Virginia: Unproven Facts Used to Deny Parole Subject of Lawsuit, Settlement by A settlement agreement in a federal lawsuit forced the Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) and the state’s Parole Board to deem a prisoner eligible for parole. The settlement also reversed the agencies’ interpretation of Virginia’s “Three Strikes” law …

Iowa State Court Finds Prisoner Entitled to Counsel at Prison Classification Hearing by Derek Gilna Iowa State District Court Judge Scott D. Rosenberg reversed and remanded a prisoner’s adverse classification hearing based upon the denial of his right to legal counsel. Gary Pettit pleaded guilty to third-degree sexual abuse and …

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 …

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 …

New York Federal Judge Challenges Collateral Consequences by In a move The New York Times called “striking,” and Gabriel J. Chin, a professor at the University of California, Davis School of Law said was “groundbreaking,” U.S. District Court Judge Frederic Block sentenced a young woman in a drug case to …

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 …

New York’s Parole System in Need of Repair by New York’s Parole System in Need of Repair by Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP RAPPCampaign.com “For the courts of this state to repeatedly entertain petitions and issue decisions ordering de novo hearings because the [Parole] Board fails to follow a clear …

Black Lives Matter, Racial Inequality in Criminal Justice Report, The Sentencing Project, 2015 BLACK LIVES MATTER: ELIMINATING RACIAL INEQUITY IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM For more information, contact: The Sentencing Project 1705 DeSales Street NW 8th Floor Washington, D.C. 20036 (202) 628-0871 sentencingproject.org twitter.com/sentencingproj facebook.com/thesentencingproject This report was written by …

Manual, U.S. Parole Commission, 2010 TABLE OF CONTENTS Section (§) Title Page SUBPART A—UNITED STATES CODE PRISONERS AND PAROLEES 2.1 DEFINITIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …

The Impact of Trying Youths as Adults, Campaign for Youth Justice, 2007 THE CAMPAIGN FOR YOUTH JUSTICE The Campaign for Youth Justice (CFYJ) is dedicated to ending the practice of trying, sentencing, and incarcerating youth under the age of 18 in the adult criminal justice system. The goals of the …

$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 …

Michigan Man Convicted on Faulty Bite Evidence Receives $1.5 Million by A $1.5 million settlement was reached in a lawsuit brought by a Michigan man who spent 13 years in prison for a rape charge based on faulty bite mark evidence. Two weeks before the case was set to proceed …

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 …

Predicting Erroneous Convictions - A Social Science Approach to Miscarriages of Justice, Gould et al, 2013 The author(s) shown below used Federal funds provided by the U.S. Department of Justice and prepared the following final report: Document Title: Predicting Erroneous Convictions: A Social Science Approach to Miscarriages of Justice Author(s): …

Future of Sentencing in NY - State Recommendations for Reform, NY State Commission on Sentencing Reform, 2009 The Future of Sentencing in New York State: Recommendations for Reform New York State Commission on Sentencing Reform January 30, 2009 Table of Contents Page Commission Members ......................................................................... iv Commission Staff...................................................................................v Acknowledgements .............................................................................. …

Webb v. State of Oklahoma, OK, Notice of Tort Claim, Wrongful Conviction, 2016 MULINIX~ EDWARDS ROSELL GOERKE 210 Park Avenue, Suite 3030 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102 Telephone (405) 232-3800 Telecopier ( 405) 232-8999 () 905 24th Avenue, NW, Suite A Norman, Oklahoma 73069 PLLC Attorneys & Counselors at Law www.lawokc.com …

Colorado Sex Offender Management Board Audit, Central Coast Clinical & Forensic Psychology Services, 2014 An External Evaluation of The Colorado Sex Offender Management Board Standards and Guidelines Central Coast Clinical & Forensic Psychology Services, Inc. Deirdre M. D’Orazio, PhD David Thornton, PhD Anthony Beech, DPhil 3 January 2014 In Response …

Incarceration Generation, JPI, 2013 Table of Contents Foreword........................................................................................................................................................ 02 Introduction................................................................................................................................................ 03 People in the Justice System Racial & Ethnic Groups Racism Institutionalized: A Look at the Criminal Justice System.................................................................................. 08 Criminal Justice Reform for Immigration Reform.......................................................................................................... 12 Children & Teens Youth in the Adult Criminal Justice System.................................................................................................................. 16 Rights of …

Voices from the Field - How CA Stakeholders View Public Safety Realignment, Stanford Criminal Justice Center, 2013 ST TANFORD saekeeFiigure DRAF FT FOR REV VIEW AND D COMMEN NTS Voicces fro om th he Fie eld: w Caliiforniia Stak kehollders View How Pub blic Saafety Realig R gnment Joan P …