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California Prisoners Unite in Hunger Strike to Protest SHU by David Reutter Official with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) devised a plan in 2006 that aimed to chop the head off of prison gangs. What CDCR did not consider was that the gang leaders it indefinitely isolated …
Article • March 7, 2016
Deputy’s Lawsuit Claims Racial Gangs Control Los Angeles Sheriff’s Office Jails by David Reutter The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) has white racist gangs operating at its highest levels, threatening the lives of deputies who exposed it, and labeling them as “race traitors” and “snitches.” Those claims are included …
Article • March 7, 2016
Filed under: Good Time
Colorado Prison Policy of Withholding Good Time Challenged by David Reutter The Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) has “a policy of routinely refusing to subtract previously credited good time as well as some previously credited earned time from inmates’ sentences despite the fact that the inmate has earned those credits,” …
California Overmedicates Prisoners with Psychotropic Drugs by David Reutter California prison mental health care workers are practicing “defensive medicine” and overmedicating their patients with psychotropic medications. Fear of triggering a lawsuit or federal court order drives the practice, admits a former top prison official. An Associated Press report found spending …
Article • March 7, 2016
Filed under: Aramark, Food, Jail Specific
Aramark to Provide Heart-Healthy Meals at San Francisco Jail by David Reutter The City of San Francisco negotiated a new contract with its food vendor, Aramark Correction Services, to provide a “heart-healthy menu” for prisoners at the San Francisco County Jail (SFCJ). The new fare, hopefully, will diminish the need …
Oklahoma’s Mabel Bassett Correctional Center has Highest Prison Rape Rate by Oklahoma state prison officials refused to testify at a federal hearing held on January 8, 2014. Among the items on the agenda at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) hearing was an inquiry as to why Oklahoma’s Mabel Basset …
Article • March 7, 2016
New Report Details California Counties’ “AB 109” Correctional Priorities by Derek Gilna A new report issued by Stanford University explores how California Assembly Bill 109 (AB 109), also known as the “realignment bill,” has shifted control of local correction activities to county agencies from the state.  Funded by state block …
Article • March 7, 2016
Federal Lawsuit, Criminal Charges Follow Beating of Prisoners In Florida Jail by Christopher Zoukis The repeated beating of a prisoner at the DeSoto County Jail in Florida has resulted in some serious consequences: a $3.5 million federal lawsuit, criminal charges against the jail guards, and the firings and a resignation …
Article • March 7, 2016
Time to Hire a Doctor at WA Jail Where Eight Have Died Since 2010 by Joe Watson It took the deaths of eight people since 2010 incarcerated at the Snohomish County Jail in Everett, Washington—or, as a result, at least two pending claims against the county—to convince jail officials in …
Review of Solitary Confinement in Texas Lacks Funding to Proceed by Joe Watson A legislatively-mandated, detailed review of the use of solitary confinement in Texas prisons—where the average stay in administrative segregation, or "ad seg," is more than three years—had not been initiated four months after Gov. Rick Perry signed …
Online Series Exposes Effects of Solitary Confinement on Women by Joe Watson An online series on women in solitary confinement illustrates that the practice of extreme isolation is as sadistic and corrosive to female prisoners—if not more so—as it is to men. The two-part series at solitarywatch.com, written by prisoner …
Article • March 7, 2016
Fewer Executions, Fewer Death Sentences, Fewer Death Penalty States in 2013 by Joe Watson The number of death row executions in the U.S. declined slightly in 2013, while the death row population and the number of states to sanction the death penalty—thanks to Maryland's repeal of capital punishment—also fell, according …
Maine Prisons "Safer" Despite Recent Killings and Assaults, Commissioner Says by Christopher Zoukis At a press conference addressing the violent attempted escape of three juvenile prisoners, Maine State Department of Corrections Commissioner Joseph Ponte says Maine prisons are safer than they were three to four years ago.  His comments came …
Article • March 7, 2016
Birdman of Alcatraz's Book on Federal Prison Makes It to Press After 51-Year Delay by Christopher Zoukis Robert Stroud, the Birdman of Alcatraz immortalized in an eponymous film starring Burt Lancaster, wrote a 2,000 page history of the Federal Bureau of Prisons before his death in 1963.  That book is …
'Smart Justice' Leads to Lower Recidivism Rates in Michigan, 6 Other States by Joe Watson Several states appear to be advancing effective policies to foster successful reentry and reduce recidivism, according to a report from the New York-based Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center. Based on data tracking prisoners …
Article • March 7, 2016
California Counties Say Jail Space is Lacking Because Of Red Tape, Recession by Joe Watson Bureaucratic hurdles and the Great Recession are being blamed for a purportedly dire lack of jail space in California, where the state's "realignment" law has forced overcrowded prisons to transfer low-level offenders to the custody …
Texas State Jails: Private Drug Counselors Ordered to Downplay Mental Illness by Matthew Clarke Former employees of Houston-based Turning Point, Inc., a private, for-profit company which contracted with Texas to provide substance abuse treatment in its state jail system, are revealing how supervisors pressured them to falsify Addiction Severity Index …
University of Cincinnati Pays $4.85 Million to Family of Campus Police Shooting Victim by Derek Gilna The University of Cincinnati, Ohio, has agreed to pay the family of decedent Samuel DuBose $4.85 million after one of their police officers, Ray Tensing, shot him in the head during a traffic stop …
Filing • March 7, 2016
Prison Legal News v. Chelan County, Consent Decree Jail Censorship, Chelan County Jail, WA, 2011 Case 2:11-cv-00337-EFS Document 52 Filed 12/01/11 Case 2:11-cv-00337-EFS Document 52 Filed 12/01/11 Case 2:11-cv-00337-EFS Document 52 Filed 12/01/11 Case 2:11-cv-00337-EFS Document 52 Filed 12/01/11 Case 2:11-cv-00337-EFS Document 52 Filed 12/01/11 Case 2:11-cv-00337-EFS Document 52 Filed …
Filing • March 7, 2016
Filed under: Consent Decrees
Prison Legal News v. Gusman, LA, Consent Judgment on Injunction, censorship, 2011 Case 2:11-cv-02277-JCZ-SS Document 32 Filed 12/02/11 Page 1 of 4 Case 2:11-cv-02277-JCZ-SS Document 32 Filed 12/02/11 Page 2 of 4 Case 2:11-cv-02277-JCZ-SS Document 32 Filed 12/02/11 Page 3 of 4 Case 2:11-cv-02277-JCZ-SS Document 32 Filed 12/02/11 Page 4 …
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