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Article • December 14, 2017
Filed under: Appeals, Parole, Habeas Corpus
California Court of Appeals Vacates Parole Denial for Claiming Innocence by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 1, 2015, a California court of appeal vacated the decision of the Board ...
Article • December 7, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
unresponsive and later pronounced dead. The lawsuit over her death settled for $270,000 in late June 2018. See: K.D.A. v. Mississippi County, U.S.D.C. (E.D. Mo.), Case No. 1:17-cv-00068-JAR. Prior ...
Article • August 23, 2016
publications mailed to inmates, including PLN's journal, info packs, subscription renewal packs, and fundraising appeals." Each rejected item was stamped: "As of April 1, 2010 The Columbia County Jail ONLY ...
Article • November 6, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018
organization of Prison Legal News, noted the coal mining contamination was a potential risk to prisoners in a comment submitted to the federal Bureau of Prisons. [See: PLN, June 2016, p.1]. As for the situation ...
Article • February 8, 2017 • from PLN February, 2017
agreed to settle the case for $375,000. See: Gonzales v. City of Trinidad, U.S.D.C. (D. Col.), Case No. 1:15-cv-00049-WYD-MEH. The second lawsuit, also filed in 2015, sought justice for six other falsely ...
Article • February 8, 2017 • from PLN February, 2017
, however, was subsequently repealed by state lawmakers – though HB 258, which was signed into law and went into effect on August 1, 2015, allows warrant recall fees of up to $50 in the 27th Judicial ...
, March 2014, p.1; Sept. 2013, p.47]. According to Brad Hall, an attorney who handled one of the cases against Walden that resulted in a settlement, “[O]ver a period of a couple of years, dozens ...
Article • January 31, 2018 • from PLN February, 2018
estimated to be as high as $10 for every $1 in direct costs,” the PJI report observed. “This suggests that the true cost of existing money-based pretrial systems is closer to $140 billion per year ...
Article • July 2, 2018 • from PLN July, 2018
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
sentence in January 2017. [See: PLN, June 2017, p.42; Aug. 2016, p.34; Mar. 2016, p.1]. Depending on where you look, four different sets of numbers can be found for three categories of jail violence tracked ...
Article • January 9, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
and upper body.” See: McCully v. Correct Care Solutions, LLC, U.S.D.C. (D. Colo.), Case No. 1:16-cv-00867-WJM-MEH. Her experiences were not unique. According to a 2015 jail report, use-of-force ...
Article • June 9, 2017 • from PLN June, 2017
above the entrance to the county jail that read “Top 1% of Sheriff’s Offices in America!” But the families of more than a dozen prisoners who died at the facility since 2009 would likely ...
Article • May 5, 2017 • from PLN May, 2017
;Inmates who are employed as barbers must use separate barber tools, which are in separate boxes, numbered 1 through 6. Caucasian barbers must use boxes numbered 2 and 4; Latino barbers must use boxes number ...
Article • December 5, 2017 • from PLN December, 2017
, on average. That is an epidemic level when compared to the estimated 1% of the general population infected with the disease. Prison officials in Tennessee were, at one time, determined to identify prisoners ...
Article • February 5, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019
; 1915(e)(1). While the decision to seek counsel is at the court’s discretion, that “does not mean that no legal standard governs that discretion,” the Seventh Circuit wrote in its May 2 ...
Article • May 15, 2012 • from PLN May, 2012
of $25 per quarter toward his fine in exchange for not (1) being limited to spending $25 per month in the commissary, (2) being ineligible for placement in a halfway house prior to his release, (3 ...
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
. society – a place with such deprivation that prison, in some cases, is a lesser enemy in life.1 One of my recent studies, published in the American Journal of Public Health in March 2013, speaks ...
Article • July 7, 2015 • from PLN July, 2015
;s 10 largest jail systems between 2007 and 2012.” [See: PLN, Oct. 2013, p.1]. In 2013, Kristopher NeSmith, 21, a marine serving time in a Camp Pendleton brig on an assault charge, tried to hang ...
Article • August 1, 2015 • from PLN August, 2015
Filed under: RLUIPA, Religious Grooming
, and that “RLUIPA’s ‘substantial burden’ inquiry asks whether the government has substantially burdened religious exercise (here, the growing of a 1/2-inch beard), not whether the RLUIPA ...
registration laws, which were enacted on July 1, 2011, would have taken Justin's name off the Web site, but also required each registered sex offender (RSO) to provide additional information for the registry ...
Article • August 25, 2016
more than 26,000 inmates 65+ years old and nearly five times that number 55 and up.1 The boom is a direct result of the "get tough on crime legislation from the 80's and 90's. These policies have ...
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