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Article • January 12, 2016
Filed under: Probation
California’s Lack of Oversight for Probationary Programs Allows Questionable Business into Loop by David Reutter California law encourages life-skill organizations to become involved in criminal justice, but a lack of oversight has allowed some non-profits to talk about responsibility while the organization itself shirks it. A review by the Voice …
Article • January 12, 2016
The Bureaucracy of Mercy by Why hasn’t President Obama freed more prisoners? Maybe that’s the wrong question. By Bill Keller, The Marshall Project As the two presidents, one incoming and the other outgoing, shared a limo to the inauguration in January 2009, President Bush had some advice for President-elect Obama: “Announce …
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: Wrongful Release
California Court of Appeals Holds Consecutive Sentence Begins When Prisoner Found Suitable for Parole by In a decision handed down on May 14, 2015, a California court of appeals held that a prisoner’s consecutive sentence for a felony committed while incarcerated (custodial felony) begins on the date he is found …
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 • January 7, 2016
Filed under: Wrongful Release, Accidents
Nebraska DOC Director Retires Amid Criticism of Department Practices by Joe Watson The retirement of Robert Houston as director of Nebraska's Department of Correctional Services did not spark reflections on his 38-year career, but rather it salted fresh wounds. Houston, 63, insisted that his retirement—submitted in papers to Nebraska Gov. …
Article • January 7, 2016
Former Missouri Death Row Prisoner Finally Exonerated in 1983 Murder by Joe Watson Three decades after being sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit, and more than two years after Missouri's Supreme Court threw out his murder conviction, Reggie Griffin has been finally exonerated. On October 25, …
Article • January 7, 2016
New Pennsylvania Legislation Sucker Punches Inmate Speech by Linn Washington Jr. Law Shreds Rights by: Linn Washington Jr. The serious injustice endured by Pennsylvania prison inmate Lorenzo ‘Cat’ Johnson, detailed yesterday in Part I of this series [1], is the subject of a website and numerous other postings on the Internet. …
Brief • January 6, 2016
Knuth v. Arp et al, CO, Complaint, wrongful imprisonment appeal parole due process, 2016 Case 1:16-cv-00025-LTB Document 1 Filed 01/06/16 USDC Colorado Page 1 of 31 Case 1:16-cv-00025-LTB Document 1 Filed 01/06/16 USDC Colorado Page 2 of 31 Case 1:16-cv-00025-LTB Document 1 Filed 01/06/16 USDC Colorado Page 3 of 31 …
Article • January 1, 2016 • from PLN January, 2016
Report: Nearly One in Four Exonerations Involves Crimes that Never Occurred by Christopher Zoukis A report issued by the National Registry of Exonerations in November 2013 found that 22% of the known exonerations in the U.S. resulted from “no-crime” convictions – that is, cases in which the offender was cleared …
Article • January 1, 2016 • from PLN January, 2016
California Prisoner Exonerated but Now Faces Deportation by California Prisoner Exonerated but Now Faces Deportation On November 23, 2015, a Los Angeles judge ordered the release of 46-year-old Luis Vargas, who had served 16 years in prison for sexual assault and other charges. Vargas, a legal immigrant prior to his …
Article • January 1, 2016 • from PLN January, 2016
Tulsa, Oklahoma Settles Four Wrongful Conviction Lawsuits for $810,000 by Matthew Clarke Tulsa, Oklahoma Settles Four Wrongful Conviction Lawsuits for $810,000 by Matt Clarke In January 2014, the City of Tulsa, Oklahoma agreed to pay $35,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a man claiming his wrongful conviction was the …
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 …
Brief • December 21, 2015
Gondor v. State of Ohio, OH, Judgment, Wrongful Conviction, 2015 IN THE COURT OF CLAIMS OF OHIO ROBERT GONDOR, et al. Case No. 2015-00921-WI Plaintiffs Judge Patrick M. McGrath v. ENTRY STATE OF OHIO Defendant On May 12, 2014, the Portage County Court of Common Pleas issued a decision and …
Brief • December 17, 2015
Cook v. City of Baldwin Park, CA, Settlement, False Arrest and Imprisonment, 2015 RELEASE IN FULL OF ALL CLAIMS KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That I, Paul Cook, being of lawful age greater than eighteen years, for and in consideration of the sum of sixty-seven thousand and five hundred …
Brief • December 17, 2015
Rodriguez v Providence Community Corrections, TN, Memo, privatized probation, 2015 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE NASHVILLE DIVISION CINDY RODRIGUEZ, et al. Plaintiffs, v. PROVIDENCE COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS, INC., et al. Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) CASE NO. 3:15-cv-01048 …
Brief • December 11, 2015
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
Larson et al v. State of Washington, WA, Amicus Brief - ACLU and Innocence Project, wrongful conviction, 2015 No. 33179-2 COURT OF APPEALS, DIVISION III STATE OF WASHINGTON ROBERT E. LARSON, TYLER W. GASSMAN and PAUL E. STATLER, Plaintiff-Appellants, v. STATE OF WASHINGTON, Defendant-Respondent. BRIEF OF AMICI CURIAE THE INNOCENCE …
Article • December 3, 2015 • from PLN December, 2015
Wrongfully Convicted Prisoners Released as New York Prosecutors Review Tainted Cases; $23.4 Million in Settlements Thus Far by Mark Wilson Wrongfully Convicted Prisoners Released as New York Prosecutors Review Tainted Cases; $23.4 Million in Settlements Thus Far by Mark Wilson Scores of prisoners from New York City have claimed for …
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 …
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