 4:21-cv-01705-PJH Document 32 Filed 07/07/21 Page 1 of 35 RACHEL LEDERMAN, SBN 130192 Rachel Lederman & Alexsis C. Beach, Attorneys P.O. Box 40339 San Francisco, CA 94140-0339 ph 415-282-9300 rachel@sfbla.com …
Article • July 1, 2021 • from PLN July, 2021
Filed under: Private Prisons, Lobbying
“Progressive” Seattle Mayoral Candidate Exposed as Shill for the Private Prison Industry by Ken Silverstein By Ken Silverstein “I’m running for Mayor so every family can see their future in Seattle,” says Casey Sixkiller. “It requires bold action, leadership experience when it matters most, and a mayor who wakes up …
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