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Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
California Federal Court Rules Early Release Program Cannot be Restricted to Women by Derek Gilna According to a September 8, 2015 ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Morrison C. England, Jr., the State of California implemented the Alternative Custody Program (ACP) in 2012 with the goal of reversing the worrisome …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
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Former Georgia Judge Faces Criminal Charges by A Fulton County, Georgia grand jury has indicted a former judge for making false statements and violating her oath of office. Amanda F. Williams spent 21 years on the bench in the Brunswick Judicial Circuit, eventually ascending to chief judge. While serving in …
Troubled North Dakota Jail to be Reviewed by Feds by The Lake Region Law Enforcement Center (LEC) in North Dakota is a multijurisdictional jail supported by six entities, including the City of Devils Lake and the counties of Benson, Eddy, Nelson, Ramsey and Towner. The center rents office space to …
Increasing Number of Jails, Prisons Using Full-body Digital Scanners by Matthew Clarke In 2012, the Hamilton County Jail in southwest Ohio was the first jail in the state to purchase a SecurPass full-body digital scanner, using a $243,000 federal grant. Thereafter, prisoners at the facility were subjected to scans in …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Mississippi Town Ordered to Abandon “Secured Bail” Arrest Bond System by Chevon E. Thompson, an unemployed, indigent mother of three, was arrested by Moss Point, Mississippi police for shoplifting, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. She was told that if she posted a bond of $3,200 for the three charges she …
Problems with California’s New Medical Prison by Matthew Clarke With construction costs of $840 million and a capacity to provide care to almost 3,000 patients, California’s new medical prison near Stockton is the largest and most expensive in the nation. Unfortunately, that expense has not resulted in a smooth-running operation; …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Newspaper Ban at Cook County Jail Violates First Amendment by Derek Gilna Although courts give broad latitude to corrections officials to restrict access to materials that might negatively impact institutional security, that latitude does not generally extend to blanket bans on newspapers. On July 6, 2015, a federal district court …
California’s Broken Death Penalty System by Christopher Zoukis While California taxpayers have spent over $4 billion on capital punishment since it was reinstated in 1978, more than 900 prisoners have been sentenced to death but only 13 have been executed – an average cost of around $308 million per execution. …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Prisoner’s Deliberate Indifference Suit Over Tooth Abscess Reinstated by Seventh Circuit by Derek Gilna Lester Dobbey, confined at Illinois’ Stateville Correctional Center in 2011, sought treatment at the prison’s medical unit for severe tooth pain that was later determined to be an abscessed molar. When he arrived for a dental …
Benefits of Allowing Prisoners to Raise Babies Born in Prison by Matthew Clarke Programs that allow pregnant prisoners to keep their babies and raise them in prison appear to have benefits for both the babies and their mothers. According to a recent report, two-thirds of the over 200,000 women incarcerated …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Wrongful Death Suit Against Illinois Jail Survives Summary Judgment by Derek Gilna Richard J. Gonzalez, 30, was being held at a jail in Ford County, Illinois when his already precarious health took a turn for the worse. On the evening of May 18, 2012, Gonzalez was found on the floor …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Special Supervised Release Conditions Require Sufficient Findings by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held on June 19, 2015 that an Iowa federal district court had abused its discretion in imposing a special condition of supervised release related to alcohol use. Before the appellate court was the appeal of Dennis …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
“Scared Straight” Programs are Counterproductive by Derek Gilna The Pew Charitable Trusts, a non-profit, non-governmental organization, recently reported on the mixed results of “Scared Straight” programs, which are intended to deter juveniles with a history of bad behavior from entering the criminal justice system by having them visit prisons or …
Custodial Interrogation of Parolee Requires Miranda Warnings by The Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that a parolee subjected to custodial interrogation by parole agents concerning new crimes is entitled to receive Miranda warnings. Under the facts of this case, the court found the parolee’s incriminating statements should be suppressed. Nathan Cooley …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
A Prison Telecom in Sheep’s Clothing by Carrie Wilkinson On April 6, 2016, FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai conducted a Field Hearing in Columbia, South Carolina on the subject of contraband cell phones in prisons and jails. The panel did not address questions submitted prior to the hearing by the Human …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Wrongfully Convicted Former Prisoner Commits Suicide by Anti-death penalty advocate Darryl Hunt, who was wrongfully convicted and served almost 20 years in North Carolina prisons before being exonerated in 2004, was found dead on March 13, 2016 in a car near the Wake Forest University campus. Police officials revealed that …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Lifesaving Overdose Treatment Slowly Becoming Available to Released Prisoners by Christopher Zoukis Statistics show, and experts agree, that the United States is in the midst of an epidemic of opioid abuse. According to the Centers for Disease Control, opioid overdoses have quadrupled since 2000, with 28,648 deaths in 2014 alone …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
California State Prisoner’s Habeas Case Gets to Supreme Court but Falls Short by Derek Gilna Antonio Hinojosa, serving a 16-year sentence in California’s prison system, was deemed a “validated” gang member by prison officials, effectively stripping him of future good-time credits and extending the length of his sentence. He filed …
Company Owes Nevada Prison Industries $428,000 by Bob Sloan Nevada’s state-run prison industry program, Silver State Industries, came under attack from citizens and business owners in 2014. One criticism of the program involved the loss of jobs to non-incarcerated workers and fewer jobs available to the unemployed. Another complaint was …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Advocates Leery of Cell Phones Given to Undocumented Immigrants by Derek Gilna Immigration rights advocates are suspicious of a new government-funded program administered by GEO Care – a division of the GEO Group, one of the nation’s largest for-profit prison companies – that supplies cell phones to low-risk undocumented immigrants. …
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