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Article • June 30, 2017 • from PLN July, 2017
of Caddo Parish, if an outsider was that interested in the race, I wanted to know exactly what he had in mind for the criminal justice system if he were to win,” said Dhu Thompson, a Louisiana attorney ...
Article • February 9, 2018
of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) of the US State Department. Because of the extent to which information is classified, it is difficult to track exactly what prison management ...
Article • June 9, 2017 • from PLN June, 2017
Filed under: Bail, Bail Bonds
’ve seen so far from the city,” he told The New York Times. What Goldberg and other advocates recommend is the total elimination of cash bail, which would require new laws to effectively ...
Article • December 5, 2017 • from PLN December, 2017
population, she and other DOCR officials developed a list of what behaviors could land a prisoner in segregation – violent assault or battery on guards or another prisoner, sexual assault, arson ...
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
to visit only over video makes it harder for prisoners to maintain support networks. “When you aren’t able to do that during what is probably the most difficult time in your life, certainly ...
Article • May 20, 2014 • from PLN May, 2014
Filed under: Education
they don’t know where they will secure new funding, but vowed to continue looking. “It’s an important program, and we’re going to do what we can to try and keep it continuing,&rdquo ...
Article • June 27, 2016
where, in the heat of an assault, self-defense may seem like the only viable option. The question then becomes, at what point does a woman defending herself become "guilty"? As Law points out, the legal ...
Center – so some residents choose not to interact. In a letter to Solitary Watch, one Adjustment Center resident lamented the seeming interminability of the status quo: “What is happening ...
Article • March 28, 2017
Filed under: Immigration
know what pesos are," he said. "I feel like I'm in a dream, in another world." It's a world in which tens of thousands of traumatized deportees like Antonio Gomez have been dropped in Tijuana and have ...
and can’t afford to pay bail, it struggles with understaffing, and it’s plagued by lawsuits.  But here’s what makes Harris County Jail different: Inmates die ...
become “overcriminalized” by laws like the North Carolina law, which are triggered by what would otherwise be an innocent act. To civil libertarians, Packingham has been unfairly convicted ...
with tragic endings that could have been easily prevented but weren’t as a result of what attorney Anna Holland Edwards calls “a system that incentivizes ignoring serious medical conditions because ...
Article • July 11, 2014 • from PLN July, 2014
convicted of possessing firearms in what the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held was a misapplication of the sentencing criteria, a circumstance unique to North Carolina due to the state’s system ...
health, and dental care,” he continued. “This is what the Constitution and our consciences demand.” However, ADC Director Charles L. Ryan issued a statement that seemed, on its face ...
Article • February 29, 2016
Filed under: Police
to church, what doctors you visit, and where you sleep at night. Vigilant is leveraging H.B. 121, a new Texas law passed in 2015 that allows officers to install credit and debit card readers ...
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
assume what is good for the typical U.S. citizen defendant is good for the non-citizen defendant. In fact, many immigrants are willing to serve longer prison sentences in exchange for the security ...
was occurring? The memo depicts him as a hapless and clueless official manipulated by a Machiavellian subordinate. If that is true, then Arpaio is incompetent. What is more likely is that Arpaio liked having ...
Article • June 15, 2011 • from PLN June, 2011
are questioning fundamental assumptions about what works in criminal justice. With 3,500 beds in a city of about 350,000 residents, Orleans Parish Prison is already the largest per capita county jail of any major ...
a year [in reference to Doctor Crants’s proposed facility] almost cuts our deficit in half,” Kerr said. “Let me do what I need to do to push the city in the right direction.&rdquo ...
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
” is a person who: 1) has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a “major life activity,” 2) has a record of such an impairment, or 3) is regarded as having such an impairment. What ...
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