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of unanswered questions, and it is going to spawn a lot of litigation.” Margaret Colgate Love, who helped write an American Bar Association brief that supported extending Strickland to plea bargains, noted, “What ...
and a two-year term of probation. Judge Thom noted that law enforcement officials must deal with difficult people all the time. “Lippy drunks are probably the most disagreeable,” Thom acknowledged. “What ...
Article • December 15, 2012 • from PLN December, 2012
Dean created a culture among his subordinates in which they cast a “blind eye” to what their boss was doing. For example, investigators said Dean had submitted timesheets for five-day work weeks even ...
prisoners have higher recidivism rates than men. “Constitutional requirements, sound public policy and basic human decency all dictate what the state must surely understand already,” said outgoing Committee ...
McDonnell, urging him to reject privatization of the state’s civil commitment center. “What is currently an overcrowded situation at VCBR could become dramatically worse if run by a company that increases ...
. Adequate staffing would “preclude any major problems,” he said. “We requested [LCF] staff to stay on this and see what the new administration would do,” Varela stated. “Apparently, [the Martinez ...
Article • February 15, 2013 • from PLN February, 2013
had shoved a Western Union display off a counter, threw an umbrella at the manager and advanced on him. Witness recollections of what Dawson said to Turner were in dispute, but all agreed that when ...
consults outside the prison setting are face to face, in-person examinations. If that is the community standard of care, to what extent does telemedicine applied specifically to prisoners represent ...
Article • January 15, 2014 • from PLN January, 2014
and incarcerated than ever. But this is what modern-day regime change looks like. While Mandela was roundly lauded upon his death, those not so fortunate, like Steve Biko, did not even get the luxury of a prison ...
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
to recognize that we don’t need to waste one dollar incarcerating one person that doesn’t really need to be behind bars,” he said. But what can be done to further reduce the costs of Texas’ prison system ...
Article • December 15, 2013 • from PLN December, 2013
committed, as well as “regular periodic reviews” of civil commitment cases. “It’s not an exaggeration to say the [program] is a de-facto life sentence,” noted Eric Janus, who serves on the task force. “What ...
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
funding sources that do not rely on annual appropriations, including UNICOR and commissary accounts. What this means is that while BOP guards, among other federal workers, were held hostage to the partisan ...
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
and Bexar County in Texas are heavily populated yet claim to have no exonerations. Researchers believe that is unlikely. “What this shows is that the criminal justice system makes mistakes ...
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
in solitary confinement for more than 14 days within a 21-day period, or for over 30 consecutive days, field office directors must submit written reports to ICE superiors. It remains to be seen what practical ...
Article • April 9, 2015 • from PLN April, 2015
;What they looked at was how does SCI Fayette compare to other prisons, when our prisoners at SCI Fayette are being made sick by exposure to coal ash, specifically in the form of air pollution,&rdquo ...
Article • April 9, 2015 • from PLN April, 2015
earlier. “I have never seen a more horrific, egregious violation of a human being’s civil rights in the United States as I have in what is displayed in the Elliott Williams video,” stated ...
Article • April 9, 2015 • from PLN April, 2015
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. Because blacks are imprisoned at a higher rate than whites, the U.S. has created what Schenwar refers to as “a modern version of the slave auction block.” Parenting from prison creates a unique ...
Article • May 6, 2015 • from PLN April, 2015
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;The absence of any scientific basis for the gas reduces the execution to an experiment and we do not know what will happen,” observed Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information ...
Article • May 5, 2016 • from PLN May, 2016
the witnesses to testify, she responded, “there’s not much I can do,” “I can’t compel him to answer if he’s not going to answer” and “I don’t know what to say ...
Article • April 1, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
reversed. “Remaining confined in jail when one should otherwise be free is an Article III injury, plain and simple,” the appellate court concluded. “Who or what caused that injury ...
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