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Article • November 15, 2011
False Reports Filed by Private Prison Guards Can Support Federal Obstruction Charges by On April 28, 2011 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the convictions of two former private prison guards accused of obstructing an investigation into the assault of a prisoner. Rex Eguridu was assaulted …
Article • November 15, 2011
Mentally Ill Oregon Prisoner Pleads Guilty to Death Threats against President by A mentally ill Oregon prisoner pleaded guilty to threatening President Barack Obama. In August 2007, David Earl Anderson, a white separatist, was sentenced to prison for identity theft, supplying contraband and using a minor in a drug offense, …
Article • November 15, 2011
New Hampshire Supreme Court Reverses Dismissal of Indictments against Prisoner for Conduct Exposing Corrections Employee to Bodily Substances by Derek Gilna By Derek Gilna In a November 30 decision, the New Hampshire Supreme Court reversed a dismissal of indictments against Timothy Spade, a prisoner at the Hillsborough County House of …
Article • November 15, 2011
Ninth Circuit Reverses Conviction after Prosecutors Improperly Questioned Defendant about Details of Prior Conviction by By Brandon Sample The U.S. court of appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a defendant’s conviction for assaulting a guard after prosecutors improperly questioned the defendant concerning details of a prior bank fraud conviction. Daniel …
Publication • November 7, 2011
Geo Group 5-year Litigation History, 2005
The Resistable Rise and Predictable Fall of the U.S. Supermax by Stephen Eisenman Stephen F. Eisenman In a recent article entitled “The Penal State in an Age of Crisis” (Monthly Review, June 2009), Hannah Holleman, Robert W. McChesney, John Bellamy Foster, and R. Jamil Jonna sought to account for the …
The Failed Promise of Prison Privatization by Richard Culp, Ph.D. We have been experimenting with prison privatization in the U.S. now for over twenty-five years. The privatization idea originated out of a notion that the private sector, with its competition-driven efficiency and innovation, could operate prisons of higher quality and …
Article • October 15, 2011 • from PLN October, 2011
Economy Forces States to Rethink Juvenile Justice Policies, Priorities by The “tough on crime” movement of the 1990s ushered in a wave of harsh juvenile justice practices across the U.S., and the philosophy for dealing with juvenile offenders shifted from rehabilitative to punitive. Children were tagged with dehumanizing labels like …
FBI Claims 2,500 Percent Increase in Child Porn Arrests by Although the number of prosecutions for child pornography is small in comparison with drug and immigration offenses, child porn cases have skyrocketed according to FBI statistics. Arrests for such crimes are up 2,500 percent since 1996, largely due to technology …
Department of Justice Report on Sexual Victimization in Prisons and Jails by In January 2011, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) released a report titled “Sexual Victimization Reported by Adult Correctional Authorities, 2007-2008.” The report is based on the annual Survey of Sexual Violence mandated by …
Article • October 15, 2011 • from PLN October, 2011
Congressional Budget Resolution Cuts Some DOJ Programs by The April 2011 vote in Congress that passed a resolution for continued federal funding until the end of the current fiscal year on June 30 included 17 percent cuts for various Department of Justice (DOJ) programs, including the Second Chance Act. The …
Article • October 15, 2011 • from PLN October, 2011
Fugitive Oregon DOC Food Manager Getting Homesick in Iran by “I would love to come back to my country ... but unfortunately they want to fry me for my mistake,” wrote international fugitive and former Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) Food Service Administrator Farhad (“Fred”) Monem, in emails sent to …
Sexual Misconduct Topples Two Oregon Prosecutors by The elected District Attorney of a small Oregon county lost his job after being accused of using his office for sexual misconduct and then trying to cover it up. In August 2010, a female employee of the Umatilla County District Attorney’s office, Dawn …
Article • October 15, 2011 • from PLN October, 2011
Oregon Prison Guard Guilty of Contraband Smuggling by On March 21, 2011, former Oregon prison guard Tara Martinmaas, 34, pleaded guilty to a felony charge of supplying contraband. She was sentenced to a two-year term of probation and ordered to pay over $1,500 in fees and have no contact with …
Article • September 15, 2011
Tenth Circuit Upholds 27-Month Sentence of Utah Guard; Altered UAs and Other Misconduct for Sexual Favors by Tenth Circuit Upholds 27-Month Sentence for Utah Guard; Altered UAs and Other Misconduct for Sexual Favors The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a former prison guard’s 27-month sentence, finding that an “obstruction …
The Sun Never Sets On Torture in American Military Prisons by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke PLN has reported extensively on some of the issues surrounding the treatment of prisoners in the American military prisons which were set up to hold people suspected of committing or supporting terrorism. This …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
New Mexico Spends $20 Million in Federal Stimulus Money to Fund Prison Jobs by Like most other states, New Mexico received a large amount of federal money under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Of the billions of dollars in stimulus funds, $260 million was earmarked as a “state fiscal …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
Filed under: Statistics/Trends, News
Washington State Closes McNeil Island Prison by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Citing $12 million in annual savings, the Washington State Department of Corrections (WDOC) has closed the 1,200-bed McNeil Island Corrections Center. A 2009 audit, however, found there would be no actual savings because it would cost the …
New Laws Improve Job Prospects for Former Prisoners by More than 25 cities and counties have taken steps to remove unfair barriers in their employment practices relative to hiring ex-offenders, according to a resource guide produced by the National Employment Law Project. Central to this new hiring initiative has been …
Article • September 15, 2011
Ninth Circuit: Victims Have Right to Speak At Sentencing by Ninth Circuit: Victims Have Right to Speak at Sentencing W. Patrick Kenna is a victim of fraud perpetrated by Moshe and Zvi Leichner, a father and son team who swindled scores of victims out of nearly $100 million. Mosche was …
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