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Article • March 15, 2009 • from PLN March, 2009
Online Postings Lead To Stiffer Sentences by Brandon Sample Prosecutors are increasingly using photos posted on Facebook and MySpace, popular social networking sites, to obtain harsher sentences. It was bad taste, to say the least, when Joshua Lipton, a 20-year-old college junior charged with seriously injuring a woman during a …
Entire Texas Prison System Locked Down to Search for Phones; Prison Cell Phone Problem is Pandemic by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 20, 2008, Texas Governor Rick Perry placed all 112 prisons and 155,000 prisoners in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) on lockdown to search for …
Ohio Court Releases Prisoners from Private Jail to Protect Them by Ohio Court Releases Prisoners from Private Jail to Protect Them One thing about privately-operated jails and prisons is fairly consistent: They rarely function properly. A series of incidents at Ohio’s Columbiana County Jail, which is operated by CiviGenics, Inc. …
Torture at Angola Prison: President Obama promises to close Guantanamo, but a court proceeding in Louisiana exposes brutality closer to home by Jordan Flaherty Torture at Angola Prison: President Obama promises to close Guantanamo, but a court proceeding in Louisiana exposes brutality closer to home by Jordan Flaherty The torture …
Widespread Corruption in Private Halfway Houses by Derick Limberg by Derek S. Limburg Privately-operated halfway houses across the nation have become embroiled in scandals and mismanagement. The wrongdoing stretches from the top to the bottom, from former politicians and corrections commissioners to staff and prisoners. Reports surfaced in June 2008 …
Supreme Court Holds Prosecutors Immune from Using False Snitch Testimony to Gain Wrongful Conviction by John Dannenberg Supreme Court Holds Prosecutors Immune from Using False Snitch Testimony to Gain Wrongful Conviction by John E. Dannenberg On March 28, 2007, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that a California …
Article • March 15, 2009
Prison Nation by David C Fathi By David C. Fathi It's become a depressingly predictable event. Every few months, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), a branch of the US Department of Justice, releases new figures showing that the US prison and jail population has grown yet again and has …
Georgia Judges, Other Officials Indicted on Corruption and Human Trafficking Charges by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Federal authorities have been investigating Georgia state court judges and county officials for the past several years. The result thus far is numerous indictments and three guilty pleas on charges ranging from …
Former Illinois Prison Director Convicted and Fined by Former Director of the Illinois Department of Corrections Donald Snyder was sentenced, on July 30, 2008, to two years in federal prison for accepting $50,000 in bribes from lobbyists. Snyder tried to minimize the damage by admitting his guilt and turning state’s …
Ted Stevens' Charges Dropped: A Tale of Two Justice Systems by Joshua Holland By Joshua Holland, AlterNet Posted on April 1, 2009, Printed on April 1, 2009 Editor's note: this originally appeared on AlterNet's blog, PEEK. It's immaterial that former Alaska senator Ted Stevens was a loathsome, quasi-corrupt slug of …
Article • February 15, 2009
Ninth Circuit Upholds Admission of Statements to Police in Phone Conversation Absent Miranda Warning by Washington State prisoner Habib Saleh sought review of his federal habeas corpus denial challenging the admission of statements made in a voluntary phone conversation he initiated at his trial for first degree murder. The court …
Article • February 15, 2009
California Presentence Confinement Credit Not Applicable To Time On Bail by The Ventura County (California) District Attorney (DA) appealed a 2006 award of 434 days presentence confinement credit to a state prisoner subjected to electronic monitoring on bail prior to her conviction. The award was reversed. Esther Anaya was entrusted …
N.Y. Affirms Multiple Accumulating DOC Disciplinary Proceedings For Same Incident by New York State prisoner Derek Josey sought review of an intermediate appellate court ruling allowing the Department of Correctional Services (DOCS) to punish him multiple times for the same incident. New York’s highest court ruled that res judicata did …
Corruption in Orange County, CA Sheriff’s Department Revealed; Sheriff Resigns, Convicted on Criminal Charges by Marvin Mentor Corruption in Orange County, CA Sheriff’s Department Revealed; Sheriff Resigns, Convicted on Criminal Charges by Marvin Mentor Former Orange County, California Sheriff Michael S. Carona and many of his staff at the Theo …
Private Prison Companies Not Forthcoming About Immigration Detainee Deaths by Private Prison Companies Not Forthcoming About Immigration Detainee Deaths by Matt Clarke The private prison industry has benefited from a recent influx of contracts from the federal government to incarcerate immigration detainees. Such contracts are more lucrative than those for …
Article • February 15, 2009 • from PLN February, 2009
Jose Medellin Executed; Vienna Convention Controversy Lives On by Matthew Clarke Jose Medellin Executed; Vienna Convention Controversy Lives On by Matt Clarke On August 5, 2008 at 9:48 p.m., the State of Texas began the lethal injection that ended the life of Jose E. Medellin. In doing so, it ignored …
Department of Justice Report on Prison Rape Elimination Act by Matthew Clarke Department of Justice Report on Prison Rape Elimination Act by Matt Clarke In September 2007, the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released the annual report for calendar 2006 on DOJ’s implementation …
Article • February 15, 2009 • from PLN February, 2009
GAO Report Critical of BOP’s Methodology for Comparing Costs Between BOP and Private Facilities by Brandon Sample GAO Report Critical of BOP’s Methodology for Comparing Costs Between BOP and Private Facilities by Brandon Sample In October of 2007, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), the audit, evaluation, and investigative arm …
Article • February 15, 2009 • from PLN February, 2009
Prisoner Litigation Swamps California Eastern District Court; Ninth Circuit Recruits Other Judges to Help by John Dannenberg Prisoner Litigation Swamps California Eastern District Court; Ninth Circuit Recruits Other Judges to Help by John E. Dannenberg The U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California, has reached a crisis stage due to …
Los Angeles Sheriff Department Report: Prisoner Lawsuits Slowed, But Payouts Grew by John Dannenberg Los Angeles Sheriff Department Report: Prisoner Lawsuits Slowed, But Payouts Grew by John E. Dannenberg In its July 2008 25th semi-annual report, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) reviewed prisoner litigation against the county in …
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