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Colorado Law Creates “Rebuttable Presumption” Against Incarcerating Pregnant Women by On August 7, 2023, a new law took effect in Colorado directing judges to provide bonds and alternatives to incarceration for defendants who are pregnant or who recently gave birth. HB23-1187 was signed into law by Gov. Jared Polis (D) …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Missouri Moms Jailed After Kids Miss Too Much School by “Truancy” sounds old-­fashioned. But after two mothers were convicted of letting their kids miss too much school, the Missouri Supreme Court upheld their incarceration sentences for the misdemeanor on September 15, 2023. The Court’s ruling came in the consolidated appeals …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Illinois Program a “Lifeline for Incarcerated Moms and Their Kids” by In the U.S. in 2023, there are about 172,700 incarcerated women and girls, according to research and advocacy group Prison Policy Initiative. Many are among those prisoners—both male and female—who together have an estimated 2.7 million to 3.6 million …
Article • October 12, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Australian Woman Gives Birth in Cell After Guards Can’t Unlock the Door by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin In January 2018, an unnamed prisoner at Western Australia’s Bandyup Women’s Prison was forced to give birth alone and crying for help while guards struggled to unlock the door to her cell. …
Canadian Woman Wins Settlement for Death of Son Born in Jail by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Julie Bilotta obtained a settlement from the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre in the Canadian province of Ontario after staff took nine hours to call emergency personnel when she went into early labor. Her son, …
Publication • June 18, 2018
Understand Your Legal Issue-Florida Manual for Incarcerated Parents, Florida Institutional Legal Services, 2018 Understand Your Legal Issue Solve Your Legal Problem www.floridalawhelp.org Florida Manual for Incarcerated Parents Authored By: Florida Institutional Legal Services, Inc This Manual is designed to help parents who are incarcerated in Florida prisons and jails understand …
Mass Incarceration is a Women’s Issue, Too by Jessicah Pierre by Jessicah Pierre, OtherWords Over the last few years, our broken criminal justice system has become a national issue as horrific stories of victims of mass incarceration have made their way into the mainstream media. The dominant narrative around this …
Article • April 11, 2018
Double Punishment: After Prison, Moms Face Legal Battles to Reunite With Kids by Victoria Law by Victoria Law, Truthout | Report This story is the first in a new Truthout series, Severed Ties: The Human Toll of Prisons. This series will dive deeply into the impact of incarceration on families, loved …
Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
New Mexico Prisoner Obtains Court Order to Allow Breastfeeding by In June 2017, a New Mexico state court issued a temporary restraining order that required the Department of Corrections (DOC) to allow a prisoner to breastfeed her baby during regular visitation hours, and to pump breast milk so her child …
The Texas Criminal Justice Coalition Women's Report Part 2 - An Unsupported Population, 2018 An Unsupported Population: The Treatment of Women in Texas’ Criminal Justice System APRIL 2018 The Texas Criminal Justice Coalition advances solutions that transform the adult and youth justice systems to support families and foster safe communities. …
Article • October 24, 2017
Ohio Supreme Court Declares Poor Relative Not Suitable to Adopt Her Nephew by Christopher Zoukis By Christopher Zoukis The Ohio Supreme Court has upheld a lower court ruling that an imprisoned mother's sister was not a suitable placement for the mother's sheltered child because she was poor. Brittany J. gave …
Article • August 31, 2017
Indiana: Incarcerated Mother's Parental Rights Termination Overturned by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton On November 10, 2016, the Indiana Court of Appeals reversed a lower court's order terminating the parental rights of a mother who found herself serving a seven month jail sentence for a drug offense. The appellate court …
Article • August 30, 2017 • from PLN September, 2017
Utah Supreme Court Reverses Termination of Prisoner’s Parental Rights by On December 6, 2016, the Supreme Court of Utah reversed the termination of a prisoner’s parental rights because the juvenile court had interpreted a state statute as prohibiting the appointment of counsel for the prisoner. C.B.S. is a Utah prisoner …
Brief • June 16, 2017
Hidalgo v. New Mexico Dept of Corrections, NM, Temporary Restraining Order, Breastfeeding, 2017 FILED IN MY OFFICE DISTRICT COURT CLERK 6/16/2017 3:35:10 PM STEPHEN T. PACHECO Gloria Landin FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT COUNTY OF SANTA FE STATE OF NEW MEXICO MONIQUE HIDALGO, individually and as next friend to ISABELLA HIDALGO, …
Publication • 2017
ACLU - U.S. ICE's Detention and Treatment of Pregnant Women, Letter to CRCL and DHS, 2017 September 26, 2017 VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL Cameron Quinn Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Department of Homeland Security 245 Murray Lane, SW Washington, DC 20528 John Roth Inspector General Department of Homeland Security …
Publication • April 10, 2017
The Prison Birth Project and Prisoners’ Legal Services of MA - Breaking-Promises, 2016 BREAKING PROMISES: VIOLATIONS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS PREGNANCY STANDARDS & ANTI-SHACKLING LAW © May 2016 The Prison Birth Project and Prisoners’ Legal Services of Massachusetts Prison Birth Project 400 Dwight Street Holyoke, MA 01040 collective@theprisonbirthproject.org www.theprisonbirthproject.org The Prison …
HRDC Supports Lawsuit Against Jailing of Immigrant Children by The Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), the parent organization of Prison Legal News, has joined a friend-of-the-court brief in a lawsuit challenging the federal government’s practice of holding young, immigrant children in prison-like facilities for indefinite periods of time. In an …
Article • March 31, 2017
Filed under: Mothers in Prison
The Pen by Rebecca Onion Inmates at America’s oldest women’s prison are writing a history of it—and exploding the myth of its benevolent founders. by Rebecca Onion, Slate In 1873, two Quaker reformers living in Indiana, shocked by allegations of sexual abuse of female prisoners at the state’s unisex institution, pushed …
EPI - Mass Incarceration and Children's Outcomes, 2016 Mass incarceration and children’s outcomes Criminal justice policy is education policy Report • By Leila Morsy and Richard Rothstein • December 15, 2016 Summary: Parental incarceration leads to an array of cognitive and noncognitive outcomes known to affect children’s performance in school. …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Texas Court of Appeals Upholds Termination of Prisoners’ Parental Rights by In January 2016, in separate cases, the Texas Court of Appeals upheld the termination of two prisoners’ parental rights after they used drugs and were incarcerated multiple times while child-removal actions were pending. Jade, a fictitious name given to …
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