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Raul Novoa, et al. v. The GEO Group, Inc., order, class certification, forced labor, 2019

Brief • November 26, 2019

Filed under: Discrimination, Retaliation, Staffing, Money/Property, Fair Labor Standards Act, Immigration, Guards/Staff

Raul Novoa, et al. v. The GEO Group, Inc., order, class certification, forced labor, 2019 Case 5:17-cv-02514-JGB-SHK Document 223 Filed 11/26/19 Page 1 of 28 Page ID #:4532 UNITED STATES DISTRICT ...

Wilkinson v Vail Wa Pltf Mtn Indifference to Prison Race Beating 2007

Brief • April 9, 2007

Wilkinson v Vail Wa Pltf Mtn Indifference to Prison Race Beating 2007 Case 3:05-cv-05656-JKA Document 109 Filed 04/09/2007 1 Page 1 of 25 Hon. J. Kelley Arnold 2 3 4 5 UNITED STATES DISTRICT ...

Metcalf and Resnik Yale Law Hearing Before Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Solitary Confinement 2012

Publication

Filed under: Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement

criminal justice system, much of the work of the Arthur Liman Public Interest Program at Yale Law School focuses on understanding the uses and implications of incarceration in the United States.1 During ...

Osler M Research Paper Re Policy Discretion and Congress's Sentencing Acid Trip 2008

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Filed under: Sentencing

to points, and the little branches came to points and the houses came to a point. I thought ‘Oh! Everything has a point and if it doesn’t, then there’s a point to it.’” 1 Nilsson put these insights to good ...

OMGs & the Military 2014 Report, ATF, 2014

Publication • February 11, 2016

Filed under: Military, Police

and Maryland. ______________________________________________________________________________ 2 of 40 UNCLASSIFIED//LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE 7/1/2014 UNCLASSIFIED//LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE (U) OMGs ...

Taylor v. City of Chicago, IL, Memo Opinion and Order, Wrongful Conviction, 2019

Brief • September 23, 2019

Filed under: Wrongful Conviction

Taylor v. City of Chicago, IL, Memo Opinion and Order, Wrongful Conviction, 2019 Case: 1:14-cv-00737 Document #: 524 Filed: 09/23/19 Page 1 of 34 PageID #:13021 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT ...

Walker v. Raible, PA, Complaint, Excessive Force - Beatings, 2020

Brief • December 1, 2020

Filed under: Guard Brutality/Beatings, Pepper Spray/Tear Gas, Pretrial Detention and Detainees

Walker v. Raible, PA, Complaint, Excessive Force - Beatings, 2020 Case 2:20-cv-01868-LPL Document 1 Filed 12/01/20 Page 1 of 40 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT ...

United States v. County of LA, CA, Powers Proposed Complaint in Intervention, Mental Illness in Jails ADA, 2015

Brief • September 28, 2015

Filed under: Jail Specific, Americans with Disabilities Act, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness)

United States v. County of LA, CA, Powers Proposed Complaint in Intervention, Mental Illness in Jails ADA, 2015 Case 2:15-cv-05903-DDP-JEM Document 17-3 Filed 09/28/15 Page 1 of 34 Page ID #:445 1 ...

Copeland v. Jones, FL, Class Action Complaint, Corizon Refusal of Hernia Surgery, 2015

Brief • September 16, 2015

Filed under: Corizon, Hernias, Failure to Treat

Copeland v. Jones, FL, Class Action Complaint, Corizon Refusal of Hernia Surgery, 2015 Case 4:15-cv-00452-RH-CAS Document 1 Filed 09/16/15 Page 1 of 45 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT ...

Aclu v Dod Olc Combined Torture Documents 2004 Partb

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Filed under: Crime/Demographics, War on Terror

. (~I . '/lm') We will forward the Inapeotor General' ~ report to th~ intellig$noe oversight t:!ottimittees thd.a week. As you know, Appendix.c of the rElPort inoluc:Jes IS dOpy of the 1 A~gust 2002 legal ...

Tennessee DOC Prison Audit

Publication • November 17, 2017

by a supervisor within 60 days, while 2 did not contain the required initial case file review code indicating the date when the file had been reviewed, and 1 was not performed within the required time frame (page ...

New York State Commission of Correction Final Report in the Matter of the Death of Bradley Ballard, 2014

Publication • 2014

Filed under: Medical Neglect/Malpractice

OF CORRECTION FINAL REPORT OF BRADLEY BALLARD PAGE 2 GREETINGS: WHEREAS, the Medical Review Board has reported to the NYS Commission of Correction pursuant to Correction Law, section 47 (1) (d) , regarding ...

Irons v. Warden-358 F.Supp.2d 936 (E.D. Cal. 2005)

Case • 2005

.3d 1165, 2005 U.S. App. (9th Cir. Cal., May 18, 2005) PRIOR HISTORY: Irons v. Warden of Cal. State Prison-Solano, 358 F. Supp. 2d 936, 2004 U.S. Dist. (E.D. Cal., 2004) COUNSEL: [**1] For Carl ...

Sixth Circuit PLRA Fee Set at $169.50 Not $135

Article • March 15, 2006 • from PLN March, 2006

Filed under: Work Release, Money/Property, Interest

in federal criminal cases and authorizes the Judicial Conference of the United States to increase these fees by taking into account such factors as inflation and prevailing hourly rates. 18 U.S.C. § 3006A(d)(1 ...

Arizona Supreme Court Rules on 1993 Earned Release Statute

Article • August 15, 2001 • from PLN August, 2001

Filed under: Civil Procedure, State Law Claims, Good Time

, the legislature amended the statutes governing earned release credits in 1993. This third amendment went into effect on January 1, 1994, and applies to any prisoner whose offense was committed on or after ...

BJS Says 1 in 15 Adults Will Go to Prison

Article • June 15, 2004 • from PLN June, 2004

Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Statistics/Trends

BJS Says 1 in 15 Adults Will Go to Prison by The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reported in August 2003 that, if current American incarceration rates continue, 1 of every 15 persons ...

Nearly 2% of U.S. Adults on Parole or Probation at Year-End 2013

Article • October 27, 2016

Filed under: Statistics/Trends, Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Release and Reentry, Parole, Probation, Wrongful Release

in October 2014, there were nearly 4.8 million U.S. adults on some form of community supervision at the end of 2013. Although this amounts to about 1 in 51 members of the adult population, it is a reduction ...

Minnesota Supreme Court Declares "Exoneration-Compensation Statute" Unconstitutional

Article • December 7, 2017

Filed under: Criminal Procedure

Equal Protection provisions. The court severed § 590.11(1)(1)(i), in its entirety to remedy the violation. Danna Back was convicted of second degree manslaughter in the 2007 shooting between two ...

DC Circuit: Federal Prisoner not Limited to Seeking Relief via Habeas Corpus

Article • May 20, 2014 • from PLN May, 2014

Filed under: Habeas Corpus, U.S. Sentencing Guidelines

the federal sentencing guidelines treated 1 gram of crack cocaine the same, for sentencing purposes, as 100 grams of powder cocaine, resulting in a 100:1 sentencing disparity. Davis received a life sentence ...

Denial to Oregon’s Alternative to Incarceration Program No Longer Requires “Substantial and Compelling Reasons”

Article • November 13, 2015

Filed under: Alternative Sentencing, Drug Treatment/Rehab

and a 90-day “non-prison/transitional leave” phase. Successful AIP completion reduces the prisoner’s sentence by up to three years. Before January 1, 2009, Oregon defendants were entitled ...