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$1.5 Million Settlement For In-Custody Injury by New York Police by Rosie Martinez, then 49, was arrested in January 2015 after police searched her New York City apartment and found heroin that belonged to her boyfriend. While in custody at the 107th Precinct of the City Police Department (NYPD), she …
Federal Prison Oversight Act Becomes Law by On July 25, 2024, Pres. Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D) signed into law the Federal Prison Oversight Act, now codified at 5 U.S.C. § 413. The law takes effect 90 days after appropriations are made available by Congress to implement and carry out the …
Tennessee DOC Found in Violation of ADA With Failure to Accommodate Hearing Impaired Prisoners by As previously reported in PLN, hearing-impaired prisoner Ernest Trivette filed suit against the Tennessee Department of Corrections (DOC) in March 2020, accusing the prison system of failing to accommodate his disability. [See: PLN, Jan. 2024, …
Philadelphia Held in Contempt of Jail Conditions Settlement, Ordered to Pay $25 Million by On July 12, 2024, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania held the City of Philadelphia in contempt of a 2022 settlement in which its Department of Prisons (PDP) agreed to improve …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Three BOP Prisoners Sentenced for Murder of “Whitey” Bulger at West Virginia Lockup by The last of three federal prisoners was sentenced on September 6, 2024, for the murder of fellow prisoner James “Whitey” Bulger, the 89-year-old former boss of Boston’s “Irish Mafia,” who was killed within hours after he …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Former Detainee Sues “Disgusting” Atlanta Jail Where He Was Stabbed 13 Times by A lawsuit filed in Georgia’s Fulton County on May 1, 2024, blames poor conditions at the county jail for an assault by fellow detainees on Michael Horton, in which he was stabbed 13 times. As PLN reported, …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Filed under: Art, Child Pornography
Federal Prisoner in Virginia Convicted on Fresh Kiddie Porn Charges After Drawing His Own by In a stunning example of government overreach, a federal judge in Virginia handed an additional child pornography conviction to a prisoner at the Federal Correctional Complex in Petersburg on August 7, 2023—not for possessing images …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
New York Prison System Found Liable for Failure to Protect Prisoner from Assault by On July 19, 2022, the New York Court of Claims found the state’s Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) partially liable for failing to protect a prisoner from being assaulted by another prisoner. Jeremy Sanchez …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Fifth Circuit Kills Suit by Louisiana Prisoners Whose Release Dates Were Incorrectly Calculated by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter On February 14, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed a lower court’s denial of qualified immunity (QI) to James LeBlanc, Secretary of the Louisiana …
Article • June 22, 2023
Millionaire Florida Child Porn Convict’s Escape Thwarted by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott April 12, 2023, would have been Independence Day for Florida millionaire and child porn collector John Manchec – if only someone had not ratted him out, according to Indian River County Sheriff Eric Flowers. Manchec, …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
California Prison Officials Cleared After Prisoner Murders Two Sex Offenders by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In a letter to PLN on May 16, 2022, the California Office of the Inspector General (OIG) confirmed that no one was disciplined at the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) following …
Article • December 27, 2022
Oklahoma Prison Industries Partially Shut Down After Convicted Child Molester Uses Work Computer to Download Kiddie Porn by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On November 30, 2022, the new Executive Director of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections (DOC) addressed a scandal that began unfolding eight months earlier, when …
Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022
‘Good Time’ Credit Policy Wrongly Under Attack in Alabama by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Policymakers in Alabama are howling for an end to “good time” sentence credits after a recently released state prisoner killed a Sheriff’s deputy in June 2022. But how did Austin Patrick Hall, a …
Article • December 10, 2021
Non-Incarcerated and Incarcerated Plaintiffs Have Article III Standing to Challenge the Policy Changes by On October 18, 2021 the United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of prisoners and several unincorporated associations and individual members of the Religious Society of Friends ("Quakers") motion for a …
Publication • 2021
Filed under: Recidivism
Custodial Sancations and Reoffending - a Meta-Analytic Review, 2021 Damon M. Petrich, Travis C. Pratt, Cheryl Lero Jonson, and Francis T. Cullen Custodial Sanctions and Reoffending: A Meta-Analytic Review ABSTRACT Beginning in the 1970s, the United States began an experiment in mass imprisonment. Supporters argued that harsh punishments such as …
Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021
California Enacts Legislation Strengthening Protections for LGBTQ Prisoners by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 26, 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law measures to protect the state’s LGBTQ population, including special provisions that empower them to choose the pronoun and honorific that prison staff, volunteers, and contractors …
Article • March 1, 2021 • from PLN March, 2021
Pay-to-Stay Fees Impoverish Prisoners, Increase Recidivism by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Pay-to-stay fees are charged by over 30% of the county jails and detention centers in the state of Wisconsin. Critics contend that the system contributes to recidivism and that the penalties are so high that they violate the …
Rapper Sues BOP Alleging Torture by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Rapper Kodak Black filed a lawsuit on September 21, 2020, alleging he “is suffering torture and religious persecution” at the hands of Bureau of Prisons (BOP) guards and officials. Kodak Black, whose real name is Bill Kapri, was …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
From Super Villain to Super Man, Tennessee Prisoner Still Executed by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Born in 1972, Tennessean Nicholas Sutton suffered a life straight out of a 5-star horror movie. His father was a mentally ill drug abuser and his mother abandoned him to the not­so-tender mercies of …
US v. Jayavarman, AK, Appeal, Reasonable Doubt of Age in Pornography, 2017 FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee, No. 16-30082 v. D.C. No. 3:13-cr-00097-SLG JASON JAYAVARMAN, Defendant-Appellant. OPINION Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Alaska …