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Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Former Centurion Owner Accused of Helping Florida Governor Kill Legalized Weed by D uring a hearing on April 9, 2025, Florida lawmakers pieced together an elaborate money trail from the former owner of prison and jail medical giant Centurion Health, which pumped $10 million into an ultimately successful effort by …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
California Enacts Counterproductive, Regressive Solitary Confinement Bill by Prison systems are increasingly rethinking solitary confinement due to extensive research that has found solitary results in serious detrimental effects—particularly on prisoners who are mentally ill, pregnant, or otherwise vulnerable. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) was ordered to implement …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
New York City Mayor Blocks Solitary Confinement Ban After Council Overrides His Veto by New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) declared a state of emergency on July 28, 2024, issuing an executive order blocking a new law banning solitary confinement in city jails just one day before it was …
Virginia Governor’s Veto Exposes Prisoners Who Took Plea Bargains to Civil Rights Violations by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On March 20, 2024, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) vetoed SB 334, a bill passed by state lawmakers to prevent prosecutors and courts from requiring criminal defendants to waive their Fourth …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Texas Prisoner’s Lawsuit Seeks Relief from Heat in Un-Air-Conditioned Prisons by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A suit filed by a Texas prisoner alleging that stifling heat in his cell threatens his life was allowed to proceed against Defendant officials with the state Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) on …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Ending Prison Slavery on the Ballot in California, Nevada by On June 27, 2024, California’s General Assembly voted to put a measure on the November 2024 ballot that would amend the state constitution to prohibit any kind of slavery. Current California law mirrors the Thirteenth Amendment of the federal Constitution …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Voters in Four States Change Constitution to Ban Prison Slavery by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders The November 2022 elections did more than send new faces to Congress and statehouses around the country. They also saw historic ballot measures passed to change the constitutions in four states. Voters in Alabama, …
Mentally Ill Maine State Prisoner Finally Leaves Solitary, But Can’t Push State Lawmakers to Pass Bill Limiting Its Use by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon By the time he was released from Maine State Prison (MSP) on March 7, 2022, Zachary Swain estimated he had spent half of his seven-year …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Ninth Circuit Overturns California Law Banning Private Prisons by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss On October 5, 2021, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit struck down a California statute, Assembly Bill 32 (AB 32), barring private companies from entering new contracts with any …
Article • July 1, 2021 • from PLN July, 2021
Virginia Votes to Abolish Death Penalty by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins The use of DNA testing to overturn hundreds of wrongful convictions in the U.S. has revealed deep racial inequalities in the criminal justice system. Emboldened by victories at the polls in 2018 and 2020, Democrats are calling for …
Article • June 1, 2021 • from PLN June, 2021
GEO Group Puts Money, Lobbyist into Defeating Bill to Prohibit Private Prisons in Virginia by David Reutter by David M. Reutter As Virginia was poised to consider a bill to end private prisons, the GEO Group entered the fray with donations to legislators and lobbyists. The bill met a quick …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Record Number of Laws Passed Reducing Barriers for People With Criminal Records by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney   Forty-three states, along with the District of Columbia and the federal government, passed “consequential legislation” in 2019 aimed at reducing barriers faced by people with criminal records. The 152 laws significantly or …
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
Filed under: Voting, State Legislation
More States Restore Felony Voting Rights by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter In 2019, Colorado, Louisiana, New Jersey, and Nevada enacted legislation to restore voting rights to felons who have been released from prison but are still under such supervision, the latest of 24 states to make similar …
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
Fund to Pay Wrongfully Convicted Prisoners in Michigan Is Broke Once Again by David Reutter by David M. Reutter With the 2016 passage if its Wrongful Imprisonment Act, Michigan became one of 33 states with legislation creating a fund to compensate wrongfully convicted people, paying them $50,000 per year of …
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
The Ongoing Push to End Outrageous Prison Phone Charges by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso Groups in several states are drawing increased attention to the high cost of jail and prison phone rates, and pushing to reduce or eliminate such charges. HRDC, the publisher of PLN, has been a …
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
Filed under: Parole, State Legislation
California’s New “Progressive” Governor Seeks to Halt Parole for Some Murderers and “Serious” Offenders by Bill Barton by Bill Barton Then convicted Newport Beach sex offender Trenton Veches won parole in mid-March 2019, it was granted despite opposition by California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has otherwise displayed a progressive criminal …
Article • May 2, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Staffing Shortage at Ohio Legislative Oversight Committee has Interns Inspecting Prisons by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke An administrative staffing shortage at the Ohio legislature’s bi-chamber, eight-member Correctional Institution Inspection Committee has left unpaid interns responsible for inspecting 27 adult prisons and three juvenile facilities.  Five years ago, the Committee …
Florida Private Prisons Seek $4 Million for Employee Raises by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In a show of continued support for privately-operated prisons, the Florida legislature considered giving the state’s for-profit prison contractors a $4 million raise. The GEO Group, MTC and CoreCivic, formerly Corrections Corporation of America, …
Article • December 7, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Amid Scandal, Missouri Governor Issues Commutations and Pardons, Passes New Laws Before Resigning by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell As his resignation was about to take effect late on June 1, 2018, scandal-plagued Missouri Governor Eric Greitens pardoned five convicted felons, commuted the sentences of four others and signed 77 …
Article • October 9, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Kentucky Law Requiring Abused Spouse to Pay for Abuser’s Divorce Attorney Abolished by The Kentucky legislature has closed a loophole in a statute that required a victim of domestic violence to pay the cost of an attorney for their incarcerated abuser when seeking a divorce. Kentucky law requires a person …
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