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Article • January 9, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
with Armor. “The audit confirms what many already suspected, [that] some of the most serious staffing issues that originally led the court to order this contract still persist,” he said. Lipscomb ...
Article • June 9, 2017 • from PLN June, 2017
Filed under: Databases, Wrongful Death
people who had not been charged with a crime. The majority of deaths, 4,870 (70%), resulted from natural causes, while 772 (11%) were suicides and 573 (8%) were what the police called “justifiable ...
design flaws – including blind spots and obstructed access to common areas in case of emergencies – prohibit guards from seeing what’s happening in the housing units. After the 2009 ...
and registries, nobody really knows. Many thanks go to Melanie Abbott, a student volunteer at PLN who spent a lot of time tracking down the numbers and compiling what little data exists on people incarcerated ...
Article • August 25, 2016
." Most, if not all, died alone with nothing but a bed to comfort them in their last days. What's even more disturbing is oftentimes friends of these men who are housed in the general population do not hear ...
issue.  Our jails are places largely in the shadows where there’s not a lot of scrutiny about what is happening, and there’s a culture of indifference to the human beings who ...
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
[ ] for doing what we’re doing. Donald Trump. Everything that he did. All the things that he’s doing now. We know that the institution is going to change for the worse. We know the institution ...
Article • August 29, 2017 • from PLN September, 2017
Surgeon General’s Report: Substance Abuse Continues to Grow in America by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna A new report from the federal government documents what many already know ...
emphasizes what Oklahoma sheriffs have been saying for years: they are ill prepared to deal with the rapidly increasing number of mentally ill detainees in their jails. Sheriffs in the Sooner State often ...
Article • May 5, 2017 • from PLN May, 2017
, alleging that prison officials violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by failing to accommodate his deafness. He sued for what he described as a “systemic failure to effectively communicate ...
Article • September 3, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
to a unit where the temperature is 85 degrees or less,” said Fathi. “That’s what they’re required to do, but we don’t even know if they’ve ever done it.” He also ...
Article • July 15, 2011 • from PLN July, 2011
of life behind bars shot from the perspective of someone who has lived the experience. “I feel the world really needs to see what’s going on inside of the country’s many prisons because people see what ...
“conspicuously limited to statements regarding what Whitson did or did not say or know the morning of the alleged assault.” Three affidavits were “of … individuals who were not present during the transport ...
Article • September 15, 2012 • from PLN September, 2012
stories of pregnancy behind bars. What was medical care like? Did you birth your baby while incarcerated? What was it like to hold your baby for the first time? What happened in the moments after? To share ...
Article • December 31, 2015 • from PLN January, 2016
Filed under: Editorials
reading for anyone interested in understanding how the U.S. came to lead the world in mass incarceration. What is interesting are the people who object to referring to the U.S. as a police state. I think ...
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
superiority to the powerless.” What happens when educated, powerful people withhold sympathy and compassion from those without power? What happens when individuals set aside Spengler’s definition of morality ...
Article • November 15, 2011 • from PLN November, 2011
people against their will for what they might do in the future based wholly on what they have done in the past. It is telling that with rampant sexual predation by priests and prison guards, not a single ...
Article • March 15, 2013 • from PLN March, 2013
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews
and that justice is being fairly dispensed. But the meat and potatoes of reporting on what’s happening in the legal system is achieved not by filing motions, but by actually sending reporters into courts to watch ...
Article • March 15, 2013
California: CDCR Releases Latest Recidivism Report by In October 2010, in what California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) Secretary Matthew Cate billed as the first ...
Article • July 9, 2014 • from PLN July, 2014
;These are five women that are at the lowest point in their life,” said attorney Robert King, who is representing the victims. “What we know is that this happened time after time after time, woman after ...
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