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Plan to Reduce Correctional Costs and Achieve Savings for Reinvestment, VT DOC, 2007

Publication • August 9, 2016

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Corrections Audits, Crime/Demographics, Cost of Prison Systems

and Justice...........................119 B. 4/19/2007 Letter to House Institutions and Joint Corrections Oversight Committees ........................................................................121 C. What ...

National Institute of Corrections, Prison Suicide Overview and Guide to Prevention, 1995

Publication • 1995

Filed under: Suicides

..................................................................................60 So Much for Theory — What About the Facts? ........................................................................63 Summary ...

From Mass Incarceration to Mass Control, and Back Again: How Bipartisan Criminal Justice Reform May Lead to a For-Profit Nightmare, Carl Takei, 2017

Publication • 2017

Filed under: Private Prisons, Criminal justice system reform, Effects of Mass Incarceration

rely solely on this alliance without aggressively building our own vision of what decarceration should look like, the unintended consequences could be serious. This Article describes the current mass ...

Prison Legal News v. Ryan, AZ, Complaint, PLN Censorship, 2015

Filing • November 6, 2015

Filed under: PLN Litigation, Censorship

Prison Legal News v. Ryan, AZ, Complaint, PLN Censorship, 2015 Case 2:15-cv-02245-BSB Document 1 Filed 11/06/15 Page 1 of 24 Ballard Spahr LLP 1 East Washington Street Suite 2300 Phoenix, AZ 85004-2555 1 Lisa Ells – Cal. Bar No. 243657* Jenny S. Yelin – Cal. Bar No. 273601* 2 ROSEN …

Ex Parte Schroeter-958 S.W.2d 811 (Tex.Crim.App. 1997)

Case • 1997

was in failing to amend a previous statute, not in enacting new provisions which failed to effect the intent of the new provisions. We believe the "absurd result" principle applies to interpreting what ...

Kerr v. Puckett-138 F.3d 321 (7th Cir. 1998)

Case • 1998

) to actions brought by former prisoners." 967 F. Supp. at 362, quoting from Zehner v. Trigg, 952 F. Supp. 1318, 1325 (S.D. Ind.), affirmed on other grounds, 133 F.3d 459 (7th Cir. 1997). What sense would ...

United States v. Haynes-143 F.3d 1089 (7th Cir. 1998)

Case • 1998

within sight of a guard, who did nothing. On the day of the oil incident, FloresPedroso told Haynes that as soon as food service was closed for the afternoon he would "finish what he started". Haynes ...

Brooks v. Difasi-112 F.3d 46 (2nd Cir. 1997)

Case • 1997

procedural safeguards -- regardless what state statutes or regulations provide -- unless the deprivation complained of imposed an "atypical and significant hardship on the inmate in relation to the ordinary ...

Newby v. District of Columbia-59 F.Supp. 2d 35 (D DC 1999)

Case • 1999

the District of Columbia has taken no [**7] steps to monitor what occurs in the jail, either by the placement of surveillance cameras or directing supervisory officials to be present with prison guards during ...

Weaver v. Clarke-45 F.3d 1253 (8th Cir. 1995)

Case • 1995

roommate "twenty-four hours a day." Another official allegedly stated, "I don't care what happens here, I am getting ready to quit anyway." [16] Finally, Weaver asked to see the prison doctor. On February ...

Knapp v. State, Ex Rel Dept. of Prisons-892 P.2d 575 (S. Ct. NV 1995)

Case • 1995

prison staff as to exactly what activities were allowed as hobby craft, but that inmates had performed clerical work before similar to that done for Knapp. [10] [111 Nev. 420, Page 423] [11 ...

In Re Cain-137 F.3d 234 (5th Cir. 1998)

Case • 1998

). [18] The AEDPA, however, does not define what constitutes a "second or successive" application. Nevertheless, a prisoner's application is not second or successive simply because it follows ...

McGlothlin v. Murray-993 F. Supp. 413 (WD VA 1997)

Case • 1997

therewith. Defendants base their requests on what they offer as the meritlessness of all plaintiff's claims, and his failure to show any injury to himself. Moreover, they point to the fact ...

Dayton Bar Assn. v. O'Brien-103 Ohio St.3d 1, 2004-Ohio-3939 (August 11, 2004)

Case • 2004

. You know what I mean? That's the kind of thing that you pay for and that way once he's got what we need done, we send him out, we come back in and we deal with the rest of it. I mean if you want high ...

Dallas County v. Caves-2001 WL 493450*3 (Tex.App.-Dallas)

Case • 2001

was broke [sic]." After this, an officer went to "the tank to see what had happened." Caves reported that "he was transferred from another tank during the morning shift, and slipped and fell when he walked ...

Hunter v. Welborn-52 Fed.Appx. 277 (7th Cir. 2002).

Case • 2002

' alleged actions did not independently violate any constitutional [*279] guarantees, as part of a course of retaliatory conduct the actions could run afoul of what we must assume is Hunter's constitutionally ...

United States v. Wyandotte County, Kansas-480 F.2d 969 (10th Cir. 1973)

Case • 1973

, seem manifestly inappropriate. [19] What all of the above finally boils down to is a vague fear on the part of the authorities that desegregation may result in violence. This is not enough ...

Reimers v. State of Oregon-863 F.2d 630 (9th Cir. 1988)

Case • 1988

from the state to the Jesuit order to which he belongs. This claim is meritless. Father Jacobson may do what he pleases with his paycheck without any violation of the establishment clause. See Witters v ...

Martinez v. Mancusi-443 F.2d 921 (2nd Cir. 1970).

Case • 1970

responsibility for this move on him. Thus Martinez should at least have the opportunity to be heard on his allegation that the warden was responsible for what the guards did. [21] Once he was returned ...

Miller v. Florida-482 U.S. 423, 107 S.Ct. 2446, 96 L.Ed. 2d 351 (198

Case • 1987

of the United States Constitution provides that neither Congress nor any State shall pass any "ex post facto Law." See Art. I, § 9, cl. 3; Art. I, § 10, cl. 1. Our understanding of what is meant by ex post facto ...