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Article • February 29, 2016
Filed under: Police
"No Cost" License Plate Readers Are Turning Texas Police into Mobile Debt Collectors and Data Miners by Dave Maass Vigilant Solutions, one of the country’s largest brokers of vehicle surveillance technology, is offering a hell of a deal to law enforcement agencies in Texas: a whole suite of automated license …
PLN Obtains Confidential CCA Litigation Records in Tennessee by David Reutter There are many arguments against the privatization of prisons, jails and other detention facilities. Over the years, Prison Legal News has published numerous articles detailing the problems with having a for-profit company fulfill the essential governmental function of incarceration …
Settlements in St. Louis Jail Detainee’s Heroin Withdrawal Death by David Reutter The City of St. Louis, Missouri and Correctional Medical Services (CMS, now Corizon Health) both agreed to pay settlements in a lawsuit filed by the estate of a jail detainee who died due to heroin withdrawal. Upon being …
Texas County Jail, Beset by Prisoner Deaths, has Highest Suicide Rate by Matthew Clarke A wrongful death suit filed by the parents of a 30-year-old Bexar County, Texas jail prisoner who died of a methadone overdose while in solitary confinement at the lock-up settled in February 2015 for $200,000, and …
New Michigan Law Requires Sex Offenders to Pay $50 Annual Fee; Court Challenge Fails by Derek Gilna A recently-enacted statute, Mich. Comp. Laws § 28.725a(6), requires registered sex offenders to pay a $50 annual fee to help defray the cost of the state’s online sex offender registry. Offenders are required …
Article • February 29, 2016 • from PLN March, 2016
Filed under: Cost of Prison Systems
Prison Supply Chains Reveal Some Surprises by Adeshina Emmanuel by Adeshina Emmanuel, The Chicago Reporter Most people see a jail and think about crime, tragedy and heartbreak. Others see dollar signs. That’s because incarceration can be a big money maker. Consider the drab polyester and cotton scrubs worn by detainees …
Tennessee: Federal Court Orders Interim Medical Care in Prisoner’s Pro Se Suit by Following an evidentiary hearing on November 15, 2013, U.S. District Court Judge William J. Haynes, Jr. ordered Tennessee prison officials to provide medication to a prisoner with a severe case of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) until he …
Sexual Harassment, Abuse Alleged at Oklahoma Halfway House for Women by Joe Watson Ownership of a privately-operated Oklahoma Department of Corrections (ODOC) halfway house near Tulsa has changed hands in the midst of at least two lawsuits and possible criminal charges stemming from allegations that the owner of a sandwich …
Article • February 29, 2016 • from PLN March, 2016
$65,000 Settlement Plus Fees and Costs in New York City Jail Assault Suit by A New York federal district court awarded $47,429.27 in attorney fees and costs in a lawsuit seeking damages for assaults upon a prisoner by guards employed by the New York City Department of Correction (NYCDOC). In …
Kansas Sex Offender Civil Commitment Program Under Scrutiny by Matthew Clarke The Sexual Predator Treatment Program, operated by the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services, is at the heart of a debate over whether civil commitment programs are truly designed to rehabilitate offenders convicted of sex crimes, or are …
Article • February 29, 2016 • from PLN March, 2016
New Mexico Corrections Department Bans Prisoner Social Media, Pen Pal Postings by Mark Wilson New Mexico prison officials are enforcing a rule that prohibits prisoners from maintaining online profiles, such as social media pages or web-based pen pal ads, including through third parties. Prisoners who violate the rule are subject …
Reproductive Health Care in Women’s Prisons “Painful” and “Traumatic” by Victoria Law By Victoria Law, Truthout It was Kim Dadou’s second day at New York’s Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. As part of the prison’s intake process, she was brought to the prison’s medical unit for a gynecological exam and pap smear. …
Article • February 29, 2016 • from PLN March, 2016
Prison Policy Initiative Releases Report on Email Services for Prisoners by Derek Gilna The non-profit, Massachusetts-based Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) has released a comprehensive study on communication options for prisoners, focusing on email services while also citing issues related to phone calls, visitation and postal mail. According to the January …
Article • February 29, 2016 • from PLN March, 2016
Professor Urges Study of Unintended Consequences of Court-ordered Prison Reform by Derek Gilna Prison reform, including reforms mandated by the judiciary, is an issue that everyone but shareholders in private prison companies thinks is a positive development, for a number of reasons. Even former advocates of mass incarceration now generally …
Article • February 29, 2016 • from PLN March, 2016
U.S. Court of Claims Awards Federal Prisoner $172,465.75 for Wrongful Conviction by Derek Gilna Michael Alan Crooker, wrongfully convicted in Massachusetts on a federal charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm, had his conviction reversed on appeal by the First Circuit in 2010, setting the stage for …
Article • February 29, 2016 • from PLN March, 2016
Prison Ecology and the Water Crisis in Flint, Michigan by Panagioti Tsolkas “Here’s your water filtration system. By the way, you have a warrant for your arrest.” Jody Cramer, a former prisoner recently released from Michigan’s Genesee County Jail, said that was the story he heard from multiple other people …
Article • February 29, 2016 • from PLN March, 2016
Oklahoma DOC, Sheriffs Challenge FCC’s Prison Phone Reforms by Carrie Wilkinson A petition for review has been filed in the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals challenging the Second Order and Third Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking released by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on November 4, 2015, which made sweeping …
Article • February 29, 2016 • from PLN March, 2016
Filed under: Private Prisons
Mississippi: More Contraband Found at Private Prisons by On March 25, 2015, state corrections officials conducted a shakedown at the privately-operated Marshall County Correctional Facility and seized weapons, cell phones and other contraband. Mississippi DOC Commissioner Marshall Fisher said it was believed that some staff members were complicit in bringing …
Suicides, Poor Conditions at D.C. Jail Remain Critical Issues Despite Progress by Derek Gilna The February 8, 2015 suicide of a woman held at the Washington, D.C. Jail and a recent report that blasted the facility for “non-compliance with basic standards established by national corrections authorities” have once again focused …
From the Editor by Paul Wright One downside of publishing a magazine like Prison Legal News for 26 years is that in some respects we are not covering a one-off or isolated story but rather are reporting an ongoing and developing issue. This month’s cover story about the epic abuse, …
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