Skip navigation
Prison Legal News
× You've used up your 3 free articles for this month. Subscribe today.

Texas Federal Court Issues Preliminary Injunction Prohibiting Sex Offender Parole Conditions; Case Settles for $52,000

Loaded on Dec. 15, 2012 by Matthew Clarke published in Prison Legal News December, 2012, page 38
Filed under: Discrimination, Sex Offender Registration, Sex Offenders (Discrimination), Parole Conditions. Location: Texas.
by Matt Clarke

On October 7, 2011, a U.S. District Court issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles (Board) from enforcing onerous sex offender conditions that had been imposed on a parolee who had not been convicted of a sex offense.

Buddy Jene Yeary, convicted ...

 

Full article and associated cases available to subscribers.

As a digital subscriber to Prison Legal News, you can access full text and downloads for this and other premium content.

Subscribe today

Already a subscriber? Login

More from this issue:

  1. Momentum Builds to End Prison-Based Gerrymandering, by Peter Wagner
  2. From the Editor, by Paul Wright
  3. Oregon DOC Gets Tiny Cut of $3.34 Million Pfizer Settlement
  4. CCA Ceases Operations at Mississippi Prison, County Jail
  5. Florida DOC Program Targets Incarcerated Veterans
  6. PLN Settles Public Records Suit Against PHS in Vermont, Obtains Settlement Payout Information, by Alex Friedmann
  7. Washington Jail Prisoner Settles Retaliation Claim for $10,000
  8. Transgender Prisoner’s Lawsuit Sparks BOP Policy Change, by Derek Gilna
  9. Fifth Circuit Upholds Former Texas State Judge’s Bribery-Related Convictions
  10. States Create Special Commissions to Study Flat-Fee Indigent Defense, by Joe Watson
  11. GAO Report Examines Contraband Cell Phone Use in BOP Facilities, by Derek Gilna
  12. Former New York DOCS Food Director Pleads Guilty to Grand Larceny, by Joe Watson
  13. Texas Slashes Prison Education Budget, by Matthew Clarke
  14. Misconduct at U.S. Army Lab Taints Hundreds of Military Prosecutions, by Derek Gilna
  15. Oregon DOC Did Not Report 78 Prisoner Deaths in 2010-2011
  16. Virginia Prison Policy Prohibiting Secular, Non-Religious CDs Held Unconstitutional
  17. America Eats its Young: Arizona Communities Embrace Use of Private Prison Employees in Drug Raids at Public Schools, by Beau Hodai
  18. Report Criticizes New Hampshire’s Treatment of Female Prisoners; Lawsuit Filed, by Joe Watson
  19. Fifth Circuit Reverses $250,000 Award to Mississippi Prisoner Held too Long, by Matthew Clarke
  20. U.S. Sentencing Commission Calls Federal Mandatory Minimums “Excessively Severe”, by Derek Gilna
  21. Arkansas Prison Director Suspended by Board of Corrections
  22. Texas Federal Court Issues Preliminary Injunction Prohibiting Sex Offender Parole Conditions; Case Settles for $52,000, by Matthew Clarke
  23. Federal Court Upholds Maryland Law that Reclassifies Prisoners for Redistricting, by David Reutter
  24. Fifth Circuit Holds Mailbox Rule Applies to Legal Mail Rejected Under Bogus Prison Rule
  25. New North Carolina DOC Hospital Promises Better Healthcare for Prisoners, by Joe Watson
  26. Michigan DOC Taser Experiment Touted; Prison Perimeter Patrols to End
  27. Missouri County Ordered to Present Civil Detainees Before Court within 27 Hours; $75,000 Damages Settlement
  28. Organizations Submit Letters to FCC Urging Action on Prison Phone Rates, by Mel Motel
  29. West Memphis Three Released, but Justice Not Served and Questions Remain, by Joe Watson
  30. Oregon Re-Sells Unused Execution Drugs
  31. Philadelphia Women Prisoners Sue for Being Housed with a Man
  32. California: Jail Nurse Receives $703,957 in Retaliation Suit Against County, PHS
  33. Puerto Rico DOC Fires 97 Guards, Suspends More Than 100
  34. News in Brief

More from Matthew Clarke:

More from these topics: