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Human Rights Watch: Dark Side: Secret Origins of Evidence in U.S. Criminal Cases

Publication • January 9, 2018

to reveal, it could send an informant to talk to the suspect and report what he said—then suggest in court records that this conversation was how the investigation began. Such possible uses of parallel ...

Letters From Prisoners and Families Re Wright Petition

Publication

Filed under: Telephones

himself, what is the best way to deal with this? My answer is to remain patient during these trying times. Also, I must be thankful that I was awaken to see another day. I also must be thankful ...

Custody and Control - Conditions of Confinement in New York’s Juvenile Prisons for Girls, Human Rights Watch, 2006

Publication • March 16, 2016

Filed under: Juveniles, Juvenile Prisons

. Or the other thing they’d say is “Tell me what you’re going to tell him.” —Felicia H., incarcerated at age 17 There is growing recognition that people incarcerated in U.S. jails and prisons often suffer from ...

Human Rights in Brazil, Network for Social Justice and Human Rights, 2007

Publication • July 28, 2016

Filed under: Statistics/Trends, International

and analyses. This year, the publication once again denounces what indigenous movements are calling the Guarani-Kaiowa holocaust in Mato Grosso do Sul. “How else can one explain a 70-year old Guarani-Kaiowa ...

Human Rights in Brazil, Network for Social Justice and Human Rights, 2008

Publication • August 3, 2016

Filed under: Statistics/Trends, International

abandoned the pretense of setting up an agrarian policy with structural clout. The article published in the 2006 Report confirmed what had been anticipated. The proposal for agrarian reform with the potential ...

State of the Prisons Conditions of Confinement in Ny 2002

Publication

Filed under: Conditions of Confinement

because of budget cuts. Similarly, at Shawangunk Correctional Facility, where the average prison sentence is 24 years, correction officers cited “more academic programs for inmates” when we asked what would ...

Asherman v. Meachum-957 F.2d 978 (2nd Cir. 1992)(en banc)

Case • 1992

. On August 19, 1988, the Commissioner instructed Asherman to report to the Commissioner's office for a psychiatric evaluation. The Commissioner later testified that he was "concerned about what this [parole ...

Koch v. Lewis-216 F.Supp.2d 994 (D AZ 2001)

Case • 2001

is that he is likely to remain in what amounts to solitary confinement for the rest of his life. Given the severity of the conditions in SMU II and the indefinite nature of Koch's confinement ...

Key v. Grayson-163 F.Supp.2d 697 (ED MI 2001)

Case • 2001

the ADA excepts employers from making reasonable accommodations in certain circumstances, Ã§ 12112(b)(5)(A), nevertheless, the accommodation duty "far exceeds [**17] what is constitutionally required ...

State v. Bani-36 P.3d 1255 (Hawaii 2001)

Case • 2001

as a convicted sex offender without notice, an opportunity to be heard, or any preliminary determination of whether and to what extent Bani actually represents a danger to society. In our view, the absence of any ...

McMillian v. Monroe County-Alabama, 520 U.S. 781, 117 S.Ct. 1734, 138 L.Ed.2d

Case • 1997

his findings, listing the witnesses he has secured, and summarizing what the witnesses can prove. Ibid. In addition, the salaries of all sheriffs are set by the state legislature, not by the county ...

Branti v. Finkel-445 U.S. 507, 100 S.Ct. 1287, 63 L.Ed. 2d. 574 (19

Case • 1980

, brought the practice within the rule of cases like Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624, condemning the use of governmental power to prescribe what the citizenry must accept as orthodox opinion.*fn9 ...

Nelson v. Collins-659 F.2d 420 (4th Cir. 1981)(en banc)

Case • 1981

, the defendants appeal. [23] Since all three of the cases, consolidated in two actions, involve a single state-wide prison system, in which what is done at one institution interacts on the other institutions ...

Giano v. Senkowski-54 F.3d 1050 (2nd Cir. 1995)

Case • 1995

what qualifies as another means of expression. See Turner, 482 U.S. at 78 (regulation which prohibits communication between inmates at different prisons does not deprive inmates of all means ...

Joyce v. Department of Corrections-155 Wash.2d 306, 119 P.3d 825 (Wash. 2005)

Case • 2005

and that this nexus is lacking. We conclude that such a nexus may be relevant and properly brought before the jury, but while the offender's conditions of release are relevant to what is foreseeable, it is not the only ...

Joyce v. Department of Corrections-155 Wn.2d 306; 119 P.3d 825 (WA 2005)

Case • 2005

and that this nexus is lacking. We conclude that such a nexus may be relevant and properly brought before the jury, but while the offender's conditions of release are relevant to what is foreseeable, it is not the only ...

O'Connor v. Keller-510 F.Supp. 1359 (D MD 1981)

Case • 1981

of the officers told Lt. Lawrence Mitchell that O'Connor had injured Officer Sweigert. It is not entirely clear what happened in the "Back Keys" area. O'Connor claims that Officer Keith M. Robinson slammed his head ...

Madison v. Riter-240 F.Supp.2d 566 (WD VA 2003)

Case • 2003

invalid as an establishment of religion despite granting protections [**16] going beyond what the Free Exercise Clause would otherwise require. See Amos, 483 U.S. at 334, 107 S. Ct. at 2867. The question ...

Dusenberry v. United States-122 S.Ct. 694 (2002)

Case • 2002

conclusions about what the Due Process Clause requires of the United States when it seeks to provide notice to a federal inmate of its intention to forfeit property in which the inmate appears to have ...

Alberti v. Heard-600 F.Supp. 443 (S.D.Tex. 1984)

Case • 1984

a staffing plan based on post assignments. What is noteworthy is that the new rule as applied to this case gives this Court no professional guidance whatsoever on jail staffing standards. Abandoning any strict ...