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Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Nebraska Pioneers Diversion Program to Help Arrested Veterans Avoid Jail by With a law signed by Gov. Jim Pillen (R) in April 2024, Nebraska became the first state to adopt a model program for diverting military veterans from jail into programs offering treatment for the issues underlying their arrest. When …
BOP Rolls Out Veterans-Only Housing at Federal Prison in Texas by In an article published by the Vanguard at Berkeley on October 15, 2023, a new program was reported at the Federal Correctional Institution in Seagoville, Texas: A dorm exclusively for prisoners who are veterans of the U.S. military. Federal …
Article • August 1, 2022 • from PLN August, 2022
Federal Judge Allows Retroactive Benefit Reduction for Incarcerated Veteran by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On January 20, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) may make a post-incarceration decision to reduce benefits retroactively for a veteran imprisoned …
Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021
The Importance of Establishing Veterans Benefits While in Prison by Art Gage by Art Gage Imprisoned veterans across the country need to know about the service-connected disability compensation and rehabilitation benefits they may be eligible for. Even as prisoners, veterans still have options which are not available to the general …
Article • October 5, 2020
Filed under: Trust Accounts, Veterans
Fifth Circuit Upholds Summary Dismissal of Texas Prisoner’s Challenge to Deduction of Medical Co-Pay From Account Receiving VA Payments by On July 9, 2020, the Fifth Circuit court of appeals upheld the summary dismissal of a Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) prisoner’s challenge to the department’s deduction of a …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Veteran Dies After Beating by Guards at North Carolina Jail by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter Guards at North Carolina’s Wayne County Detention Center (WCDC) abused and beat to death a mentally ill veteran who was arrested for breaking the window out his neighbor’s truck in May 2017, …
Article • January 19, 2020
Filed under: Work, Jail Specific, Veterans
Jail prisoners in West Virginia build flag boxes for families of veterans by Prisoners at West Virginia Northern Regional Jail build flag boxes for families of veterans, but neither the jail nor the court system take the problems of veterans into consideration when prosecuting them. The jail has a woodshop …
State of Hawai’i HCR 85 Task Force on Prison Reform - Creating Better Outcomes, Safer Communities, 2018 Creating Better Outcomes, Safer Communities Final Report of the House Concurrent Resolution 85 Task Force on Prison Reform to the Hawai‘i Legislature 2019 Regular Session Prepared by the HCR 85 TASK FORCE with …
New Federal Study Shows Half of Incarcerated Veterans Have Mental Disorder by Derek Gilna A new study released in December of 2015 by the Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), for the period of 2011 to 2012, shows that although the percentage of veterans in the state and …
Article • November 1, 2016
Georgia Sheriff Opens Veterans Jail that's 'Too Good for Everyone Else by A Columbus, Georgia, sheriff opened what's believed to be a first-of-its-kind jail in April 2012 dedicated to providing offenders who are military veterans with mental health treatment, substance abuse counseling and community transition skills in a sort of …
Article • August 23, 2016
Veterans' Programs, Services Cropping Up in Courts and Prisons by Certain offenders with addictions or mental illnesses across the U.S. increasingly find themselves in treatment programs and on community supervision instead of behind bars. And of those incarcerated, they're sent to sparkling new prison units and jails where they can …
Publication • June 28, 2016
Veterans Benefits Administration Audit, Office of Inspector General, 2016 OFFICE OF AUDITS AND EVALUATIONS VA Office of Inspector General Veterans Benefits Administration Audit of Compensation and Pension Benefit Payments to Incarcerated Veterans June 28, 2016 13-02255-276 ACRONYMS BOP Bureau of Prisons C&P Compensation and Pension CMA Computer Matching Agreement FY …
Publication • February 11, 2016
Battle Scars - Military Veterans and Death Penalty, Death Penalty Information Center, 2015 The Death Penalty Information Center is a non-profit organization serving the media and the public with analysis and information on issues concerning capital punishment. The Center provides indepth reports, issues press releases, conducts briefings for journalists, and …
Article • January 15, 2014 • from PLN January, 2014
Filed under: Military, Veterans
Programs Proliferate for Incarcerated Veterans by An increasing number of criminal justice programs are being made available to military veterans who have been charged with or convicted of crimes, including specialized prison and jail housing units and court diversion programs. According to a report by the U.S. Department of Justice …
Article • December 15, 2012 • from PLN December, 2012
Florida DOC Program Targets Incarcerated Veterans by The Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) has implemented a program for military veterans that includes special housing and counseling services. While some see the program as providing preferential treatment, FDOC officials view it as a way to meet the special needs of incarcerated …
Article • April 15, 2012 • from PLN April, 2012
Filed under: Military, Veterans
Incarcerated Veterans Help Other Incarcerated Vets Obtain Disability Benefits by Michael Brodheim by Mike Brodheim Ed Munis and Michael “Doc” Piper, two Vietnam vets incarcerated at the Correctional Training Facility (CTF) in Soledad, California, have quietly been working over the past six years to ensure that other imprisoned veterans, now …
Article • May 15, 2010
Ninth Circuit Holds VA Benefits can Be Used to Help Pay for Incompetent Veteran's Subsistence by The Ninth Circuit has held that the Veteran's Benefits Act, which makes benefits earned by United states military veterans "exempt from the claims of creditors" (38 U.S.C. § 5301 (a) (1)), does not prohibit …
Federal Prison Guard Suspended Indefinitely for Active Duty Assault in Iraq by Former Metropolitan Detention Center (New York) federal prison guard Gary Pittman sought review of a 2006 Merit Systems Protection Board's (Board) affirmation of his release from federal employment upon return from active military duty in Iraq. He alleged …
Article • August 15, 2008
BOP Employees on Active Military Leave Not Entitled to Statutorily Mandated Benefits by Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) employee Mathew Tully appealed a Merit Systems Protection Board (Board) decision denying him holiday pay while he was on active military leave from the BOP. The decision was affirmed. While Tully served …
Article • January 15, 2008
New York Court Allows Garnishment of Military Pay for Crime Victim's Judgment by The New York Supreme Court in Albany County has held that funds in a prisoner's inmate account are not exempt from garnishment to satisfy a judgment under the state's Son-of-Sam law even if those funds are military …
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