Skip navigation

Search

51 results
Page 2 of 3. « Previous | 1 2 3 | Next »

Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
Judge Orders COVID Emergency Release Procedures at Lompoc Federal Prison by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins In July 2020, Judge Consuelo Marshall of the U.S. District Court for Central California granted class certification to a group of prisoners at Lompoc federal prison, granting in part and denying in part their …
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
Seventh Circuit Says Racial Disparity Argument ‘Too Weak to Require Discussion’ in COVID-Related Motion for Compassionate Release by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In affirming an Illinois district court’s order denying a motion for compassionate release, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held there was no procedural error in …
Torres v. Milusnic, CA, Opposition to Def. Motion for Summary Judgment, COVID-19 Release, 2021 Case 2:20-cv-04450-CBM-PVC Document 257 Filed 06/08/21 Page 1 of 32 Page ID #:8858 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Terry W. Bird – Bar No. 49038 …
Article • June 1, 2021 • from PLN June, 2021
Colorado Grants COVID-19-Related Clemencies by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon COVID-19 has been particularly virulent in Colorado’s relatively small prison system. In the months between April 2020 and January 21, 2021, over 1,400 prisoners tested positive for coronavirus at the Sterling Correctional Facility alone. Nine of those men did not …
Article • June 1, 2021 • from PLN June, 2021
Massachusetts Medical Parole Cases and COVID-19 Prisoner Deaths by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon As early as February 2020, medical and corrections experts warned criminal justice officials across the U.S. of the danger COVID-19 posed to crowded prison populations, encouraging them to parole as many prisoners as feasible. By late …
Publication • 2021
Filed under: Access to Computers
Bars Behind Bars - Digital Techonology in the Prison System, 2021 BARS BEHIND BARS: DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY IN THE PRISON SYSTEM Paolo Arguelles* 1 Isabelle Ortiz-Luis Abstract With little opportunity to engage with technology while behind bars, returning citizens are finding themselves on the far side of the digital divide and …
Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021
Massachusetts Uses Medical Parole to Avoid In-Custody Deaths From COVID-19 by Daniel A. Rosen by Daniel A. Rosen Joseph Messere, a 68-year-old prisoner in Massachusetts, was just days away from death in December 2020 when his attorney got a phone call from state officials. The Parole Board and state Department …
Sixth Circuit Orders Michigan District Court to Review Prisoner’s Plea for Compassionate Release by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a Michigan federal district court to determine if a prisoner showed excusable neglect in filing an appellate notice outside time limitations. The prisoner …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Louisiana’s COVID-19 Prisoner Furlough Panel Next to Useless by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon On June 5, 2020, as Louisiana entered the second phase of its reopening program following shutdowns ordered to counteract the COVID-19 pandemic, the state Department of Public Safety and Corrections (DOC) suspended a panel it had …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
North Carolina Cancer Patient Dies From COVID-19 After BOP Denies Compassionate Release and Sentencing Judge Rejects Appeal by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna On July 3, 2020, the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) reported prisoner John Dailey died of COVID-19 at the Federal Correctional Complex (FCC) in Butner, North Carolina. …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Many of Aging Kansas State Prison Population Could Be Released by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon By some standards, Kansas has a relatively small prison system. Numbering only around 10,000 beds, it is dwarfed by California’s and Texas’ penal institutions, which have 134,000 and 142,000 beds, respectively. Regardless of size, …
Brief • August 14, 2020
IN THE MATTER OF INDIVIDUALS IN CUSTODY OF THE STATE OF HAWAIʻI, HI, INTERIM ORDER, 2020 Electronically Filed Supreme Court SCPW-20-0000509 14-AUG-2020 06:25 PM SCPW-20-0000509 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF HAWAIʻI IN THE MATTER OF INDIVIDUALS IN CUSTODY OF THE STATE OF HAWAIʻI ORIGINAL PROCEEDING INTERIM ORDER …
Article • July 1, 2020 • from PLN July, 2020
Sixth Circuit Vacates Preliminary Injunction Regarding Elkton Prisoner Class Action by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna On June 9, 2020, the federal Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, in a split decision, vacated a preliminary injunction issued by a district court that directed the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to determine which …
Article • July 1, 2020 • from PLN July, 2020
L.A. County Sheriff Says Prisoners Intentionally Tried to Catch Coronavirus to Get Released by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell After seeing surveillance video of a group of prisoners drinking hot water from the same cup – allegedly attempting to raise their body temperature before it was checked by a nurse …
New York District Court Judge Denies Preliminary Injunction Against MCC Brooklyn by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Federal District Court Judge Rachel P. Kovner on June 9, 2020, denied a “preliminary injunction that would release all MDC inmates whose age or medical condition places them at heightened risk from the …
Article • July 1, 2020 • from PLN July, 2020
Florida’s Refusal to Release Prisoners During COVID-19 Resulting in Death Sentences by David Reutter by David M. Reutter As the COVID-19 pandemic started to spread across the nation, so did the push to release prisoners from the “Petri dish” of close confinement that exists inside jails and prisons. While some …
Article • July 1, 2020 • from PLN July, 2020
Unlike U.S., Many Governments Releasing Large Numbers of Prisoners to Reduce Threat of COVID-19 by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Around the globe, governments are releasing prisoners in an attempt to mitigate the threat of COVID-19-related mass deaths in their jails and prisons. However, Third World countries are far ahead …
Article • July 1, 2020 • from PLN July, 2020
U.S. Supreme Court Overturns Texas Federal Judge’s Order Granting COVID-19 Relief to Elderly Prisoners by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On May 14, 2020 the United States Supreme Court rejected a class-action lawsuit filed by two elderly Texas prisoners that would have forced the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) …
Article • July 1, 2020 • from PLN July, 2020
Alabama Should Release Elder Prisoners at Risk for COVID-19 by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon The efficacy of states continuing to retain elderly prisoners has been questioned by corrections experts for decades. The problems with continuing to needlessly incarcerate senior prisoners has become even more germane amidst the ongoing coronavirus …
Article • July 1, 2020 • from PLN July, 2020
Pennsylvania Judge Verdict: A Potential Death Sentence for Shoplifting Conviction by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Thirty-six-year-old Ashley Via Menser of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, is battling both cervical and ovarian cancer from prison after being convicted and sentenced in January 2020 for shoplifting $109.63 worth of groceries. As her case progressed …
Page 2 of 3. « Previous | 1 2 3 | Next »