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Death Penalty Information Center - Behind the Curtain - Secrecy and the Death Penalty, 2018

Publication • January 1, 2018

Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Eighth Amendment, Death Penalty/Death Row, Death Penalty, Death Row, First Amendment, rights

LANDSCAPE New Drug Secrecy Laws Secrecy in Viewing the Execution Itself WHAT IS THERE TO HIDE? Purported Reasons for Secrecy Setting Aside the Veil: Uncovering Incompetence, Illegality, and Deception ...

2019 HRDC Fundraiser

Publication • October 14, 2019

Filed under: PLN related

and breadth of our activities. We don’t have room to include every time we are mentioned in the media, and only list the conferences where HRDC staff are speakers. What do your donations help support? Any time ...

University of Pennsylvania-Decarceration's Inside Partners, March 2022

Publication • 2022

Filed under: Criminal Justice, Criminal History

almost twothirds of the growth in prison populations since 1990”); DAVID ALAN SKLANSKY, A PATTERN OF VIOLENCE: HOW THE LAW CLASSIFIES CRIMES AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR JUSTICE 3 (2021) (observing ...

Mosier v. Maynard-937 F.2d 1521 (10th Cir. 1991)

Case • 1991

his beliefs. What he believes very well could be true but there is no external evidence that he has been practicing his native traditional beliefs. [22] I R. doc. 11, attach. C. at 2 (emphasis ...

Warner v. Orange County Dept. of Probation-968 F. Supp. 917 (SD NY 1997)

Case • 1997

: a. Open speaker meetings -- open to alcoholics and nonalcoholics. (Attendance at an open A.A. meeting is the best way to learn what A.A. is, what it does, and what it does not do.) At speaker meetings, A.A ...

Street v. Corrections Corp. of America-102 F.3d 810 (6th cir. 1996)

Case • 1996

to the unit to which Street, Harris and seventy-two other inmates were assigned. *fn3 [16] Stephen stated that after the shift change, Harris asked him either, "What would you do if I kicked [Street's] ass ...

Makin v. CO Dept. of Corrections-183 F.3d 1205 (10th Cir. 1999)

Case • 1999

. To maintain his fast, he was unable to eat his meals when delivered. He was able to keep his meal trays in his cell until after sundown and eat what he could then. That included his supper and food such as dry ...

Johnson v. Jones-115 S. Ct. 2552 (1995)

Case • 1995

, not a district court's determination about what factual issues are "genuine," but the purely legal issue what law was "clearly established." Second, although Cohen's conceptual theory of appealability finds ...

Hamilton v. Leavy-322 F.3d 776 (3rd Cir. 2003)

Case • 2003

for a length of time up to two months, and it will be dependent [on] what reports I get back from the Deputy Attorney General, from you and what progress is made toward resolving this thing without further trial ...

North Carolina Prisoners Labor Union Inc. v. Jones-409 F.Supp. 937 (E.D.N.C. 1976).

Case • 1976

] Coming to the question of injunctive relief, what we do not decide in this case is far more important than what we do decide. The most important question is whether prisoners of the state have ...

Fambo v. Fulton County, Georgia-713 F.Supp. 1426 (ND GA 1989)

Case • 1989

facility at Bellwood several years ago but otherwise seemed to do little to address the problem of persistent overcrowding. Finally, in January of 1988 the county took what the court considered a bold ...

Shango v. Jurich-608 F.Supp. 931 (ND IL 1985)

Case • 1985

of his Fourteenth Amendment due process rights, Shango contends defendants violated A.R.s. Those regulations of course are not necessarily coextensive with what the Constitution requires, so a violation ...

United States v. Cobb-905 F.2d 784 (4th Cir. 1990)

Case • 1990

and excessive force. If you find that a defendant knew what he was doing and that he intended to do what he was doing, and if you find that he did violate a constitutional right, then you may conclude ...

Brengettcy v. Horton-423 F.3d 674 (7th Cir. 2005)

Case • 2005

, and returned to the second floor. [14] Observing Brengettcy's return to the second floor, Officer Horton asked him why he had gone back downstairs. Brengettcy described what happened next as follows ...

Walker v. Lockhart-713 F.2d 1387 (8th Cir. 1983)

Case • 1983

, the Pine Bluff Diagnostic Unit (Pine Bluff), until the court ruled on the merits of Walker's claims. Walker v. Lockhart, 514 F. Supp. 1347, 1349 (E.D. Ark. 1981). Walker had voluntarily been in what ...

Siggers-El v. Barlow-412 F.3d 693 (6th Cir. 2005)

Case • 2005

expedite the process. The next day, Barlow summoned Siggers-El to his office and said "Didn't I tell you what would happen if you ever [went] over my head again?" After Siggers-El replied, "What are you ...

Daniels v. Williams-106 S.Ct. 662 (1986)

Case • 1986

) disputes over what is fairly pleaded. What's more, requiring complainants to allege something more than negligence would raise serious questions about what "more" than negligence -- intent, recklessness ...

Cason v. Seckinger-231 F.3d 777 (11th Cir. 2000)

Case • 2000

court granted the defendants' motion to terminate the consent decrees insofar as the motion called for the termination of the underlying lawsuit. Nonetheless, expressing its wish not "to destroy what ...

Taylor v. Rodriguez-238 F.3d 188 (2nd Cir. 2001)

Case • 2001

of Correction Admin. Directive 9.5 at 12-17. These processes are in accordance with Supreme Court precedent. See Hewitt, 459 U.S. at 466 n.3. [35] Case law has not expressly set out what is to be included ...

Townsend v. Moya-291 F.3d 859 (5th Cir. 2002)

Case • 2002

." Townsend jumped, reached behind him, and realized he had been cut or stabbed on his buttocks. Hill laughed at what had happened, and offered to take Townsend to the infirmary. Townsend declined to go ...