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Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
California Parole Board Executive Officer Resigns After Caught Drinking on Duty by The Executive Officer of California’s Board of Parole Hearings (Board), who was the passenger in a state car driven by another Board employee, resigned after police stopped the car and arrested the driver for DUI. John Monday, 56, …
Article • May 15, 2008 • from PLN May, 2008
Alabama Parole Board Employee Pleads Guilty to Misuse of Computer Information by On June 15, 2007, Stacey Bell, 31, formerly an administrative assistant to the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles, pleaded guilty in Elmore County District Court to violating the Alabama Computer Crime Act, § 13A-8-102. She was given …
Federal Parole Officials Not Entitled To Absolute Immunity by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that a district court erred in dismissing a parolee's claim against probation and parole officials and that the parole officials were not entitled to absolute immunity. Lawrence Wilson, a federal parolee, …
Article • May 15, 2007
Habeas Required to Challenge Abuse Parole Arrest by The plaintiff's allegations of an abusive and improper arrest by parole officers and an improper parole violation hearing may not be pursued under § 1983 because he is incarcerated after having had his parole revoked. The court does not distinguish finely among …
Parole Board Officials Entitled to Absolute Immunity by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held state parole board officials are absolutely immune from suit for actions taken when processing parole applications. This action was filed by a prisoner at the California Men's Colony who alleged violation of his First, Fifth, …
Parole Retaliation Suit Dismissed by The plaintiff alleged that prosecutors reneged on a plea bargain by failing to submit favorable letters to the parole board and instead submitting unfavorable letters, and that the parole board retaliated against him for having filed federal court litigation. The plaintiff's claim for breach of …
Pennsylvania Parole Whistleblower Suit Dismissed by Speech concerning racial discrimination in parole determinations is a matter of public concern, since it implicates the process of effective self-governance and equal protection under the law." (397) However, the plaintiff staff member's interest in distributing inmate psychological records in an effort to reveal …
No Absolute Immunity for Parole Officials by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court's dismissal of a suit against several parole officials, finding they were not entitled to absolute immunity. In 1990, Lance Dawson was convicted of Indiana criminal charges and placed on probation for 3 years, …
Article • May 15, 2007
Florida Parole Commission Cannot Substitute Its Factual Findings for Hearing Examiners by Florida Parole Commission Cannot Substitute Its Factual Findings for Hearing Examiners A Florida federal district court has granted a prisoner a writ of habeas corpus based upon the Florida Parole Commission (FPC) substituting its own facts for the …
Article • December 15, 2006 • from PLN December, 2006
Texas Parole System Sick From Top to Bottom by Gary Hunter Texas Parole System Sick From Top to Bottom by Gary Hunter Parole in Texas has never been very reputable. During the 1920s and 30s Miriam Ma Ferguson, Texas first female governor, and her husband Pa Ferguson, who preceded his …
Illinois Prison Official, Parole Board Member Indicted For Corruption by On December 9, 2005, a Lee County, Illinois, grand jury returned indictments against former Illinois Department of Corrections official Ron Matrisciano and former Illinois Parole Board member Victor Brooks. Matrisciano was indicted for five counts of official misconduct and two …
Article • June 15, 2006 • from PLN June, 2006
Audit of Californias Failed Intermediate-Parole-Sanctions Program Blames Lack of Benchmarks And D by Audit of Californias Failed Intermediate-Parole-Sanctions Program Blames Lack of Benchmarks And Data Analysis The California State Auditor issued a stinging 58 page report in November 2005 that squarely fixed the blame for the purported failure of the …
Former Georgia Parole Chairman Loses Appeal of Corruption Conviction by by Gary Hunter Former Georgia parole board chairman Bobby K. Whitworth launched a last-ditch attempt, in the Georgia Court of Appeals, to thwart his felony conviction for corruption. He failed. Whitworths tenure with the Georgia prison system is replete with …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
2005 Audit of California Parole Board Reveals Ongoing Deficiencies by The California Office of the Inspector General (OIG), the state's official watchdog" agency, conducted an audit of the Board of Prison Terms (BPT) in July 2005 to determine compliance with the OIG's prior recommendations to correct deficiencies and inefficiencies it …
California Parole Board Lax In Contracting For Foreign Language Interpreters by The watchdog California Office of Inspector General (OIG), when investigating the case of a foreign language interpreter who bilked the Board of Prison Terms (BPT) out of $11,862 in false claims, found the BPT's contracting and accountability procedures for …
Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005
New York Senator Returned To Jail After Illegal Release by Michael Rigby By Michael Rigby Most people will accept that certain perks are available to a state’s top lawmakers. What is unacceptable, however, is that these perks often continue even after the public trust has been violated. The case of …
New York Appeals Court Upholds Former Senator’s Return To Rikers by The Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court, First Department, has ordered former state senator Guy J. Velella and four others (the petitioners) back to jail. In reaching this decision the court found that the petitioners had been …
Article • September 15, 2004 • from PLN September, 2004
Former Ohio Parole Chief, Parole Attorney Alliance Raises Ethical Concerns by Michael Rigby A business partnership between former head of the Ohio Parole Board, Margarette Ghee, and Ohio prisoner-turned-parole attorney, Derek Farmer, has raised ethical concerns in the legal and criminal justice communities. After serving 18 years on a 1974 …
Article • January 15, 2004 • from PLN January, 2004
Two of Three Hawaii, Parole Board Members Resign, Shutting Board Down by On April 2, 2003, Lani Rae Garcia'became the second member of the Hawaii Paroling Authority (the board) within 30 days to resign from the board. Garcia's resignation left the three-member board unable to conduct business. Garcia was charged …
Corruption Catches Up With Georgia Corrections Chief by by Gary Hunter Bobby Whitworth, former Corrections Commissioner and Parole Board Member, was booked into the Fulton County Jail on Friday, July 25, 2003. Charged with felony public corruption, Whitworth, 56, is the first such official ever to be indicted on corruption …
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