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Ninth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Arizona Challenge to Private Prisons by In 2020, the Arizona chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and two state prisoners filed a federal class-action suit, challenging the state’s use of privately-operated prisons on a variety of constitutional grounds. The …
Publication • 2022
People Over Profit-The Case for Abolishing the Prison Financial System, 2022 People over Profit: The Case for Abolishing the Prison Financial System Sean Kolkey * The term “mass incarceration” is used to describe a crisis that, to many, is both abstract and distant. But for Black, Latinx, Indigenous, low-income, and …
Article • March 22, 2022
Colorado Prisoners Sue DOC and Governor for Violation of State Constitutional Prohibition Against Slavery by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On February 15, 2022, two prisoners at the Fremont Correctional Facility in Cañon City, Colorado, filed a proposed class action lawsuit against the State of Colorado, Governor Jared …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Arizona Federal Court Dismisses NAACP’s Challenge to Private Prisons as Violating Thirteenth Amendment by Commodifying Prisoners for Profit by An Arizona federal court dismissed a civil rights complaint brought in June 2020 by the Arizona State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) under the …
Article • June 1, 2021 • from PLN June, 2021
Amending the 13th Amendment by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon For over 200 years the United States Constitution has been revered by some, regarded as a nearly perfect bedrock governing document. Except ... it has not been, and still is not. There is a movement fast gaining momentum to remove …
Nielsen v. Shinn, AZ, Order Dismissing Complaint, For-Profit Prisons, 2021 Case 2:20-cv-01182-DLR-JZB Document 37 Filed 03/08/21 Page 1 of 26 1 MGD 2 3 4 5 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 8 9 Jeffrey Nielsen, et al., 10 11 12 No. CV …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Santa Rita Jail Accused of Slave Labor in California Class Action by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Current and former prisoners at Santa Rita Jail in Alameda County, California, filed a class action lawsuit on November 18, 2019 against the county, Sheriff Gregory Ahern, and Aramark Correctional Services for violating …
Article • January 8, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
How a 13th Amendment Loophole Created America’s Carceral State by Flores A. Forbes by Flores A. Forbes, The Crime Report While I was serving a six- to-eight year sentence in the California Department of Corrections for felony murder, I became a participant in what was then the Pell Grant college …
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights - Collateral Consequences - The Crossroads of Punishment, Redemption and the Effects on Communities, 2019 U . S . C O M M I S S I O N O N C I V I L R I G H T S COLLATERAL CONSEQUENCES: The …
Fifth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Texas Challenge to Forced Prison Labor by On May 1, 2019, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court’s dismissal of claims by a Texas state prisoner related to his “religiously-motivated decision not to participate in an unpaid prison work program.” The court …
GEO Group, CoreCivic Face Class Actions Alleging Prisoner ‘Slave Labor’ by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna GEO Group, the Florida-based private prison behemoth, and Tennessee corporation CoreCivic, are the targets of several lawsuits alleging that “voluntary” work programs at their facilities violate state minimum-wage laws, as well as the Trafficking …
Article • December 7, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Sentenced to Prison Slavery by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss Most Americans were taught that slavery was banned in 1865 with the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. But prisoner rights advocates note that the amendment’s exception clause actually allowed slavery to persist – in prisons. …
Article • June 16, 2018
Florida Prisoners 'Laydown' in Non-Violent Protests by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell In early 2018, Florida prisoners began a "laydown," a non-violent protest about prison conditions and unpaid "slave labor." The laydowns are to last as long as necessary to get the point across. Supported by the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee ("IWOC"), the …
Brief • April 9, 2010
Serra v. Lappin, CA, Appeals Court Opinoin, Affirmed, 2010 Case3:07-cv-01589-MJJ Document21 Filed10/29/07 Page1 of 13 JOHN lV1l.JRCKO, SB#47008 2831 Telegraph Avenue Oakland, California 94608 Telephone: (510) 465-2241 STEPHEN PERELSON, SB#43032 285 Miller Avenue Mill Valley, CA 94941 (415) 383-1070 \VILLIAM M. SIMPICH, SB# 106672 1736 Franklin Street, 10th Floor Oakland, …
Serra v. Lappin, CA, Amended Complaint, Bivens Action - Renumeration for Prison Work, 2007 Case3:07-cv-01589-MJJ Document21 Filed10/29/07 Page1 of 13 JOHN lV1l.JRCKO, SB#47008 2831 Telegraph Avenue Oakland, California 94608 Telephone: (510) 465-2241 STEPHEN PERELSON, SB#43032 285 Miller Avenue Mill Valley, CA 94941 (415) 383-1070 \VILLIAM M. SIMPICH, SB# 106672 1736 …