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Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
U.S. Navy Exonerates Wrongly Convicted Black WWII Sailors by The United States Navy exonerated 256 former prisoners on July 17, 2024, all of them Black sailors convicted of refusing to return to work after a deadly 1944 explosion at the Port Chicago naval weapons station in San Francisco. On the …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Nebraska Pioneers Diversion Program to Help Arrested Veterans Avoid Jail by With a law signed by Gov. Jim Pillen (R) in April 2024, Nebraska became the first state to adopt a model program for diverting military veterans from jail into programs offering treatment for the issues underlying their arrest. When …
BOP Rolls Out Veterans-Only Housing at Federal Prison in Texas by In an article published by the Vanguard at Berkeley on October 15, 2023, a new program was reported at the Federal Correctional Institution in Seagoville, Texas: A dorm exclusively for prisoners who are veterans of the U.S. military. Federal …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Filed under: Military Prisons
Guantanamo Prison Down to 30 Detainees by Jordan Arizmendi by Jordan Arizmendi “My name is Majid Khan, and I am a real person. I am a human being. I am a Muslim man, and I first want to thank God for freeing me.” With that, the 43-year-old Pakistani was transferred …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Fifth South Carolina Prisoner Sentenced in “Sextortion” Scams Targeting Military Members by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On April 21, 2023, South Carolina prisoner Dexter Lawrence, 27, was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release for his role in a “sextortion” scam that targeted …
Article • August 1, 2022 • from PLN August, 2022
Federal Judge Allows Retroactive Benefit Reduction for Incarcerated Veteran by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On January 20, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) may make a post-incarceration decision to reduce benefits retroactively for a veteran imprisoned …
Article • August 1, 2022 • from PLN August, 2022
Kentucky Judge Gives Ex-Jail Guard Convicted of Sexually Assaulting Prisoner Chance to Re-Enlist in Army to Avoid Jail Time by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders As a federal lawsuit proceeds against Kentucky’s Franklin County filed by a former jail detainee forced into sex by a former guard, a state court …
Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021
The Importance of Establishing Veterans Benefits While in Prison by Art Gage by Art Gage Imprisoned veterans across the country need to know about the service-connected disability compensation and rehabilitation benefits they may be eligible for. Even as prisoners, veterans still have options which are not available to the general …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
Filed under: ACA, Military Prisons
Members of Congress Probe Pentagon on Accreditation of Military Prisons by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On June 10, 2020, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representative Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) sent a letter to then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper requesting information about the Department of Defense’s (“DOD”) reliance on the American Correctional …
Article • October 5, 2020
Filed under: Trust Accounts, Veterans
Fifth Circuit Upholds Summary Dismissal of Texas Prisoner’s Challenge to Deduction of Medical Co-Pay From Account Receiving VA Payments by On July 9, 2020, the Fifth Circuit court of appeals upheld the summary dismissal of a Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) prisoner’s challenge to the department’s deduction of a …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Veteran Dies After Beating by Guards at North Carolina Jail by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter Guards at North Carolina’s Wayne County Detention Center (WCDC) abused and beat to death a mentally ill veteran who was arrested for breaking the window out his neighbor’s truck in May 2017, …
Article • January 19, 2020
Filed under: Work, Jail Specific, Veterans
Jail prisoners in West Virginia build flag boxes for families of veterans by Prisoners at West Virginia Northern Regional Jail build flag boxes for families of veterans, but neither the jail nor the court system take the problems of veterans into consideration when prosecuting them. The jail has a woodshop …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Filed under: Military, Military Prisons
Commander of Guantanamo Bay Military Prison Fired by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Navy Rear Admiral John Ring, commander of the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba, commonly known as GITMO, was relieved of his position on April 27, 2019. Admiral Craig Faller, commander of the U.S. Southern Command, met …
State of Hawai’i HCR 85 Task Force on Prison Reform - Creating Better Outcomes, Safer Communities, 2018 Creating Better Outcomes, Safer Communities Final Report of the House Concurrent Resolution 85 Task Force on Prison Reform to the Hawai‘i Legislature 2019 Regular Session Prepared by the HCR 85 TASK FORCE with …
Article • June 13, 2018
Department of Defense: Art Created by Guantαnamo Bay Detainees Belongs to U.S. by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Professor Erin L. Thompson of John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City created a stir when she decided to curate an exhibit of art created by “enemy combatants” detained at …
Article • May 9, 2018 • from PLN May, 2018
U.S. Coast Guard Operating Inhumane Floating Prisons by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis An eye-opening report from The New York Times has exposed the existence of multiple “floating Guantanamos” operated by the U.S. Coast Guard throughout the Pacific Ocean. Coast guard cutters on missions to interdict suspected drug smugglers in …
Publication • March 21, 2018
Response Letter to FOIA Request, Department of Defense, 2018
Article • August 30, 2017 • from PLN September, 2017
With General Inch in Charge, We Can Expect Further Militarization of the Prison System by Brian Dolinar by Brian Dolinar, Truthout The appointment of retired Army General Mark S. Inch to head the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is a major blow to those working for prison reform under Trump. …
At Our Own Peril: DoD Risk Assessment in a Post-Primacy World, The United States Army War College, 2017 At Our Own Peril: DoD Risk Assessment in a Post-Primacy World Project Director & Principal Author Nathan P. Freier Contributing Authors Christopher M. Bado Christopher J. Bolan Robert S. Hume J. Matthew …
New Federal Study Shows Half of Incarcerated Veterans Have Mental Disorder by Derek Gilna A new study released in December of 2015 by the Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), for the period of 2011 to 2012, shows that although the percentage of veterans in the state and …
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