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At Massive and Corrupt Philippine Prison, Contraband Includes Jacuzzis and Horses
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Filed under: Jail Misconduct, Bribery/Extortion/Theft
At Massive and Corrupt Philippine Prison, Contraband Includes Jacuzzis and Horses by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss In an article published on March 3, 2023, ABS-CBN News said that conditions at the Philippines’ New Bilibid Prison (NBP) – one of the largest prisons in the world – were simply …
News in Brief
Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A detainee assaulted aguard at the Calhoun County Jail on August 6, 2022, the Anniston Star reported. Sheriff Matthew Wade blamed an ongoing staffing shortage, which has typically left three guards on duty to supervise 300 detainees. One of them, Jacob Hammett, was out of …
News in Brief
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A convicted bank robber had 30 months added to his 17-year prison sentence on September 26, 2022, for bribing an Alabama jail guard to smuggle him a cellphone, K2 “spice” paper, and other contraband. According to a federal Department of Justice (DOJ) press release, while …
News in Brief
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: In Mobile on January 21, 2022, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Alabama announced that an 18-month federal prison sentence for bribery had been handed down by a federal court to Lakerdra Shanta Snowden, 31, a former guard at the Escambia County …
Unlike U.S., Many Governments Releasing Large Numbers of Prisoners to Reduce Threat of COVID-19
Article • July 1, 2020 • from PLN July, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19, Compassionate Release
Unlike U.S., Many Governments Releasing Large Numbers of Prisoners to Reduce Threat of COVID-19 by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Around the globe, governments are releasing prisoners in an attempt to mitigate the threat of COVID-19-related mass deaths in their jails and prisons. However, Third World countries are far ahead …
Institute for Criminal Policy Research - World Prison Population List, 2018
Publication • January 1, 2018
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Institute for Criminal Policy Research - World Prison Population List, 2018 World Prison Population List twelfth edition Roy Walmsley Introduction This twelfth edition of the World Prison Population List gives details of the number of prisoners held in 223 prison systems in independent countries and dependent territories. It shows the …
Congress Should Press Philippines to Stop the Extrajudicial Drug War Killings
Publication • November 17, 2017
Filed under: War on Drugs
Congress Should Press Philippines to Stop the Extrajudicial Drug War Killings Since the Philippines escalated its "drug war" in June of last year, over 3,900 people have been killed in anti-drug operations1, with nearly 2,300 more drug-related murders2 and thousands still "unexplained,"3 according to police reports. Estimates by media and …
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 • June 9, 2017 • from PLN June, 2017
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Arizona: On January 19, 2017, Estrella Jail guard Roy Eugene Ramey III was fired by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. Ramey, who had been arrested in September 2016, was placed on administrative leave pending disposition of charges that he engaged in sexual activity with a female …
News in Brief
Article • February 7, 2017 • from PLN February, 2017
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Afghanistan: On August 8, 2016, Robert Langdon, a 44-year-old Australian security contractor, became the last Western prisoner to leave an Afghan prison filled with Al Qaeda and Taliban members. U.S. lawyer Kimberly Motley took Langdon’s case pro bono in 2013 and worked diligently to secure his …
Supreme Court Reverses SORNA Notification Requirement when Sex Offenders Move Overseas
Article • May 5, 2016 • from PLN May, 2016
Filed under: Sex Offender Registration, Sex Offender Residence, Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, Immigration
Supreme Court Reverses SORNA Notification Requirement when Sex Offenders Move Overseas by Derek Gilna The federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), 42 U.S.C. § 16901, et seq., requires registered sex offenders to advise law enforcement officials within three business days of their change of address or intent to …
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 …
Eighth Circuit Holds No SORNA Registration Requirement after Leaving U.S.
Article • September 20, 2014 • from PLN September, 2014
Filed under: Sex Offender Registration, Sex Offender Residence, Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, International
Eighth Circuit Holds No SORNA Registration Requirement after Leaving U.S. by Matthew Clarke Eighth Circuit Holds No SORNA Registration Requirement after Leaving U.S. by Matt Clarke The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held in August 2013 that the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) does not require a registered …
Philippines Prison Suspends Thriller Dancers
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
Filed under: International, Prisoners-International
Philippines Prison Suspends Thriller Dancers by On February 24, 2012, guards at a maximum-security facility in the Philippines were so spooked following an incident involving a prisoner with a homemade weapon that they temporarily suspended the prison’s dance troupe, which became internationally famous for its 2007 choreographed homage to Michael …
Dancing Prisoners: Why it isn't funny anymore
Article • February 15, 2009
Filed under: Prisoners-International, Media, Internet
Dancing Prisoners: Why it isn't funny anymore by Carlo Osi By Carlo Osi | 09/22/2008 10:44 AM PHILADELPHIA – The Dancing Prisoners, if you will recall, was the Internet sensation in 2007 when prisoners from Cebu danced their way to international stardom by moving to the groove of Michael Jackson's …
28 Die in Philippines Jail Uprising
Article • December 15, 2005 • from PLN December, 2005
Filed under: Political Prisoners, Crime/Demographics, Prison/Jail Murders, Prisoners-International
28 Die in Philippines Jail Uprising by A March 14, 2005, botched escape attempt by an Al-Qaida linked Abu-Sayyaf member at the Camp Begang Diwa (CBD) detention center in Tanguig, Manila started as a two-day takeover of CBD that ended with 28 dead. When the incident began, CBD held 470 …