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Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
U.S. Supreme Court Denies Stay of California Prisoner Release Order by In a 6-3 decision issued August 2, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court denied California Governor Jerry Brown’s request for a stay of a three-judge court’s order requiring the state to comply with a December 31, 2013 deadline to reduce …
Publication • September 4, 2013
Addressing the Federal Court Prison Population Cap CA Legislative Analyst's Office 2013 LAO 7 0 Y E A R S O F S E RV I C E September 4, 2013 Addressing the Federal Court Prison Population Cap L E G I S L A T I V E A …
Article • August 15, 2013
Indiana Overcrowding Suit Certified as Class Action; Grievances Specific Enough to Satisfy PLRA by A federal court in Indiana certified a jail overcrowding case as a class action. It also found that Plaintiff adequately exhausted his claims. In January, 2007, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Indiana brought suit …
LA Prison Conditions Held Unconstitutional by In 1973, Hayes Williams and three other Louisiana state prisoners filed suit in federal district court claiming that the Angola prison was being run in violation of the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment in the 8th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The allegations …
Article • August 15, 2013
California: Court Upholds Governor’s Authority to Contract with Out-of-State Private Prisons during Prison Overcrowding State of Emergency by The California Court of Appeal held in 2008 that Governor Schwarzenegger did not exceed his authority when, after invoking the Emergency Services Act (Gov. Code § 8550 et seq.) to issue a …
Article • August 15, 2013 • from PLN August, 2013
Federal Court Orders California to Release 9,600 More Prisoners by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg On June 20, 2013, a plainly frustrated three-judge federal court not only told California officials that they shall comply with the court's prior order to reduce the state's prison population to 137.5% of design …
Article • August 15, 2013
Comingling of Meanest and Greenest Prisoners Ordered to Cease in Maryland Prisons by A Maryland federal district court ordered prison officials at the Maryland State Penitentiary and the Maryland Reception, Diagnostic and Classification Center (MRDCC) to devise an efficient classification system to identify prisoners at risk of rape, and to …
Brief • August 9, 2013
Filed under: Overcrowding
Brown v. Plata, CA, S.Ct. Jurisdictional Statement, Prison System Overcrowding, 2013 QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether the three-judge district court erred in applying this Court’s mandate in Brown v. Plata, 131 S. Ct. 1910 (2011), and the legal standards governing vacatur or modification of injunctive relief. 2. Whether changed circumstances require …
Brief • August 1, 2013
Boyd v. Godinez, IL, Class Cert. Memo, Overcrowding and Inhumane Conditions, 2013 Case 3:12-cv-00704-JPG-PMF Document 34 Filed 08/01/13 Page 1 of 20 Page ID #155 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS BENTON DIVISION MICHAEL BOYD, PAUL LEE and KENDRICK PEARSON, on behalf of themselves …
Brief • August 1, 2013
Boyd v. Godinez, IL, Motion for Class Cert., Overcrowding and Inhumane Conditions, 2013 Case 3:12-cv-00704-JPG-PMF Document 33 Filed 08/01/13 Page 1 of 4 Page ID #151 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS BENTON DIVISION MICHAEL BOYD, PAUL LEE and KENDRICK PEARSON, on behalf of …
Deadly Prison Fire Kills Hundreds in Honduras by They screamed from their dilapidated cells as a scorching fire swept through the prison where they were held. But the cries of prisoners burning alive inside the overcrowded Comayagua National Penitentiary in Honduras on February 14, 2012 were met by gunshots fired …
Brief • July 10, 2013
Filed under: Overcrowding
Brown v. Plata, Application to S.Ct. to Stay Injunction, Prison System Overcrowding, 2013 No. IN THE :§uprrm.e Qtnurt nf tqr lnitrb :§tatrn GOVERNOR EDMUND G. BROWN JR., et al., Applicants-Appellants, v. MARCIANO PLATA AND RALPH COLEMAN, et al., Appellees. Application for a Stay of Injunctive Relief Pending This Court's Final …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Plata and Coleman Showdown in California by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg A three-judge federal court tightened the noose around the neck of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) in April 2013 when it issued a lengthy order denying a motion by state officials to delay or …
Article • May 15, 2013 • from PLN May, 2013
No Room for 900 New Washington Prison “Rugs” by “Every day I'm getting emails from staff staff who are concerned about safety,” said Tracey A. Thompson, the Secretary-Treasurer of Teamsters Local 117, which represents about 3,600 Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC) guards. With approximately 16,000 prisoners, Washington state prisons are …
California: Thousands of Sex Offenders Remove GPS Monitors by Taking advantage of the lack of available bed space to house parole violators in California jails following the state’s “realignment” initiative, thousands of paroled sex offenders fitted with GPS ankle bracelets have disabled or removed them – with few consequences. Under …
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
Oregon: Grand Jury Cites Problems at Multnomah County Jails by Sal Rodriquez A Corrections Grand Jury report released on December 18, 2012 made recommendations to remedy problems in Multnomah County’s jail system, adding to suggestions the Grand Jury had previously made in 2011. In its most recent report, the Grand …
Former Pennsylvania DOC Director Hired to Run CDCR by Anne-Marie Cusac Jeffrey A. Beard, an almost 40-year old veteran of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, and most recently that state’s Corrections Secretary, was hired by California Governor Jerry Brown in December 2012 to become the new head of the California …
Cook County Jail Agrees to Improvements by Brandon Sample It took a federal lawsuit by the United States Department of Justice to get Cook County to finally agree to remedy decades of inadequate conditions at its infamous Cook County Jail (CCJ). The sweeping deal between Cook County and the Justice …
Coleman v. Brown, CA, Declaration of Scott in Support of Def. Prison System Overcrowding, 2013 Case 2:90-cv-00520-LKK-JFM Document 4479 Filed 03/22/13 Page 1 of 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 KAMALA D. HARRIS Attorney General of California JONATHAN L. WOLFF Senior Assistant Attorney General JAY C. …
Article • March 15, 2013
Mass Incarceration Now, Tomorrow, Forever: Gov. Jerry Brown and the Politics of Court Bashing by Jonathan Simon by Jonathan Simon, Professor of Law Just about two years ago, in May 2011, the US Supreme Court in Brown v. Plata 131 S.Ct. 1910 (2011) upheld what Justice Scalia called the "most …
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