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Article • January 9, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
the court to recruit a volunteer attorney to provide pro bono representation. 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(1). Two questions guide a court’s discretionary decision whether to recruit counsel: ‘(1) has ...
program” at Stewart. Pursuant to that program, detainees who agree to perform various jobs maintaining the facility are paid between $1 and $4 per day. They also are afforded upgraded living ...
Article • November 1, 2016
Texas Parole Commissioner Indicted for Falsifying Parole Records by Matthew Clarke On October 1, 2014, a Walker County grand jury indicted Texas parole commissioner Pamela Freeman for making ...
Article • June 9, 2017 • from PLN June, 2017
why nominal damages, which rarely exceed $2 and more commonly are as in this case only $1, are ever awarded,” Posner wrote in the September 23, 2016 decision. “They have negligible value ...
Article • June 9, 2017 • from PLN June, 2017
agreement that would have resulted in a six-month sentence. After his guilty plea was denied, Baca’s first trial ended in an 11-1 deadlock in favor of acquittal on obstruction charges; he was convicted ...
Article • May 5, 2017 • from PLN May, 2017
Filed under: Racial Discrimination
that is 5.1 times the imprisonment of whites. In five states (Iowa, Minnesota, New Jersey, Vermont, and Wisconsin), the disparity is more than 10 to 1.” Additionally, according to the report, &ldquo ...
Article • December 5, 2017 • from PLN December, 2017
the facility “readily accessible and usable by individuals with disabilities to the maximum extent feasible. 28 C.F.R. § 35.151(b)(1). The feasibility requirement has been construed as meaning &lsquo ...
Article • December 5, 2017 • from PLN December, 2017
Sheriff Lee Baca, for obstructing the FBI’s investigation. PLN has reported extensively on abuses at the L.A. County jail. [See: PLN, March 2016, p.1; March 2013, p.1]. According to Adams&rsquo ...
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
in a November 2016 order. “If in the future the Bureau evaluates the requests of elderly, ill inmates more generously and files § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i) motions more frequently, DiMasi’s release ...
Article • February 5, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019
or early January 2016 at a trial in a sexual harassment suit brought by a co-worker, Deborah Hesse, who ultimately received a $1.92 million settlement from the MDOC. [See: PLN, Feb. 2018, p.1]. Around ...
a prisoner from filing another lawsuit if he had earlier had three prior suits dismissed as frivolous, violated the Open Courts Clause (Article 1, § 12) ("Clause") of the Indiana Constitution. Eric Smith ...
" and did so "with two or more persons."--Code of Penal Discipline/Administrative Regulation 150 1(IV)(D)(7) (07/15/04). At a minimum, no evidence established the "two or more persons" element. (Note ...
Article • July 15, 2011
. The court of appeals examined the reasons given by the MCSO for the delays: (1) no excuse; (2) didn’t read the request properly; (3) misunderstood the request; (4) didn’t like what the PNT was publishing ...
the value of the legal materials that were destroyed. The district court granted the motion with respect to mental harm, reducing the awards for retaliation and conspiracy to nominal damages of $1 for each ...
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
to the potential financial impact of the multi-million-dollar jury award. That impact became apparent on February 1, 2013, when the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the district court’s reduced total award ...
Article • March 15, 2013
of the most unreliable forms of evidence used in criminal prosecutions. See: NACDL v. Chicago Police Department, 399 Ill.App.3d 1, 924 N.E.2d 564 (Ill.App. 1 Dist. 2010). ...
Article • August 1, 2015 • from PLN August, 2015
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault
[d] Shane Smith’s constitutional rights.” The jurors awarded him one dollar in compensatory damages. See: Smith v. Beck, U.S.D.C. (M.D. NC), Case No. 1:08-cv-00166-TDS-WWD. Smith appealed ...
UN Commission Approves Mandela Rules on Treatment of Prisoners by David Fathi UN Commission Approves Mandela Rules on Treatment of Prisoners by David Fathi [1] May 22, 2015 was a milestone ...
, had advanced several justifications for the policy, including his belief that “(1) the inmates will engage in black-market trading for the publications and photographs; (2) inmate-on-inmate ...
Article • July 6, 2016 • from PLN July, 2016
Filed under: Prison Reform, Education
provisions: “1. All eligible inmates shall receive a minimum of 3 hours of educational services every school day. 2. Placement in a restricted housing unit does not change an eligible inmate’s ...
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