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News in Brief
Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A federal prisoner in Birmingham was gunned down outside a privately-operated reentry facility on July 16, 2022. The Associated Press reported that the prisoner, Larry Taylor, 47, had just been released from the facility, which is operated under contract from the federal Bureau of Prisons …
News in Brief
Article • August 1, 2022 • from PLN August, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: On June 3, 2022, a guard was arrested for having sex with a prisoner at Alabama’s Pickens County Jail, according to a report by WTVA in Tupelo, Mississippi. The guard, Marquita Booker, 28, was fired after her arrest, which followed an investigation that earlier in …
News in Brief
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A state Department of Corrections (DOC) guard in Birmingham was arrested on March 9, 2022, for allegedly beating a prisoner to death, according to the Alabama Political Reporter. As PLN previously reported, prison officials at first insisted no foul play was suspected in the death of Victor …
News in Brief
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
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News in Brief by Alabama: Chanting “not one more,” about 30 carloads of protesters from “Alabamians Who Care” caravanned to the governor’s mansion in Montgomery on August 1, 2020, protesting a plan by Gov. Kay Ivey (R) to build three new “mega-prisons.” According to a report by Montgomery TV station …
ICE Deportations Fueling Spread of COVID-19 to Latin American Countries
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19, Deportation/Removal/Exclusion
ICE Deportations Fueling Spread of COVID-19 to Latin American Countries by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The push to deport as many foreign nationals as possible under the Trump administration has helped to spread the coronavirus across Latin America, thanks to increased flights from overcrowded immigration detention centers across the …
COVID-19 Pandemic Leads to Unrest in Prisons Around the Globe
Article • July 1, 2020 • from PLN July, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19, Telephone Access, Visiting
COVID-19 Pandemic Leads to Unrest in Prisons Around the Globe by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The COVID-19 pandemic, or rather government officials’ inept reaction to the pandemic, has led to unrest in prisons around the world—especially in South America and the Middle East. This has resulted in the escape …
Adversariality, Plea Bargaining, and Prison Population Growth - Evidence From a Natural Experiment, 2019
Publication • 2019
Filed under: Plea Bargaining
Adversariality, Plea Bargaining, and Prison Population Growth - Evidence From a Natural Experiment, 2019 Adversariality, Plea Bargaining, and Prison Population Growth: Evidence from a Natural Experiment Angela Zorro-Medina1 Abstract During the two decades after the end of the Cold War, the U.S. promoted and sponsored Latin America's deepest criminal reform …
Over-Incarceration a Worldwide Problem, Report Finds
Article • November 7, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018
Filed under: Statistics/Trends, International
Over-Incarceration a Worldwide Problem, Report Finds by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Earlier this year, London-based Penal Reform International and the Thailand Institute of Justice issued a report on incarceration worldwide that draws heavily on research funded by the United Nations. The 60-page report not only identifies areas of concern, …
News in Brief
Article • June 30, 2017 • from PLN July, 2017
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by California: Ignacio Adrian Sobers Jr., 31, entered into a plea agreement in federal district court on February 9, 2017. He agreed to plead guilty to one count of acceptance of a bribe by a public official. The former guard at the U.S. Penitentiary in Victorville was …
News in Brief
Article • September 30, 2016 • from PLN October, 2016
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News in Brief by Arizona: The U.S. Department of Justice declared April 24 to 30, 2016 to be the inaugural National Reentry Week in an effort to recognize the plight of the more than 600,000 prisoners who are released annually from federal and state prisons, plus 11.4 million others who …
News in Brief
Article • September 2, 2016 • from PLN September, 2016
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News in Brief by Alabama: U.S. Attorney George L. Beck, Jr. called Chris Miles, the former assistant police chief for the town of Tallassee, Alabama, a “maverick” when Miles was sentenced on March 25, 2016 for beating a suspect during an interrogation, making false statements to the FBI and selling …
Colombia: At Least 100 Dismembered Bodies Found in Prison Sewers
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Filed under: Failure to Protect (General), Overcrowding, Sewage
Colombia: At Least 100 Dismembered Bodies Found in Prison Sewers by Special prosecutor Caterina Heyck Puyana announced at a press conference on February 18, 2016 that the Colombian Attorney General’s office was investigating the disappearance of at least 100 people between 1999 and 2001 whose bodies were allegedly dismembered and …
News in Brief
Article • February 29, 2016 • from PLN March, 2016
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by Arizona: On December 3, 2015, Brama Koroma walked into a Westwood bar wearing a black-and-white striped Maricopa County jail uniform that he had purchased online. Krystina Smith was at the bar and thought it was a delayed Halloween costume. “He was acting normal,” she said. Phoenix …
Columbia Jail Journal: The Compelling, Exclusive Inside Story of the Columbia Three, by James Monaghan, Brandon Press, 277 pages
Article • October 15, 2009 • from PLN October, 2009
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews, Prisoners-International, Political Prisoners (International)
Columbia Jail Journal: The Compelling, Exclusive Inside Story of the Columbia Three, by James Monaghan, Brandon Press, 277 pages by David Preston Reviewed by David Preston Of the many and varied detours a man can take off the road to happiness, a trip to prison would have to be about …
Secret Court Docket Practice Exposed
Article • December 15, 2003 • from PLN December, 2003
Filed under: Criminal Prosecution, Informants, Judiciary, Disclosure of Records, Family, Family Law
Secret Court Docket Practice Exposed by by David M. Reutter and Paul Wright One of the founding principles of the United States judiciary system is the right of access by the public and press. In their infinite wisdom, the authors of the Bill of Rights placed that principle within the …
Colombian Rebels Attack Prisons, 140 Prisoners Flee
Article • November 15, 2001 • from PLN November, 2001
Filed under: Political Prisoners, Escapes, Civil Procedure, Conspiracy (Civil Procedure), Prisoners-International
Colombian Rebels Attack Prisons, 140 Prisoners Flee by Prison escapes are common in Colombia. Prisoners often buy the help of guards and administrators and are often able to outgun their jailers. In the case that follows they had concerted help from the outside. It is not the first time that …
Prison Uprisings Sweep Columbia
Article • October 15, 1997 • from PLN October, 1997
Filed under: Political Prisoners, Prison Rebellion, International, Prisoners-International
Prison Uprisings Sweep Columbia by A large number of prison uprisings and breakouts occurred throughout Colombia in the first quarter of 1997. On January 5, eighteen prisoners escaped from the prison in Arauca. On January 12, rebels from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia broke 39 prisoners out of the …
Drug Use Legalized in Columbia
Article • July 15, 1994 • from PLN July, 1994
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime, Prisoners-International
Drug Use Legalized in Columbia by On May 5, 1994, Columbia's Constitutional Court (the equivalent of the US Supreme Court) voted five to four that a 1986 law permitting the arrest of someone for carrying a "personal dose" of drugs was a violation of the country's new constitution. Court president …
A Tomb in Columbia
Article • March 15, 1994 • from PLN March, 1994
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime, Prisoners-International
A Tomb in Columbia by Raul Zibecchi By Raul Zibecchi [The following article appeared in the December 10, 1993, edition of the Uruguayan weekly Brecha . It was translated and edited by PLN Editor Paul Wright. Given the fact that tens of thousands of Americans languish in prison as casualties …