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Article • May 15, 2003 • from PLN May, 2003
Texas Parole Officer Hires Parolee for Murder by Gary Hunter In May 2002, Texas Parole Officer Connie Lynn Stones pleaded guilty to charges of solicitation of capital murder after police recorded her trying to hire a hit-man to kill her lover's girlfriend. Stone was in love with Brett Williams, who …
Georgia Parole Corruption Deepens by Gary Hunter A trail of corruption, greed, and cronyism has led to the indictment of a Georgia senator, the dismissal of an assistant attorney general and the resignation of six parole board members including the director and the chairman. Van Streat was suspended from his …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN March, 2003
California Parole Official Demoted by The vice chairman of the California parole board, Jones Moore, was recently demoted after board Chairwoman Carol Daly received what she termed "an unacceptable number of complaints" about Moore's behavior from numerous attorneys representing prisoners at their parole hearings. In an August 27, 2002, letter …
Georgia Lawmaker Indicted for Aiding Prisoner Transfer by Lonnie Burton On January 8, 2002, a Fulton County, Georgia grand jury indicted state senator Van Streat on four counts of violation of oath of office and one count of making a false statement. Both charges stemmed from Streat's alleged involvement in …
Article • July 15, 2002 • from PLN July, 2002
Colorado Parole Board Member Busted for Child Porn by The Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Custer County (Colorado) sheriff launched an investigation in early December, 2001, into allegations that Larry Schwarz, a former Colorado Congressman and parole board member, dealt child pornography out of his home. Schwarz was …
Article • April 15, 2001 • from PLN April, 2001
Ohio Parole Hearing Officer Acquitted in Bribe Case by After a three-day trial, a jury acquitted an Ohio parole-hearing officer of charges that he sold early parole releases to prisoners. On Nov. 9, 2000, as Lorain Co. Common Pleas Judge Lynett M. McGough read the verdict, parole hearing officer Harold …
Retaliatory Denial of WA Parole Decision Vacated by The Washington state Supreme Court, sitting En Banc held that Washington's Indeterminate Sentencing Review Board (ISRB) improperly considered a history of filing litigation and grievances against prison officials, in finding that a prisoner was unfit for parole. During a 1997 parole consideration …
Article • October 15, 2000 • from PLN October, 2000
New Jersey Parole Board Chief Resigns by The chairman of the New Jersey state Parole Board submitted his resignation July 28, 2000, as authorities neared the end of a two-year investigation into his alleged links with organized crime. A law enforcement source close to the investigation told The Record, the …
U.S. Parole Commission Retaliation Reversed by Scott Fleming The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals issued a ruling that safeguards the due process rights of prisoners whose release dates are committed to the discretion of parole agencies. In Bono v. Benov, 197 F.3d 409 (9th Cir. 1999), the court affirmed …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Investigators Probe Ohio Paroles-For-Sale Scam by After receiving a tip from an unidentified informant in June of 1997, Ohio prison officials uncovered evidence of a parole-for-pay scam. While screening prisoner mail, officials read a letter from Grafton Correctional Institution prisoner Bubba Shumate addressed to Lynn Moore, a former Grafton prisoner …
$4.1 Million Award In Suit Over Sexual Assault of Prisoners by Official by $4.1 Million Award In Suit Over Sexual Assault of Prisoners By Official by Matthew T. Clarke A federal district court in Texas has awarded two female prisoners who were the victims of sexual assault by a prison …
New York Parole Board Commissioner Convicted by Julia Lutsky Federal Inquiry Continues by Julia Lutsky In April of 1996 John Kim walked out of prison on parole; he had been sentenced four years earlier to four to twelve years for armed robbery. His father, Nam Soo Kim, pastor of one …
Article • September 15, 1999 • from PLN September, 1999
West Virginia DOC Commissioner Resigns After Beating Wife by On March 10, 1999, West Virginia Department of Corrections commissioner Bill Davis resigned his position "effective immediately." Davis cited "personal reasons" for resigning. The "personal reasons" in question is Davis's arrest on spousal abuse charges. On March 5, 1999, Davis's estranged …
Parole Officials Liable for False Information in Parole Violation Arrest Warrant by A federal district court in New Jersey has held that parole officials are liable for causing the arrest of a parolee based upon false information. Robert Friedland, a New Jersey state prisoner, was paroled in August, 1995. Subsequently …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
New York Paroles for Sale by Julia Lutsky In January 1997 the parents of a young Korean prisoner walked into the Brooklyn offices of federal prosecutor Zachary Carter to report that a volunteer fund raiser for Republican Governor Pataki said he would use his influence to win parole for their …
Parole Officer Recommendation Not Protected by Absolute Immunity by Parole Officer Recommendation Not Protected by Absolute Immunity The court of appeals for the second circuit held a parole officer who recommended that a warrant be issued for a parolee's arrest was not entitled to absolute imunity. John Scotto, a felony …
Article • January 15, 1998 • from PLN January, 1998
Utah Governor's 'Pal' Dupes Parole Officials by Michael Blake Jensen, an admitted con artist and pathological liar was on parole for the fourth time in early 1995. He was facing possible parole violation and felony theft, and Utah parole officer David Olive and his partner, Swen Heimburg, were prepared to …
Article • February 15, 1995 • from PLN February, 1995
Former TX Parole Board Chairman Sentenced by Former Texas slate parole board chairman, James Granberry, pleaded guilty in April of 1994 to charges that he committed perjury during an investigation of independent "parole consultants." After Granberry resigned from the Board of Pardons and Parole in May 1991, he set himself …
CA BPT Lawyer Sentenced by David Eugene Brown was the chief counsel for the California Board of Prison Terms (BPT) from 1982 until June, 1994. He worked his way up through the prison system's ranks, starting as guard, then captain and going to law school, after which he was appointed …
Bach v. Mitchell, CT, Opinion, Prison Disciplinary Procedures, 1971 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT 'T JOHN M. BACH, FATHER. PHILIP BERRIGAN S.S.J., JOHN THEODORE GLICK, THOMAS R. HOSMER, KEVIN B. JONES, DAVID MALAMENT, prisoners presently incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution, at Danbury, Connecticut; JOHN HALLORAN, JOHN J. …
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