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CDCR is the 3rd largest law enforcement agency in the United States behind the U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the New York City Police Department, which employ approximately 66,000 federal officers and 42,000 police officers respectively. CDCR correctional officers are sworn law enforcement officers with peace officer powers.
A report by California's Office of the Inspector General states "the effects of this eight-week isolation and service deprivation may have contributed to the Ward’s suicide." [8] Don Specter, director of the Prison Law Office, was quoted as saying "This is the first report that directly links their [i.e., the guards'] practices with a death." [7]
HRDC also supports Prison Legal News in national campaigns in coordination with other advocacy groups to lower prison phone rates [18] and demand transparency and accountability of private prison contractors, [19] and is involved with numerous other activities related to the human rights of prisoners. PLN ' s managing editor is a former ...
The new public reporting rules for in-custody deaths are essential, said Margot Mendelson, an attorney with the Prison Law Office, which settled a lawsuit against Sacramento County that demands ...
Earlier this year, Donald Trump made history by becoming the first former president ever convicted of a crime. Now, after soaring to victory in the 2024 election against Kamala Harris, he has made ...
The life cycle of federal supervision for a defendant. United States federal probation and supervised release are imposed at sentencing. The difference between probation and supervised release is that the former is imposed as a substitute for imprisonment, [1] or in addition to home detention, [2] while the latter is imposed in addition to imprisonment.
A theoretical form of prison surveillance is called the Panopticon. The Panopticon is a building composed of a middle tower for the surveillance of the surrounding cells. . Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon makes it possible that “each individual in his place is securely confined to a cell from which he is seen from the front by the supervisor; but the side walls prevent him from coming into ...
The Jailhouse Lawyer's Handbook: How to Bring a Federal Lawsuit to Challenge Violations of Your Rights in Prison, an unrelated publication compiled by the Center for Constitutional Rights and the National Lawyers Guild, [10] provides resources to prisoners intending to file federal lawsuits against prisons. [11]