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Brief • January 13, 2016
Filed under: Good Time, Due Process
Green v. TN DOC, TN, Memo & Order, good time credit due process, 2016 1/29/2016 Search ­ 100 Results ­ Green v. Sullivan Correctional Facility Switch Client | Preferences | Help | Sign Out My Lexis™ Search Get a Document FOCUS™ Terms Shepard's® More Search Within Original Results (1 ­ …
Article • January 12, 2016
Texas Counties Still Stuck With Empty Public-Private Prisons by Matthew Clarke By Matt Clarke It was a bad deal for Texas cities and counties when, prison-construction entrepreneurs talked them into building publicly-financed prisons, for private corporations to operate; housing a surplus of prisoners at a profit. The counties went deep …
Article • January 12, 2016
Filed under: Transfers
“Realignment” Forces California's Newest City to Disincorporate by Joe Watson California's decision to transfer responsibility of tens of thousands of state prisoners to its counties is being blamed for the state's newest city, Jurupa Valley, disincorporating. About 50 miles east of Los Angeles, Jurupa Valley, a city of around 100,000, …
Article • January 12, 2016
Overcrowding Causes Unrest in Oklahoma Jail by Matthew Clarke By Matt Clarke Around 43 prisoners in Oklahoma's Bryan County Jail took part in unrest on August 18, 2013. According to Bryan County Sheriff Ken Golden, the prisoners, who had been sentenced to serve time in prison and were awaiting transfer …
Article • January 12, 2016
Ohio County Jail Overcrowded, Understaffed and On Verge of 'Catastrophe' by Joe Watson The results of a September 2013 inspection of the Hamilton County Jail in Cincinnati, Ohio, revealed that the facility failed to adequately meet 48 of 69 standards set by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC). …
Article • January 12, 2016
Obamacare, Universities Can Help Lower Prison Health Care Costs, Report Says by Joe Watson A new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts recommends that states pursue Medicaid financing for prisoners' medical services through the Affordable Care Act (ACA), as well as outsourcing such care to public university medical centers to …
Article • January 12, 2016
Filed under: Staffing
Nevada Jail Guard Works 1,438 Overtime Hours for $84,166 in Overtime Pay by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke It is not unusual for guards at the short-staffed Henderson Detention Center to earn overtime. In 2012, the 73 guards at the Nevada jail earned a total of $668,000 in overtime pay, …
Article • January 12, 2016
Escape from Jail in Small Washington Town Not, Like, a 'Big Raging' Deal by Joe Watson When Johnny Cagle, 53, escaped from the Wapato jail near Yakima, Washington, on the evening of July 1, 2013, he probably assumed he had precious, little time to get as far away as possible …
Article • January 12, 2016
Delayed Memo Shows Stint in Segregation Increases Stay in New York Jail by Matthew Clarke By Matt Clarke In June 2013, the New York City (NYC) Department of Corrections announced that it would cease using solitary confinement as a punishment for mentally ill prisoners. The reasoning underlying the move was …
Article • January 12, 2016
Filed under: Guard Misconduct
Prison Guard Implicated in Derailing Drug Probe Avoids Prosecution by Christopher Zoukis A former guard at Lebanon Correctional Institution in Ohio will not be prosecuted in connection with allegations that he not only participated in drug and tobacco smuggling into the prison, but accessed a state computer and tipped off …
Article • January 12, 2016
Indiana Judge Removed From Bench For Multiple Instances of Misconduct by Christopher Zoukis The Indiana Supreme Court has ordered that Marion County Superior Judge Kimberly Brown be permanently removed from the bench, after three judges appointed to investigate complaints against her found she had committed judicial misconduct in 46 of …
Article • January 12, 2016
Hawaii Warden Allegedly Sexually Abuses Female Prisoners In Guise of Rehabilitation by Christopher Zoukis   By Christopher Zoukis A Hawaii prison warden who allegedly forced female prisoners to disclose their sexual history -- in some cases while being filmed or in front of male prisoners -- is being sued in …
Article • January 12, 2016
Texas State District Judge Sentenced for Corruption by Matthew Clarke On August 21, 2013, Abel Corral Limas, 60, former judge of the 404th Judicial District Court of Cameron County, Texas, was sentenced to 72 months in federal prison on racketeering charges he pleaded guilty to on March 31, 2011. Limas …
Article • January 12, 2016
Filed under: Prisoner Media, TV/Movies
Tennessee Jail Duped into Allowing Filming of Rap Video by David Reutter Officials at Tennessee’s Davidson County Jail (DCJ) are outraged at being “duped” into allowing a film crew record inside DCJ under the guise of creating a documentary and then seeing it be transformed into a music video. Rapper …
Article • January 12, 2016
Releasees under Three Strikes Reform Have Lower Recidivist Rate by David Reutter More than 1,000 prisoners have been released since California voters approved in 2012 the reform of the state’s harsh three strikes law. Despite not being provided pre-and post-release services afforded other prisoners, the strikers have a lower recidivism …
Article • January 12, 2016
Filed under: Telephone Rates
Louisiana Jail Phone Consultants Resign Due to Conflicts of Interest by David Reutter Two consultants hired to analyze the cost of prisoner phone calls charged by Louisiana’s Sheriffs have resigned due to conflict of interest. The Louisiana Public Service Commission (PSC) held two hearings in 2012 on the prison phone …
Innocence Project Frees Thirty One People in 2013 by Thirty one people were exonerated by the Innocence Network in 2013. Three of them were women. All total, these prisoners served 451 years of illegal incarceration. Bennie Starks spent 20 years behind bars after being wrongfully convicted of raping a 69-year-old …
Article • January 12, 2016
Filed under: Probation
California’s Lack of Oversight for Probationary Programs Allows Questionable Business into Loop by David Reutter California law encourages life-skill organizations to become involved in criminal justice, but a lack of oversight has allowed some non-profits to talk about responsibility while the organization itself shirks it. A review by the Voice …
Article • January 12, 2016
California’s Efforts to Hide Deficiencies at Prison Psych Unit Failed by David Reutter With a federal court order looming, the psychiatric unit at California’s Salinas Valley State Prison (SVPP) violated its own policies and made risky admissions to reduce its patient waiting lists. As a three-judge panel was about to …
Article • January 12, 2016
Filed under: Overcrowding, Booking Fees
Overcrowds Its Jail with People Who Can't Pay Court Fines and Fees by Joe Watson A recent analysis by the Tulsa World found that the percentage of bookings into the Tulsa, Oklahoma, County Jail involving warrants for failure to pay court fines and fees has more than tripled since 2004, …
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