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Article • February 7, 2017 • from PLN February, 2017
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Afghanistan: On August 8, 2016, Robert Langdon, a 44-year-old Australian security contractor, became the last Western prisoner to leave an Afghan prison filled with Al Qaeda and Taliban members. U.S. lawyer Kimberly Motley took Langdon’s case pro bono in 2013 and worked diligently to secure his …
Dear Librarian: Filling the Information Gap for Prisoners with No Internet Access by Christopher Zoukis For most Americans, life without Google or Wikipedia would be quite different, and living without Internet access probably unimaginable. One might ask, “How would I obtain the information I need to live my life?” Yet …
Article • January 10, 2017 • from PLN January, 2017
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Arkansas: Michael Graff, 29, was fired following his arrest on charges of sexually assaulting a prisoner. The former Pulaski County jail deputy received a termination letter from Sheriff Doc Holladay which referred to Graff’s arrest as a violation of the Sheriff’s Office’s standards of conduct. A …
Article • December 7, 2016 • from PLN December, 2016
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: St. Clair Correctional Facility guard Deandre Price resigned just after his July 5, 2016 arrest for possession of a controlled substance and promoting contraband within a state correctional facility. Price was caught with drugs and other contraband as he reported for work; Alabama Department of …
Article • November 7, 2016 • from PLN November, 2016
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News in Brief by California: The Los Angeles Police Department arrested an 81-year-old African American man for going “off topic” while giving public testimony at a June 21, 2016 Police Commission meeting, dragging him from the podium. Tut Hayes spoke weekly at the Commission meetings and had previously been arrested …
Article • September 30, 2016 • from PLN October, 2016
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News in Brief by Arizona: The U.S. Department of Justice declared April 24 to 30, 2016 to be the inaugural National Reentry Week in an effort to recognize the plight of the more than 600,000 prisoners who are released annually from federal and state prisons, plus 11.4 million others who …
Article • September 2, 2016 • from PLN September, 2016
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News in Brief by Alabama: U.S. Attorney George L. Beck, Jr. called Chris Miles, the former assistant police chief for the town of Tallassee, Alabama, a “maverick” when Miles was sentenced on March 25, 2016 for beating a suspect during an interrogation, making false statements to the FBI and selling …
Article • August 2, 2016 • from PLN August, 2016
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News in Brief by Arkansas: Two guards were placed on paid leave after they shot and killed prisoner Christopher Wilson during an April 7, 2016 escape attempt from the Varner Unit of the Arkansas Department of Correction. According to DOC spokesperson Solomon Graves, “Officers gave [Wilson] a demand to cease …
Publication • July 28, 2016
Laws and Regulations, California Board of Psychology, 2015 California Board of Psychology Laws and Regulations State of California Department of Consumer Affairs Edmund G. Brown Jr. Governor California Board of Psychology Laws and Regulations 2015 EDITION 2015 EDITION State of California Department of Consumer Affairs Edmund G. Brown Jr. Governor …
Article • July 6, 2016 • from PLN July, 2016
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News in Brief by Alabama: Federal and state officials raided the Sumter County Jail on March 8, 2016 as part of an investigation into the Sumter County Sheriff’s Department. The search led a grand jury to recommend the impeachment of Sheriff Tyrone Clark and issue an indictment against him the …
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 …
Article • May 5, 2016 • from PLN May, 2016
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News in Brief by Australia: An anal-retentive prisoner in the supermax unit at the Goulburn Jail claimed for 12 days that a metal object detected inside his body was a fragment of a surgical instrument, but his claims were proven false when his bowels finally moved on February 24, 2016 …
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
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News in Brief by Arizona: On October 28, 2015, Maricopa County youth detention guard Patrice Dawson was arrested on felony charges of sexual misconduct. Dawson, who supervised juvenile offenders, was accused of having sexual relations with an underage prisoner; she was fired from the department after confessing to the relationship. …
Article • February 29, 2016 • from PLN March, 2016
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News in Brief by Arizona: On December 3, 2015, Brama Koroma walked into a Westwood bar wearing a black-and-white striped Maricopa County jail uniform that he had purchased online. Krystina Smith was at the bar and thought it was a delayed Halloween costume. “He was acting normal,” she said. Phoenix …
Publication • February 16, 2016
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Publication • February 16, 2016
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Publication • February 15, 2016
Filed under: News, State Legislation
California Lifer Newsletter, Issue 42, December, CLN, 2011 Volume 7 Number 6 CLN #42 DECEMBER 2011 CALIFORNIA LIFER NEWSLETTER™ Legislation & Initiatives SENATO R GAINES WITHDRAWS ANTI-LAWRENCE BILL; SENATE COMMITTEE HEARING CANCELLED Senate Bill 391 (Sen. Gaines) (#) Please see CLN # 41, p. 1; #39, p. 5. SB 391 …
Article • February 2, 2016 • from PLN February, 2016
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News in Brief by Alaska: Two prisoners walked away from the GEO Group-operated minimum-security Northstar Center, a transitional living facility near Fairbanks, in separate incidents on October 2, 2015. Steven David Luten, 30, absconded at around 11:00 a.m. but was tracked by his footprints in the snow and recaptured nearby. …
Article • January 1, 2016 • from PLN January, 2016
Criticism of Congressional Mandate to Keep Immigration Detention Centers Full by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna and Joe Watson Immigration reform advocates report little success with efforts to eliminate a little-known, controversial quota mandated by Congress that keeps approximately 34,000 undocumented immigrants incarcerated on a daily basis, including many who …
Article • December 31, 2015 • from PLN January, 2016
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News in Brief by Alabama: Former Dale County jail prisoner Trawick Redding, Jr. filed a federal lawsuit on July 28, 2015 claiming guards Zeneth Glenn and Ryan Mittlebach tortured and assaulted him, and inflicted cruel and unusual punishment, by using a large Burmese python to intimidate him during his jail …
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