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Article • August 23, 2016
District Attorney's Office." Needless to say, it raises privacy concerns when a jail prisoner's explanation to a loved one of what has happened to him or her becomes fodder for the prosecution. There is also ...
.  If these facilities are not failing, we don't know what kind of facility will ever fail an inspection." In addition to improving transparency and improving the quality of inspections, Valenzuela ...
Article • January 3, 2017
: “to invalidate or annul.” That is exactly what the court concluded in Evans v. U.S. Parole Commission, 78 F.3d 262 (7th Cir. 1996). This conclusion was called into doubt by Johnson v. United ...
New Study Documents Lower Pre-arrest Incomes for Prisoners by Derek Gilna A study released last year, prepared by the Prison Policy Initiative (PPI), documented what most criminal justice ...
,” said Celmiro De Almeida, a convicted murderer. Another prisoner, Darci Altair Santos da Silva, a sex offender, added, “I know what I did was very cruel. The tea helped me reflect on this fact ...
have to pay for the calls despite the interruption. At that point, as LCCC prisoner Chris Davison told the Empire, “the whole place kind of blew up, you know what I mean?” Alaska DOC ...
, used profanity and humiliated her; female prisoners were routinely asked what they thought about while they masturbated. If the women refused to participate they were deemed “uncooperative ...
Article • July 20, 2017
, provides a new look at "a growing body of work documenting and analyzing the experiences of LGBTQ in the criminal legal system," and doesn't like what it sees. The report states: "in 2011-2012, 7.9 ...
prisoners. “The DOC’s commitment to this change is a reflection of the parties listening to the experts about what makes sense from both penological and rehabilitative interests,” said ...
built prisons without climate-controlled cell blocks to intentionally subject prisoners to torturous conditions. What is even more amazing is that in 2017 there is still debate as to whether ...
Article • July 20, 2017
Filed under: Pardons/Clemency
in a concurring opinion. "It is not. And no amount of lexicological alchemy, no matter how well intentioned, permits the language to be stretched, manipulated, and tortured to reach what to some would be a 'correct ...
Article • July 20, 2017
Filed under: War on Drugs, Juries
will ruin the defendant's life. "You're trapped," Hartmann continues. "The law says one thing, but your conscience says the other. So what do you do?" According to Hartmann, "you declare the defendant ...
Article • June 30, 2017 • from PLN July, 2017
sex offenders from using those websites, North Carolina with one broad stroke bars access to what for many are the principal sources for knowing current events, checking ads for employment, speaking ...
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
Filed under: Jail Specific, Suicides
not trying to make any excuses for what happened to Mr. Corbin. But we can step back and see 31 percent of the 143 inmates we have on a daily basis suffer from some form of mental illness. It is the greatest ...
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
. “But I also think this jury trial was an opportunity for regular people, for citizens, to see what actually goes on inside the prisons and the absolute inhumanity of how real people are treated ...
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
Filed under: Sentencing, Overdetention
over the past decade. What has driven this continuing increase? According to the report, “One driver is fear: singular stories provoke a desire for safety because of their cruelty and violence ...
Article • July 6, 2018 • from PLN July, 2018
, but allowed the third may have been something she said. Brown stated her lawsuit “was not about the dollar amount,” but rather was intended to make Nygren “accountable for what she did.&rdquo ...
Article • July 6, 2018 • from PLN July, 2018
occurred in situations involving “passive noncompliance” by prisoners, and the force used went beyond what was “necessary to ensure compliance.” Esther Lims, one of the report’s ...
Article • July 6, 2018 • from PLN July, 2018
that what happened to him would have “never happened in Haiti,” where Macdonald had established a clinic. By November 2012, Tarver’s leg was so infected that amputation was required. He ...
Article • November 7, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018
that she must testify.” “She is now going to do what every other person who has ever received a subpoena to testify has been expected to do, and I appreciate that,” Arapahoe County District ...
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