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Article • October 14, 2016
Snyder, who also pointed out that he just following the Michigan Parole Board’s recommendation. What Snyder failed to mention is that the 10 parole board members were installed by him in 2011 after ...
the court found that jail personnel had discretion as to how and when to perform their duties, thus rendering their actions discretionary. "There is room for some discretion in what a jail employee says ...
Article • October 25, 2016
" to plaintiff's medical needs in this case. While the facts provided in court documents are scarce, what is known is that the plaintiff, Anita J. Scarim, was a prisoner in Arizona when she sought treatment ...
Article • December 5, 2017 • from PLN December, 2017
them, you don’t want to empower them, you don’t want them to do what’s necessary.” He added that DPS did not try to maintain the level of mental health services required ...
Article • December 7, 2017
Filed under: Pain, Obesity, Death Penalty
that the execution would succeed despite Williams' health conditions. The Eighth Circuit finally showed disfavor on what it called "piecemeal" litigation and dilatory tactics used by the Arkansas prisoners ...
Article • August 8, 2018 • from PLN August, 2018
Filed under: Telephone Rates
. Lawyers for the plaintiffs claim Hodgson and Securus are violating state consumer protection laws. “What consumers are being charged has no relationship to the actual cost of providing phone service ...
Article • February 5, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019
Filed under: Visiting, Video Visitation
of Operations Victoria Thomson. “What we’ve done to try to get the families to have more contact, or some contact, with their loved ones is we’ve provided free telephone calls,” she added ...
and referencing the Ku Klux Klan in an outgoing letter threatens a prisoner’s rehabilitation.” The Court addressed each claim separately. It held that the assessment of what is a gang symbol is uniquely suited ...
Article • July 15, 2011
record, including numerous parole and probation violations. Placer County, California Sheriff deputies and parole authorities were looking for Whitmore, but did what turned out to be such a haphazard job ...
Article • May 15, 2012 • from PLN May, 2012
... is who makes decisions about what is found in those institutions.” However, John Lachs, a professor of ethical philosophy at Vanderbilt University, said Ashe never should have been appointed. “The obvious ...
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
presided at trial,” quoting Rule 25(b), “Because only that judge has had the opportunity to observe every aspect of the trial and to take into account in sentencing what has been observed.” The appellate ...
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
that reinstated the termination of a former state prison guard, Thomas Norton, who had told a mentally ill female prisoner to hang herself and then pressured another guard to keep him from reporting what had ...
Article • March 15, 2013
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
jurisdiction in rates of telephone services. For prisoners and their loved ones, that removes what little oversight existed on the rates charged for prisoner collect calls. The Consumer Choice and Protection ...
Article • April 15, 2013
Filed under: Sentencing, Probation
avoid ambiguities similar to what was brought before the court on appeal. See: United States v. Sunday, 447 Fed.Appx. 885 (10th Cir. 2012)(unpublished). ...
Article • April 15, 2014 • from PLN April, 2014
that these interviews serve to further what passes for discussion and debate on this country’s criminal justice system in general and prisons in particular. We still need to expand our circulation in order to keep our ...
Article • May 19, 2014 • from PLN May, 2014
; An investigative report ordered by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick into what he termed the “disgusting” death of a mentally-ill prisoner at Bridgewater State Hospital found not only numerous policy ...
Article • May 20, 2014 • from PLN May, 2014
that changed the rules governing that privilege. Prison officials then relied on the new directive to impose and uphold a disciplinary action against Renfro for what he claimed would have been allowable conduct ...
Article • July 7, 2015 • from PLN July, 2015
Filed under: Juries
using one juror’s affidavit of what another juror said in deliberations to demonstrate the other juror’s dishonesty during voir dire. We hold that it does.” The plaintiff in the case ...
Article • August 1, 2015 • from PLN August, 2015
Filed under: Bedding
, let alone 200 nights, which is what he was forced to do.” Medical staff verified that Bell suffered joint pain and headaches from sleeping on the mattress. The jury’s January 31, 2014 ...
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
of limitations in federal tort suits starts to run when a person knows that he is injured and knows what caused his injury,” the Court of Appeals wrote. That lack of knowledge prior to 2010 would have tolled ...
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