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Article • May 15, 2007 • from PLN May, 2007
Guards Sue California DOC for Identity Theft by Prisoner Workers by Thirty-one guards from Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP), California?s supermax lockup, filed suit on May 23, 2006 in Sacramento Superior Court against the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation following the discovery that PBSP prisoners had obtained guards? names, …
Article • May 15, 2007 • from PLN May, 2007
A Devastating Link: Prisoner Rape and the War on Drugs by by Lovisa Stannow and Kathy Hall-Martinez The enormous financial and moral costs of the ?war on drugs? have been well-documented over the past few years. Less known is the devastating link between U.S. drug policy and the epidemic of …
Article • May 15, 2007
U.S. Liable to Victim for Failing to Treat Psychotic Prisoner by The court of appeals for the Fifth circuit held that the United States was liable for the behavior of an untreated, psychotic prisoner who raped and killed three women in Alabama after being released from BOP custody. U.S. was …
BOP Guards Conviction for Beating Prisoner Affirmed by The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the conviction and sentence against a guard at the United States Penitentiary in Florence, Colorado. Escort teams were moving prisoners from their cells to a conference room in order to conduct individual interviews about …
Article • May 15, 2007
WI Parole Board's Labeling Necrophiliac a Sex Offender Doesn't Violate the U.S. Constitution by WI Parole Board's Labeling Necrophiliac a Sex Offender Doesn't Violate the U.S. Constitution Richard Grennier, a Wisconsin state prisoner, killed a teenage hitchhiker and raped and mutilated her body in 1973. He's been in prison ever …
New York’s Prison System Infested With Drugs by David Reutter New York's Prison System Infested With Drugs by David M. Reutter The most glaring result of America's war on drugs has been the explosion of the nation?s prison population. Over 75 percent of all prisoners are either doing time for …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
U.S. Spends Record $185 Billion on Justice System is 2003 by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke According to a report released by the U.S. Department of Justice?s Bureau of Justice Statistics in April, 2006, the U.S. spent a record $185 billion for police protection, detention, and judicial and legal …
Ex-Communication: Competition and Collusion in the U.S. Prison Telephone Industry by Steven Jackson by Steven J. Jackson The prison communication industries occupy a large and significant blind spot within the literature of critical communication scholarship and the social sciences more generally. Professional arguments around crime, punishment and the American prison …
200 Dead in Brazil Prison Uprisings, Street Violence by Gary Hunter In May 2006, approximately 200 people were killed in Sao Paulo, Brazil as gang members of the Primerio Comando da Capital ? the First Capital Command, known by its Portuguese initials, PCC ? clashed with police in the streets …
Focus on Sex Offenders Increases While Number of Sex Offenses Decline by In September, 2006 the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics released its annual Crime Victimization report for 2005, which indicated a dramatic drop in the number of rapes and sexual assaults nationally. The 191,670 reported incidents represent an almost …
Attempted Arrest of Federal Prison Guards in Florida Turns Deadly by Michael Rigby The events of June 21, 2006, were so outrageous they seemed impossible (except, of course, to the regular readers of Prison Legal News). That day, two people were killed and a third was wounded when a prison …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
Texas Prisoner Gets 40 Years For Cellphone; Guards Get Probation by Michael Rigby In April 2006 a Texas prisoner was sentenced to 40 years in prison for possessing a contraband cell phone--8 years more than the 32-year sentence he was already serving for auto theft. The sentence, the longest anyone …
Michigan DOC Improperly Calculated Sentences and Released Prisoners; Officials Fired and Demoted by Gary Hunter Prisoner release procedures in the Michigan Department of Corrections (DOC) suffer from serious flaws, according to the Intake Processing Unit (IPU). The IPU undertook an audit and review of the way the DOC determined prisoner …
Article • August 15, 2006 • from PLN August, 2006
North Carolina Prisoner Taps Jails Bank Account for $120,000 by A former prisoner of North Carolinas Durham County Jail (DCJ) managed to bilk the jails prisoner account for over $120,000. After serving 69 days at DCJ, Keith Edward Wright, 34, was issued a check for the balance of the money …
Article • May 15, 2006 • from PLN May, 2006
Nearly 7 Million Under Correctional Supervision In U.S. by Michael Rigby At yearend 2004, nearly 7 million adults were in prison, on parole, or on probation in the U.S.--2.5 million more than in 1990--according to a study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics released on November 2, 2005. Put another …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Prison Reform Revisited: The Unfinished Agenda, Pace University Law Review, Vol. 24, No. 2, Spring 2 by Prison Reform Revisited: The Unfinished Agenda, Pace University Law Review, Vol. 24, No. 2, Spring 2004 (softback, 460 pp.) Reviewed by John E. Dannenberg In October 2003, Pace University Law School hosted a …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Bait and Snitch: The High Cost of Snitching for Law Enforcement by by Alexandra Natapoff The t-shirts scream Stop Snitchin'! From Baltimore to Boston to New York; in Pittsburgh, Denver, and Milwaukee, kids are sporting the ominous fashion statement, prompting local fear, outrage, and fierce arguments over crime. Several trials …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Poor Substance Abusers Imprisoned En Masse Without Treatment by Michael Rigby More than two-thirds of U.S. jail, prisoners in 2002 were found to be dependent on drugs or alcohol or to abuse them. But many never get the help they need, a study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) …
Registered Sex Offenders Murdered By Vigilante in Washington by by Matthew T. Clarke On August 27, 2005, two registered sex offenders were murdered in Bellingham, Washington, by a vigilante posing as an FBI agent. The killer got the victims' names, address and photographs from the Whatcom County Sheriff's Sex Offender …
Mexican Prisons in Crisis: Cartels Murder Prisoners and Guards by by Matthew T. Clarke One of the achievements of which Mexican President Vicente Fox is most proud is the record-breaking number of drug lords who have been arrested and thrown into federal prison during his tenure. He has a right …
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