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Publication • February 11, 2016
Payoff - How Congress Ensures Private Prisons Profit with an Immigrant Detention Quota, 2015 F F O Y PA How Congress Ensures Immigrant Detention Quota April 2015 PAYOFF: with an Immigrant Detention Quota April 2015 By: Bethany Carson and Eleana Diaz Design & Layout: Catherine Cunningham Grassroots Leadership would like …
Publication • February 11, 2016
Filed under: Overdetention, Immigration
How Ineffective Inspections Make ICE Complicit in Immigration Detention Abuse, NIJC, 2015 Lives in Peril: How Ineffective Inspections Make ICE Complicit in Immigration Detention Abuse The Immigration Detention Transparency and Human Rights Project October 2015 Report immigrantjustice.org detentionwatchnetwork.org About the National Immigrant Justice Center With offices in Chicago, Indiana, and …
Publication • February 10, 2016
Solitary Confinement, June, Human Rights Watch, 2012 Written Statement of Human Rights Watch to The United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights “Reassessing Solitary Confinement: The Human Rights, Fiscal, and Public Safety Consequences” June 19, 2012 Human Rights Watch is grateful …
Article • February 2, 2016 • from PLN February, 2016
Wisconsin DOC Pays Former Prisoner for Miscalculating Sentence by Gary Hunter On April 4, 2014, the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC) was ordered to pay $7,600 to former prisoner Robin N. Gavinski for holding him too long in prison. Gavinski was serving three sentences that were supposed to run concurrently; …
Brief • January 20, 2016
Tucker v. Idaho, ID, Order, indigent defense debtors prison, 2016
Article • January 12, 2016
Indiana Judge Removed From Bench For Multiple Instances of Misconduct by Christopher Zoukis The Indiana Supreme Court has ordered that Marion County Superior Judge Kimberly Brown be permanently removed from the bench, after three judges appointed to investigate complaints against her found she had committed judicial misconduct in 46 of …
Brief • January 12, 2016
Chua v. City of Los Angeles, CA, Complaint, false arrest wrongful detention of protestors, 2016 Case 2:16-cv-00237 Document 1 Filed 01/12/16 Page 1 of 31 Page ID #:1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Carol A. Sobel, SBN 84483 Colleen Mullen SBN 299059 …
Article • January 11, 2016
Filed under: Overdetention, False Arrest
Lengthy Los Angeles Bus Detentions Result in $225,000 Settlement by The County of Los Angeles paid $225,000 to settle a class action alleging it wrongfully arrested persons during the November 30, 2011, Occupy LA protest. The main thrust of the complaint was that 126 people were subjected to lengthy bus …
Brief • January 11, 2016
Unknown Parties, et al., v. Johnson, AZ, Order, CBP detainee cell conditions, 2016 Case 4:15-cv-00250-DCB Document 117 Filed 01/11/16 Page 1 of 23 1 SKC 2 3 4 5 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 8 9 Unknown Parties, et al., 10 11 …
Article • December 31, 2015 • from PLN January, 2016
Study Finds Private Prisons Keep Prisoners Longer, Without Reducing Future Crime by Peter Kerwin Study Finds Private Prisons Keep Prisoners Longer, Without Reducing Future Crime by Peter Kerwin A new study finds that prisoners in private prisons are likely to serve as many as two to three more months behind bars …
Article • December 3, 2015 • from PLN December, 2015
One-Continuous-Sentence Rule Governs Colorado Parole Eligibility Dates by Mark Wilson One-Continuous-Sentence Rule Governs Colorado Parole Eligibility Dates by Mark Wilson The Colorado Supreme Court held last year that state prison officials had misapplied the law and miscalculated a prisoner’s parole eligibility date (PED) for his consecutive sentence. Colorado law requires …
Article • November 17, 2015
Massachusetts Prisoner Denied Credit for Time Completed on Vacated Conviction by Massachusetts Prisoner Denied Credit for Time Completed on Vacated Conviction The Massachusetts Supreme Court has held that a prisoner serving time on an unrelated sentence was not entitled to credit for the completed prison sentence of a vacated conviction. …
Article • November 17, 2015
Filed under: Bail, Overdetention, Immigration
Immigrants Must Be Given Bail Hearing after Six Months by Immigrants Must Be Given Bail Hearing after Six Months The U.S. government's practice of indefinitely holding deportable immigrants in jail without giving them a chance to argue for release on bail was given the red light when a federal court …
Article • November 13, 2015
Filed under: Overdetention, Immigration
Oregon Immigration Court Second Slowest in Nation; 80 Percent Slower Than 2008 by Mark Wilson Oregon Immigration Court Second Slowest in Nation; 80 Percent Slower Than 2008 by Mark Wilson The national average to resolve an immigration case is 898 days, according to a Syracuse University statistical research group. Oregon’s …
Brief • November 12, 2015
Thompson v. Moss Point, MS, Settlement, Class Action, Secured Bail Schedule, 2015 Case 1:15-cv-00182-LG-RHW Document 19-1 Filed 11/12/15 Page 1 of 5 Case 1:15-cv-00182-LG-RHW Document 19-1 Filed 11/12/15 Page 2 of 5 Case 1:15-cv-00182-LG-RHW Document 19-1 Filed 11/12/15 Page 3 of 5 Case 1:15-cv-00182-LG-RHW Document 19-1 Filed 11/12/15 Page 4 …
Brief • November 12, 2015
Thompson v. Moss Point, MS, Final Judgment, Class Action, Secured Bail Schedule, 2015 Case 1:15-cv-00182-LG-RHW Document 19 Filed 11/12/15 Page 1 of 2 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI SOUTHERN DIVISION SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSJSSIPPI ~J.. EO ~-~ 2015] ) ARTHUR JOHNSTON CHEVON ELIZABETH …
Article • November 6, 2015
Ohio Court Denies Habeas Challenge to Jail-Time Calculation and Double Jeopardy by Derek Gilna Ohio Court Denies Habeas Challenge to Jail-Time Calculation and Double Jeopardy by Derek Gilna The Supreme Court of Ohio, in the case of Johnson v. Crutchfield, rejected an Ohio prisoner’s challenge to the calculation of his …
Brief • November 6, 2015
Thompson v. Moss Point, MS, Declaratory Judgment, Class Action, Secured Bail Schedule, 2015 Case 1:15-cv-00182-LG-RHW Document 18 Filed 11/06/15 Page 1 of 2 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI SOUTHERN DIVISION ) CHEVON ELIZABETH THOMPSON et a!.) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) ) ) v. …
Article • November 3, 2015
One Extra Day in Prison Not Cognizable in Suit by One Extra Day in Prison Not Cognizable in Suit The U.S. District Court for the Eighth Circuit upheld a decision of a Missouri federal district court, affirming summary judgment against a former prisoner who had alleged he was improperly incarcerated …
Article • November 3, 2015
Seventh Circuit Upholds False Imprisonment and Deliberate Indifference Dismissal by Seventh Circuit Upholds False Imprisonment and Deliberate Indifference Dismissal On September 4, 2014, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of an Illinois prisoner’s false imprisonment suit, because he was not unlawfully detained. Sex offender David Armato was …
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