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In-house Parole Costs New Mexico Over $10 Million Annually by Matthew Clarke Inefficiencies in the New Mexico Corrections Department (NMCD) and the state’s Parole Board have resulted in hundreds of prisoners being kept in prison long beyond their parole release dates. The cost of incarcerating each prisoner during this so-called …
Article • August 2, 2016 • from PLN August, 2016
Prison Policy Initiative Report Says Money Bail System Keeps Poor in Jail by Derek Gilna Of the more than 2.3 million people locked up in the United States at any given time, around 646,000 are held in county jails. Of that population, seven in ten are pretrial detainees who have …
Article • August 2, 2016 • from PLN August, 2016
California: Ninth Circuit Reverses Finding that Props 9 and 89 are Unconstitutional by Derek Gilna In February 2014, following a bench trial, U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence K. Karlton found that two California laws created as a result of state ballot initiatives “retrospectively increased punishments, in violation of the ex …
BOP Over-detention of Prisoner Nets $35,000 Settlement by The federal Bureau of Prisons paid $35,000 to settle a claim alleging it over-detained a prisoner by 154 days. Lester Coleman was due to be released on July 5, 2000, but he was not released until December 7, 2000.  His complaint stated …
$950,000 Settlement in DC Prisoner’s False Imprisonment Lawsuit by The District of Columbia paid $950,000 to settle the lawsuit of Joseph S. Heard for unlawful imprisonment. On November 15, 1998, Heard, a deaf man, was arrested for unlawful entry into a George Washington University building. The case was dismissed October …
Brief • July 29, 2016
Marom v. City of New York, NY, Order on Reconsideration, Police Misconduct and Overdetention, 2016 Case 1:15-cv-02017-PKC-SN Document 66 Filed 07/29/16 Page 1 of 10 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK -----------------------------------------------------------x YOTAM MAROM, MIRIAM ROCEK, and DON FITGERALD, Plaintiffs, -against- 15-cv-2017 (PKC) MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ON …
OIG Study: Bureau of Prisons Held Thousands of Prisoners Beyond Release Dates by Derek Gilna The federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), pilloried by one Congressional study that found it was unable to follow its own compassionate release policy, and by yet another criticizing endemic overcrowding, has again been called to …
Why Sex Criminals Get Locked Up Forever by Aviva Stahl By Aviva Stahl, VICE Gilbert Greenfield sits upright in the chair, his body tense, a blood-pressure cuff attached to his left arm. A sensor is strapped around his chest, and two more cap his fingertips to measure how much he's sweating. …
Brief • June 27, 2016
Lewis et al v. Government of D.C., DC, Memo Opinion, overdetention 8th Am 4th Am lack of probable cause, 2016 Case 1:15-cv-00352-RBW Document 17 Filed 06/27/16 Page 1 of 18 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ____________________________________ ) KAYLA DIONNE LEWIS, et al., ) ) Plaintiffs, ) …
Publication • June 2, 2016
Review of the Federal Bureau of Prisons Untimely Releases of Inmates, OIG, 2016 Office of the Inspector General U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General U.S. Department of Justice Review of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Untimely Releases of Inmates Evaluation and Inspections Division 16-03 May 2016 EXECUTIVE …
Publication • 2016
Brennan Center for Justice - How Many Americans Are Unnecessarily Incarcerated, 2016 HOW M A N Y A MER IC A NS ARE UNNECESSARILY INCARCERATED? Dr. James Austin and Lauren-Brooke Eisen with James Cullen and Jonathan Frank Preface by Inimai Chettiar Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School …
Brief • May 29, 2016
Hebert v. USA, US, Amicus Brief - Berman, 6th Am due process excessive sentencing, 2016 No. 15-1190 IN THE Supreme Court of the United States MARK HEBERT, Petitioner, v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Respondent. On Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the …
Brief • May 13, 2016
Filed under: Overdetention, Immigration
Palacios-Valencia v. San Juan County BoC, NM, Amended Complaint, ICE Detainers, 2016 Case 1:14-cv-01050-WJ-KBM Document 60 Filed 05/13/16 Page 1 of 20 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO SUSANA PALACIOS-VALENCIA, on her own behalf and on behalf of a class of similarly situated persons; …
Article • May 5, 2016 • from PLN May, 2016
New York: $35,000 Awarded for Three-week Illegal Confinement by Mark Wilson The Supreme Court of New York, Appellate Division has upheld a $35,000 damage award in favor of a former prisoner illegally confined for three weeks. In October 2007, Robert Miller was charged with second- and third-degree drug offenses. He …
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Filed under: Overdetention
$360,000 Verdict Against Indiana Sheriff for Denying Prompt Court Hearings by An Indiana federal court awarded nearly $360,000 in a class-action lawsuit alleging the Allen County Sheriff’s Office violated arrestees’ due process rights by failing to bring them before a court within 48 hours. The class consisted of 962 people …
Publication • March 9, 2016
Filed under: Overdetention
Email re damages in excessive detention cases, Dugan, 2008 Re: [npap] damages in excessive detention cases 1 of 4 Subject: Re: [npap] damages in excessive detention cases From: Marianne Dugan <mdugan@mdugan.com> Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 11:56:46 -0700 To: jsolson@scofflaw.com CC: npap@nationallawyersguild.org At 06:56 PM 5/7/2008, you wrote: PLN's website …
Publication • March 9, 2016
Filed under: Overdetention
Email re excessive detention examples from 2011, Dugan, 2011 Re: [npap] What is each incarcerated day worth? 1 of 4 Subject: Re: [npap] What is each incarcerated day worth? From: Marianne Dugan <mdugan@mdugan.com> Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 10:42:05 -0700 To: jsolson@scofflaw.com CC: ŶƉĂƉΛ ŶĂƟŽŶĂůůĂǁ LJĞƌƐŐƵŝůĚ͘ ŽƌŐ Here are some …
Publication • March 9, 2016
Filed under: Overdetention
Email re overdetention awards in decisions, NPAP, 2008 Re: [npap] [NY-Trial] Re: OVER-DETENTION AWARDS IN DECIS... 1 of 2 Subject: Re: [npap] [NY-Trial] Re: OVER-DETENTION AWARDS IN DECISIONS IN NY STATE COURT OF CLAIMS From: "Michael R. Scolnick Esq." <scollaw@optonline.net> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:07:21 -0500 To: jsolson@scofflaw.com CC: …
Publication • February 16, 2016
BOP Growing Inmate Crowding Negatively Affects Inmates, Staff, and Infrastructure (Overcrowding), GAO, 2012 GAO September 2012 United States Government Accountability Office A Report to Congressional Requesters BUREAU OF PRISONS Growing Inmate Crowding Negatively Affects Inmates, Staff, and Infrastructure GAO-12-743 September 2012 BUREAU OF PRISONS Growing Inmate Crowding Negatively Affects Inmates, …
Brief • February 15, 2016
Castro v. County of Los Angeles, CA, Amicus Brief - ACLU, indigent defence pretrial detainees, 2016 Case: 12-56829, 02/15/2016, ID: 9864916, DktEntry: 80-2, Page 1 of 40 No. 12-56829 IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT JONATHAN MICHAEL CASTRO, Plaintiff and Appellee, v. COUNTY OF LOS …
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