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Idaho Prison Officials Agree, More Humane Prison Conditions are Necessary
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ABA Journal Report on PLO’s Annual European Prison Project Tour
ABA Journal October 2017 – Attorney Donald Specter spent more than three decades working to protect the rights of incarcerated people before he finally saw a prison he believed in.
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KJZZ Radio Reports: Arizona DOC Doesn’t Measure up, After Two Years of Monitoring by Class Atty’s
According to a March 30, 2017, radio story by KJZZ 95.1, Arizona DOC has not yet met the more than 100 medical care measurements ordered by courts in the 2015 settlement of Parsons v. Ryan.
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North Dakota Still Focused On Reform Two Years After Visiting Norwegian Prisons With PLO
Bismark Tribune – October 14, 2017, In a Bismarck classroom last month, students learned the Pythagorean theorem.
They took notes and asked questions as their teacher explained how to calculate the hypotenuse of right triangle. It was fairly normal, except the students and teacher wore the same outfit — jeans and a white T-shirt — and none of them will be allowed to leave school property for several months or years.
The classroom is inside the North Dakota State Penitentiary. The man teaching that day is serving a 30-year sentence.
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“Tender Justice” North Dakota’s New Prison Practice Inspired During 2015 EPP Tour of Norwegian Prisons
Terry Pullins is on his second tour in the North Dakota prison system. He’s also done time in California. Since he never got farther than the fifth grade, the 40-year-old Pullins has spent nearly as much time behind bars as he did in school. But last December brought the most acute punishment he has ever suffered: Pullins lost his daughter in a car accident.
Most inmates in most prisons endure that sort of grief alone. But Pullins is at the Missouri River Correctional Center near Bismarck, N.D. This is a prison designed as much as possible to imitate life on the outside. The warden and staff rallied around him. “Every day I needed help,” Pullins says. “Those two weeks were rough, but they were there for me. I don’t always feel like I’m in prison. I feel like I’m somewhere bettering myself.” Full Story