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Article • August 5, 2016
Porn and Referral Fee Scandals Force Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice’s Retirement by David Reutter In the midst of a pornographic email scandal, Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Seamus P. McCaffery retired. That move came just a week after his colleagues issued an order suspending him from all judicial work and instructing …
Article • August 5, 2016
Indefinite Pre-incident Detention of Indigents by Mississippi Challenged in Class Action Law Suit by David Reutter A class action challenging the indefinite jailing of persons in a Mississippi’s Scott County Detention Center without indictment or representation by counsel was filed on September 23, 2014. The lead plaintiffs are indigents who …
Article • August 4, 2016
State Indigent Legal Costs Hold Steady at $2.3 billion in Past Year by Derek Gilna State-paid expenditures for indigent defendants’ legal fees held steady in fiscal year 2012, the last year for which statistics are available.  In 2012, according to the newest report by the Bureau of Justice (BJS) statistics, …
Article • August 4, 2016
States Still Using Unconstitutional Debtors Prisons to Jail the Poor by Joe Watson The landmark 1983 U.S. Supreme Court decision Bearden v. Georgia reaffirmed the outlaw of so-called "debtors prisons"—the practice of incarcerating indigent people for being unable to pay off their debts—and requires that judges consider whether defendants are …
Publication • August 3, 2016
Federal Criminal Case Processing with trends 1982-2000, DOJ BJS, 2000 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics Federal Justice Statistics: Reconciled Data Federal Criminal Case Processing, 2000 With trends 1982-2000 Federal criminal case processing, 1994-2000 140,000 Suspects investigated Suspects arrested 120,000 100,000 Defendants charged 80,000 …
Publication • August 3, 2016
A Jailhouse Lawyer’s Manual - Immigration and Consular Access, Supplement to the Seventh Edition, Columbia Human Rights Law Review 2007 A Jailhouse Lawyer’s Manual Immigration and Consular Access Supplement to the Seventh Edition Columbia Human Rights Law Review 2007 COLUMBIA HUMAN RIGHTS LAW REVIEW 2006-2007 EDITORIAL BOARD 2006–2007 Editor-in-Chief Mary …
Publication • August 3, 2016
A Primer for Jail Litigators - Part 1, ACLU - Koren, 194 . N.ational · Jail Project , ' A PFtIMER FOR JAIL ...LITIGATORS : Edward I. Koren John Boston . ElizabethAlex.ander . . '- . ' : ~ Oan, Manville J 2/10/84 A PRIMER FOR JAIL LITIGATORS: SOME PRACTICAL …
Publication • August 3, 2016
NYC Know Your Rights Project - An Innovative Pro Bono Response to the Lack of Counsel for Indigent Immigrant Detainees, City Bar Justice Center, 2009 NYC Know Your Rights Project An Innovative Pro Bono Response to the Lack of Counsel for Indigent Immigrant Detainees City Bar Justice Center 42 West …
Publication • August 3, 2016
Elected Judges and the Death Penalty in Texas, Bright, 2000 Elected Judges and the Death Penalty in Texas: Why Full Habeas Corpus Review by Independent Federal Judges Is Indispensable to Protecting Constitutional Rights Stephen B. Bright* Texas Law Review, Volume 78, page 1806 (2000) Copyright c 2000 Texas Law Review …
$7,000 Settlement after Second Circuit Reverses Dismissal of New York Prisoner’s Suit by Derek Gilna In 2007, prisoner Aaron Willey filed a pro se federal civil rights lawsuit against guards employed by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, alleging harassment, inadequate nutrition, theft of legal documents, …
Iowa State Court Finds Prisoner Entitled to Counsel at Prison Classification Hearing by Derek Gilna Iowa State District Court Judge Scott D. Rosenberg reversed and remanded a prisoner’s adverse classification hearing based upon the denial of his right to legal counsel. Gary Pettit pleaded guilty to third-degree sexual abuse and …
Criminal Defendants Shortchanged by Justice System that Favors Prosecutors by Derek Gilna Since the landmark Supreme Court case of Gideon v. Wainwright in 1963, criminal defendants who face incarceration have been guaranteed representation by an attorney if they cannot afford one. Gideon spurred most states and the federal government to …
Idaho DOC Can’t Stop Love; State Senator’s Ex-wife Weds Prisoner by Mark Wilson Lance Conway Wood, 48, was described as “a strong-willed inmate” with an extensive “history of ‘crossing the line’” who “exploits the human weaknesses of prison staff,” according to a federal judge. Wood, however, undoubtedly views himself as …
Article • August 2, 2016 • from PLN August, 2016
Prison Policy Initiative Report Says Money Bail System Keeps Poor in Jail by Derek Gilna Of the more than 2.3 million people locked up in the United States at any given time, around 646,000 are held in county jails. Of that population, seven in ten are pretrial detainees who have …
Article • August 2, 2016 • from PLN August, 2016
Texas Judge Indicted for Making Secret Deal with Red-light Camera Company by Smith County, Texas Judge Joel Patrick Baker was suspended without pay on June 21, 2016 after being arrested the previous week on three misdemeanor counts of violating the Texas Open Meetings Act. Baker, who has denied any wrongdoing, …
Article • August 2, 2016 • from PLN August, 2016
The Mirage of Justice by by Chris Hedges, Truthdig If you are poor, you will almost never go to trial – instead you will be forced to accept a plea deal offered by government prosecutors. If you are poor, the word of the police, who are not averse to fabricating or …
Article • August 2, 2016 • from PLN August, 2016
Seventh Circuit Reverses Denial of Prisoner’s Claim for Failure to Detach Portion of Administrative Form by Derek Gilna Charles Donelson was a prisoner in the custody of the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) when he was charged with disciplinary infractions for two incidents involving the same guard. Donelson denied that …
Article • August 1, 2016
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Dismissal of Some Defendants in Civil Case Not Final Order by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held it does not have jurisdiction over an appeal challenging the dismissal of some, but not all, defendants in a civil proceeding. Michigan prisoner Michael A. Kitchen filed a civil rights action against …
Publication • August 1, 2016
Filed under: Court Access
Inmate Litigation, Harvard Law Review, 2003 SCHLANGER - BOOKPROOFS. DOC – NOT FINAL PAGINATION VOLUME 116 APRIL 2003 05/22/03 – 3:33 P M NUMBER 6 ARTICLE INMATE LITIGATION Margo Schlanger TABLE OF CONTENTS I NTRODUCTION.................................................................................................................1557 I. INMATE LITIGATION TRENDS..........................................................................................1565 A. The Varied Subject Matter of Inmate Litigation .........................................................1570 B. Inmate …
Publication • August 1, 2016
Justice Denied - America’s Continuing Neglect of Our Constitutional Right to Counsel, NRCC, 2009 Justice Denied America’s Continuing Neglect of Our Constitutional Right to Counsel Report of the National Right to Counsel Committee Justice Denied America’s Continuing Neglect of Our Constitutional Right to Counsel Report of the National Right to …
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