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Murderer Registry Becomes Law in Illinois by Joe Watson For ex-prisoners hoping for a fresh start upon their release, the slope is becoming increasingly slippery. A bill signed by Illinois Governor Pat Quinn on July 21, 2011 has established the state’s first registry for convicted murderers. Also known as “Andrea’s …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
How Victim Rights Shaped Spending, Laws and the Future of Punishment in Colorado by Alan Prendergast Newly elected as a Colorado state representative, Pete Lee hit the Capitol in January 2011 fired up with big ideas. The biggest of them all was the restorative justice bill he introduced shortly after …
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
California Governor Cozies up to Prison Guards and Crime Victim Advocates by In April 2011, in apparent repayment of a political debt for helping him get elected, California Governor Jerry Brown approved a 200-page labor contract that gives the 31,000-strong California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA) a number of benefits …
FBI Claims 2,500 Percent Increase in Child Porn Arrests by Although the number of prosecutions for child pornography is small in comparison with drug and immigration offenses, child porn cases have skyrocketed according to FBI statistics. Arrests for such crimes are up 2,500 percent since 1996, largely due to technology …
Article • September 15, 2011
Ninth Circuit: Victims Have Right to Speak At Sentencing by Ninth Circuit: Victims Have Right to Speak at Sentencing W. Patrick Kenna is a victim of fraud perpetrated by Moshe and Zvi Leichner, a father and son team who swindled scores of victims out of nearly $100 million. Mosche was …
Article • July 15, 2011
Fifth Circuit: Federal Government May Collect Restitution Up To 20-Years by Matthew Clarke By Matt Clarke The Fifth Circuit court of appeals held that the government may place a lien on property to collect restitution for up to twenty years after the judgment, even if the victim has waived collection …
Crime Victims May Not Appeal Criminal Sentences, Tenth Circuit Decides by Brandon Sample By Brandon Sample Crime victims may not appeal a defendant's sentence or the denial of rights under the Crime Victims' Rights Act of 2004 (CVRA), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit decided December 2, …
Article • April 15, 2011 • from PLN April, 2011
Maryland: Convicted Felons Receive Victims’ Compensation by Gary Hunter Since 2003, Maryland’s Criminal Injuries Compensation Board has awarded about $1.8 million to claimants with criminal convictions. In Baltimore, over 120 people who received victims’ compensation had been arrested for selling or manufacturing drugs; more than seventy of those payments went …
Article • October 15, 2010 • from PLN October, 2010
Governing Through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear, by Jonathan Simon (Oxford University Press 2007), 344 pages by Ian Head Review by Ian Head This past spring, a 12-year-old student in Queens, New York was arrested, handcuffed and taken to a …
Article • December 15, 2009 • from PLN December, 2009
Violence Against Blacks Decreases In The U.S. by Gary Hunter Violence against blacks in the U.S. has dropped dramatically over the last decade. The Bureau of Statistics for the U.S. Justice Department showed that, between 1993 and 2001, violent victimization of blacks decreased by nearly 57% and remained stable through …
Article • July 15, 2009
Lay Opinion Testimony of Guard that Prisoner was Attempting to Throw Other Guard Over Railing Admissible by On April 30, 2008, the California Court of Appeals for the Fifth District affirmed the conviction of a California prisoner for assault with malice aforethought on a guard. Michael Gaddy was charged with …
Article • May 15, 2009 • from PLN May, 2009
Billionaire-Funded California Voter Initiative Triples Lifer Parole Denial Intervals, Imposes Restrictions on Parole Violators by Billionaire-Funded California Voter Initiative Triples Lifer Parole Denial Intervals, Imposes Restrictions on Parole Violators In the November 2008 elections, California voters narrowly passed Proposition 9 by a 53 to 47% margin. Prop. 9 was a …
Article • May 15, 2009 • from PLN May, 2009
Washington DOC Agrees to Pay $850,000 to Family of Victim Killed by Drunk Driver Under Community Supervision by On April 16, 2008, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) settled a lawsuit brought by the family of a woman killed by a drunk driver under DOC community supervision for $850,000. Charles …
Article • May 15, 2009 • from PLN May, 2009
California Prisoner-Pay Deductions for Aiding Crime Victims Distributed to Victim Organizations by California Prisoner-Pay Deductions for Aiding Crime Victims Distributed to Victim Organizations In December 2008, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s (CDCR) Prison Industry Authority distributed $131,343 collected from prisoner workers’ pay to twelve crime victims organizations. The …
Article • April 15, 2009
$1 Million Award in Murder for Hire Plot by An Oregon jury has awarded a woman who sued her estranged husband for hiring someone to kill her $1,053,783. When Susan Kuhnhausen returned home from her job as a nurse, she was attacked by Edward Dalton Haffey. Susan received blows to …
Article • April 15, 2009
Fifth Circuit Rejects Petition for Writ of Mandamus Filed by Crime Victims by On May 7, 2008, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied a petition for a writ of mandamus filed by crime victims seeking to block the acceptance of a plea agreement. Family members of …
$3.1 Million Awarded to FBI Informant's Family by On October 16, 2008, the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed the September 2006 findings of the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts in awarding approximately $3.1 million to the estate of an FBI informant, John McEntyre, who was murdered after the …
Oregon Parolee Negligent Supervision Case Reinstated by The Oregon Court of Appeals reversed a lower court’s grant of summary judgment against a teenage girl who was raped by a violent parolee. In November 1997, 14-year-old Akilah Johnson was assaulted and raped by a stranger. More than four years later, on …
Article • August 15, 2008
“Discretionary Function Immunity” Inapplicable to Alaska PO Duties by The Alaska Supreme Court has held that a parole officer’s day-to-day supervisory activities related to parolees are operational duties which are not entitled to discretionary function immunity. On November 23, 1996, Alaskan prisoner Calvin McGrew was released on parole. He was …
Article • August 15, 2008
Suit Challenging Massachusetts Parole Procedures Dismissed by Prisoners' claim that a state parole statute is unconstitutionally vague and that the parole board denies due process by allowing crime victims and their families to speak at parole hearings while refusing to permit the plaintiffs' families and friends to be heard need …
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