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Article • December 3, 2015 • from PLN December, 2015
, was the keynote speaker at Prison Legal News’ 25th Anniversary celebrations held in Seattle, Washington on November 9, 2015 and in New York City on December 1. Sources: Associated Press, www.abcnews.go.com ...
Article • January 7, 2016
Lorenzo ‘Cat’ Johnson, detailed yesterday in Part I of this series [1], is the subject of a website and numerous other postings on the Internet. Those Internet postings detail gross misconduct ...
Facility guard Tralaina Stanley, 32, was arrested on September 1, 2012 and charged with a Class C felony count of trafficking with a prisoner. She is accused of bringing prescription medication, including ...
Article • April 1, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Filed under: Voting, Release and Reentry
some of Pawnee’s most respected residents, Linder’s pardon request was denied by the Board in a 4-1 vote, prohibiting him from becoming mayor. A more forgiving state statute in New Hampshire ...
was affirmed and the petition dismissed. Rashid was represented by attorney Sadie E. Ishee. See: Matter of State of New York v. Rashid, 16 N.Y.3d 1, 942 N.E.2d 225 (N.Y. 2010). An important implication ...
Article • March 15, 2014 • from PLN March, 2014
thiopental ceased in the U.S. in early 2011. [See: PLN, June 2011, p.1]. Delaware DOC Commissioner Carl Danberg reached out to Alan Levin, the state’s economic development director, knowing that Levin used ...
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN October, 2004
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Voting
. 5484 which enacted the federal mandatory minimums for drug crimes, this included the infamous 100-1 crack cocaine disparity where defendants with five grams of crack received a mandatory minimum of five ...
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
being hauled to the supermax, notified the state it intends to file a $1 million-plus wrongful-death lawsuit against prison officials and employees of a national company, Correctional Medical Services ...
Health, the nation’s largest private prison medical care provider, took over in January 2013 after Wexford withdrew from its contract. [See: PLN, July 2013, p.1]. According to records obtained ...
Article • February 29, 2016
Filed under: Police
then pulls the driver over and offers them a devil’s bargain: get arrested, or pay the original fine with an extra 25% processing fee tacked on, all of which goes to Vigilant.1 In other words ...
of SBI blood analysis cases between 1987 and 2003. Their investigation of 15,000 crime lab files, released in August 2010, revealed the 190 errors. [See: PLN, Oct. 2010, p.1]. Several high-profile cases ...
Article • October 10, 2014 • from PLN October, 2014
the facility, and a separate suit alleges that CCA employees collaborated with gang members to maintain control at the prison. The state took control of the Idaho Correctional Center on July 1, 2014 and the FBI ...
Article • March 4, 2015 • from PLN March, 2015
the presumption that such programs provide treatment analogous to the civil commitment of the mentally ill. [See: PLN, Aug. 2002, p.17; Aug. 1997, p.1]. The high court has cautioned, however, that civil commitment ...
. The Colorado Department of Corrections issued an “after action” report on October 1, 2004 that concluded CCA should have foreseen and prevented the riot, but noted that state officials were virtually ...
Article • June 15, 2011 • from PLN June, 2011
]. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, thousands of people who had not been convicted of any crime were lost in the city’s prison system. [See: PLN, May 2007, p.18; April 2007, p.1]. In October 2010 a federal jury ...
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
statute of limitations – which you will have to do in the petition itself and/or in response to the Attorney General’s motion to dismiss for untimeliness – consider the following recommendations: 1) If you ...
Article • November 8, 2014 • from PLN November, 2014
Filed under: Habeas Corpus
”) which, taken together, severely limit the role of federal habeas corpus as a bulwark against wrongful state convictions: 1) On federal habeas corpus, a prisoner bears the burden of disproving ...
Article • October 10, 2014 • from PLN October, 2014
prospective job-seekers who have criminal records without first considering the applicants’ qualifications for the position. Effective July 1, 2014, California Assembly Bill 218 requires more than 6,000 ...
Article • December 3, 2014 • from PLN December, 2014
Circuit after a three-judge panel of the court voted 2-to-1 in January 2014 to uphold a landmark ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Mark L. Wolf in the case of Michelle Kosilek, who is serving life without ...
of serious valley fever, given that the fatal complications are known to happen in less than 1 percent of the cases. In response to Civil Beat’s request, Schwartz says the department is going over its ...
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