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Rash of North Carolina Jail Deaths Due to Lack of Supervision and Medical Care by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Todd L. Caveness, 40, had a long history of bipolar disorder, anxiety attacks and paranoia when he was booked into North Carolina’s Wilson County Jail on attempted murder charges …
Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
Filed under: Escapes, Food
Innovative Use of Peanut Butter by Alabama Prisoners by David Reutter by David M. Reutter When prisoners tire of the same fare they are given to eat, day after day, they become creative to make it more palatable. A dozen pre-trial detainees at the Walker County Jail (WCJ) in Alabama, …
What’s Hidden Behind the Walls of America’s Prisons by Heather Ann Thompson by Heather Ann Thompson Few Americans fully appreciate just how many of their fellow citizens are ensnared in the criminal justice system. Some may have heard that there are about 2.3 million people behind bars, but that figure tells …
Penal Reform International, Thailand Institute of Justice: Global Prison Trends, 2018 GLOBAL PRISON TRENDS 2018 SPECIAL FOCUS Pull-out section The rehabilitation and reintegration of offenders in the era of sustainable development Global Prison Trends 2018 This document is co-published and produced with financial assistance from the Thailand Institute of Justice …
Article • March 12, 2018
Prosecutor Deciding Disparate Sentencing for Drug Convictions by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson The Massachusetts Supreme Court held that the prosecutor, not the judge, determines the applicable sentence under drug laws that authorize two different sentences for the same conduct. Massachusetts General Law, chapter 94C, section 32A criminalizes the distribution …
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
Two Georgia Prison Transport Guards Slain by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On June 13, 2017, a pair of Georgia prisoners being transported from the Baldwin State Prison near Milledgeville to the state’s Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson breached a partition on the prison bus. Within seconds they …
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
Despite AG’s Policy Change, OIG Reviews “Smart on Crime” Initiative by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna In June 2017, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issued a report on the U.S. Department of Justice’s “Smart on Crime” initiative. Smart on Crime, instituted in 2013 under Obama-era Attorney General Eric …
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
Deaths Soar 600 Percent at Nevada Jail Under New Sheriff by by David M. Reutter An investigative report by the Reno Gazette-Journal found that 13 detainees died at WCJ in the two years since Allen took office. Just two were ruled deaths by natural causes; the others resulted from two …
Lindon v. Saffold, Complaint, 2018 Case: 1:18-cv-00442-DCN Doc #: 1 Filed: 02/23/18 1 of 12. PageID #: 1 Case: 1:18-cv-00442-DCN Doc #: 1 Filed: 02/23/18 2 of 12. PageID #: 2 Case: 1:18-cv-00442-DCN Doc #: 1 Filed: 02/23/18 3 of 12. PageID #: 3 Case: 1:18-cv-00442-DCN Doc #: 1 Filed: …
Bread for the World Institute - Mass Incarceration: A Major Cause of Hunger, 2018 BRIEFING PAPER NUMBER 35, FEBRUARY 2018 Mass Incarceration: A Major Cause of Hunger by Marlysa D. Gamblin Bread for the World Institute provides policy analysis on hunger and poverty, as well as strategies to end it. …
Publication • February 1, 2018
A Pound of Flesh, the Criminalization of Private Debt, ACLU, 2018 A Pound of Flesh The Criminalization of Private Debt A Pound of Flesh The Criminalization of Private Debt © 2018 AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION Contents Executive Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . …
Article • January 31, 2018 • from PLN February, 2018
Total Cost of Pretrial Detention Estimated at up to $140 Billion Annually by According to a report by the Pretrial Justice Institute (PJI) released in January 2017, U.S. taxpayers “spend approximately $38 million per day to jail people who are awaiting trial (63% of the total jail population, or more …
Article • January 31, 2018 • from PLN February, 2018
California Billionaire Pushes States to Adopt “Marsy’s Law” by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke California billionaire Dr. Henry T. Nicholas and his mother entered a grocery store in 1983, a few days after his sister, Marsalee, was murdered. There they ran into her boyfriend, who had been arrested for the …
Article • January 31, 2018 • from PLN February, 2018
Canada to Apologize, Pay $10.5 Million to Former Guantanamo Detainee by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The Canadian government has agreed to pay $10.5 million to Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen who was held at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as an enemy combatant for over a …
Article • January 31, 2018 • from PLN February, 2018
Texas: Federal Court Grants Injunction Against Discriminatory Money Bail System by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna U.S. District Court Judge Lee H. Rosenthal, of the Eastern District of Texas, issued a 193-page opinion on April 28, 2017 that effectively gutted what she termed a “discriminatory money bail system” in Harris …
Brief • January 23, 2018
US v. Tigano, Opinion, Sixth Amendment, 2018 15-3073 United States of America v. Tigano 28 15‐3073 United States of America v. Tigano UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT ____________________ August Term, 2017 (Argued: October 12, 2017 Decided: January 23, 2018) Docket No. 15‐3073 ____________________ UNITED STATES OF …
USA v. Henshaw, IL, Opinion, Sentencing for Marijuana Conviction, 2018 In the United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit ____________________ No. 17‐1628 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff‐Appellant, v. SKYLAR D. HENSHAW, Defendant‐Appellee. ____________________ Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois Division. No.16 …
Brief • January 17, 2018
Christianson v. Markquart, MN, Order, 2018 CASE 0:16-cv-01034-JRT-KMM Document 43 Filed 01/17/18 Page 1 of 12 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA Civil No. 16-1034 (JRT/KMM) ERIK DANIEL CHRISTIANSON, Plaintiff, v. ORDER JEFFREY MARKQUART, in his official capacity as Martin County Sheriff, Defendant. Bradford W. Colbert, LEGAL ASSISTANCE TO …
US v. Wilson, PA, Opinion, Crimes of Violence, 2018 PRECEDENTIAL UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT _____________ No. 16-3485 _____________ UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. JEROME WILSON, Appellant _______________ On Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (D.C. No. 2-15-cr-00049-001) District …
Brief • January 12, 2018
Uranga v. Davis, TX, Court Order, Drug Conviction, 2018 Case: 15-10290 Document: 00514307344 Page: 1 Date Filed: 01/12/2018 IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT No. 15-10290 United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit FILED January 12, 2018 Lyle W. Cayce Clerk JOHN URANGA, III, Petitioner-Appellant, …
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