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Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
after release from prison or jail. Probation and parole are very similar in that they both involve supervision of offenders in the community and require them to comply with a set of rules or face ...
of conditions." Since Brewer took office, suicide rates in Arizona's prisons are among the highest in the country, and drug overdoses and untreated medical conditions are killing others. Even after being sued ...
after being released, such as depression and post-traumatic stress. That makes it difficult for them to readjust into normal society. This means true justice for Guantánamo detainees entails more ...
Article • July 15, 2005 • from PLN July, 2005
Sutton, a prisoner serving 25 years for a 1999 rape, was released after being exonerated by a retesting of DNA evidence originally analyzed by the HPD crime lab. [See PLN, July 2003, p. 26]. On January 4 ...
Case • 2003
Court cases is Preiser. 411 U.S. 475. In this case, prisoners challenged a policy of deprivation of good-time credits after disciplinary hearings. Id. at 476-82. The prisoners sought injunctive relief ...
, private prison companies are paid a designated amount per day for each prisoner they house (“per diem” pricing). The BOP initially argued that it could not release the contractors’ proposals because ...
, including family memberssometimes unto death. Prisoners were routinely deprived of sleep by the playing of loud music or release of attack dogs among the tents at night. They were hooded with a bag ...
CCA Fined $140,000 for Early Release of Prisoners at FL Jail; Quits Contract by The nation’s largest private prison firm, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), has once again upset ...
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Filed under: Jail Misconduct, Fines
. But the courts disagreed and dismissed his lawsuits. First, the federal court ruled that because Jones was billed for his stay in jail after his release and no money was taken from him out of his control, he had ...
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
New York Prisoner Is Released After Conviction Is Vacated, Reinstated and Vacated Once More by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman After a wild legal ride, Norberto Peets was exonerated ...
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
government informant to expose a dirty FBI agent, was released from a Massachusetts state prison in 2007 after serving only 12 years. To help him get on his feet, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) paid ...
Publication
Filed under: Organizing, Voting
support that was encouraged by efforts to address recidivism and remove barriers for incarcerated individuals after they are released from prison. Disenfranchisement Impact Disenfranchised Populations ...
Publication • 2015
Filed under: Parole
motivated information tainting release decisions. Louisiana, the world’s prison capital, has recently initiated parole reforms that may provide a model for reforms nationally. This article details ...
Publication
Filed under: Organizing, Prison Reform
track of people as they move through the system from pretrial detention to prison and release, which could help ensure people in the system who need treatment and rehabilitative services, receive them ...
Washington Felony Infraction Law Struck Down by A Washington state appeals court held that a state law allowing the felony prosecution of prisoners who are infracted in prison after having ...
Article • September 20, 2014 • from PLN September, 2014
in Boston’s urban neighborhoods during the first year after they’re released from Massachusetts prisons. More than half of the people in his sample have not worked a single day in the months since ...
violent prisoners enacted after his imprisonment effectively removed him from consideration for early parole. The court held that although the prisoner's claim was ripe for consideration, the rule did ...
In-the-News Article • January 1, 2009
PLN files suit against PA DOC under Right to Know law Jan. 1, 2009 PLN Press Releases Prison Legal News Press release - PLN files suit against PA DOC under Right to Know law - 2009 ACLU ...
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
, under 18 U.S.C. § 3582, et seq., commonly referred to as “compassionate release.” His claim was supported by Dr. Celio O. Burrowes, who opined that the prisoner most likely had &ldquo ...
Article • July 15, 2011 • from PLN July, 2011
show leniency, Governor Schwarzenegger acted to block the release of prisoners with homicide convictions, even after the parole board had recommended their release on parole (usually after many years ...
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