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Texas Jury Awards BOP Prisoner $4 Million for Rape by Guard by Alex Coolman DNA evidence and a powerful will to fight helped former federal Texas prisoner Marilyn Shirley win a sexual assault conAviction and a $4 million civil decision against a guard who raped her while she was being …
Article • July 15, 2004 • from PLN July, 2004
Record Number of "Lifers" Now in U.S. Prisons by Record Number of "Lifers" Now in U.S. Prisons A new national study by The Sen tencing Project released on May 11, 2004, finds that a record one of every eleven (9.4%) prisoners in the United States is now serving a life …
BJS Finds Low Recidivism among Released Sex Offenders by Contradicting popular perceptions, a November 2003 report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), a division of the U.S. Department of Justice, found that violent sex offenders released from prison are less likely than non-sex offenders to be rearrested on any …
Article • July 15, 2004 • from PLN July, 2004
Warden Sentenced for Stealing Dali Painting From Rikers Island Jail by by Matthew T. Clarke A former Rikers Island deputy warden was sentenced to 1 to 3 years in prison after admitting that he, a former assistant deputy warden, and two former guards stole a rare Salvador Dali painting valued …
Qualified Immunity Test Hinges Upon SHU Sentence Imposed, Not SHU Time Served by The Second Circuit Court of Appeals held that the amount of time a prisoner is sentenced to a Special Housing Unit (SHU) rather than the amount actually served is the determining factor to make a qualified immunity …
Article • July 15, 2004 • from PLN July, 2004
Oregon Trial in Prison Did Not Violate Constitution by Oregon Trial in Prison Did Not Violate Constitution In two opinions issued the same day, the Oregon Court of Appeals held that holding criminal trials of prisoners in a courtroom inside a prison did not violate the Oregon or United States …
Ex Con "Helps Police" by Trying to Murder Sex Offenders by Gary Hunter Between April 12 and April 25, 2003, Lawrence Trant, Jr., 56, tried to kill 8 registered sex offenders in Concord, New Hampshire. Trant set fire to a boarding house, to an apartment building and ultimately stabbed one …
Article • June 15, 2004 • from PLN June, 2004
2000 Census of Prisons, Prison Populations Published by The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), in August 2003, released the findings of its Year 2000 Census of State and Federal Prisons. The report found that from the previous census in 1995 to 2000 the number of Federal, State, and privately-operated prisons …
Jury Finds for Corcoran Guards in Prisoner Rape Suit by Paige Welch On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, a jury found four employees at California State Prison, Corcoran not responsible for the rape of prisoner Eddie Webb Dillard by a fellow prisoner. The verdict was read by District Judge Anthony W. …
$1.4 Million Awarded in Kansas Prisoner Death by In August, 2003 a State Jury in Leavenworth County, Kansas, awarded the son of a Kansas State prisoner who was killed after being stabbed by another prisoner on August 8, 2000, $1.4 million. Donald R. Grisham was stabbed on his 27th birthday …
Article • June 15, 2004 • from PLN June, 2004
Filed under: Escapes, Sentencing, Detainers
Indictment Dismissed for Failure to Comply with Interstate Agreement on Detainers by The Wyoming Supreme Court reversed a conviction and dismissed the underlying indictment because the State failed to bring the defendant to trial within the time period allotted in the Interstate Agreement on Detainers (IAD). In 1997, Janvirgo Odhinn …
Article • June 15, 2004 • from PLN June, 2004
BJS Says 1 in 15 Adults Will Go to Prison by The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reported in August 2003 that, if current American incarceration rates continue, 1 of every 15 persons born in the year 2001 will be incarcerated at some point in their adult lives. The report …
Publication • 2004
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Victims
DOJ Oregon, Interviewing Guidelines of Child Victims, 2004 OREGON INTERVIEWING GUIDELINES SECOND EDITION 2004 Written by Sherry Bohannan, LCSW Terry Chianello, LCSW Robin Flagor, BSW Jane Gallagher, Supervisor Doug Kettner, Officer Carl Sieg, Detective, Retired Charles Sparks, JD Penny Van Ness, LCSW Oregon Department of Justice Crime Victims’ Assistance Section …
Detainees Positive Response, FBI, 2004 | Detainees Positive Responses 1. W . SUMMARY CODED CATEGO ares OF JUSTIFICATION CATEGORIES INFORMATIONWITHHELI! S ' l f I INFORlV_1ATION_ Category Category."b! ! AGENCY PERSONNEL RULES AND PRACTICES b! !-1 Internal FBITelephone Numbers. ' Category h! ! CLEARLY UNWARRANTED PERSONAL i g INVASION OF …
The Problem of False Confessions in the Post-DNA World, Steven Drizin and Richard Leo, North Carolina Law Review, 2004 HeinOnline -- 82 N.C. L. Rev. 891 2003-2004 Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1134094 HeinOnline -- 82 N.C. L. Rev. 892 2003-2004 Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1134094 HeinOnline -- 82 N.C. L. …
Article • May 15, 2004 • from PLN May, 2004
NYPD Commissioner Charged With Stealing $112,733.98 from Jail Prisoner Fund by NYPD Commissioner Charged With Stealing $112,733.98 from Jail Prisoner Fund By Matthew T. Clarke On July 11, 2003, NYPD Deputy Po-lice Commissioner of Community Affairs Fredrick J. Patrick, 38, was arrested on federal charges that he looted close to …
No Crueler Tyrannies: Accusation, False Witnesses, and Other Tyrannies of Our Times by Robert Woodman by Dorothy Rabinowitz. 2003. Free Press, ISBN: 0-7432-2834-0 Review by Robert Woodman "There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice." These words, …
Jailhouse Snitch Enlisted in War on Terrorism Behind Bars by Bob Williams Scott Lee Martin couldn't help himself. After a decade locked up in a half-dozen federal prisons where snitches, rats, informantsor whatever the regional prison slang calls those who tell on othersare detested, spat upon, beaten, even killed for …
BOP Doctor Indicted, Pleads Guilty to Sexual Assault by Bob Williams BOP Doctor Indicted, Pleads Guilty To Sexual Assault by Bob Williams On May 14, 2003, Dr. Carlos Baez, 41, a staff obstetrician-gynecologist in the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), was indicted on three counts of sexual abuse of a …
Thirty-Two Years of Resistance: Free the Angola Three! by Shana Griffin by Shana Griffin and Brice White Thirty two years in solitary confinement would be enough to drive many of us to despair. Yet as of April 17, 2004, Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox of the Angola 3 have each …
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