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Article • January 15, 2011 • from PLN January, 2011
Connecticut Restricts Prisoners’ FOIA Requests by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Last year, Connecticut enacted an exemption to the state’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) that prevents disclosure of certain records requested by “any individual committed to the custody or supervision of the Commissioner of Correction or confined in …
Article • January 15, 2011 • from PLN January, 2011
Filed under: News, State Legislation
North Carolina Supreme Court Upholds Felon’s Right to Possess Firearm by On August 28, 2009, the Supreme Court of North Carolina concluded that a 2004 law prohibiting felons from possessing a firearm violated the North Carolina constitution in an as-applied challenge to the law. Barney Britt was convicted in 1979 …
Article • December 15, 2010 • from PLN December, 2010
Maryland Law Counts Prisoners According to Pre-Incarceration Residence by Michael Rigby by Mike Rigby A new Maryland law – the first of its kind – changed the way state prisoners were counted in the 2010 census. Historically, prisoners have been counted according to the location of the facility where they …
Article • December 15, 2010 • from PLN December, 2010
Steep Surcharges for Driving Violations Clog Texas Courts, Create Criminals by Michael Rigby by Mike Rigby A program designed to raise money for highway projects and trauma care by assessing steep surcharges for drunk driving and other traffic violations is clogging Texas courts and causing the dismissal rate for DWI …
Private Prison Companies Behind the Scenes of Arizona’s Immigration Law by Beau Hodai “Beside my brothers and my sisters, I’ll proudly take a stand. When liberty’s in jeopardy, I’ll always do what’s right. I’m out here on the frontline, sleep in peace tonight. American soldier, I’m an American soldier...” So …
Article • November 15, 2010 • from PLN November, 2010
Oregon: Prosecutors, Victims Kill Money-Saving Increased Sentence Reduction Law by Mark Wilson In a controversial move touted as saving Oregon an estimated $6 million, in June 2009 the state legislature passed a bill that increased earned time sentence reductions for non-violent offenders by an additional 10 percent. Just seven months …
Article • April 15, 2010 • from PLN April, 2010
New York Passes Legislation Making HIV, AIDS and HCV Prisoner Care a Department of Health Responsibility by Christina Hernandez New York took a major step last fall to provide care for HIV-positive prisoners—and a victory for prisoners’ rights activists—with legislation giving the state Department of Health an official oversight role …
Article • April 15, 2010 • from PLN April, 2010
New York Voters Okay Prison Slave Labor for Nonprofits by New York voters have approved an amendment to the New York constitution that permits state and county prisoners to work “voluntarily” for nonprofit organizations. The amendment was largely sought in order to provide an air-tight defense to potential lawsuits surrounding …
Article • April 15, 2010 • from PLN April, 2010
Iowa Good Time Statute Violates Ex Post Facto Clause by Brandon Sample A 2005 amendment to Iowa’s good time statute making participation in a sex offender treatment program (SOTP) a prerequisite to earning good time may not be applied to sex offenders convicted before the amendment’s effective date, the Supreme …
Article • March 15, 2010 • from PLN March, 2010
Filed under: News, State Legislation
Texas to Eliminate Centralized Release of Prisoners by By September 1, 2010, a long-standing Texas prison tradition will come to an end--the centralized release of prisoners. The vast majority of Texas prisoners released each year--more than 42,000 in 2008--are processed out through a red-brick walled prison built in 1842 designated …
Article • March 15, 2010 • from PLN March, 2010
California Enacts Non-Revocable Parole And Increased Credits To Reduce Prison Population by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg In what appears to be the first attempt to comply with federal court orders to reduce California’s prison population, the State Legislature enacted Senate Bill 18, which, effective January 25, 2010, places …
Article • March 15, 2010 • from PLN March, 2010
Shrinking Budgets Force States to Cut Corrections Spending by Bob Williams In a July 2009 report funded by the Public Safety Performance Project of the Pew Center on the States, author Christine S. Scott-Hayward examines how shrinking budgets are impacting state corrections policies and practices. The story is in the …
Free Rent for Some Washington State Parolees by Due to a roughly $9 billion state budget deficit, the Washington State legislature approved a plan to offer 90-day rent subsidies for selected prisoners who are eligible for early release. The program is expected to save taxpayers an estimated $1.5 million over …
Article • February 15, 2010 • from PLN February, 2010
A New Look at a Very Old Subject: The Uniform Collateral Consequences of Conviction Act by Margaret Colgate Love by Margaret Colgate Love1 In the past twenty years, a relentlessly punitive political environment has given rise to a wide-ranging network of collateral penalties and disqualifications that isolate and stigmatize those …
Article • February 15, 2010 • from PLN February, 2010
Wisconsin Enacts New Early Release Law by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke When Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle signed legislation to grant early release to certain prisoners, he just couldn’t win. “It went too far,” said Republicans. “It didn’t go far enough,” retorted his fellow Democrats. What in fact Governor Doyle …
New York Politicians Want to Re-Evaluate Civil Confinement Release Law by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Two years ago New York enacted the Sex Offender Management and Treatment Act, which lets a jury release a civilly-committed sex offender from confinement if the state fails to provide sufficient evidence of a …
Article • December 15, 2009
Washington Supreme Court Permits Sentence In Excess of Statutory Maximum; Legislature Intervenes with Statutory Amendment by The Washington Supreme Court has held that a judgment and sentence containing a total prison term and community supervision term that exceed the statutory maximum sentence is valid, so long as the trial court …
Article • December 15, 2009 • from PLN December, 2009
Eight More Prison Closures in Michigan by Since taking office in 2003, Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm has closed six prisons. To pare $120 million from the state’s budget, she recently decided to close eight more, including five minimum-security prison camps. The announcement of the closures on June 5, 2009 created …
Article • December 15, 2009 • from PLN December, 2009
Miami Sex Offenders Still Living Under Bridge; Lawsuits Fail to Solve Problem by David Reutter by David M. Reutter PLN has reported several times on the plight of Florida sex offenders forced to live under the Julia Tuttle Causeway in Miami due to restrictive sex offender residency laws. [See: PLN, …
Article • December 15, 2009 • from PLN December, 2009
Rape Victim and Family of Exonerated Man Who Died in Prison Become Activists by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Tim Cole achieved widespread recognition when he was exonerated 24 years after his arrest for the rape of a university student in Amarillo, Texas. Another man confessed to the crime and …
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