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Harsh Pre-trial Conditions of Confinement Justify Reduced Federal Sentence
Loaded on March 15, 2005
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2005, page 32
Harsh Pre-trial Conditions of Confinement
Filed under:
Staff-Prisoner Harassment,
OB/GYN,
Sentencing,
U.S. Sentencing Guidelines,
Mothers in Prison.
Location:
New York.
Justify Reduced Federal Sentence
by Matthew T. Clarke
A New York federal court has held that harsh pre-trial conditions of confinement justify a downward departure in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. Jubelequis Mateo, a New York federal prisoner, filed a motion for downward departure under the …
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