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Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
With Push to Empty North Carolina’s Death Row Comes Another to End Life Without Parole by Leaving office at the end of 2024, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) faces pressure from a coalition of 22 nonprofits to commute the sentences of all 136 prisoners on the state’s death row …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Alabama Denies Parole to Former Sheriff Convicted of Corruption by Once Alabama’s longest-­serving sheriff, Mike Blakely, 72, will continue serving a three-­year sentence for corruption handed down in August 2021, after the state Board of Pardons and Paroles (BOPP) deadlocked over his parole application on March 7, 2024. The 1-­to-­1 …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Federal Prisoners Released Under First Step Act Show 37% Reduction in Recidivism by Matthew Clarke
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Florida Pastor Accused of Running Shoplifting Ring With DUI Diversion Program Participants by The former pastor at a Florida church who ran its diversion program for DUI arrestees was arrested on August 7, 2023, accused of coercing program members into a shoplifting ring that allegedly stole $1.4 million in merchandise …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Oklahoma Parole Board Resignations Threaten Prisoner Clemencies by Just three of five seats remained filled on the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board after Chairman Richard L. Smothermon mailed his resignation on August 4, 2023, to Chief Justice M. John Kane IV of the state Supreme Court, which appointed Smothermon to …
Michigan Reaches $1.03 Million Settlement with Exonerated Prisoner by The state of Michigan has agreed to pay former prisoner Jeff Titus, 71, a total of $1.03 million for nearly 21 years he spent incarcerated for killing two hunters before his convictions were overturned. Titus, who consistently maintained his innocence, then …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
New Jersey Supreme Court Revives Parolee’s Challenge to Administratively Imposed Treatment Program by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 3, 2023, the Supreme Court of New Jersey held that a state prisoner’s parole could not be conditioned on his enrollment in a residential treatment program (RTP) when he is …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
From the Editor by Paul Wright By Paul Wright Probably the biggest threat to the credibility of the American police state is that of wrongful convictions. American history has plenty of examples of prisoners being freed from lengthy prison sentences after being wrongfully convicted of crimes they did not commit. …
U.S. Sentencing Commission Greenlights Retroactive Sentence Reductions by A vote by the U.S. Sentencing Commission (USSC) on August 24, 2023, potentially makes thousands of prisoners eligible for reduced sentences who were sentenced as first-time offenders. That’s because USSC members voted for retroactive application of an amendment to U.S. Sentencing guidelines …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
HRDC Wins $14 Million Settlement for Exonerated Florida Prisoner by On February 15, 2024, the Tampa City Council approved a $14 million settlement with Robert DuBoise, 59, a man who spent 37 years wrongfully imprisoned for a 1983 rape and murder he didn’t commit thanks to the two leading causes …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Seventh Circuit Reinstates Claim of Illinois Prisoner Held 18 Months After Release for Refusing to Sign Incomplete Form by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke “Justice delayed is justice denied,” as former British Prime Minister William Gladstone famously said. On August 7, 2023, a former Illinois prisoner finally got a measure …
Fifth Circuit Denies Qualified Immunity to Louisiana Prison Chief for Prolonging Prisoner’s Detention with Sex Offender Misclassification by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On July 17, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed denial of qualified immunity (QI) to Louisiana Department of Public Safety and …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Second Circuit Says New York Prisons Must Answer for Denying Court-Ordered Rehab by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On July 4, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed denial of qualified immunity (QI) to New York state prison officials who refused a prisoner’s judicially ordered …
Seventh Circuit Upholds Disciplinary Sanction Revoking Over 15 Years of Indiana Prisoner’s Good Time by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney When Indiana state prisoner Tony Love participated in a brawl, he was apparently unaware of the severity of the consequences he faced. But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Restorative Justice Program Boosts South Carolina Prison and Public Safety by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Assistant U.S. Attorney General Amy L. Solomon, Director of the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP), and National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Director Nancy La Vigne visited South Carolina’s Turbeville Correctional …
$2.9 Million Paid by Maryland to Exonerated Former Prisoner by A former Maryland prisoner’s January 2023 exoneration marked the end of a long and painful chapter in a 1981 double murder he was unjustly convicted of. On July 5, 2023, state authorities awarded John Huffington, 61, nearly $2.9 million for …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Champion of Death Row Prisoners Accused of Spoiling Oklahoman’s Clemency by When Oklahoma prisoner Anthony Sanchez, 44, was executed on September 21, 2023, for the 1996 killing of University of Oklahoma dance student Juli Busken, Rev. Jeff Hood was by his side. But the attorneys that Sanchez had by then …
Brief • January 5, 2024
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
Long v. City of Concord, NC, Settlement, Wrongful Conviction, 2023 Sl~TTLiii\·U:NT AGRRRi\,U.~NT AND Rm,liAsl~ KNOW ALL ?vlEN BY THESE PRESENTS that I, the unckrnigncd. RONNIE WALLA.Cg or th~ sum of TWENTYTWO J\,IJLLION AND N0/100 DOLLARS ($22.000,000.00) lo h1.~ paid as SJk'cilkd in Exhihit A whkh is ullached herdo and i111.~oq)ornkd …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Oklahoma Prisoner Uses COVID-19 Stimulus Check to Overturn Conviction by In June 2023, a judge in Oklahoma’s Sequoyah County overturned the murder conviction of Ricky Dority, 65, after the state prisoner spent his COVID-19 stimulus check to hire a private investigator, who then got a key witness to recant his …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Wisconsin Supreme Court: Jail Time Must Be Credited When Charge Causing Jailing Read in At Sentencing by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 14, 2023, the Supreme Court of Wisconsin held that a state prisoner must be given jail time credit on his sentence when the charge resulting in …
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