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Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Alabama’s Oldest Prisoner Dies in Hospital by Floyd Lee Coleman, 106, passed away on May 19, 2025, at a hospital near the William Donaldson Correctional Facility, where he was a prisoner in Bessemer, Alabama. Coleman, who had spent more than forty-five years locked up, was the state’s oldest prisoner—and likely …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Former Death Row Prisoner Whose Case Changed the Law Dies in Texas by A prisoner at the center of the 2007 decision by the Supreme Court of the U.S. (SCOTUS) to raise the bar for executing people who are mentally ill died in June 2025. Scott Panetti, 67, who was …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Filed under: Socio-Economic Status
Jailing the Homeless: New Data Shed Light on Unhoused People in Local Jails by Leah Wang by Leah Wang Our analysis of Jail Data Initiative data confirms the troubling practice of shuffling unhoused people into jails, at enormous moral and fiscal cost. Local jails, which hold one out of every …
Criminalizing Poverty Drives Mass Incarceration in Kentucky, Washington by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney As a teen in the South, I often heard it said: “Being poor ain’t no sin.” But apparently it has become illegal. According to a report from the Vera Institute of Justice, Kentucky’s courts charge myriad …
Former Illinois Prisoner Pursuing PhD After 27 Years of Incarceration by When Illinois prisoner J. Le’Dell Pippins, 54, defied the odds to gain acceptance into the University of Iowa’s Ph.D. in Criminology program, it proved a key factor in the decision by Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) to commute Pippins’ 30-year …
California Prison Fined $1.7 Million for Stormwater Discharges, Environmental Violations by On August 1, 2023, the federal court for the Eastern District of California approved a $1.7 million payment to settle lawsuits accusing the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) of fouling the environment around Mule Creek State Prison …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
“More jobs than people”: Prisoners Training to Work on Ohio Infrastructure Projects after Release by With unemployment at historic lows, Ohio is preparing prisoners for jobs after release by offering training in technical skills. In December 2023, the first group of eight state prisoners completed one such program, after training …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Despite #MeToo, Celebrity Justice Remains Massively Unjust by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke We all know celebrities accused ofcrimes, including actors, musicians, sports figures, business leaders, politicians and journalists. If they’re prosecuted at all, the punishment is rarely harsh. The rich and famous simply aren’t treated like everyone else. However, …
Publication • July 5, 2023
Incarceration of Youths in an Adult Correctional Facility and Risk of Premature Death-July 2023 JAMAIOpen,. Network Original Investigation | Public Health Incarceration of Youths in an Adult Correctional Facility and Risk of Premature Death Ian A. Silver, PhD; Daniel C. Semenza, PhD; Joseph L. Nedelec, PhD Abstract IMPORTANCE Youths incarcerated …
Article • June 1, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Chronic Punishment: The Unmet Health Needs of People in State Prisons by Leah Wang by Leah Wang Over 1 million people sit in U.S. state prisons on any given day. These individuals are overwhelmingly poor, disproportionately Black, Native, Hispanic, and/or LGBTQ, and often targeted by law enforcement from a young …
Publication • 2023
Filed under: housing, Employment Record
Finding Home-Removing Barriers to Housing for Formerly Incarcerated Individuals, Sept. 2023 -~~~ WILSON -- -'=,,, "=""" CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND JUSTICE AT DUKE LAW September 2023 Finding Home Removing Barriers to Housing for Formerly Incarcerated Individuals Megan Moore and Angie Weis Gammell Table of Contents Table of Contents�����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������2 Executive Summary��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������3 …
Article • March 9, 2023
Filed under: Medical, Age
Prisoner Health Alert: Elderly Prisoners No Longer Required to Pay for Medicare Part B by Eike Blohm, MD by Eike Blohm, MD A change in Medicare rules ends years of forcing elderly prisoners to pay for benefits they cannot use or face life-long penalties. Americans 65 years and older are …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Mellon Foundation to Provide $5.25 Million in Program to Distribute Books to Prisoners by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced in June 2020 that it would spend more than $5.25 million on a program to distribute large, curated collections of books to prisons and juvenile …
Brief • 2020
Nohmer v. City of Choctaw, OK, Settlement Agreemenet, Employment Termination, 2020 GENERAL RELEASE AND AGREEMENT This General Release and Agreement (“Agreement”) is entered into this _____ day of October 2020 by and among Sonny Nohmer (“Employee”), and all persons acting by or on his behalf, the City of Choctaw (“City”) …
Publication • 2020
Filed under: Socio-Economic Status
Brennan Center for Justice, Conviction, Imprisonment, and Lost Earnings, 2020 research report BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE Conviction, Imprisonment, and Lost Earnings How Involvement with the Criminal Justice System Deepens Inequality By Terry-Ann Craigie, Ames Grawert, and Cameron Kimble With a foreword by Joseph E. Stiglitz PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 15, 2020 Brennan …
Publication • 2020
2020 Annual Report of the Prison Environmental Justice Project Environmental Justice Struggles in Prisons and Jails around the World THE 2020 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PRISON ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE PROJECT GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE PROJECT UC SANTA BARBARA TABLE 11. A IV. ACKNO V. E EC OF CONTENTS HOR BIOGRAPHIE LEDGEMEN I …