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Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Ninth Circuit: Posting Jail Mugshots on Arizona County’s Website Violates Substantive Due Process by Like many jurisdictions, Arizona’s Maricopa County maintained a website where mugshots were posted of those arrested and booked into the county jail. The photos were accompanied by personal identifying information, including names and birthdates. But after …
Porn Produced by Georgia Prisoners by On July 16, 2024, the Human & Civil Rights Coalition (HCRC) of Georgia posted screenshots to its Facebook page from pornographic videos produced inside Wilcox State Prison and posted online by state prisoners. As the post noted, the videos ran up to 45 minutes, …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Pro-Navalny Hackers Breach Russian Prison Computers, Lower Commissary Prices by Hours after Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny died in prison on February 16, 2024, anti-­government hackers took revenge, breaching information systems of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) and posting personal data of some 800,000 prisoners online. Prices at prison …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
1,200 Washington Prisoners Lose Laptops After One Shows Up on eBay by By March 2, 2024, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) had collected laptops from some 1,200 state prisoners who had been issued them for course work in college programming—throwing a huge monkey wrench into their plans to work …
Article • April 26, 2024
“Sisters-In-Law” of Brazilian Prisoners Going Viral on TikTok by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott The wives and girlfriends of some 8,500 Brazilian prisoners are finding fame and fortune with “sister-in-law” videos that have gone viral on the TikTok social media app. The videos offer a window into the …
Article • June 6, 2022
Filed under: Internet, Racial Profiling
New York Prison Guard Suspended After “Despicable” Facebook Post Mocking Buffalo Mass Shooting Victims by Jo Ellen Nott By Jo Ellen Nott Gregory C. Foster II, 46, a guard at New York’s Attica Correctional Facility, was suspended without pay on May 18, 2022, after posting a meme on Facebook that …
Brief • January 19, 2022
Filed under: Internet
Jones v. Stanford, NY,Settlement, Social Media Ban, 2022 Case 1:20-cv-01332-RJD-JRC Document 73 Filed 01/24/22 Page 1 of 16 PageID #: 690 Case 1:20-cv-01 332-RJD-JRC Document 72 Filed 01/19/22 Page 1 of 16 PagelD #: 674 UN ITED STATES DISTRICT COU RT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK -------------------------------------------------------- ---------- X VERNON …
Brief • July 21, 2021
Steiner v. eBay, MA, Complaint, Retaliation for Reporting, 2021 Case 1:21-cv-11181 Document 1 Filed 07/21/21 Page 1 of 93 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT COURT OF MASSACHUSETTS __________________________________________ | Ina Steiner, | David Steiner, | Steiner Associates, LLC, | (Publisher of EcommerceBytes) | Plaintiffs | | | | …
Brief • September 9, 2020
Filed under: Internet
Jones v. Stanford, NY, Memorandum and Order, Social Media Ban, 2020 Case 1:20-cv-01332-RJD-SJB Document 37 Filed 09/09/20 Page 1 of 20 PageID #: 417 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK -------------------------------------------------------------X VERNON JONES, VLADIMIR KRULL, THOMAS MITCHELL, COMPTON MOHABIR, and CORYDON UMBER, Plaintiffs, -againstTINA M. STANFORD, Esq., …
Brief • September 9, 2020
Filed under: Internet
Jones v. Stanford, NY, Memorandum and Order, Social Media Ban, 2020 (1) Case 1:20-cv-01332-RJD-SJB Document 37 Filed 09/09/20 Page 1 of 20 PageID #: 417 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK -------------------------------------------------------------X VERNON JONES, VLADIMIR KRULL, THOMAS MITCHELL, COMPTON MOHABIR, and CORYDON UMBER, Plaintiffs, -againstTINA M. STANFORD, …
Illinois Prison Guilty of Censoring Free Speech Over Facebook Posts by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss An Illinois federal district court held on September 9, 2019, that Larry Harris was retaliated against when he was punished and transferred to a less-desirable prison because of what his daughter, Amanda Carrasco, posted …
Brief • March 12, 2020
Filed under: Internet
Jones v. Stanford, NY, Complaint, Social Media Ban, 2020 Case 1:20-cv-01332 Document 1 Filed 03/12/20 Page 1 of 22 PageID #: 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK VERNON JONES, DOUGLAS HYSON, VLADIMIR KRULL, THOMAS MITCHELL, COMPTON MOHABIR, and CORYDON UMBER, CIVIL ACTION Case No.: 1:20-cv-1332 COMPLAINT …
Article • June 4, 2019 • from PLN June, 2019
Filed under: Databases, Internet
Securus Hacked Again; Passwords, Personal Information, Location Data Compromised by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Some readers may recall how a hacker targeted Dallas, Texas-based Securus Technologies, a prison telecom company, resulting in the records of some 70 million phone calls made by over 63,000 prisoners being released on the …
Publication • 2019
OFFLINE: CHALLENGING INTERNET AND SOCIAL MEDIA BANS FOR INDIVIDUALS ON SUPERVISION FOR SEX OFFENSES 5 HUTT_43.4_V2.DOCX (DO NOT DELETE) 8/19/19 2:25 PM OFFLINE: CHALLENGING INTERNET AND SOCIAL MEDIA BANS FOR INDIVIDUALS ON SUPERVISION FOR SEX OFFENSES JACOB HUTT¥ ABSTRACT Tens of thousands of people across the United States are subject …
Lawsuits Filed Over South Dakota Replacing Prison Law Libraries with Tablets by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Two federal lawsuits were filed by South Dakota prisoners in May and June 2018 against the state Department of Corrections (DOC) over the introduction of tablet computers to replace prison law libraries and …
Article • June 30, 2017 • from PLN July, 2017
Supreme Court Voids North Carolina Law Barring Sex Offenders from Facebook by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna In a unanimous decision, on June 19, 2017 the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a North Carolina statute that prohibits convicted sex offenders from accessing “a commercial social networking Web site where the …
Illinois High Court Upholds Sex Offender Requirements Struck Down in Other States by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton On October 20, 2016, the Illinios Supreme Court declared constitutional a law that requires convicted sex offenders to report their email addresses, Internet identities and related online data to law enforcement officials. …
Publication • June 8, 2017
Joint letter to Ryan and Pelosi re FCC net neutrality, HR 2666 - April 2016 April 12, 2016 The Honorable Paul Ryan Speaker U.S. House of Representatives The Honorable Nancy Pelosi Democratic Leader U.S. House of Representatives Dear Speaker Ryan and Leader Pelosi: We understand that floor consideration of H.R. …
Publication • June 7, 2017
Filed under: Internet, First Amendment
WJLTA - Jail (E)mail, Brennen Johnson, 2016 WASHINGTON JOURNAL OF LAW, TECHNOLOGY & ARTS VOLUME 11, ISSUE 4 WINTER 2016 JAIL (E)MAIL: FREE SPEECH IMPLICATIONS OF GRANTING INMATES ACCESS TO ELECTRONIC MESSAGING SERVICES Brennen J. Johnson* © Brennen J. Johnson Cite as: 11 Wash. J.L. Tech. & Arts 285 (2016) …
Article • May 5, 2017 • from PLN May, 2017
Texas Prison System Bans Social Media for Prisoners by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) added a rule to the April 2016 version of its Offender Handbook that bars prisoners from using any form of social media. Rule 111.N.4 states that “Offenders are prohibited …
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