Prison Legal News - Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights

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Visits to Icelandic Prisons Shine Light on America s Complacency Toward the Suffering of Incarcerated Peopleby Doran LarsonAfter 40 years of an inter-partisan tougher-on-crime-than-you arms race, sentencing reform (and a desire to reduce prison costs) is one issue that now brings Republicans and Democrats together. No other advanced democracy ... Read more... As Numbers Rise, Some Prison Systems Admit Defeat, Others Try to Ignore Death Tollby Christopher Zoukis, MBAAs nations across the world battle the coronavirus plague, American prisons continue to fail at managing this pandemic, not unlike many communities across the United States. For what appears to be primarily ... Read more... Prisons beset with gang-related violence, overcrowding, understaffing and weak funding.by David M. ReutterBetween late last year and early April 2020, more than 30 Mississippi prisoners died due togang violence, suicide or illness over 10 times the average of 3.4 prisoner deaths per year between 2014 and 2018. ... Read more... This article was produced in partnership with AL.com, which is a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. This article was originally published on September 30, 2019.By Connor Sheets, ProPublicaMichael Tidwell s blood sugar reading was at least 15 ... Read more... by Christopher Zoukis Mother Nature is a serial killer. No one s better. More creative. . . . She s a bitch. World War ZBetween January and August of 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services played a game, a simulation of sorts. The exercise was called Crimson Contagion, ... Read more... Brady Violations Result in Habeas Relief for Pennsylvania Death Row Prisonerby David ReutterTo correct a grave miscarriage of justice, Pennsylvania U.S. District Court Judge Anita Brody granted a writ of habeas corpus to a state prisoner and vacated his conviction and death sentence for a murder that in ... Read more... Two Murders in Seven Months at CCA-run Prison in TennesseeOn May 23, 2014, the Medical Examiner s Office in Nashville completed an autopsy report on Tennessee state prisoner Jeffery Sills, 43, who was murdered at the South Central Correctional Facility in Clifton, Wayne County on March 28. The facility is ... Read more...Paul Wright, the founder and executive director of the Human Rights Defense Center and editor of Prison Legal News and Criminal Legal News, is a regular guest on the"Loud Clear" podcast'sThursday series Criminal Injustice, a segment about the most egregious conduct of our courts and prosecutors and how justice is denied to so many people in this country. Listen to this week's episodehere or visit our media library, here, for an archive of past shows.VisitPLN's Book Store!

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