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, an attorney with Texas Civil Rights Project (TCRP) who represented Burrell?s family in the lawsuit. ?That?s not what asthma looks like,? one guard reportedly said, while the nurse chimed in ?no one dies ...
Article • August 15, 2007 • from PLN August, 2007
, the court agreed that with his obviously failing health, he didn't need to do more time. So he was released. But freedom wasn't what Smith needed. He needed compassion, and the system didn't offer ...
Case • 2000
what treatment will be appropriate when that takes place, or whether the Bureau of Prisons will be willing to provide it. It is possible (for example, because of a heart condition) that the ABMT ...
Case • 1987
that the report be prepared, when the request was made, and what Mr. Wall was generally told to do. Plaintiff is not entitled to inquire into the substance of the report, over defendant's privilege objection ...
was coming to the building. When he arrived, he noticed Lasker was disheveled. When he entered the classroom, he noticed Anna crying in a corner. She ran out of the room when asked what happened. Later, she ...
Article • August 10, 2016
Filed under: Death Penalty
received increasing scrutiny from the federal courts for what it termed numerous constitutional violations, received yet another setback in a recent federal judge’s ruling that invalidated its &ldquo ...
Article • August 10, 2016
in what is widely known as the "Avena decision," then-President George W. Bush attempted to force Texas to review and reconsider their convictions, but was ignored by Texas Gov. Rick Perry and state ...
and Rehabilitation (CDCR), was supposed to help correct the systemic problems CDCR has in providing adequate medical, dental and mental health care to prisoners. But what good is a shiny new facility if the staff ...
case is meritorious, but simply what the case is.” The Seventh Circuit found Henderson’s complaint alleged a claim of retaliation for filing lawsuits; the district court’s order ...
Article • November 7, 2016 • from PLN November, 2016
in the federal prison system for many years, knows that the institutional reality is much different. Prisoners who have gone through RDAP report the program is nine months of what often amounts to daily staff ...
Article • November 15, 2016
guideline by two levels as an "interim measure" to reflect what it called the overstated seriousness of crack usage as opposed to cocaine usage. Critics of the 100 to 1 ratio said that it was a form ...
of his beloved grandmother, was moved after several years to forgive Cooper, who had expressed regret for her crime. "She told me how truly sorry she was for what she’d done,” said Mr. Pelke ...
million term loan. The banks also underwrote at least $144 million in bonds for CCA and GEO, and extended a $900 million line of revolving credit to both companies. What makes lending to private prison ...
Article • July 28, 2017 • from PLN August, 2017
a gang member, Gomez was housed in the SHU for more than a decade before he began refusing meals on July 8, 2013 as part of what prison officials called a state-wide mass hunger strike organized by SHU ...
Article • July 28, 2017 • from PLN August, 2017
. It is unclear what this significant increase in the monitoring of pre- and post-trial individuals portends for the criminal justice system. “Although some research suggests that electronic monitoring can ...
Article • July 28, 2017 • from PLN August, 2017
;select foods appropriate for [his] medical conditions,” he could pick and choose what he ate. In its November 4, 2016 decision, however, the appellate court did not explain how Scinto could replace ...
Article • August 22, 2017
a brief disputing Plaintiffs' right to receive what's known as a "fees-on-fees" award. After the magistrate filed the R&R, Defendants asked Judge Garaufis to overturn the "fees-on-fees" award, arguing ...
Article • December 12, 2017
Filed under: Food
contractors. “This report further confirms what we already knew:  Privatization created food shortages and delays,” said Tom Tyluki, president of the Michigan Corrections Organization. Prison ...
Article • December 13, 2017
." Kirk said that he was inspired to filed this lawsuit when, after he grieved the issue, a jail captain told him "Your wife can describe what your newborn baby looks like on a post-card [sic] and Jesus can ...
Article • December 13, 2017
Innocence Clinic seeking relief from his judgment and sentence. The motion was based on advances in fire science research and investigation methods that tended to cast doubt on what was believed at the time ...
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