by Matt Clarke
Misconduct by employees in the Harris County jail system in Houston, Texas remains persistent and problematic.
A Houston Chronicle review of employee disciplinary actions from 2008 through 2010 found there was an average of 67 disciplinary cases annually, totaling more than 200 during the three-year period.
In ...
by Matt Clarke
In December 2011, the Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice released a report on employment and expenditures by federal, state and local governments for police, jails, prisons, courts and lawyers. The information covered the period from FY 1982 through FY 2007 with data ...
by Matt Clarke
The Colorado Department of Corrections (DOC) is investigating the killing of four prisoners at the Sterling Correctional Facility within the past two years. This high rate of prisoner murders compares with only three killings of prisoners in all the other DOC prisons during the same time period. ...
by Matt Clarke
In a rare litigation loss for Prison Legal News, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's (TDCJ) censorship of books distributed by PLN.
PLN filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil rights action in 2009 ...
by Matt Clarke
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has held that requiring an admission of guilt to participate in an in-prison sex offender treatment program (SOTP) did not violate the Fifth Amendment's prohibition against compulsory self-incrimination, even if refusal to participate in the SOTP was grounds for denial of ...
by Matt Clarke
A New York federal District Court has held that prison officials were liable for convicting a prisoner in a disciplinary proceeding based solely on a victim's uncorroborated hearsay statement.
Carl E. Molano, a New York state prisoner, was on the recreation yard at the Five Points Correctional ...
by Matt Clarke
An investigation by the Tulsa World newspaper revealed that more than 130 disciplinary actions were taken against Oklahoma Department of Corrections (DOC) employees at men's prisons from 2009 through mid-2011. Most of the disciplined employees received a few days suspension without pay, though for 40 the misconduct ...
by Matt Clarke
The Weber County Jail in Ogden, Utah has joined a growing trend – moving to video visits for prisoners – and has also started charging prisoners' families for "extra" visitation time.
In 2009 the jail replaced in-person, no-contact visits with video visits, using visitation and scheduling programs ...
By Matthew Clarke
On January 30, 2013, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it had arrested twelve guards and a cook who were employed by private prison company Community Education Centers (CEC) at the Ector County Correctional Center (ECCC) in Odessa, Texas. The ECCC holds about 235 prisoners and ...
By Matt Clarke
In Prison Grievances: When to Write, How to Write by Terry LeClercq , you will find the basic information on how to get your grievances heard presented in an illustrated format similar to a graphic novel or comic.
Dr. LeClercq, along with artists Patrick Hubik and Shawn ...
