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Inside the Box Costs of Solitary Confinement in NM ACLU-NM 2013 INSIDE THE BOX THE REAL COSTS OF SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN NEW MEXICO’S PRISONS AND JAILS INSIDE THE BOX THE REAL COSTS OF SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN NEW MEXICO’S PRISONS AND JAILS A report by The New Mexico Center on Law …
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Escapes
California Supreme Court: Cutting Through Fences May Not Constitute Attempt to Escape by In a July 2012 unpublished decision, the California Supreme Court upheld a published opinion of the Court of Appeal dismissing the “three strikes” conviction of a prisoner, Robin Bailey, who was charged with escaping from the Correctional …
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
500 Escape from Abu Ghraib and Taji Prisons in Iraq by Christopher Zoukis On July 21, 2013, military-style assaults at Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison and another prison in Taji resulted in the escape of more than 500 prisoners, including an unknown number of al-Qaida members. Many of the prisoners …
Publication • September 1, 2013
Lockup Quota Report In the Public Interest 2013 .. Criminal How Lockup Quotas and “Low-Crime Taxes” ations Guarantee Profits for Private Prison Corpor A Publication of In the Public Interest | S e pt e m b e r 2 0 1 3 I n th e p u b …
Article • August 15, 2013
Justice Department Releases Report on Justice Expenditures and Employment by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In December 2011, the Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice released a report on employment and expenditures by federal, state and local governments for police, jails, prisons, courts and lawyers. The …
Article • August 15, 2013
The Justice Project Calls for Jailhouse Snitch Reforms by Snitch-dependent prosecutions are the leading cause of wrongful convictions in capital cases, according to a 2005 report of the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law. As of May 11, 2007, over 120 people have been exonerated from …
Article • August 15, 2013
Delaware Supreme Court Reverses Escape Conviction by In December 2012, the Delaware Supreme Court reversed an escape conviction because the prisoner’s request to represent himself was improperly denied. While serving a sentence for robbery at the Plummer Center in Wilmington, Delaware, prisoner Maurice Williams requested and received a medical pass …
Article • August 15, 2013
Affordable Housing Reduces Crime by The Justice Policy Institute (JPI), a Washington, D.C.-based think tank dedicated to ending society’s reliance on incarceration, issued a research brief examining the correlation between housing and public safety. America has the highest incarceration rate in the world, with 1.4 million people in prison and …
Article • August 15, 2013 • from PLN August, 2013
Report: BOP Fails to Monitor Effects, Conditions of Segregated Housing by Derek Gilna In May, 2013, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report critical of the federal Bureau of Prisons' (BOP) use of segregated housing. The report found that the percentage of prisoners held in segregated housing, including …
Article • August 15, 2013 • from PLN August, 2013
Filed under: Escapes, Sentencing
Louisiana Supreme Court Reverses Sentence for Escape, but Sentence Affirmed on Remand by The Louisiana Supreme Court reversed an appellate court that found excessive a sentence which was twice as long as the original sentence imposed prior to a successful appeal, but remanded the case for consideration of whether the …
Article • July 15, 2013 • from PLN July, 2013
Filed under: Escapes, Sentencing
Oregon: Post-Escape Conduct Justifies Enhanced Escape Sentence by The Oregon Court of Appeals has held that criminal conduct committed after an escape justifies the imposition of an enhanced sentence on the escape conviction. Donald A. Bennett was an Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) prisoner when he escaped from the South …
Collateral Consequences Weighed for Corporations, Not for Individuals by Russell Mokhiber In case you had any doubt that federal prosecutors favor corporations over individuals, check out Mythili Raman's testimony before a House hearing on May 22, 2013. Raman is the acting chief of the Criminal Division at the Department of …
Third Circuit: Prison Officials Liable for Failing to Protect Informant by The Third Circuit Court of Appeals held on September 24, 2012 that prison officials may be held liable for failing to protect an informant held in a Special Housing Unit (SHU). The appellate court affirmed in part and reversed …
Article • July 13, 2013
Newest Texas Criminal Justice Lobbyist is Powerful Texas Business Group by Matthew Clarke By Matt Clarke The most powerful business group in Texas, the Texas Association of Businesses (TAB) has announced its intention to influence the future course of criminal justice reform in Texas. TAB president Bill Hammond said TAB …
Publication • July 1, 2013
Filed under: Statistics/Trends, Census
Prisoners in 2012 - Advance County BJS 2013 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics July 2013, NCJ 242467 E. Ann Carson and Daniela Golinelli, BJS Statisticians T he U.S. prison population declined for the third consecutive year, falling to an estimated 1,571,013 prisoners at …
Brief • June 21, 2013
Kiminski v. Hunt, MN, Complaint, Abuse of Drivers License Database, 2013 CASE 0:13-cv-00185-JNE-TNL Document 51 Filed 06/21/13 Page 1 of 34 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA ________________________________________________________________________ Jennifer KIMINSKI, Paul KIMINSKI, Rosemary STIFF, Kathryn Susan Barton and Eugene Barton as legal guardians for Kathryn Sarah BARTON, …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Slowly Closing the Gates: A State-by-State Assessment of Recent Prison Closures by Christopher Petrella by Christopher Petrella and Alex Friedmann After nearly 40 years of unprecedented growth, our nation's expanding prison population has finally begun to sputter. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2010 marked the first year since …
How the Prison - Industrial Complex Destroys Lives by Mark Karlin by Mark Karlin, Truthout Marc Mauer is the Executive Director of The Sentencing Project and the author of Race to Incarcerate, which has just been released in graphic format, illustrated by Sabrina Jones, as Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Charting a New Justice Reinvestment by Nicole D. Porter by Nicole D. Porter, The Sentencing Project For more than forty years, the correctional system has been dominated by growth. In 1969, the crime rate was 3,680 per 100,000 population and the incarceration rate was 97 state and federal prisoners per …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Oregon Rape Victim's Rights Clash with Rights of Accused Rapist by The Oregon Supreme Court, sitting en banc, has dismissed a rape victim's interlocutory appeal of a trial court's order allowing her accused rapist to review her Internet search history on her personal computer as part of his defense. In …
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