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Article • March 15, 2013 • from PLN March, 2013
Former California Prison Guard Convicted of Lying about Injury Sustained at Sex Club by In March 2012, an ex-prison guard and his wife were convicted of attempted perjury for trying to swindle California’s workers’ compensation system by claiming that injuries the guard sustained at a San Francisco sex club were …
U.S. Citizens Mistakenly Snared, Deported by DHS and ICE by Derek Gilna An increasing number of American citizens have been questioned, detained and even deported by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), as a result of databases that incorrectly identify them as undocumented …
Article • March 15, 2013
Iowa Supreme Court Supports Prisoner Suppression Motion by Derek Gilna In a case of first impression, the Iowa Supreme Court has reversed an Iowa Court of Appeals decision denying a "limited statutory right to a custodial in-person consultation with an attorney," and suppressed an operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated …
Publication • March 7, 2013
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NYC DOC Commissioner Statement re 2014 Budget, 2013 Statement to the New York City Council Committee on Fire and Criminal Justice Services Elizabeth Crowley, Chairperson by Dr. Dora B. Schriro, Commissioner NYC Department of Correction March 7, 2013 Good afternoon, Chairperson Crowley and members of the Committee on Fire and …
Murphy v. Lockhart, MI, Settlement, escape retaliation religious rights mail telephone family segregation, 2013 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DIVISION TIMOTHY MURPHY, #183248, Plaintiff, No. 2:10-cv-11676 V. HON. DAVID M. LAWSON SEAN LOCKHART, THOMAS BIRKETT, RAYBOWERSON, MICHAEL KRAJNIK, SARAH BEARSS, KENNETH WERNER, MAG. LAURIE J. MICHELSON …
Publication • March 4, 2013
BOP Operations and Budget Analysis, 2014 The Bureau of Prisons (BOP): Operations and Budget Nathan James Analyst in Crime Policy March 4, 2014 Congressional Research Service 7-5700 www.crs.gov R42486 The Bureau of Prisons (BOP): Operations and Budget Summary The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) was established in 1930 to house federal …
Publication • March 1, 2013
Naval Postgraduate School Thesis - Recommendations for Countering Prison Radicalization NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA THESIS ESTABLISHING A DERADICALIZATION/DISENGAGEMENT MODEL FOR AMERICA’S CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES: RECOMMENDATIONS FOR COUNTERING PRISON RADICALIZATION by Tony C. Parker March 2013 Thesis Advisor: Second Reader: Nadav Morag Patrick Miller Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited …
LaSalle Corrections: A Family-Run Prison Firm by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Unique circumstances have combined to make northern Louisiana a prime location for private prisons, as Louisiana sheriffs can profit by letting a private company build and operate facilities that house both local prisoners and prisoners from other jurisdictions. …
Article • February 15, 2013 • from PLN February, 2013
In Memory of Jon E. Yount (1938-2012) by Peter Wagner Sometime in the early morning of April 26, 2012, in his cell in a remote Pennsylvania prison, a 74-year-old jailhouse lawyer serving a life sentence hung himself. He was a quiet man who avoided taking credit for his work, so …
Article • February 15, 2013 • from PLN February, 2013
U.S. Imprisons the Most Women, Tops International List by It’s almost a cliché that the world’s freest country imprisons by far the most people. And yet the pure mathematics of the issue remain cruelly ironic, especially for America’s female prisoners. The second edition of the World Female Imprisonment List, released …
Oregon Jail Guard Convicted of Assaulting Prisoner, Gets 30 Days in Jail by On April 6, 2012, a jury convicted a former Oregon jail guard of assaulting a prisoner. The following month he was sentenced to 30 days in jail and a two-year term of probation. One day before his …
Article • February 15, 2013 • from PLN February, 2013
The Collapse of American Criminal Justice, by William J. Stuntz (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011). 432 pages, $35.00 by Derek Gilna Book review by Derek Gilna The late William J. Stuntz, a Harvard law professor who conducted extensive research into the “rule of law” in American society, authored …
Oregon Prosecutor’s Son Escapes Mandatory Prison Time for Sexual Assault by Commit sexual abuse in Oregon and you face a mandatory prison sentence of 75 months – unless your father happens to be a prosecutor, apparently. In December 2011, Jacob Frasier, 17, the son of Coos County District Attorney Paul …
Former California Prison Guard Resentenced Following Assault Conviction by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated a 51-month sentence imposed on a former California prison guard convicted of assaulting two prisoners, on the ground that during sentencing the district court had relied on unreliable allegations made by a jailhouse …
Forms of Judicial Deference in Prison Law by Sharon Dolovich by Sharon Dolovich1 Anyone familiar with the constitutional law of prisoners’ rights knows how ready courts are to find against prisoners in the name of “judicial deference.” It is not unreasonable for courts to grant a measure of deference to …
Article • January 15, 2013 • from PLN January, 2013
FBI Reports Drop in Violent Crime; DOJ Reports Increase by Violent crime fell nationally in 2011 according to the FBI’s annual Uniform Crime Report, released in October 2012. The FBI reported a 3.8 percent drop in violent crime – including murder, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault – with an …
Dramatic Increase in Percentage of Criminal Cases Being Plea Bargained by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Over the course of the past few decades there has been a significant increase in the percentage of criminal cases being plea bargained and a corresponding decrease in cases that are taken to trial. …
Article • January 15, 2013 • from PLN January, 2013
Pennsylvania: Former BOP Warden Pleads Guilty to Cover-up by Troy Levi, the former warden of Federal Detention Center (FDC) Philadelphia, was indicted by a federal grand jury on September 13, 2011. Levi, 49, was charged with multiple counts of obstruction of justice, witness tampering and making false statements to federal …
Iraqi Prison Breaks Likely Inside Jobs by On September 27, 2012, prisoners at the Tasfirat prison in Tikrit seized weapons after breaking into a storage room, overpowered guards and engaged in a gun battle with security forces during an escape attempt. The late evening incident, which lasted several hours, left …
Contraband Smuggling a Problem at Prisons and Jails Nationwide by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The smuggling of illicit items such as drugs, cigarettes and cell phones into prisons and jails continues to be a significant problem throughout the United States. Often the people doing the smuggling are guards or …
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