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Article • June 15, 1995 • from PLN June, 1995
. The determining factors the doctors are supposed to go by are whether or not the prisoner presents a "serious threat to the safety of himself, others or property" when not on medication. And what actions ...
Article • April 15, 1997 • from PLN April, 1997
to this area of human endeavor. Luckily, like those new converts, they come down to earth and may even come to the realization that their earlier impressions were either naive or overblown. What may prove most ...
Article • December 15, 1991 • from PLN December, 1991
therapists are few and far between in prison, but now even the offenders who are in counseling need to be careful what they say. Now anything they say can and will be used against them to civilly commit them ...
Article • March 15, 2005 • from PLN March, 2005
Filed under: Sentencing
increased because of prior convictions. So far, federal district courts have come up with varying interpretations of what it means to consider" the Guidelines. Some have announced that they will impose ...
Article • July 15, 2005 • from PLN July, 2005
Filed under: Media, Prisoner Media
. To mark its 15th anniversary, I recently met with Schroeter at his Seattle home to discuss his career, observations of prisoners' rights issues, and PLN's role in this cause. PRISON LEGAL NEWS: What ...
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
is dangerous and who is not. A lot of times the media portrays sex offenders in a different light than what research shows us," said Taylor. Only 5 to 10 percent are predatory in nature. For instance, a nurse ...
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004
Filed under: Organizing, Voting
completed all the conditions of their sentence. Although losing the right to vote is automatic, the process for restoring that right is not. What you need to do depends on where and when you were convicted ...
route before trying to obtain damages in a § 1983 lawsuit. However, it is important to be clear about what length of time we are talking about. The Edwards rule applies to the length of your criminal ...
as a result? Zero. Mike Nifong did what prosecutors almost always do when a complainant comes to them alleging a sexual assault: He took his complainant at her word and went full speed ahead with a prosecution ...
, clothes, or shoes. What prison officials try to overlook or hide is the amount of drugs that enter the system through prison guards. On average, 20 NYDOC employees are disciplined or resign each year ...
, before a Florida State Senate committee. "What is this place? Is it a prison? Is it a mental health center? A residential treatment center where people are clients? What is it? We ask that question ...
Case • 1999
when IFP status has been denied must the appellant file in the district court a motion that "states the issues that the party intends to present on appeal." Fed. R. App. P. 24(a)(1)(C). What is more ...
Article • November 6, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018
not uphold what is one of this agency’s core values.” Erschabek said the news reports confirmed what prisoners’ families had long suspected. “We’ve been claiming in the past ...
Article • November 6, 2017 • from PLN November, 2017
“to make sure that everyone knew what the order said.” According to MacIntyre, he believed “that the judge’s preliminary injunction forbade the arrest, detention, or delay ...
Article • December 5, 2017 • from PLN December, 2017
Filed under: Pardons/Clemency
State Governors Grant Over 500 Pardons, Commutations by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis In what is typically a politically risky move, six state governors recently granted pardons ...
Article • February 5, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019
levels, and in some respects the brutality and dehumanization seemed to be a continuation of what I saw in the military but with a little more personal freedom. For the duration of the 17 years I ...
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
at three stages: charging, securing a plea or verdict, and sentencing. At this third stage, prosecutors must determine what they think the case is “worth” in order to determine the punishment ...
power of a second chance? And to what degree are the factors that determine "risk" situational - access to jobs, housing and community support, for example - and therefore potentially beset with race ...
and needed treatment. What she got instead was a death sentence by the Champaign County court system. Toya Frazier was found dead December 1, 2015 at 5:11 p.m., alone in a cell at the Champaign County ...
Article • March 31, 2017
of the liberal discussions of the recent police killings of unarmed black men, there is an underlying assumption that the police are supposed to protect and serve the population. That is, after all, what they were ...
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