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prevailed at trial, because BPP officials admitted that the suit had caused them to change their policies. Sparks showed impatience at what he considered to be the BPP’s ignoring earlier federal court ...
Article • February 15, 2010 • from PLN February, 2010
supervisors when Glanz asked for and received permission to perform a bar mitzvah ceremony at the Tombs. Glanz even provided the number of guests who would at-tend the event. What his supervisors didn’t know ...
Article • April 15, 2010 • from PLN April, 2010
Filed under: Money/Property, Restitution
. “This is what keeps me awake,” said public defender April Pearce. “Locking these people up when they make about $300 per month. It bothers me because it doesn’t punish crime. It punishes people because ...
Article • April 15, 2010 • from PLN April, 2010
probably upwards of $10 million, and we need to find out what the hell happened,” House Speaker Greg Stumbo said in response. Rep. Yonts agreed, stating bluntly, “The root problem was the issue of food ...
Article • June 15, 2010 • from PLN June, 2010
questions in her book, Cruel and Unusual: The Culture of Punishment in America. What are the underlying social values that have allowed a prison state as vast as the U.S.’s to thrive? How is this related ...
Article • June 15, 2010 • from PLN June, 2010
probationers to pay. Those who fail to make payments land in jail without bond until they pay what is owed or can assure a judge they can make future payments. Testifying in Richmond County Superior Court ...
Article • August 15, 2010 • from PLN August, 2010
convictions for rape of a child, aggravated rape of a child, burglary of a building and indecency with a child. The 6-foot, 200-pound Comeaux had been using a wheelchair for a decade. Perhaps that is what ...
Article • September 15, 2010 • from PLN September, 2010
Filed under: Organizing, Clergy
what she saw behind prison bars.” With representation by the TCRP, attorney Edward A. Stapleton and the law firm of King and Spaulding, Hanson sued Cameron County on First Amendment grounds, seeking ...
Article • August 15, 2010 • from PLN August, 2010
.” Hawaiian prisoner Michael Alvarez agreed to testify for the prosecution in exchange for hormone treatments. “All I wanted to do was get treatment for my gender disorder,” he said. “No one knows what it’s ...
, was allowed into the facility the day of the killings. He found prisoners with gunshot wounds left without medical treatment in the cells. He asked the prisoners what happened. “They all claim that when ...
Article • November 15, 2010 • from PLN November, 2010
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
Court resolved a narrow question regarding lifer parole litigation; namely, what is the proper scope of the remedy ordered by a California court which concludes that a decision by the Board of Parole ...
military personnel what they could expect to experience should they be captured by an enemy. The SERE program included waterboarding, but it was limited to a single instance of short duration. Further ...
Article • February 15, 2011 • from PLN February, 2011
by what appeared to be some type of homemade rope,” fashioned from medical gauze from his old wrist wound dressing. Jasper was pronounced dead at 6:50pm. Jasper’s parents sued in state court, alleging ...
Article • February 15, 2011 • from PLN February, 2011
about judicial complaints. “Everybody resigning to cover up what happened does not strike me as good government. The public has a right to know, doesn’t it? ... In some of these cases, you’re talking ...
Article • April 15, 2011 • from PLN April, 2011
in a car stopped in front of him. One asked Gaskins for the time. When he replied he didn’t know, the man responded, “You know what time it is,” then opened fire with an assault rifle. “It snapped my wrist ...
Article • June 1, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Russian forces took 2,500 Ukrainian prisoners with them. What followed was a Kafka-esque journey through five countries, at the end of which the same Russian army that led the prisoners out of jail detained ...
Article • June 1, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
, p.50.] But first, without taking steps to review what went wrong at Miller’s unsuccessful execution, DOC officials moved forward on November 17, 2022, with preparations to execute Smith ...
Article • June 1, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
alcohol abuse that precipitated his death” – that’s not what matters under state law, the Court said.  “Mich, Comp. Laws §600.2925a speaks in terms of ‘the cause ...
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
. But the Ninth Circuit disagreed. What is important, the Court said, is whether the religious texts are a “sincere component of Jones’ religious practice, without reference to whether Jones, or other ...
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
observation: BOP refuses to acknowledge the existence of “solitary confinement,” preferring instead the more benign-sounding “segregated housing.” Yet no matter what it’s called ...
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