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Article • June 5, 2014 • from PLN June, 2014
Filed under: TV/Movies, Juveniles
said. “Because a parent has lost control, the parent is out of resources, what do they have left?” Anthony Petrosino, senior researcher at WestEd, has done extensive research on scared ...
Article • October 26, 2015 • from PLN November, 2015
inside then put it back on,” said defense attorney Kevin Burke. In 1984, while serving his life sentences, Bjork threatened to kill a prison guard, asking “What can they do? Give me more time ...
Article • October 26, 2015 • from PLN November, 2015
applied the law. Because commanding generals retain discretion in deciding who lives and who dies, regardless of what a jury elects, the system has drawn heavy criticism. “Even if you have two ...
Article • October 26, 2015 • from PLN November, 2015
Deaf Prisoner Settles Discrimination Suit for $150,000 by Mark Wilson Deaf Prisoner Settles Discrimination Suit for $150,000 by Mark Wilson To settle what some are describing as a landmark ...
maintained that that was an order for him to “pencil whip” the log book – to add entries showing cell checks were made that were never actually performed – which was exactly what he ...
Article • February 2, 2016 • from PLN February, 2016
Judge to Recommend Whether to Exonerate “San Antonio Four” of Sexual Assault Convictions by Matthew Clarke A San Antonio, Texas judge is considering what he will recommend to the Texas Court ...
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
professor and director of the National Association of Medical Examiners. “You just cannot do it. I don’t care who you are or what you’ve got working for you. You’re going to miss things, there’s no question ...
Article • May 15, 2013 • from PLN May, 2013
into the project instead of city and county coffers. But what if the state didn’t have to pay anything for the massive relocation project? According to documents City Weekly obtained through a government records ...
Article • October 10, 2014 • from PLN October, 2014
on Crime, spoke about what Texas has done to reduce its prison population through criminal justice reforms – although Texas presently has the largest state prison population in the nation. Levin ...
Article • February 4, 2015 • from PLN February, 2015
Lauderdale. So we end up with the homeless population from around the county. That’s not right, not the way it should be.” “What are we expecting?” asked Brow­ard County ...
on the civil rights of an entire class of citizens, albeit an unpopular and stigmatized class. “We felt like, for what it’s worth ... it’s good for sex offenders not to be around children ...
clear in 2015 in Elonis v. United States that mens rea is what distinguishes wrongful conduct from otherwise innocent conduct.  It determines whom we hold criminally responsible. While ...
, sleep and food deprivation, actively shaping the statements’ contents before they were formally given,” and telling the plaintiffs what facts to include in their “confessions.&rdquo ...
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Filed under: Food, Eighth Amendment
to the heart of the question of what is the purpose of prison: is it meant to be retributive or is it meant to be rehabilitative?” asked Heather Ann Thompson, a mass incarceration historian&nbsp ...
pants stained with the robber’s blood, which was type B. According to the Supreme Court’s opinion, “there is no evidence that the prosecutors ever had Thompson’s blood tested or that they knew what his ...
Article • August 15, 2013 • from PLN August, 2013
is excluded as a source of the crime scene sample. In the case of exclusion there is no need for statistical analysis. However, what does it mean if there is a match between all of the genetic loci taken from ...
Article • January 12, 2015
Filed under: Public Defenders
have anything else in my DNA to do. And you know what? I’ll be all right … I will be fine. I worry about the office. I hope they are fine too.” A $308,000 cut within six months makes ...
Article • September 25, 2015 • from PLN October, 2015
the reparations “a meaningful settlement.” “This stain cannot be removed from our city’s history, but it can be used as a lesson of what not to do,” declared Chicago Mayor Rahm ...
;t get the DOC inmates and the federal ICE inmates, the sheriff is looking at real problems with the prison,” Councilman Byron Marinovich remarked. “I don’t know what the answer ...
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of lawbreakers ...
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