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Article • May 15, 1994 • from PLN May, 1994
legislature passed the Safe Streets Initiative which has the goal of reducing prison overcrowding to ensure that violent and repeat offenders are not released early. The new law went into effect on January 1 ...
: Findlay v. Lewis , 831 P.2d 830 (Ariz.App.Div.1 1991). ...
Article • October 15, 1993 • from PLN October, 1993
alternatives to prison time, and to pass legislation for the release of nonviolent offenders in times of severe overcrowding. The new agreement: (1) Limits the number of prisoners housed in particular areas ...
Article • August 15, 1991 • from PLN August, 1991
from the criminal justice system. According to statistics published by the Supreme Court of Japan, in 1984 the median prison term of prisoners sentenced for all criminal offenses (combined) was 1-2 ...
Article • April 15, 1992 • from PLN April, 1992
. 90-35307 etc., 1/10/92) ...
Article • October 15, 1997 • from PLN October, 1997
. 2400 (1987). The court relied on its rulings in Ward v. Walsh, 1 F.3d 873 (9th Cir. 1993) and McElyea v. Babbitt, 833 F.2d 196 (9th Cir. 1987) which held prisoners have a right to nutritious food ...
Article • February 15, 1996 • from PLN February, 1996
U.S.P. Lewisburg Lockdown by On November 1, 1995, several prisoners created a disturbance in the mess hall. They took a case of soda pop and barricaded themselves into one of the dorms ...
Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995
place: 1. Immobilization causing you to fall to the ground. 2. Possibility of self-defecation. 3. Possibility of self-urination. FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THE OFFICER DIRECTIONS COULD LEAD TO ANY ...
Article • October 15, 1995 • from PLN October, 1995
convicted after October 1, 1995, must serve at least 85% of their sentences in prison. Other laws will expand the prison system's "legal" population capacity and impose mandatory minimum terms for repeat ...
Article • March 15, 2005 • from PLN March, 2005
From the Editor by by Paul Wright On February 1, 2005, the Ninth Circuit US court of appeals upheld the injunctions in Prison Legal News v. Lehman, 272 F. Supp.2d 1151 (WD WA 2003) which ...
Article • January 15, 2005 • from PLN January, 2005
the expert testimony offered in the case, the court found that "[b]reaking up altercations and riots in an inmate population with an HIV infection level of 1 in 20, more than seventy times greater than ...
Private Prison Contractor by John E. Dannenberg The California Department of Corrections (CDC) has charged private prison contractor Marantha Corrections LLC with "misappropriating" more than $1 ...
Article • December 15, 2004 • from PLN December, 2004
confinement. Prison officials defended their actions by claiming (1) DiMarco's confinement in solitary was necessary to protect her from other prisoners and vice-versa, and (2) DiMarco's placement ...
was for violating a January 1, 2002, memorandum prohibiting excessive noise. On September 17, 2002, and again on September 29, 2002, Burger issued Cannon additional citations for excessive noise. Cannon was found ...
Article • June 15, 2005 • from PLN June, 2005
later, he was caught and thereafter convicted of felony escape (Penal Code § 4532(b)(1)) as well as misdemeanor criminal threats. His appeal focused on whether he could be found guilty of escape from ...
(Correction Law § 273[1]). As to Velella and Del Toro, the board had not waited the required 60 days after rejecting their first application for release before considering their subsequent applications ...
Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005
Board of Claims made a unanimous decision to make its first award for wrongful imprisonment in two decades. Briley sought the maximum allowable award of $1 million. You can never put a dollar figure ...
Article • June 15, 2005 • from PLN June, 2005
rule as a motion made under § 2255 unless" (1) the movant is warned of the potential adverse consequences and agrees to the recharacterization, or (2) the movant is allowed to withdraw the petition ...
Article • May 15, 2005 • from PLN May, 2005
. Robert D. Meyer a South Dakota gastroenterologist and noted HCV specialist. The liver pathology report found Bender's status was Grade 3" inflammation and stage 1" fibrosis. Despite that condition ...
Article • May 15, 2005 • from PLN May, 2005
subsequent claim for over-detention of 5 years, 8 months, county counsel advised the Claims Board that they believed the over-detention was no more than one year, four months. Nonetheless, they estimated $1 ...
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