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Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Wrongful Death Suit Against Illinois Jail Survives Summary Judgment by Derek Gilna Richard J. Gonzalez, 30, was being held at a jail in Ford County, Illinois when his already precarious health took a turn for the worse. On the evening of May 18, 2012, Gonzalez was found on the floor …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Special Supervised Release Conditions Require Sufficient Findings by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held on June 19, 2015 that an Iowa federal district court had abused its discretion in imposing a special condition of supervised release related to alcohol use. Before the appellate court was the appeal of Dennis …
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“Scared Straight” Programs are Counterproductive by Derek Gilna The Pew Charitable Trusts, a non-profit, non-governmental organization, recently reported on the mixed results of “Scared Straight” programs, which are intended to deter juveniles with a history of bad behavior from entering the criminal justice system by having them visit prisons or …
Custodial Interrogation of Parolee Requires Miranda Warnings by The Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that a parolee subjected to custodial interrogation by parole agents concerning new crimes is entitled to receive Miranda warnings. Under the facts of this case, the court found the parolee’s incriminating statements should be suppressed. Nathan Cooley …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
A Prison Telecom in Sheep’s Clothing by Carrie Wilkinson On April 6, 2016, FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai conducted a Field Hearing in Columbia, South Carolina on the subject of contraband cell phones in prisons and jails. The panel did not address questions submitted prior to the hearing by the Human …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Wrongfully Convicted Former Prisoner Commits Suicide by Anti-death penalty advocate Darryl Hunt, who was wrongfully convicted and served almost 20 years in North Carolina prisons before being exonerated in 2004, was found dead on March 13, 2016 in a car near the Wake Forest University campus. Police officials revealed that …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Lifesaving Overdose Treatment Slowly Becoming Available to Released Prisoners by Christopher Zoukis Statistics show, and experts agree, that the United States is in the midst of an epidemic of opioid abuse. According to the Centers for Disease Control, opioid overdoses have quadrupled since 2000, with 28,648 deaths in 2014 alone …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
California State Prisoner’s Habeas Case Gets to Supreme Court but Falls Short by Derek Gilna Antonio Hinojosa, serving a 16-year sentence in California’s prison system, was deemed a “validated” gang member by prison officials, effectively stripping him of future good-time credits and extending the length of his sentence. He filed …
Company Owes Nevada Prison Industries $428,000 by Bob Sloan Nevada’s state-run prison industry program, Silver State Industries, came under attack from citizens and business owners in 2014. One criticism of the program involved the loss of jobs to non-incarcerated workers and fewer jobs available to the unemployed. Another complaint was …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Advocates Leery of Cell Phones Given to Undocumented Immigrants by Derek Gilna Immigration rights advocates are suspicious of a new government-funded program administered by GEO Care – a division of the GEO Group, one of the nation’s largest for-profit prison companies – that supplies cell phones to low-risk undocumented immigrants. …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
U.S. Department of Education Offers Second Chance Pell Pilot Program by Christopher Zoukis On July 31, 2015, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) announced a new pilot program that will provide federal funding to colleges to provide classes at select prisons. The Second Chance Pell Pilot Program will help prisoners …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Penal Servitude: A Reminder about the U.S. Constitution’s 13th Amendment Exclusion Clause by by Charles Sullivan and Barbara Koeppel The U.S. Congress banned slavery in America 150 years ago on December 18, 1865 when the 13th Amendment became the law of the land (after a 250-year run). But it didn’t, …
Louisiana Parish Saddled With Large Jail, Large Costs by Matthew Clarke Before he pleaded guilty to taking bribes and illegally spending around $150,000 of his campaign money, resulting in a 46-month federal prison sentence in 2013, former Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana Sheriff Jiff Hingle may have started his parish on a …
Disputed PLRA Administrative Exhaustion Issues Properly Resolved in Bench Trial by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held on June 18, 2015 that disputed issues of fact regarding exhaustion under the PLRA may be resolved in a bench trial. The appellate court also found the plaintiff had failed to exhaust …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Music Publishers Sue Companies Providing Mixtapes for Prisoners by Matthew Clarke In early 2015, UMG Recordings, Capitol Records, Universal Music Corp. and several other record labels and music producers filed a federal lawsuit against companies that provide mixtapes to prisoners in at least 40 states. The suit claimed that mixtapes …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
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News in Brief by California: Rafael Rodriguez, Matthew Farris and Jereh Lubrin lost a fierce battle to keep a judge from remanding them to trial on murder charges on March 3, 2016. The Santa Clara County jail guards were accused of beating Michael Tyree, a 31-year-old mentally ill prisoner, to …
Brief • June 3, 2016
Gadsden v. New York, NY, Notice of Electronic Filing, Motion to Compel Unredacted File, 2016 From: To: Subject: Date: ecf_bounces@nyed.uscourts.gov nobody@nyed.uscourts.gov Activity in Case 1:14-cv-06687-RJD-RER Gadsden v. City of New York et al Order on Motion to Compel Friday, June 03, 2016 2:01:44 PM This is an automatic e-mail message …
Publication • June 3, 2016
Detained and Dismissed - Report on Health Care for Women Immigrant Detainees, HRW, 2009 United States Detained and Dismissed Women’s Struggles to Obtain Health Care in United States Immigration Detention H U M A N R I G H T S W A T C H Detained and Dismissed Women’s …
Detained and at Risk - Sexual Abuse and Harassment in U.S. Immigration Detention, HRW, 2010 United States Detained and at Risk Sexual Abuse and Harassment in United States Immigration Detention H U M A N R I G H T S W A T C H Detained and at Risk …
Publication • June 3, 2016
Invisible in Isolation - The Use of Segregation and Solitary Confinement in Immigration Detention, HA NIJC PHR, 2012 The Use of Segregation and Solitary Confinement in Immigration Detention ~ HEARTLAND ALLIANCE National Immigrant Justice Center PHR Physicians for Human Rights September 2012 About the Authors Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice …
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