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Sanders v. NMCD, NM, Complaint, Wrongful Death, 2015 FILED IN MY OFFICE DISTRICT COURT CLERK 8/3/2015 9:25: 14 AM James A. Noel Dora Bozovic STATE OF NEW :MEXICO COUNTY OF BERNALILLO SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT J\rIAUREEN A. SANDERS, as personal representative of the Estate of KATHERINE PAQUIN, and CHERI RODRIGUEZ, Plaintiffs …
Article • August 1, 2015 • from PLN August, 2015
Nebraska Returns Ex-Offenders to Prison after Sentence Miscalculation Scandal by Matthew Clarke Nebraska Returns Ex-Offenders to Prison after Sentence Miscalculation Scandal by Matt Clarke Nebraska authorities have re-incarcerated nearly two dozen state prisoners who were released early because officials miscalculated their release dates. The state decided not to pursue hundreds …
Article • April 8, 2015 • from PLN April, 2015
Tennessee County Not Required to Pay for Medical Costs after Prisoner’s Release by David Reutter Tennessee County Not Required to Pay for Medical Costs after Prisoner’s Release by David Reutter The Tennessee Court of Appeals has held that a prisoner does not have a private right of action for being …
Article • October 3, 2014
Florida Governor Eliminates Innocence Commission by  Florida Governor Eliminates Innocence Commission   Faced with the dubious honor of 23 death row prisoner being exonerated since 1973 and 12 exonerations via DNA evidence since 2001, the Florida Supreme Court created the Florida Innocence Commission. With the stroke of his veto pen, …
Article • October 3, 2014
Filed under: Good Time, Wrongful Release
$1.21 Million Settlement after Washington State Prisoner Released in Error Kills Store Clerk by $1.21 Million Settlement after Washington State Prisoner Released in Error Kills Store Clerk   As a result of an earned good-time mix-up, a prisoner at Walla Walla State Prison in Washington State was prematurely released on …
Herrera v. NM Corrections Dept, NM, Complaint, Improper Sentencing, 2014 Case 1:13-cv-01176-MV-KBM Document 10 Filed 01/20/14 Page 1 of 8 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO CARLOS HERRERA, Plaintiff, vs. 1:13-cv-01176-MV/KBM NEW MEXICO CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT, R.\NDY DORMAN, individually and in his official capacity, MARY …
Article • April 15, 2013
Kentucky DOC Cannot Alter Time Served Credit by The Kentucky Supreme Court has held that prison officials lack authority to modify presentencing custody credit. Peter Bard was charged with murdering a deputy sheriff in 1993 but the charges were dismissed when he was found incompetent to stand trial. Bard was …
Article • December 15, 2012 • from PLN December, 2012
Arkansas Prison Director Suspended by Board of Corrections by Ray Hobbs, director of the Arkansas Department of Correction (ADOC), was suspended without pay for two weeks, starting January 2, 2012, for failing to promptly inform the Board of Corrections about a computer glitch that resulted in hundreds of prisoners being …
Article • May 15, 2012 • from PLN May, 2012
Ninth Circuit Holds Hawaii Prison Officials Entitled to Qualified Immunity when Calculating Release Dates in Accordance with State Law by In an interlocutory appeal, the Ninth Circuit reversed a Hawaii district court’s denial of qualified immunity to prison officials who, in apparent conformity with Hawaii state law, treated a prisoner’s …
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Credits Sentence with Time on Appeal Bond by The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals held that a man who erroneously remained free on an appeal bond for 21 years was entitled to full credit toward his sentence. Claus Detref Thiles was sentenced to 16 years …
Article • November 15, 2011
$12,000 Settlement Reached in Washington Parolee Wrongful Death Claim by A $12,000 settlement was reached in a wrongful death suit against the State of Washington and Pierce County. Tracy Joe Enoch-Jevne was convicted on four separate DUI counts spanning from February 1996 to December 1998. Due to an error, she …
Article • May 15, 2011
Mistaken Release Still Escape If You Do Not Turn Yourself In by The federal escape statute applies to prisoners who fail to turn themselves in after being mistakenly released, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit decided December 27, 2010. Lonzell Gowdy was mistakenly released by Alabama prison …
Washington DOC Pays $3,275,000 to Family of Deputy Killed by Former Prisoner by In September 2009, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) agreed to settle a wrongful death suit filed by the family of a King County deputy who was murdered by a recently-released prisoner. On December 2, 2006, while …
Article • July 15, 2010 • from PLN July, 2010
Erroneously Released Texas Prisoner Entitled to Credit on Sentence by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On February 4, 2009, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals held that a state prisoner who had been erroneously released through no fault of his own, and who had not violated any of the conditions …
Article • June 15, 2009
California Prisoner's Court-Ordered Release Reversed on Appeal by On October 5, 2006, after serving more than 21 years on a sentence of 15 years to life for second degree murder, California prisoner Garabet Tokhmanian was deemed suitable for parole by the parole consideration panel (the panel). Pursuant to California law, …
California DA Says Incarceration Rate a Measure of His Success – Despite Wrongful Convictions, Prosecutorial Misconduct by Gary Hunter California DA Says Incarceration Rate a Measure of His Success – Despite Wrongful Convictions, Prosecutorial Misconduct by Gary Hunter Ed Jagels, District Attorney for Kern County, California, is concerned that his …
Article • January 15, 2009
New York Ex Parolee's Discharge Reversed For Restitution Determination by Sullivan County (New York) District Attorney Stephen Lungen petitioned to vacate and reverse the State Division of Parole's (DOP) discharge of ex parolee Kera Peters. An increased restitution order was inadvertently not applied and her discharge precluded its payment. The …
CCA Fined $140,000 for Early Release of Prisoners at FL Jail; Quits Contract by The nation’s largest private prison firm, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), has once again upset county officials by repeatedly failing to control vital jail operations. The company responded by discontinuing its contract to operate the facility. …
Article • July 15, 2008
Mistakenly Released Washington Jail Prisoner Kills Woman; Estate Wins $1,525,000 in Lawsuit by Lloyd Monroe, a state prisoner in the Whatcom County, Washington jail for no-contact order violations, was mistakenly released. A couple of days later he raped and killed Michelle Smith, the woman who the no-contact order was supposed …
Washington Jail Prisoners Suffer from Overcrowding, Abusive Guards, Inadequate Health Care and Indifferent Politicians by Roger Smith Since the mid-1990s, Washington State jail populations have increased exponentially. Obsolete facilities built decades ago to hold a handful of prisoners are now packed like sardine tins, with as many prisoners sleeping on …
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