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Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Seventh Circuit Reverses Denial of Former Prison Guard’s Marriage to Prisoner by Derek Gilna Rebecca Riker, a kitchen supervisor at the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility in Indiana, became romantically involved with prisoner Paul Vest, who also worked in the kitchen. When their relationship was exposed, Riker resigned her position and …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Bail Bond Payment Plans Face Scrutiny, Criticism in New Jersey by Joe Watson In May 2014, New Jersey’s State Commission of Investigation (SCI) concluded a “broad-based” probe into the state’s bail bond industry for allowing criminal defendants to get out of jail with lower upfront costs and weekly or monthly …
Private Prison Firms Reap Large Profits from Immigration Detention by Gary Hunter Federal immigrant detention has long been a boon to private prison companies Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and the GEO Group, the nation’s two largest private prison firms, both of which trade on the New York Stock Exchange. …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Seventh Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Illinois Prisoner’s § 1983 Action by Derek Gilna William Nally, incarcerated at the Stateville Correctional Center in Illinois, was given eleven diabetes tests by prison medical staff over a period of five years starting in 2005. Despite the fact that several of those tests showed …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Crime, Incarceration Rates Decline in New York City by Mark Wilson Over the past five years the crime rate has steadily declined in New York City. Meanwhile, the city’s incarceration rate has decreased, too. “New York’s crime rate has gone down more quickly and more steeply than the rest of …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Tenth Circuit Affirms Murder Conviction Called into Question by New DNA Evidence by Derek Gilna In 2005, federal prisoner Mark Jordan was convicted of the June 1999 recreation-yard murder of fellow prisoner David Stone at USP Florence in Florence, Colorado. In 2012, another prisoner who had been present at the …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Fifth Circuit Holds Texas Prisoner Has Right to Grow “Fist-Length” Beard by Pursuant to the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Holt v. Hobbs, 135 S.Ct. 853 (2015) [PLN, Aug. 2015, p.50], the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) changed its grooming policy on August 1, 2015. The new policy …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
UK Prisoner Pen Pal Program Relieves Feelings of Isolation by Derek Gilna Prison is not a place conducive to maintaining good mental health, whether in the United States or elsewhere. The Ministry of Justice in the United Kingdom has found that depression and suicide are major problems in that nation’s …
Another WA DOC Asbestos Abatement Program Shut Down; Prison Officials Fined by Mark Wilson The Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC) was fined $141,000 after an inspection found code violations that exposed prisoners working in an asbestos abatement program to elevated risks of cancer and lung disease. Since 1990, the WDOC …
Prisoners Protest Solitary Confinement at Illinois Facility by Joe Watson More than two dozen prisoners at the Menard Correctional Center in Illinois protested conditions in the prison’s high security unit (HSU) by staging a series of hunger strikes, most of them sustained for weeks. The protests at the Menard facility, …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Filed under: Guard Misconduct
Former Pennsylvania Prison Guard and Prisoner Charged with Child Sex Trafficking by David Reutter An unlikely alliance between a prison guard and a former prisoner ended in both being charged with enslaving two teenagers and forcing them into prostitution. While serving time for a parole violation and drug offense from …
Exonerees Fulfill Dreams, Help Other Prisoners Overcome Wrongful Convictions by David Reutter by David Reutter and Joe Watson Former Louisiana death row prisoner John Thompson has spearheaded an organization that aims to help the wrongfully convicted and former prisoners successfully rebuild their lives. Thompson was sentenced to death for the …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Florida: Drug Arrest Costs Former Prison Official Retirement Benefits by On May 10, 2016, Administrative Law Judge G.W. Chisenhall upheld a decision by the Florida State Board of Administration (Board) to strip retirement benefits from Charles G. Combs, a former major at the Florida State Prison who was arrested for …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
New York Court of Claims Awards $1.75 Million to Prisoner’s Estate by Derek Gilna Scott Degina, a New York state prisoner, sued the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) for damages as a result of negligent treatment of his severe urological problems. He further alleged that due to the …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Female Prisoners in United Kingdom Make Designer Bags by Derek Gilna Female prisoners at the HM Prison Bronzefield in Surrey, England are paid around $15 per week to produce designer “dust bags” for high-end purses sold in the most exclusive shops. The prison, operated by for-profit company Sodexo, said the …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Washington DOC Ends Marijuana Testing for Parolees by Christopher Zoukis The Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) announced on June 1, 2014 that it will no longer test parolees for marijuana use – a move that will allow some 14,000 parolees to enjoy recreational marijuana like other citizens in the state. …
Sixth Circuit Rejects Qualified Immunity Defense by Guards in Wrongful Death Suit by Derek Gilna On August 21, 2015, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected an appeal filed by jail officials seeking reversal of a district court’s denial of qualified and statutory immunity in a case involving a prisoner’s …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Finds DOC Violated RLUIPA, Prior Settlement Agreement by Derek Gilna Massachusetts state prisoners Randall Trapp and Robert Ferreira filed an amended complaint in Superior Court that accused the Department of Corrections (DOC) of violating a 2003 settlement agreement guaranteeing proper observance of Native American religious practices …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Former Wisconsin Corrections Secretary Fired by Wisconsin Attorney General Brad D. Schimel confirmed on April 15, 2016 that Ed Wall, the former state corrections secretary who responded to widespread prison violence by equipping prison employees with pepper spray and Tasers [see: PLN, May 2014, p.30], was fired by the state’s …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Study of Incarceration from 1999 to 2014 Shows Modest Decline in Prison Populations by Derek Gilna A study by the non-partisan Washington, D.C.-based Sentencing Project, titled “U.S. Prison Population Trends 1999-2014: Broad Variation Among States in Recent Years,” found there has been an average 2.9% decline in the number of …
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