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National Portrait of SVORI Reentry Initiative, July, Urban Institute, 2004

Publication • February 19, 2016

Filed under: Prisoner Privileges, Release and Reentry

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McCarthy v. Hawkins-381 F.3d 407 (5th Cir. 2004)

Case • 2004

importantly, it flies in the face of the Supreme Court's reasoning in Verizon Maryland, Inc. v. Public Service Commission, 535 U.S. 635 (2002). There, Verizon brought suit in federal district court, seeking ...

Rothgery v. Gillespie County, Texas-128 S.Ct. 2578 (2008)

Case • 2008

" and "counsel [may] help avoid that prejudice." Coleman v. Alabama, 399 U. S. 1, 9 (1970) (plurality opinion) (internal quotation marks omitted); see also White v. Maryland, 373 U. S. 59, 60 (1963) (per curiam ...

District Attorney v. Osborne--- U.S. --, 129 S. Ct. 2308, 174 L. Ed. 2d 38 (2009)

Case • 2009

duty to disclose exculpatory evidence under, e.g., Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83, 83 S. Ct. 1194, 10 L. Ed. 2d 215. Held: Assuming Osborne's [***2] claims can be pursued using § 1983, he has ...

Crime Labs in Crisis: Shoddy Forensics Used to Secure Convictions

Article • October 15, 2010 • from PLN October, 2010

Filed under: Contractor Misconduct, Police Misconduct, Government Misconduct, Malicious Prosecution, Evidence, DNA Testing/Samples, Mechanical Searches/Scanners, Crime, Statistics/Trends, Databases, Conspiracy, Staffing, Jury Instructions, Expert Witnesses, Sentencing, Wrongful Conviction, Failure to Train/Supervise

; New York City; Nashville, Tennessee; and Tucson, Arizona, as well as at state-run crime labs in Illinois, Montana, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, North ...

HRDC comment to FCC re PLN cover story April 2011

Publication • October 31, 2014

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates, HRDC Publications

to pay hefty commissions to the contracting agency. Securus provides up to a 32.1% kickback in Alaska, but offers kickbacks of up to 60% in Maryland. Yet Securus’ interstate rate in Maryland (with almost ...

Revised Nationwide PLN Survey Examines Prison Phone Contracts, Kickbacks, PLN, 2011

Publication • February 8, 2016

Filed under: Telephones, PLN related

that GTL can provide lower rates absent the need to pay hefty commissions to the contracting agency. Securus provides up to a 32.1% kickback in Alaska, but offers kickbacks of up to 60% in Maryland. Yet ...

Meaningoflife

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Filed under: Sentencing

, Kentucky, Maine**, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont 0-1% 5.1-10% Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi ...

Probation and Parole in the U.S., 2013 BJS 2014

Publication • October 1, 2014

Filed under: Statistics/Trends, Parole, Probation

Probation and Parole in the U.S., 2013 BJS 2014 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics October 2014, NCJ 248029 Erinn J. Herberman, Ph.D., and Thomas P. Bonczar, BJS Statisticians A t yearend 2013, an estimated 4,751,400 adults were under community supervision—a decline of about …

Semiannual Report to Congress (BOP 2nd Report), April - September, DOJ OIG, 2004

Publication • February 16, 2016

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, DOC/BOP misconduct, Corrections Audits

databases, we found one forensic profile that was inaccurately loaded into the databases. ◆ The Baltimore City Police Department Crime Laboratory in Baltimore, Maryland, was not in compliance with all ...

Pln April 2011 Cover Story on Prison Phone Industry

Publication

Filed under: Telephones

to pay hefty commissions to the contracting agency. Securus provides up to a 32.1% kickback in Alaska, but offers kickbacks of up to 60% in Maryland. Yet Securus’ interstate rate in Maryland (with almost ...

Human Rights Watch No Equal Justice Plra Report 2009

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Filed under: PLRA

, Maryland Prisoner Litigation Act, Annotated Code of Maryland, secs. 5-1001–5-1007, 1997. Those laws are beyond the scope of this report. No Equal Justice 4 II. Recommendations To the President ...

Journal 18-2

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Filed under: Magazines, ACLU National Prison Project Journal

of Indiana by Falk and Fathi and seeks a ban on placing mentally ill prisoners in the Secured Housing Unit. No money damages are sought. ACLU Urges Maryland to Reject Contract with Correctional Medical ...

From Prison to Work - The Employment Dimensions of Prisoner Reentry, Urban Institute, 2004

Publication • February 18, 2016

Filed under: Release and Reentry

of Maryland; David Ellwood, Harvard University; Robert Carmona, STRIVE; Rodney Carroll, Welfare to Work Partnership; and Peter Cove, America Works. We are also grateful to Harry Holzer, Mindy Tarlow, Knut ...

Dept of Justice, Mortality in Local Jails Statistical Tables, 2000 - 2018

Publication • 2018

Filed under: Statistics/Trends, Jail Specific

Florida Georgia Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New ...

Human Rights Watch, No Equal Justice - the Prison Litigation Reform Act in the United States, 2009

Publication • 2009

Filed under: Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA)

, Maryland Prisoner Litigation Act, Annotated Code of Maryland, secs. 5-1001–5-1007, 1997. Those laws are beyond the scope of this report. No Equal Justice 4 II. Recommendations To the President ...

CLC, Georgetown Law Civil Rights Clinic Report -- "Can't Pay, Can't Vote.: A National Survey on the Modern Poll Tax," 2019

Publication • August 1, 2019

Filed under: Voting, Parole, Probation, Parole Conditions, Money/Property, Voting Rights Act

CLC, Georgetown Law Civil Rights Clinic Report -- "Can't Pay, Can't Vote.: A National Survey on the Modern Poll Tax," 2019 Can’t Pay, Can’t Vote: A NATIONAL SURVEY ON THE MODERN POLL TAX Table of Contents Executive Summary 4 Introduction 7 Part I: History and Context 13 A. Poll Taxes …

America's Cradle to Prison Pipeline, Children's Defense Fund, 2007

Publication • August 1, 2016

Filed under: Juveniles, Failure to Protect (Juveniles), Education (Juveniles), Juvenile Prisons

America's Cradle to Prison Pipeline, Children's Defense Fund, 2007 CPP_report 2007_FINAL (a-22) 9/6/07 3:21 PM Page b A Report of the Children’s Defense Fund America’s Cradle to Prison Pipeline SM CPP_report 2007_revised (a-21) 10/10/07 12:15 PM Page c About the Children’s Defense Fund T he Children’s Defense Fund’s Leave No …

Human Rights Watch - Every 25 Seconds The Human Toll of Criminalizing Drug Use in the United States, HRW ACLU, 2016

Publication • 2016

Filed under: Drug/Alcohol Withdrawal, Statistics/Trends, War on Drugs, Release and Reentry, Drug Treatment/Rehab

per year. While the bulk of drug possession arrests are in large states such as California, which made close to 200,000 arrests for drug possession in 2014, Maryland, Nebraska, and Mississippi have ...

Biggs v. Meadows-66 F.3d 56 (4th Cir. 1995)

Case • 1995

, Circuit Judge, and Williams, United States District Judge for the District of Maryland, sitting by designation. Chief Judge Ervin wrote the opinion, in which Judge Wilkins and Judge Williams joined. [12 ...