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Ny Lawyers for the Public Interest Implementation of Kendra's Law 2005

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Filed under: Mental Health

the State and the City have the ability as well as the obligation to probe what lies behind these numbers. To begin with, both can gather more refined statistics than we have access to – both maintain ...

Pro Se Magazine Vol18 No1 2008

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Filed under: Magazines, Pro Se Magazine

that explains the basics of the law, such as, what rights prisoners have, where these rights come from, how to read a legal citation, which courts hear which types of cases, and what kinds of relief each court ...

Mary Sigler Private Prisons Article 2010

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Filed under: Private Prisons

public and private realms is both powerfully intuitive and somewhat misleading.18 Historically, a number of what we have come to regard as public functions were performed through private initiative ...

Edrei et al v. City of New York, Complaint, NYPD use of LRAD protests police brutality, 2016

Brief • March 3, 2016

Filed under: Police Misconduct, Protests, Excessive Force (Police), Police Department Manuals

NYPD use of force protocols, when the use of the LRAD’s “deterrent” tone was appropriate, and at what volumes, distances, and frequencies, or anything else at all related to LRADs. 69. The basis ...

Rose v. Sandy, WV, Order and Propose4d Findings and Recommendation, Conditions of Confinement, 2023

Brief • October 30, 2023

Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Food, Overcrowding, Exercise, Plumbing, Sanitation, Lighting

did not share any information with others, including Jividen and Francis, as to what steps needed to be taken to preserve evidence, though he could have done so. Douglas admitted that the email accounts ...

Mental Illness in Prison - Inmate Rehabilitation & Correctional Officers in Crisis, SpearIt, 2009

Publication • July 26, 2016

Filed under: Mental Health, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness)

“Corrections.” From the outset, then, we must understand rehabilitation as something that moves beyond mere punishment for corrective purposes. Exactly what rehabilitation means in the prison context remains ...

Journal 12

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Filed under: Magazines, ACLU National Prison Project Journal

habeas appeals, and had ruled in favor of the death row prisoner in 30, or 73.2%, of them. "Contemplate what this means," says Amsterdam. "In every one of these cases, the inmate's claims had been rejected ...

Justice Policy Institute: The Ungers, 5 Years and Counting - A Case Study in Safely Reducing Long Prison Terms and Saving Taxpayer Dollars, 2018

Publication • November 1, 2018

Filed under: Prison Reform, Criminal justice system reform, Cost of Prison Systems, Conditions of Confinement, U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, Collateral consequences of prison

V. MARYLAND 9 WHO IS THE UNGER GROUP? 13 WHAT WAS DIFFERENT FOR THE UNGER GROUP? 17 ENHANCED REENTRY SERVICES SUPPORTED THE UNGER GROUP AND RESULTED IN LOW RECIDIVISM RATE 17 RELEASING ...

Investigation of Restraint Device Use in Iowa’s County Jails, Iowa Citizens’ Aide, 2009

Publication • August 1, 2016

Filed under: Excessive Force, Restraints

for mental illness; (3) when to use restraint devices; (4) what type of restraints are appropriate; (5) monitoring restrained inmates; (6) medical and mental health reviews of inmates; (7) documentation ...

Heck v. Humphrey-114 S.Ct. 2364 (1994)

Case • 1994

beyond what Congress has provided. Patsy, 457 U.S., at 501, 509. The issue with respect to monetary damages challenging conviction is not, it seems to us, exhaustion; but rather, the same as the issue ...

Burton v. Kuchel-865 F.Supp 456 (ND IL 1994)

Case • 1994

to in this opinion. Facts n1 n1 What follows in the text is not of course a set of this Court's factual findings, but rather a scenario that credits the pro-Burton evidence with the required reasonable inferences ...

Johnson v. Phelan-69 F.3d 144 (7th Cir. 1995)

Case • 1995

and compare these costs and benefits then judges rather than wardens are the real prison administrators. Wolfish emphasized what is the animating theme of the Court's prison jurisprudence for the last 20 years ...

Cameron v. Tomes-783 F. Supp. 1511 (DC MA 1992)

Case • 1992

that professional judgment in fact was exercised. It is not appropriate for the courts to specify which of several professionally acceptable choices should have been made." Id. Thus the question is "not what ...

Ruble v. King-911 F.Supp. 1544 (ND GA 1995)

Case • 1995

memorandum regarding the incident, Lieutenant Thieke states the following: I asked inmate Anderson what is the problem he stated he was just real tired of staff not doing what they are supose [sic ...

Brown v. Doe-803 F. Supp. 932 (SD NY 1992)

Case • 1992

establishing that it matters at what point during trial the judgment on competence is made. Access to Expert Services Petitioner claims that he was denied the right to expert services. In Ake v. Oklahoma, 470 ...

Johnson v. Breeden-280 F.3d 1308 (11th Cir. 2002)

Case • 2002

Emergency Response Team responded to the disturbance. [15] The accounts of what happen thereafter diverge, and the jury heard sharply conflicting evidence. Johnson's version of events is that after ...

Palmigiano v. DiPrete-737 F.Supp. 1257 (D RI 1990)

Case • 1990

Nathan also testified. In essence, he reiterated much of what he already submitted in his reports, which are filed as part of the record in this case. The need to expedite this Memorandum and Order ...

Shabazz v. O'Lone-782 F.2d 416 (3rd Cir. 1986)(en banc)

Case • 1986

to the state but also replaces the Supreme court's established doctrine of deference with what amounts to a "least restrictive alternative" analysis. This new standard opens the door to a floodgate of future ...

Hensley v. Wilson-850 F.2d 269 (6th Cir. 1988)

Case • 1988

here was "clearly established" at the time of the alleged violations. The principal authority on what process is due in prison disciplinary hearings is still Wolff v. McDonnell, 418 U.S. 539, 41 L. Ed ...

Church Of The Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. and Ernesto-508 U.S. 520; 113 S.Ct. 2217; 124 L.Ed.2d 472 (199

Case • 1993

in the First Amendment, our cases have used it as shorthand to describe, at least in part, what the Clause commands. See, e. g., Jimmy Swaggart Ministries v. Board of Equalization of California,493 U.S. 378, 384 ...