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Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
California Supreme Court Voids Ex Post Facto Sex Offender Residency Restrictions by Derek Gilna Proposition 83, passed in 2006 by California voters and popularly known as Jessica’s Law, had the stated aim of protecting children from sex offenders. It was later codified at Pen. Code § 3003.5(b), but on March …
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Ninth Circuit Rules Judge “Abused Discretion” in Imposing Abstinence as Supervised Release Condition by Derek Gilna Raymond Leo Jarlik Bell, convicted of filing false income tax returns to obtain fraudulent refunds, appealed his 97-month federal prison sentence on three grounds, including whether the judge committed Sixth Amendment error by failing …
Brief • March 31, 2016
Luse v. Sentinel Offender Services, GA, Consent Order, private parole, 2016 Case 2:16-cv-00030-RWS Document 16 Filed 03/31/16 Page 1 of 5 R ( *R)%()R!,)R R R '@/<CJ;8IR R R OR - !R+ &%R R R )%+ %!R &%(R )(-)R!"R R %&R - (.)R R 343C2/CJIR R +:<IR DCI3CJR&G23GR<IR IM0B;KJ32R /C2R …
Brief • March 25, 2016
Pettit v. IA Department of Corrections, IA, Ruling, sex offender parole due process, 2016 E-FILED 2016 MAR 25 11:23 AM POLK - CLERK OF DISTRICT COURT IN THE IOWA DISTRICT COURT FOR POLK COUNTY GARY PETTIT, CASE NO. CVCV049768 Petitioner, vs. FINDINGS OF FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF LAW AND ORDER IOWA …
Publication • March 8, 2016
OH Parole Board - Guidelines Manual, OH DRC, 2007 OHIO PAROLE BOARD GUIDELINES MANUAL Third Edition July 1, 2007 Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction Terry J. Collins, Director July 1, 2007 Preface The purpose of the Ohio Parole Board revised Guidelines Manual is to assist the Parole Board in …
Article • March 3, 2016
Electronic Monitoring Has Become the New Debtors Prison by Eric Markowitz It all started with a traffic violation. Antonio Green didn&rsquo;t have a license and admits he shouldn&rsquo;t have been driving. But when his mother&rsquo;s 1994 Chrysler Sebring broke down at a Taco Bell near their home in October last …
Article • March 1, 2016
Inside Kentucky's Unregulated, Private Probation Industry by By James McNair, Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting This article was produced by the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting, a new, nonprofit newsroom from 89.3 WFPL News and Louisville Public Media. Read more at kycir.org. ELIZABETHTOWN -- Getting busted with a small amount …
Brief • February 17, 2016
Luse v. Sentinel Offender Services, GA, Complaint, private parole, 2016 Case 2:16-mi-99999-UNA Document 24 Filed 02/17/16 Page 1 of 34 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA GAINESVILLE DIVISION _________________________________ ) RITA SANDERS LUSE, ) ) MARIANNE LIGOCKI, ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) CLASS ACTION v. ) …
Publication • February 16, 2016
Strange Vicissitudes of Lifer Parole Victories and Defeats, First District Appellate Project (Ternus), 2012 F IRST D ISTRICT A PPELLATE P ROJECT T RAINING S EMINAR January 20, 2012 THE STRANGE VICISSITUDES OF LIFER PAROLE VICTORIES AND DEFEATS F RAN T ERNUS Staff Attorney First District Appellate Project January 2012 …
Ninth Circuit: Appeal Challenges Probation Revocation for Exercising First Amendment Rights by A former federal prisoner is appealing the revocation of his supervised release for engaging in conduct that he argues is protected under the First Amendment. The Cato Institute, Electronic Frontier Foundation, ACLU, Brechner First Amendment Project at the …
Sex Offenders Rally to Fight Discriminatory Laws by Mark Wilson Advocates for reforming laws restricting where registered sex offenders can live, and for challenging sex offender registries, have vowed to continue the fight despite facing roadblocks, which organizers admit make it difficult to eliminate the discriminatory treatment that many sex …
Computer Risk Assessments Gaining Popularity in Granting Paroles by Derek Gilna New diagnostic computer programs designed to predict whether an offender will re-offend are being credited with helping reduce the number of prisoners in correctional facilities across the nation, but experts caution that while useful, the software tools are not …
Article • November 10, 2015
No Resources for Programs to Help Prisoners Make Parole in West Virginia by Christopher Zoukis No Resources for Programs to Help Prisoners Make Parole in West Virginia by Christopher Zoukis West Virginia's prison and jail population has continued to grow despite the passage of a sweeping prison reform bill, so …
Federal Court Denies Absolute Immunity to Parole Officers by Christopher McWhorter Federal Court Denies Absolute Immunity to Parole Officers by J. Christopher McWhorter The district court for the Southern District of New York denied claims that parole officers were acting in a quasi-judicial role when they forbade a registered sex-offender …
Article • October 26, 2015 • from PLN November, 2015
Seventh Circuit Vacates Unduly Restrictive Supervised Release Conditions by Derek Gilna Seventh Circuit Vacates Unduly Restrictive Supervised Release Conditions by Derek Gilna In a consolidated case involving post-release restrictions imposed on federal defendants, the Seventh Circuit struck down those portions of a district court&rsquo;s judgment it deemed beyond the scope …
Article • October 23, 2015
Former Federal Prisoner’s Appeal Challenging Potential Self-Incrimination Dismissed as Moot by Former Federal Prisoner&rsquo;s Appeal Challenging Potential Self-Incrimination Dismissed as Moot The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has dismissed a former prisoner&rsquo;s appeal challenging, on Fifth Amendment grounds, the lower court&rsquo;s revocation of his supervised release, the …
Vermont DOC Practive of Imprisoning People After Rejecting Parole Plan by Vermont DOC Practive of Imprisoning People After Rejecting Parole Plan The Vermont Department of Corrections&rsquo; (VDOC) process of reviewing prisoners&rsquo; post-prison accommodations plan is the subject of a prisoner&rsquo;s lawsuit alleging VDOC abuses its discretion in denying prisoners release …
Brief • October 14, 2015
Betances v. Fischer, NY, Memorandum and Opinion Denying Defendants Appeal, Post-Release Supervision, 2015 Case 1:11-cv-03200-SAS Document 121 Filed 10/14/15 Page 1 of 30 i :USOC SONY UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT I DOCUMENT LELECTRONICALLY Jj nee#: __ . . ll tI FILED ll _ j\ ~-~~~~~~-~~~~~~~~-~~-~~-~-~~~-------------~LR~TE t:l~:~~~~fr!j;?"=JJ PAUL BETANCES, LLOYD A. …
Untreated Drug Offenders Cost Oregon $21.6 Million by Mark Wilson Untreated Drug Offenders Cost Oregon $21.6 Million by Mark Wilson Failing to treat substance abuse addictions of nearly half of the highest risk Oregon offenders, released between 2008 and 2011, cost crime victims and the state an estimated $21.6 million, …
Digital Darkness and Silence for Sex Offenders in the Information Age by Andrew Extein by Andrew Extein, Truthout Is my Furby a computer?&rdquo; With five months in jail and eight months of parole behind him, and four years of probation to go, Trevor finds himself contemplating the artificial intelligence of …
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