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ACLU - Cruel and Usual Punishment, LA County Jails, 2011 Cruel and Usual Punishment: How a Savage Gang of Deputies Controls LA County Jails A report by the ACLU National Prison Project and the ACLU of Southern California September 2011 Principal Authors Sarah Liebowitz ACLU Foundation of Southern California, Jails …
State of Kansas v. Gray, KS, Appeal Brief, Traffic Stop, 2017 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF KANSAS No. 112,035 STATE OF KANSAS, Appellee, v. MARCUS GRAY, Appellant. SYLLABUS BY THE COURT 1. K.S.A. 22-3216(1), which permits a defendant aggrieved by an unlawful search and seizure to move …
Publication • 2017
Harvard Law Review - The President's Role in Advancing Criminal Justice Reform, 2017 VOLUME 130 JANUARY 2017 NUMBER 3 © 2017 by The Harvard Law Review Association COMMENTARY THE PRESIDENT’S ROLE IN ADVANCING CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM Barack Obama CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................ 812 I. THE URGENT NEED FOR REFORM ................................................................................. 816 …
Article • May 5, 2017 • from PLN May, 2017
Filed under: Racial Discrimination
The Sentencing Project Explores Impact of Race and Ethnicity on U.S. Prison System by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna A June 2016 report by The Sentencing Project found that blacks are incarcerated in state prisons at much higher rates than whites – up to ten times the incarceration rate in …
Article • May 5, 2017 • from PLN May, 2017
Stipulated Order Desegregates Arizona Prisons; $195,000 in Attorney Fees Awarded by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Decades after prisons in the Deep South were desegregated by the federal courts, a federal judge has approved a stipulated order desegregating housing and job assignments in Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) facilities. The …
Ware v. Lake County Sheriff's Office, IL, Settlement, Employment Discrimination, 2017 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT A.N'DMUTUAL GENERAL RELEASE This Settlement Agreement and Mutual General Release ("Agreement"), is made and entered into by and between LANCE WARE (hereinafter "Ware"), Lhe COUNTY OF LAKE ("County") a11dthe SHERJFF OF LAKE COUNTY lLLlNOJS ("Sheriff') (l1ereafter,Ware, the …
Americas Increasing Use of Life, The Sentencing Project, 2017 STILL LIFE America’s Increasing Use of Life and Long-Term Sentences For more information, contact: The Sentencing Project 1705 DeSales Street NW 8th Floor Washington, D.C. 20036 (202) 628-0871 sentencingproject.org twitter.com/sentencingproj facebook.com/thesentencingproject This report was written by Ashley Nellis, Ph.D., Senior Research …
Article • April 26, 2017
$6,750 Settlement in BOP Racial, Age Discrimination Complaint by The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) paid $6,750 to settle an employee’s age and racial discrimination claim.  The April 7, 2000, complaint of Sally Williams, a Secretary GS-6 at the BOP office in Washington D.C., alleged denial of promotions. Williams asserted that younger …
Article • April 26, 2017
EEOC Judge Holds BOP Retaliated Against Employee for Prior EEO Activities by On May 1, 2002, an administrative law judge for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ruled that the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) retaliated against an employee who had filed previous complaints with the EEOC when they terminated …
Department of Justice Opposes Finding of Racial Discrimination against BOP by Donald Ernest Thompson, who is black, was a correctional supervisor (GS-11 Lieutenant) at FCI Englewood in Littleton, Colorado when he was made Disturbance Control Team Leader. Two white members of the team objected to his appointment, claiming he had …
Osegueda v. Stanislaus County Public Safety Center, CA, Order on 2nd MTD - Gang Segregation, 2017 Case 1:16-cv-01218-LJO-BAM Document 30 Filed 04/11/17 Page 1 of 28 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 8 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 10 ARMANDO OSEGUEDA, et al., …
Article • March 31, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
Supreme Court Reverses Criminal Conviction for Racial Bias by Juror by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna In a decision sure to reverberate throughout the nation’s criminal courts, in March 2017 the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the conviction of a Colorado defendant charged with sexual battery due to a juror’s racially …
Article • March 31, 2017
Stop Kidding Yourself: The Police Were Created to Control Working Class and Poor People by Sam Mitrani by Sam Mitrani, The Labor and Working-Class History Association In most of the liberal discussions of the recent police killings of unarmed black men, there is an underlying assumption that the police are supposed to …
Article • March 28, 2017
Paying the Piper by David J. Krajicek by David J. Krajicek, The Crime Report Montgomery, Alabama’s City Court is a Debt-Collecting Machine Montgomery, Alabama--Anyone who wishes to enter Municipal Court in Alabama’s capital city must first be sanctioned by a court officer who scans your belongings, then polices your attire. “Tuck …
EPI - Mass Incarceration and Children's Outcomes, 2016 Mass incarceration and children’s outcomes Criminal justice policy is education policy Report • By Leila Morsy and Richard Rothstein • December 15, 2016 Summary: Parental incarceration leads to an array of cognitive and noncognitive outcomes known to affect children’s performance in school. …
Publication • March 7, 2017
Race and Wrongful Convictions, National Registry of Exonerations, March 2017 RACE AND WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES Samuel R. Gross, Senior Editor, srgross@umich.edu Maurice Possley, Senior Researcher Klara Stephens, Research Fellow National Registry of Exonerations March 7, 2017 NATIONAL REGISTRY OF EXONERATIONS NEWKIRK CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND SOCIETY UNIVERSITY …
Johns v. City of Eugene, OR, Opinion and Order, 4th and 14th Amendment Rights, 2017 Case 6:16-cv-00907-AA Document 43 Filed 02/15/17 Page 1 of 23 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF OREGON EUGENE DIVISION ALVIN JOHNS, Case No. 6:16-cv-00907-AA OPINION AND ORDER Plaintiff, v. CITY OF …
Still No Answers by Jamycheal Mitchell’s death in a Virginia jail cell still hasn’t been explained. It should be a national scandal. by Dahlia Lithwick, Slate On August 19, 2015, 24-year-old Jamycheal Mitchell was found dead in his cell at the Hampton Roads Regional Jail in Virginia. New revelations in May 2016 about …
Three Reports Provide Data on Prisoners Held in “Restrictive Housing” by Derek Gilna An October 15, 2015 report by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), covering the time period from 2011-12 – the most recent period for which statistics are available – indicated that on an …
Study: 95 Percent of Elected Prosecutors are White by Joe Watson A recent study illustrates just how racially skewed the U.S. criminal justice system is with respect to its most powerful participants: prosecutors. Of 2,437 elected state and local prosecutors holding office in 2014, 95 percent were white and 79% …
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