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Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
The Grift That Keeps on Giving: $33 Million for State Prisons Generated by Seized Native Land by In 2024, land trusts in 10 states generated an estimated $33 million in revenue for their prison systems. The figure was estimated from reports by Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, …
Biden Clemencies Include Imprisoned Native American Activist, “Kids for Cash” Judge by Before leaving office on January 20, 2025, outgoing Pres. Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D) issued a raft of clemency orders—including a sentence commutation for a Native American activist who was considered a political prisoner by Amnesty International and …
Parole Denied for Indigenous Activist Leonard Peltier by A Native American activist incarcerated for nearly half a century was once again denied parole on June 10, 2024. Despite support from human rights groups and seven Democratic U.S. Senators, the U.S. Parole Commission decided to keep Leonard Peltier, 79, behind bars …
Article • November 5, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Nevada Supreme Court Reverses Dismissal of Prisoner’s Native American Religion Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On May 10, 2019, the Nevada Supreme Court reversed a summary judgment order dismissing a prisoner’s claim that requiring him to prove tribal affiliation or otherwise demonstrate Native American association or ethnicity before …
Article • August 30, 2017 • from PLN September, 2017
American University Removes Statue of Imprisoned Native American Activist by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna American University, a private college in Washington, D.C., bowed to pressure from a federal law enforcement group and removed a statue of Native American activist and prisoner Leonard Peltier, who was convicted of the 1975 …
Publication • 2017
Bureau of Justice Statistics - American Indian and Alaska Natives in Local Jails, 1999-2014, 2017 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics September 2017, NCJ 250652 Todd D. Minton, BJS Statistician Susan Brumbaugh and Harley Rohloff, RTI International A n estimated 10,400 American Indian and …
Office of Inspector General Chides DOJ and Navajo Nation for Wasteful Prison Project by Derek Gilna The Department of Justice (DOJ) plan seemed straightforward: build two badly-needed correction facilities on the Navajo Nation to replace two obsolescent and overcrowded facilities. Over $70.5 million was allotted for this project, elaborate plans …
Brief • December 21, 2016
Dundon v. Kirchmeier, ND, Letter to Magistrate, Request for Protective Order, 2013 Bakke Grinolds Wiederholt ATTORNEYS AT LAW December 21, 2016 VIA EMAIL ONLY Magistrate Judge Charles S. Miller, Jr. 200 East Rosser A venue, Suite 426 P.O. Box 670 Bismarck, ND 58502-0670 Re: Vanessa Dundon et al. v. Kyle …
Publication • November 1, 2016
Jails in Indian Country 2015, Department of Justice, 2016 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics November 2016, NCJ 250117 Todd D. Minton, BJS Statistician A n estimated 2,510 inmates were confined in 76 Indian country jails at midyear 2015, a 5.5% increase from the …
Article • October 3, 2016 • from PLN October, 2016
Eleventh Circuit Upholds Alabama DOC Short Hair Policy Following Remand from Supreme Court by The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) does not overcome the Alabama Department of Corrections’ (ADOC) “short hair policy” for prisoners, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals held. The ruling was issued on remand …
Article • September 9, 2016
Tribal Police Accused of Brutality, Corruption on S. Dakota Reservation by The Trail of Tears goes on. It still winds its way through dilapidated villages on reservations across the United States, starved of resources and pockmarked by dysfunction. Nearly two centuries since indigenous Americans were uprooted and driven west, the …
North Dakota Prisoner’s Parental Rights Terminated by The North Dakota Supreme Court upheld the termination of a prisoner’s parental rights. Before the court was the appeal of G. L., who argued a juvenile court erred by declaring him in default, finding that causes of the child’s deprivation were likely to …
Publication • August 3, 2016
Jails in Indian Country 2000, DOJ BJS, 2001 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics Bulletin July 2001, NCJ 188156 Jails in Indian Country, 2000 By Todd D. Minton BJS Statistician On June 30, 2000, a total of 69 jails, confinement facilities, detention centers, or …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Finds DOC Violated RLUIPA, Prior Settlement Agreement by Derek Gilna Massachusetts state prisoners Randall Trapp and Robert Ferreira filed an amended complaint in Superior Court that accused the Department of Corrections (DOC) of violating a 2003 settlement agreement guaranteeing proper observance of Native American religious practices …
Investigation into Complaints from Native American Inmates at Crossroads, MT DOC, 2009
Publication • February 12, 2016
1. ICCPR Article 1, Self-Determination and Native Americans, ICCPR Coalition Report NGO Shadow Report ICCPR Article 1, Self-Determination and Native Americans T. Yvette Soutiere1 The United States has not expressed any reservations concerning Article 1 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and it is not addressed in …
Publication • February 12, 2016
12. Self-determination, minority rights and treatment of those deprived of liberty, ICCPR Coalition Report To: Members of the U.N. Human Rights Committee From: Judge Claudia Morcom for the Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute and the International Association of Democratic Lawyers. Date: May 31, 2006 SUMMARY (with citations to paragraphs ¶¶ in …
Brief • April 8, 2011
Filed under: Native American
Limbaugh v. Thompson, AL, Amicus Brief - Rluipa, Native American Long Hair Beard Growth, 2011 Case 2:93-cv-01404-WHA -CSC Document 523 Filed 04/08/11 Page 1 of 16 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA NORTHERN DIVISION James Morning Raven Limbaugh, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Civil No. 2:93-cv1404-WHA Leslie …
Brief • April 8, 2011
Filed under: Native American
Limbaugh v. Thompson, AL, Statement of Interest, Native American Long Hair, 2011 Case 2:93-cv-01404-WHA -CSC Document 523 Filed 04/08/11 Page 1 of 16 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA NORTHERN DIVISION James Morning Raven Limbaugh, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Civil No. 2:93-cv1404-WHA Leslie Thompson, et al. …
John Henry Knows His Gun, et al. v. Corrections Corp. of America, Crossroads Correctional, MT, settlement, discrimination against Native American prisoners, 2010 GENERAL RELEASE RELEASORS: JOHN HENRY KNOWS HIS GUN, DEE CHANCE WHITE HIP, DARRYL LEWIS FROST, JASON JAY CHIEFSTICK, BRIAN ANTHONY JOHNSTON, EDWARD STAMPER, WILLIAM GOPHER, ALLEN POTTER RELEASEES: …
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