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Report Cites Rising Violence, Other Problems at Illinois Maximum-Security Prison by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A report by the John Howard Association of Illinois (JHA) found that overcrowding and understaffing at the Menard Correctional Center (Menard) has resulted in an “alarming” increase in staff and prisoner assaults. Opened …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
Violence in Tennessee Prisons up 20 Percent Under New Commissioner by Alex Friedmann On September 18, 2012 the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), the parent organization of Prison Legal News, released data indicating that levels of violence in Tennessee state prisons had increased approximately 20 percent since Tennessee Department of …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
Florida: Two Men Sentenced in Prison Canteen Kickback Scheme by A federal district court in Jacksonville has sentenced two men to short prison terms after they pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges related to paying kickbacks to former Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) Secretary James V. Crosby, Jr. and former FDOC …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
Oregon Guard Shoots, Wounds Prisoner; Unreported Earlier Prisoner Murder Exposed by An Oregon state prisoner was shot by a tower guard on the recreation yard at the Snake River Correctional Institution (SRCI) last year, after he ignored orders to stop fighting. That incident followed an unreported prisoner murder on the …
Article • October 15, 2012
California: Joint Venture Program Compensates Crime Victims by On December 12, 2011, pursuant to the Prison Inmate Labor Initiative of 1990, better known as the Joint Venture Program, San Quentin State Prison officials donated a total of $38,232 to seven Bay Area nonprofit agencies that provide services to victims of …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
North Dakota Farmers Help Flush Out Escaped Florida Sex Offender by A Florida prisoner picked the wrong state when he fled from a private transport van and ran into a 310-acre corn field. “This is unique in the sense that, God bless North Dakota, we bring everybody together to solve …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
Fourth Circuit Upholds North Carolina Sheriff’s Bribery Conviction by On November 7, 2011, former Buncombe County, North Carolina Sheriff Bobby Lee Medford’s conviction on federal bribery and conspiracy charges was upheld by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. The decision highlighted a scheme in which Medford and his co-conspirators misused …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
Criminal Law in a Nutshell, 5th Ed., by Arnold H. Loewy (West Law School, 2009). 387 pages, $38.00 by John Dannenberg Book review by John E. Dannenberg Loewy, a law professor, warns his students not to substitute reading this book for doing the hard work of mastering course material in …
Article • September 15, 2012 • from PLN September, 2012
Interview with Conrad Black, Former Federal Prisoner and Millionaire Media Magnate by Paul Wright “I never ask for mercy and seek no one’s sympathy. I would never, as was once needlessly feared in this court, be a fugitive from justice in this country, only a seeker of it.” – Conrad …
Article • September 15, 2012 • from PLN September, 2012
Ex-Warden’s Wife Sentenced to One Year for Assisting Prisoner’s Escape by On November 7, 2011, the wife of a former Oklahoma warden was sentenced to one year in prison for helping a prisoner escape 17 years earlier. Bobbi L. Parker, 49, was married to Randy Parker, assistant warden at the …
Bureau of Prisons Houses More “Terrorists” than Guantanamo by Derek Gilna According to the New York Times, the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) confines more than twice as many prisoners for “terrorism-related” offenses than the controversial and oft-maligned U.S. military detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. “As of October 1, …
Article • September 15, 2012 • from PLN September, 2012
GAO Report on Drug Courts Criticized by Drug Policy Alliance by Joe Watson The Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), the nation’s “leading organization promoting alternatives to current drug policy,” often has to wade through murky data to expose the ineffectiveness of the nation’s drug court system. But a recent federal study …
Article • September 15, 2012 • from PLN September, 2012
Arrests of Federal Prison Guards Soar 90% Over Past Decade; Misconduct Cases Double by Derek Gilna According to a September 2011 report by the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG), arrests of federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) guards increased almost 90% over the previous ten years, while …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
Hawaii Audit Finds Offenders Rarely Pay Restitution Owed by Thirteen years after the Hawaii Office of the Auditor issued a report critical of the state judiciary’s efforts to collect restitution payments from offenders, only a small fraction of tens of millions of dollars in restitution has been collected, which has …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
New Mexico Sheriff Sentenced for Selling County Property on eBay by On July 20, 2011, former Santa Fe County, New Mexico Sheriff Greg Solano, 47, pleaded guilty to five counts of third-degree fraud for selling county property on eBay and keeping the proceeds. The property, which was reportedly worth over …
Former Florida Sheriff Cleared in Theft Investigation and PHS Contract Fraud Suit by Following a two-year investigation and a jury verdict in a civil suit, a special prosecutor announced in June 2011 that criminal charges would not be forthcoming against Bill Balkwill, former sheriff of Sarasota County, Florida. The jury …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
Florida Reports Indicate Restoration of Civil Rights Reduces Recidivism by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Advocates of automatic restoration of civil rights for ex-offenders have long maintained that such a policy helps former prisoners reintegrate into society and therefore reduces recidivism. Two reports by the Florida Parole Commission (FPC), …
Article • July 15, 2012
Sixties Singer Torches Debt Collector's Car; Mocks Court by The former lead singer of the Sixties band, the Mindbenders, found himself on the wrong end of the law when he poured gasoline on a debt collector's car and set it on fire. On May 25, 2007, Wayne Fontana, also known …
Article • July 15, 2012
Tight Budgets Push States to Consider Alternatives to Incarceration by In January 2012, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, together with the American Civil Liberties Union, released a report analyzing the use of official state estimates of the savings or costs of proposed legislation, specifically in the arena of …
Racial Critiques of Mass Incarceration: Beyond the New Jim Crow by James Forman, Jr. by James Forman, Jr.* In the last decade, a number of scholars have called the American criminal justice system a new form of Jim Crow. These writers have effectively drawn attention to the injustices created by …
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