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News in Brief
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: WHNT in Huntsville reported on December 16, 2022, that a Morgan County Jail detainee was charged with assaulting a guard. Ashley Nicole Taymon, 36, had gotten into an altercation at the Community Corrections Office five days earlier and was taken to a hospital. There she …
News in Brief
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
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News in Brief by Alabama: On November 17, 2021, a former Alabama state prison guard was sentenced in federal court in Birmingham to 87 months in prison. As reported by the Birmingham News, a search found the guard, Gary Charles Dixon, Jr., 36, with 497 grams of methamphetamine when he …
News in Brief
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
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News in Brief by Alabama: A 20-year-old guard at the Lauderdale County Detention Center in Florence, Alabama, was arrested on October 29, 2021, on charges that he attempted to smuggle methamphetamine into the jail. According to a report by Huntsville TV station WHNT, the guard, Matthew Moran, faces one count …
Prisoners in Kenya and New Zealand, Unlike Counterparts in U.S., Win Right to Vote
Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
Filed under: Voting
Prisoners in Kenya and New Zealand, Unlike Counterparts in U.S., Win Right to Vote by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna In August 2017, prisoners at the Kamiti Maximum Security Prison in Kenya, along with other prisoners in the African nation, were allowed to vote in presidential elections for the first …
News in Brief
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
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News in Brief by California: For each of the last five years, members of the Golden State Warriors basketball team have visited San Quentin State Prison. Superstars Kevin Durant and Draymond Green sat among the prisoners and observed from the sidelines as members of the Warriors front office staff played …
News in Brief
Article • September 12, 2014 • from PLN September, 2014
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News in Brief by News in Brief Brazil: Brazilian authorities announced on January 15, 2014 that an investigation would be initiated into atrocities at the infamous Pedrinhas penitentiary. Bloody battles between rival prison gangs resulted in complaints of mass rapes of women visitors and the posting of a video depicting …
Kenyan Prisoners Allowed to Vote in Constitutional Referendum
Article • February 15, 2011 • from PLN February, 2011
Filed under: Organizing, Voting, Prisoners-International
Kenyan Prisoners Allowed to Vote in Constitutional Referendum by When Kenya was torn apart by bloody civil strife following contested national elections in December 2007, it was not apparent that the political chaos could lead to the reform of prisoners’ voting rights. Yet that is exactly what happened. To end …
4,000 Kenyan Death Sentences Commuted to Life
Article • December 15, 2009 • from PLN December, 2009
Filed under: Police Misconduct, Government Misconduct, Prison Labor, Organizing, Prison Rebellion, Prisoners-International, Death Penalty
4,000 Kenyan Death Sentences Commuted to Life by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 3, 2009, Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki announced that he had commuted the death sentences of all 4,000 prisoners on Kenya’s death row to life in prison. Explaining his rationale for this action, Kibaki said an …