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Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Minnesota Prisoners Getting Scanned Mail, Kept Waiting 18 Months for Tablets by Starting November 1, 2024, prisoners held by the Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) stopped getting physical mail, which is now diverted to Baltimore for electronic scanning by private contractor TextBehind. Printed copies of the scans—complete with all the …
CDCR Drug-sniffing Dog Trainer Resigns Over Switch to “Passive” Dogs by Joe Watson After resigning from his position, an expert dog trainer and veteran of California’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) for more than 25 years has criticized a new program to reduce prison drug smuggling. Wayne Conrad, 61, …
Tennessee Prison’s Body Scanner Mothballed Due to Violations by After a spat of bad publicity from contraband cellphones becoming prolific inside its prisons, the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) spent $118,750 on a body scanner to use at its Riverbend prison. However, the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) …
Increasing Number of Jails, Prisons Using Full-body Digital Scanners by Matthew Clarke In 2012, the Hamilton County Jail in southwest Ohio was the first jail in the state to purchase a SecurPass full-body digital scanner, using a $243,000 federal grant. Thereafter, prisoners at the facility were subjected to scans in …
Supreme Court Reinstates Challenge to North Carolina Post-Release GPS Sex Offender Monitoring by Derek Gilna Supreme Court Reinstates Challenge to North Carolina Post-Release GPS Sex Offender Monitoring by Derek Gilna In a March 30, 2015 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court addressed a North Carolina law that requires certain sex offenders …
$1.6 Million Settlement for Police Body Cavity Search and Forced Colonoscopy of New Mexico Man by $1.6 Million Settlement for Police Body Cavity Search and Forced Colonoscopy of New Mexico Man A 54 year-old resident of Lordsburg, Hidalgo County New Mexico filed a civil rights complaint in the District Court …
Article • May 6, 2015 • from PLN May, 2015
Accuracy of Widely-Used Polygraph Machine Under Fire by Derek Gilna In the hands of a skilled operator, such as the late John Reid of John E. Reid and Associates, one of the early pioneers in the lie detection field, the polygraph can be a useful tool. Reid, along with noted …
Article • April 10, 2015 • from PLN April, 2015
The Spread of Electronic Monitoring: No Quick Fix for Mass Incarceration by James Kilgore The Spread of Electronic Monitoring: No Quick Fix for Mass Incarceration by James Kilgore In a troubled criminal justice system desperately looking for alternatives to incarceration, electronic monitoring is trending. North Carolina has tripled the use …
Article • October 3, 2014
1st Circuit Permits Massachusetts X-ray Drug Search by 1st Circuit Permits Massachusetts X-ray Drug Search   The 1st Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals has affirmed a Massachusetts district court decision permitting an x-ray search of defendant Shane Spencer under the aegis of a search warrant, and dismissed his …
Publication • 2014
Libre by Nexus Contract Materials, Immigration Electronic Monitoring Services, 2014
Publication • 2014
License Plate Readers for Law Enforcement Study Rand Corp. 2014 Safety and Justice Program CHILDREN AND FAMILIES EDUCATION AND THE ARTS ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE INFRASTRUCTURE AND TRANSPORTATION INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis. …
Eckert v. City of Deming, NM, Ptf's SJ Motion, Police Body Cavity Search and Forced Colonoscopy, 2013
Eckert v. City of Deming, NM, Ltr. to NM Medical Review Commission, Police Body Cavity Search and Forced Colonoscopy, 2013
Eckert v. City of Deming, NM, Complaint, Police Body Cavity Search and Forced Colonoscopy, 2013 Case 2:13-cv-00727-JB-WPL Document 1 Filed 08/07/13 Page 1 of 29 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO DAVID ECKERT, Plaintiff, v. CV THE CITY OF DEMING, DEMING POLICE OFFICERS BOBBY …
California: Thousands of Sex Offenders Remove GPS Monitors by Taking advantage of the lack of available bed space to house parole violators in California jails following the state’s “realignment” initiative, thousands of paroled sex offenders fitted with GPS ankle bracelets have disabled or removed them – with few consequences. Under …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
“Fusion Centers” Gather Intelligence on U.S. Citizens by Derek Gilna Homeland Security-financed agencies called “fusion centers,” ostensibly formed to collect information to prevent 9/11-type terrorist attacks, have expanded their scope of operations to include ordinary street-level crime. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) recently expressed concerns about a fusion center …
Article • May 15, 2012
1st Circuit Permits Massachusetts X-ray Drug Search by The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a Massachusetts district court decision permitting an x-ray search of defendant Shane Spencer under the aegis of a search warrant and dismissed his 1983 action. Spencer had been arrested in 2005 by Worcester, Massachusetts …
Qualified Immunity Upheld in Maryland Prison Employees’ Suit over Strip Search Following Positive Ion Drug Scan by Employees and independent contractors at the Maryland Correctional Center Training Center were subjected to search by a portable ion scanning machine in an attempt to interdict drugs being smuggled into the facility. Eight …
Virginia Supreme Court Says Plethysmograph Evidence Inadmissible by The Virginia Supreme Court has held that plethysmograph evidence is inadmissible in all judicial proceedings without foundation as to reliability. Matthew Edwards Billips committed several sex offenses involving young children when he was 18 years old. He was convicted of those offenses …
Tennessee GPS Monitoring of Sex Offenders Upheld by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that Tennessee’s Sex Offender Registration and Monitoring acts do not violate the ex post facto prohibition of the U.S. Constitution. In doing so, the appellate court determined that tracking via a global positioning system …
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