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Brief • February 20, 2013
Filed under: False Arrest
Fox v. District of Columbia, DC, Memorandum Opinion Re Order on Motion for Judgment, Unlawful Arrest, 2013 Case 1:10-cv-02118-ABJ Document 67 Filed 02/20/13 Page 1 of 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ____________________________________ ) BARBARA FOX, et al., ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) v. ) ) …
Brief • February 19, 2013
Meacham v. Ryan, AZ, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2013 Document #: 1:1--DafeFilecE1J27T9! UTT-·-pa·g-e-1.--ot-22 · · ···-· 'Case: t. :._fJLEo: ·. ,_:__.-_ AFCflVEO .· -==-GIP'Y .,,.· .. ~ .: .' . ••I•,•'·. ·.•. =-. ..· .: • ·,, . ·. •. :, .. ··. . ' . : -:. ·.·. . .. …
Brief • February 18, 2013
Filed under: Wrongful Imprisonment
Hayes v. Flowers, GA, Complaint, Wrongful Incarceration, 2013 Case 1:13-cv-00025-WLS Document 1-3 Filed 02/18/13 Page 1 of 19 ATTACHMENT A -- . ...;; \ Ci~il , .' AI• ;· ;· ,., ,·) 2 of 19 Document 1-3 Filed 02/18/13 i, '-' Page ,. /' 7' Case 1:13-cv-00025-WLS ..,.. .9 i …
Adams v. CCA, CO, Plf Res Def MoL Excl Doc After Action, prison riot, 2013 DISTRICT COURT, COUNTY OF CROWLEY, STATE OF COLORADO Court Address: Sixteenth Judicial District Court Crowley County Courthouse 110 E. 6th Street, Room 303 Ordway, Colorado 81063 Telephone 719-267-4468 ▲COURT USE ONLY ▲ Plaintiffs: VANCE A. …
LaSalle Corrections: A Family-Run Prison Firm by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Unique circumstances have combined to make northern Louisiana a prime location for private prisons, as Louisiana sheriffs can profit by letting a private company build and operate facilities that house both local prisoners and prisoners from other jurisdictions. …
Article • February 15, 2013 • from PLN February, 2013
From the Editor by Paul Wright I would like to thank everyone who has donated to the Human Rights Defense Center/Prison Legal News annual fundraiser. As of mid-January 2013 we had raised a little over $29,000 of our $60,000 goal to continue the Campaign for Prison Phone Justice, and still …
Tenth Circuit: Terrorism Prisoners Lack Liberty Interest in Transfer to ADX by Derek Gilna Omar Rezaq, Mohammed Saleh, El-Sayyid Nosair and Ibrahim Elgabrowny, convicted of terrorism-related offenses and confined at the federal supermax ADX facility in Florence, Colorado, filed suit contending they had a liberty interest in “avoiding transfer without …
Article • February 15, 2013 • from PLN February, 2013
The Battle to Open Prisons to Journalists by Jessica Pupovac Many states make it extremely difficult for journalists to visit their prisons, interview prisoners and report with any regularity or authority on what goes on inside America’s prison system. Take the case of Illinois. In March 2012, after hearing reports …
Article • February 15, 2013 • from PLN February, 2013
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
Two Companies Acknowledge Exporting U.S. Prisoner-Made Goods to Canada by David Reutter by David M. Reutter South Carolina-based Anderson Hardwood Floors formally announced in January 2012 that it had been violating Canadian law by exporting products partly manufactured by prisoners into Canada for the past 15 years. The announcement implicitly …
Reintroducing the Private Prison Information Act: An Interview by Mel Motel Christopher Petrella and Alex Friedmann are leading a coalition of organizations urging U.S. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) to reintroduce the Private Prison Information Act during the 113th Congress. I reached them both on the phone on a busy …
Article • February 15, 2013 • from PLN February, 2013
GAO Examines How BOP Can Reduce Prisoners’ Time in Prison by Derek Gilna The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a study on the Bureau of Prisons’ authority to shorten a federal prisoner’s sentence. The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) was found to have three principal authorities with respect to …
Article • February 15, 2013 • from PLN February, 2013
In Memory of Jon E. Yount (1938-2012) by Peter Wagner Sometime in the early morning of April 26, 2012, in his cell in a remote Pennsylvania prison, a 74-year-old jailhouse lawyer serving a life sentence hung himself. He was a quiet man who avoided taking credit for his work, so …
Article • February 15, 2013 • from PLN February, 2013
Supreme Court Extends Qualified Immunity to Private Attorney by The U.S. Supreme Court has extended qualified immunity to a private lawyer who was retained by a city to serve as an internal affairs investigator. In August 2006, Rialto, California firefighter Nicholas Delia became ill while responding to a fire. His …
Article • February 15, 2013 • from PLN February, 2013
U.S. Imprisons the Most Women, Tops International List by It’s almost a cliché that the world’s freest country imprisons by far the most people. And yet the pure mathematics of the issue remain cruelly ironic, especially for America’s female prisoners. The second edition of the World Female Imprisonment List, released …
Article • February 15, 2013 • from PLN February, 2013
NY Federal Judge Deals Rare SHU Placement Defeat to BOP by Derek Gilna Viktor A. Bout, a Russian international arms dealer ensnared in a DEA sting in 2008, extradited from Thailand and held in the Special Housing Unit (SHU) of the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in New York, won …
Supreme Court Adopts Strickland Prejudice Standard for Rejected Plea Bargains by Derek Gilna The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, has extended Strickland guarantees of effective legal representation to defendants entering into plea bargains. According to Justice Anthony Kennedy, who delivered the majority opinion of the Court, “The reality …
Oregon Jail Guard Convicted of Assaulting Prisoner, Gets 30 Days in Jail by On April 6, 2012, a jury convicted a former Oregon jail guard of assaulting a prisoner. The following month he was sentenced to 30 days in jail and a two-year term of probation. One day before his …
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Sets Aside Convictions Based on Actual Innocence by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In a 7-0 opinion with two judges not participating, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals held on February 15, 2012 that a former prisoner who claimed exculpatory evidence was withheld in his …
Article • February 15, 2013 • from PLN February, 2013
The Collapse of American Criminal Justice, by William J. Stuntz (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011). 432 pages, $35.00 by Derek Gilna Book review by Derek Gilna The late William J. Stuntz, a Harvard law professor who conducted extensive research into the “rule of law” in American society, authored …
Article • February 15, 2013 • from PLN February, 2013
Pay-to-Stay Jail Programs Growing by Due in part to stressed government budgets, “pay-to-stay” fees imposed on prisoners in county jails are becoming more prevalent. Two counties, one in Ohio and the other in California, are now collecting incarceration costs from detainees. After Keller Blackburn became prosecutor for Athens County, Ohio, …
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