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Article • July 1, 2021 • from PLN July, 2021
The Contraband Wars Prison authorities target books and mail, miss the goods coming through the staff door by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis America’s jails and prisons have a serious contraband problem. From the smallest county jails to state prisons holding thousands of prisoners, the nation’s correctional system is overrun …
Article • October 1, 2020 • from PLN October, 2020
Filed under: Elections, Criminal Justice
Trump v. Biden on Criminal Justice by Christopher Zoukis, Charles Sloan-Hillier by Christopher Zoukis and Charles Sloan-Hillier “If we catch a drug dealer – death penalty.” – President Donald J. Trump, 2018 “Lock the S.O.B.s up.” – Former Senator Joe Biden, 1994 As protests and calls for police reforms continue …
Article • August 1, 2020 • from PLN August, 2020
Coronavirus in Prison: The Cruel Reality by Christopher Zoukis As Numbers Rise, Some Prison Systems Admit Defeat, Others Try to Ignore Death Toll by Christopher Zoukis, MBA As nations across the world battle the coronavirus plague, American prisons continue to fail at managing this pandemic, not unlike many communities across …
Article • July 1, 2020 • from PLN July, 2020
With Lives of Immigrant Detainees at Risk to COVID-19, Federal Judge Forces ICE’s Hand by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis As a result of a ruling June 5, 2020, hundreds of immigrant detainees held by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in south Florida may have to be released. That …
Article • June 1, 2020 • from PLN June, 2020
Federal Court Slams Michigan Jail for Bungling COVID-19 Pandemic, Demands Names of Vulnerable Prisoners for Release by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis On April 17, 2020, a judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan granted a temporary restraining order (TRO) against the Oakland County Jail …
Article • June 1, 2020 • from PLN June, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19, Journalist
Silence: The Bureau of Prisons’ Pathetic Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The silence is deafening. Over a week in mid-May, Prison Legal News tried to contact public information officers at seven federal prisons seeking an answer to a straightforward question: What are you doing …
New York Judge Orders Release of 18 Rikers Island Detainees Due to COVID-19 Risk by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis On April 6, 2020, New York Supreme Court Judge Mark Dwyer ordered the release of 18 pre-trial detainees held at Rikers Island in response to a lawsuit brought by attorneys …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19
Coronavirus: A Nationwide Survey of the Push for Early Release as Pandemic Fears Grow by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis “Mother Nature is a serial killer. No one’s better. More creative. . . . She’s a bitch.” – World War Z Between January and August of 2019, the Department of …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
California Three-Judge Court Denies Emergency Motion to Reduce Prison Population During Pandemic by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis On April 4, 2020, a three-judge court in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California denied a motion seeking an order requiring the California Department of Corrections and …
Article • July 2, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019
GEO Group Produces Litigation Documents After HRDC Files Public Records Suit by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis, MBA The Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), the parent organization of Prison Legal News, prevailed in a lawsuit seeking to force private prison contractor GEO Group to comply with Vermont’s public records law.  …
Article • July 2, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019
The Second Step: Invest in Prison Education Programs, Reinstate Pell Grants by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis, MBA Aaron Kinzel is a professor of criminal justice at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Jose Bou is the manager of Equity, Family and Community Partnerships in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Sean Pica is the executive …
Article • February 4, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019
Former Prisoners Become Attorneys: From Breaking the Law to Practicing Law by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis “A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client,” the old adage goes. But Isaac Wright, Jr. knew he was innocent, so he represented himself at his 1991 trial …
Article • January 9, 2019
Prison Work Programs: “Cost-Effective Labor Pool” or “Slave Labor of Yesterday”? by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis According to a 2017 survey by the Prison Policy Initiative (PPI), of the more than 2.2 million people incarcerated in state and federal prisons and local jails across the United States, 61 percent …
Class-Action Suit Against CoreCivic ICE Detention Center Allowed to Proceed by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis A lawsuit alleging that private prison operator CoreCivic violated the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) by forcing immigrant detainees to work at one of the company’s detention centers will proceed in federal court. The …
Article • January 9, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
Second Circuit: Prisoners Have the Right Not to Snitch by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has held that the First Amendment protects both a prisoner’s right not to snitch and his or her right not to provide false information to prison …
Article • January 8, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
Report Highlights Shortcomings of New York’s Parole Board by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis An investigative report issued in August 2018 by two advocacy groups, Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP) and the Parole Preparation Project (PPP), found significant problems with the New York State Board of Parole’s (BOP) policies, …
Article • January 8, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
Filed under: Immigration
Alaskan Native American Company Profits from Immigrant Detention by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Under contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), guards at the Port Isabel Detention Center in Los Fresnos, Texas are provided by Ahtna Support and Training Services – a subsidiary of Ahtna, Inc., which is one …
Article • December 7, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Federal Prisons Use Nurses and Cooks as Guards While Officials Push to Fill Private Prisons by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) houses over 181,400 prisoners in more than 120 facilities nationwide. As a rule, federal prisons are overcrowded and understaffed. With the Trump administration …
Ninth Circuit Reverses Summary Judgment in Favor of Jail Where Three Detainees Died by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis In an unpublished June 7, 2018 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit partially reversed a district court’s ruling that Cowlitz County, Washington was entitled to summary judgment …
Article • December 7, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Filed under: Dental Care
Experts Call for Improvements in Prisoner Dental Care by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Over four decades ago, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Estelle v. Gamble, 429 U.S. 97 (1976) that the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment guarantees prisoners the right to be free from “deliberate …
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