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Unusually High Rate of Prisoners Suicides at San Antonio, Texas Jail by Matthew Clarke In 2009, all five of the Bexar County Adult Detention Center's (the jail) prisoner deaths were suicides by hanging and a sixth Bexar County prisoner being held in the Crystal City jail due to overcrowding at …
Article • August 23, 2016
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Caseloads Vary Widely Among U.S. District Judges by Matthew Clarke The Transactional Records Clearinghouse (TAC) performed an analysis of available data on U.S. district judges' criminal caseloads from October 2006 through July 2012, excluding judges who resigned, retired or were appointed during the analysis period, TRAC found disparities in criminal …
Article • August 23, 2016
Filed under: Probation
Texas Need Not Prove Ability to Pay Probation Fees Before Revocation by Matthew Clarke In a November 14, 2012 opinion, The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals held that the prosecution is not required to prove that a probationer was able to pay fees before he was revoked for nonpayment. The …
Article • August 23, 2016
Department of Justice Publishes Report on Federal Pretrial Release by Matthew Clarke In November 2012, the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice statistics published a report on pretrial release of criminal defendants in federal district courts between 2008 and 2010. The report analyzed how many defendants were released, the …
Article • August 23, 2016
Department of Justice Publishes Report on Non-Federal Law Enforcement Hiring by Matthew Clarke In October 2012, the bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice published a report on the hiring and retention of state and local law enforcement officers in 2008. The report showed a strong growth …
Solitary Confinement Emboldens Recalcitrant Witnesses, Breaks Court's Resolve by A Washington federal court ordered the release of two recalcitrant federal grand jury witnesses, after five months of confinement. In September 2012, Katherine Olejnik and Matthew Duran refused to testify before a Federal Grand Jury. As a result, a Washington federal …
Article • August 23, 2016
Filed under: Judicial Misconduct
Affidavit of Prejudice Deprives Washington Judge of Jurisdiction; Decisions Are Void by In an unpublished April 9, 2013 Opinion, the Washington state Court of Appeals vacated a trial court's letter rulings, concluding that a valid affidavit of prejudice deprived the court of jurisdiction. On October 21, 2008, Washington prisoner Matthew …
Article • August 23, 2016
Filed under: Judicial Misconduct
Mississippi Sheriff Blames Court Bailiffs for Prisoner Pregnancy by "It did not happen in my courtroom and not under my watch," declared Mississippi Judge Winston Kidd, referring to a pregnancy resulting from a courthouse tryst between two detainees. "It is not my bailiff's practice to allow the female prisoners and …
Meth OD, Taser & Restraint Chair = Washington Prisoner Death by A Washington man died in jail, soon after paramedics examined him for a methamphetamine overdose but released him into police custody. Although the cause of death was not immediately disclosed, the diabetic prisoner was Tased and confined in a …
Article • August 23, 2016
Filed under: Prison/Jail Murders
Maryland Prison Sees Three Prisoners Murdered in Five Months by Officials at Maryland's highest-security prison, in Cumberland, Maryland have seen an inexplicable spike in prisoner homicides in recent months. Three prisoners at the North Branch Correctional Institution (NBCI), have been murdered by fellow prisoners in just five months. In April, …
Article • August 23, 2016
Filed under: Police Misconduct
Oregon Cop Gets 5-Year Federal Child Porn Sentence by On April 24, 2013, a Portland, Oregon police officer was sentenced to five years in federal prison for receiving child pornography. Scott Edward Elliott was a 22-year veteran of the Portland Police Bureau (PPB), when he was arrested at work on …
Article • August 23, 2016
Oregon Prisoner Paralyzed by Suicide Attempt Seeks $12 Million by An Oregon prisoner who attempted to commit suicide but ended up a quadriplegic is suing jail officials for $12 million. On May 4, 2012, Westley Wilson, 29, was arrested in Portland, Oregon, for violating a restraining order. He was initially …
Article • August 23, 2016
Oregon Federal Prosecutor Convicted of Drunk Driving by On February 1, 2013, an Oregon federal prosecutor pleaded no contest to drunk driving and entered a diversion program. At about 1:15 a.m., on December 23, 2012, police witnessed a vehicle driving 70 mph with no headlights. The driver weaved in and …
Article • August 23, 2016
PLN Invalidates Oregon Jail's Postcard-Only Policy; Magazine Ban and Rejection by On April 24, 2013, an Oregon federal court granted Prison Legal News (PLN) an injunction, permanently enjoining an Oregon jail's postcard-only policy. It also declared that jail magazine ban and rejection notice and appeal policies violated the First and …
Oregon Guard's Co-Worker Seek $900,000 for Sexual Harassment; Guard Admitted Forcing Prisoner to Perform Fellatio by A former Oregon jail employee is seeking $900,000 for sexual harassment by a guard who was convicted of forcing a female prisoner to perform fellatio. As we've previously reported, the 21-year career of Inverness …
Article • August 23, 2016
Oregon AG Staff under Police Investigation, Found Dead by A long-time employee of the Oregon Department of Justice (DOJ) died in her home, ending a police investigation into her conduct. Two days later another DOJ employee was placed on administrative leave. Authorities refuse to reveal further details about the death …
Article • August 23, 2016
Report: Postcard-Only Jail Policies Bad for Reentry, Recidivism by Contrary to claims that postcard-only mail policies make jails safer and save money, a recent report from the Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) contends that bans on sealed, personal letters merely perpetuate the costs of incarceration and exacerbate the criminal justice system's …
Article • August 23, 2016
N.Y. Ex-Con Goes Back to Jail for Going Back to Jail by One day, Matthew Matagrano, 36, was a corrections investigator, waving around a shiny, gold badge to gain entry into any of New York City's jails. The next, they wouldn't let him leave. On March 2, 2013, Matagrano, of …
Article • August 23, 2016
Avalon Correctional Services Settles Suit Over Alleged Corporate Irregularities by Matthew Clarke On November 16, 2012, Avalon Correctional Services, Donald Smith and Tiffinay Smith agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by Ravenswood Investment Company and Ravenswood Investments III (Ravenswood) over alleged corporate irregularities by the Smiths. The settlement calls for …
Article • August 23, 2016
Ohio: Hunger Striker Represents Himself, Beats Attempted Murder Charges by An Ohio supermax prisoner, representing himself while on a month-long hunger strike, won his acquittal in February of attempted murder charges stemming from fights with prison guards. Cornelius Harris, a 27-year-old prisoner serving a 97-year sentence for robbery and kidnapping …
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