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Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Kentucky’s Failure to Timely Release Prisoners Costs Taxpayers $30 Million (So Far) by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney When Kentucky prisoner Keith Bramblett complained about not receiving “good time credit” against his sentence for the class he took while incarcerated, an official with the state Department of Corrections (DOC) replied: …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Illinois Prisoners Stage Hunger Strikes Over DOC Failure to Implement New Sentence Reduction Law by Two Illinois prisoners staged hunger strikes in June 2024 to protest the state’s foot-­dragging in granting sentence credits provided a year earlier under a new law. With promises from Robinson Correctional Facility officials to expedite …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Former Virginia Prisoners Win Back Denied Sentence Credits, Sue Over Delayed Release by Virginia’s shifting rules on sentence credits for state prisoners continue to end up before the state Supreme Court, which has twice spanked state Attorney General Jason Miyares (R) for failing to abide by the law. Several former …
California Resentences 15 Condemned Prisoners to Life Without Parole by On April 5, 2024, Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen said that 15 prisoners on California’s death row from the county would be resentenced to life without parole. Rosen utilized a state law empowering district attorneys to reassess sentences …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
$4.77 Million Settlement for Three Alaska Prisoners Exonerated of Murder After 18 Years by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On November 6, 2023, three of the “Fairbanks Four” accepted $5 million from the Alaska city for 18 years they spent wrongfully incarcerated for a teen’s 1997 murder before their …
Public Defender Files Habeas Petitions for Detainees at “Horrific” Baltimore Lockup by On May 17, 2024, the Maryland Office of the Public Defender (OPD) filed 11 habeas petitions for detainees awaiting trial at the state’s Reception Diagnostic and Classification Center in Baltimore after they reported raw sewage overflowing from unflushable …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Third Circuit Finds Relation-Back Rule Misapplied to Philadelphia Prisoner’s “Crappy” Ordeal Lawsuit by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 21, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit vacated summary judgment in favor of a Philadelphia Department of Corrections (DOC) guard, who was accused of leaving …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Two Wrongful Tennessee Convictions Result in Payouts Over $1 Million by An undisclosed settlement with Grundy County on May 22, 2024, added to a $1 million payout that former Tennessee prisoner Adam Braseel had already received for 12 years he spent wrongfully imprisoned. That earlier award from the state Department …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Unequal Before the Law by Stephanie Woodard by Stephanie Woodard Native Americans serve astoundingly longer prison sentences—because they are Native. Federal charges ordinarily cover matters of national reach: immigration, voting rights, racketeering. Not in Indian Country. Tribal members frequently find themselves in federal court for all sorts of allegations— not …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Alaska Supreme Court: DOC Can’t Unilaterally Redefine ‘Parole Release Date’ by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On December 8, 2023, the Supreme Court of Alaska held that the state Department of Corrections (DOC) violated the rulemaking process laid out in the Administrative Procedures Act (APA) when it unilaterally changed the …
Missouri DOC Chief Held in Contempt of Court for Keeping Exonerated Prisoner Locked Up by On August 7, 2024, the head of Missouri’s Department of Corrections (DOC) was held in contempt by a state court judge for refusing to release Howard Roberts, 82, after the prisoner’s conviction was overturned. State …
Florida Prisoner Whose Case Ended LWOP for Juveniles Released by On February 13, 2024, a judge in Florida’s Duval County amended state prisoner Terrence Graham’s sentence, paving the way for the 37-­year-­old’s release later that same month. Sentenced to life without parole (LWOP) in 2006 for crimes committed when he …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals Grants Credit to Prisoner’s LWOP Sentence by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On February 9, 2024, the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals held that even though Henry Neal Ferguson III had been sentenced to life in state prison without the possibility of parole (LWOP), he …
Washington Parole Board Failed to Meaningfully Apply Presumption of Release for Prisoner Sentenced to LWOP as Juvenile by On April 11, 2024, the Washington Court of Appeals refused to reconsider an earlier finding that the state’s Indeterminate Sentence Review Board (ISRB) failed to meaningfully apply the statutory presumption that prisoners …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Oklahoma Lawmakers Sue for Pardon and Parole Board Texts After Condemned Prisoner Denied Clemency by On March 14, 2024, a dustup over a contentious clemency request for condemned Oklahoma prisoner Richard Glossip spilled into state court, where a judge refused to dismiss a suit filed by two state lawmakers to …
California Supreme Court Refuses Challenge to LWOP Sentence Imposed for Crime Committed After Age 18 by Under California Penal Code § 3051, prisoners who were 18 to 25 years old when they committed certain crimes are eligible for parole after serving 15, 20 or 25 years, even if sentenced to life …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
$11 Million Settlement for Exonerated Michigan Prisoner by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On October 17, 2023, Michigan State Police (MSP) paid $11 million to settle claims by former state prisoner Ray McCann, Jr., 57, after a jury awarded him $14.5 million for his wrongful conviction on a perjury …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Maryland Pardons 175,000 Marijuana Misdemeanor Convictions by Maryland prisoners with misdemeanor marijuana convictions had them erased as of June 18, 2024, when Gov. Wes Moore (D) issued pardons for every state misdemeanor conviction for possession of pot or related paraphernalia. The pardons will not release any prisoners; the misdemeanor convictions …
Brief • August 5, 2024
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
Amor v. Gomez, IL, Order, Wrongful Conviction, 2024 Case: 1:18-cv-02523 Document #: 385 Filed: 08/05/24 Page 1 of 1 PageID #:36828 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION JEANNE OLSON, as successor plaintiff for WILLIAM E. AMOR, Plaintiff(s), Case No. 1:18-cv-02523 Judge John …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Exonerated Prisoner Sues New York City for 16 Years of Wrongful Incarceration by Former New York prisoner Ricardo Jimenez, 55, filed suit in federal court for the Southern District of New York on August 2, 2023, accusing New York City and three former officers with its Police Department (NYPD), as …
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