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Article • August 23, 2016
Report: BOP Acts as Jailer and Judge in 'Compassionate Release' Requests by In refusing to petition courts on behalf of prisoners who should be considered for what's known as "compassionate release," the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is usurping the decision-making power of judges, argues a recent report released by …
Article • August 23, 2016
Veterans' Programs, Services Cropping Up in Courts and Prisons by Certain offenders with addictions or mental illnesses across the U.S. increasingly find themselves in treatment programs and on community supervision instead of behind bars. And of those incarcerated, they're sent to sparkling new prison units and jails where they can …
Tattoo Artist Dies in California Jail Detox Cell by Since the for-profit California Forensic Medical Group (CFMC) took over healthcare at the Santa Cruz County Jail last year, the medical staff has been forcing police to take more injured suspects to the hospital before they get booked, likely because the potential …
Article • August 23, 2016
Washington State Undersheriff Gets 5 Months in Prison for Stealing $67K in Bail by Claims of compulsive tendencies and poor physical health don't often help criminal defendants trying to mitigate their prison sentences. Consider Carole Lepiane, the former undersheriff for Walla Walla County, Wash., the predictable exception. Lepiane, 58, using …
Deaths at Louisville Jail Prompt Investigations, Corizon Changes by Five of eight prisoner deaths since 2011 at the Metro Corrections jail in Louisville, Ky., are currently under investigation, all of them involving allegations against private healthcare contractor Corizon Inc. that it pro­vides inadequate treatment to maintain its revenues. Investigations into …
Wrongful Death Lawsuit Spurs Re-Training of Syracuse, N.Y. Jail Guards by In the wake of a wrongful death lawsuit filed by a former prisoner's widow, guards at the Onondaga County Justice Center Jail in Syracuse, N.Y., have purportedly been re-trained in the humane treatment of prisoners with drug abuse and …
Article • August 23, 2016
Jail Employees Steal from Prisoner Fund in Small-Town Maine by After stealing more than $7,200 from a so-called "inmate benefits account," a county jail employee in small-town Maine snitched on a co-worker and implicated his boss in the scam before finally resigning himself. Capt. Robert Gross, 62, filed his letter …
Ohio's Prisons Grow More Violent, Especially Toward Guards, Report Says by Prisoners in Ohio are reportedly sending each other to the infirmary less often, but according to the state's Department of Rehabilitation & Correction (DRC), they are increasingly assaulting prison guards to the point of serious injury. In a newly-released …
Article • August 23, 2016
Washington State Keeps Sex Offenders in Prison, Bypasses Civil Commitment by A recent bureaucratic report says that a 2001 Washington State law intended to keep sex offenders in prison indefinitely has succeeded, in spite of research showing that—like other violent offenders—the likelihood of committing similar crimes significantly decreases with age. …
Article • August 23, 2016
U.N.: Afghanistan in Violation of Anti-Torture Convention by When, or if, most U.S. forces withdraw from Afghanistan nest year, they will leave behind a culture of torture and coercive interrogation perpretrated by Afghan intelligence and police officials, according to a recently released report from the United Nations. After interviewing 379 …
Article • August 23, 2016
Filed under: Release and Reentry
Federal, State Laws Create Unnecessary Obstacles to Reentry, Report Says by Rather than providing a seamless transition out of prison or jail, state and federal laws are making reentry exceedingly hard for former offenders, according to a recent report from the Legal Action Center (LAC) that ranks all 50 states …
The Dead Zone: How Privatization, Isolation and Cruelty Are Killing Prisoners in Arizona by By the time Jan Brewer replaced Janet Napolitano as Arizona's governor in 2009, it had been 22 years since the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) built the first prison in the United States designed exclusively for …
Article • August 23, 2016
Texas Judge and District Attorney Allegedly Bribed to Let Killer Escape by Matthew Clarke In a case that is beyond the pale of the usual high level of corruption in south Texas, a state district judge, the District Attorney of Cameron County and an attorney who was formerly a state …
Confidential Report Reveals Rampant Violence at CCA-Run Idaho Prison by Matthew Clarke FIN has gained access to a confidential report by Tim Higgins, the Investigation and Intelligence Coordinator for the Idaho Department of Corrections (DOC) regarding rampant prisoner-on-prison violence at the Idaho Correctional Center (ICC), a Boise prison operated by …
Article • August 23, 2016
Washoe County, Nevada Institutes Web-Based Jail Visits for a Fee by Matthew Clarke On August 1, 2010, the Washoe County Sheriff's Office began a pilot program of web-based jail visitation. Two years later, the web-based visitation had grown to encompass about two-fifths of all visits. In 2010, a local company …
Article • August 23, 2016
Hurricane Sandy Facilitates Mass Escape from New Jersey's Logan Hall by Matthew Clarke Hurricane Sandy and a lack of preparation or training for unusual weather helped prisoners at the notorious Logan Hall halfway house to run rampant, including a mass escape of fifteen prisoners. Although designated a "halfway house," Logan …
Article • August 23, 2016
Travis County (Texas) Jail Initiates Video Visitation for a Fee by Matthew Clarke Travis County intends to be one of the first places in Texas that allows video visitation for jail prisoners. Under an agreement with Securus Technologies, Inc. approved by the county commissioners on October 30, 2012, the county …
Article • August 23, 2016
Filed under: Judicial Misconduct
Suspension Over for Texas Judge Who Beat Daughter on Viral Video by Matthew Clarke In November 2011, the Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct (TCJC) temporarily suspended Aransas County judge William Adams after a 2006 video of him viciously beating his then-16-year-old daughter, Hillary Adams, went viral. The Supreme Court of …
Article • August 23, 2016
Filed under: Religious Diet
Many Nevada Jewish Prisoners Opting Out of Proposed Kosher Meals by Matthew Clarke On August 12, 2012, a Nevada federal court approved a notice of proposed settlement of a class-action civil rights lawsuit brought by a Jewish Nevada state prisoner over the announced intent of the Nevada Department of Corrections …
Article • August 23, 2016
Four Oklahoma State Penitentiary Staff Fired After Smoke Kills Prisoner by Matthew Clarke Four employees of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary (0SP) were fired and two resigned after a prisoner died of smoke inhalation while guards ignored smoke billowing from his cell and a sabotaged smoke alarm system failed to alert …
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