Skip navigation

Search

238 results
Page 9 of 12. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 | Next »

Article • July 15, 2008 • from PLN July, 2008
PEW Public Safety Report: Prisoncrats Abuse Their Probation/Parole Violation Powers So As To Stymie Offenders’ Re-entry Into Society by Marvin Mentor A November 2007 national study by the PEW Public Safety Performance Project concluded that the policy of returning parolees and probationers to custody for other than new offenses has …
Article • July 15, 2008
Filed under: HIV/AIDS, Sentencing, Probation
New York Court’s Probation-Due-to-AIDS Compassionate Sentence Reversed by New York Court's Probation-Due-to-AIDS Compassionate Sentence Reversed On October 4, 1991, a New York appellate court reversed the compassionate sentence of probation given to a prisoner infected with HIV and just before the onset of AIDS. Sandra Clark, a New York defendant, …
Sex Offenders Set Up Camp in Miami Florida: The Julia Tuttle Causeway Becomes a Colony. Politicians Pass the Buck. by Isaiah Thompson Another one showed up last night. Around 10 — just before curfew — a car rolled in under the bridge and the newcomer got out with his wife. …
Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
Dallas County, Texas, Criticized for Offering Probation to Murder Defendants by Michael Rigby According to a Dallas Morning News article published on November 10, 2007, Dallas County, Texas, leads the state in the number of probation deals it hands out to murder defendants. The highly critical five-part series implies that …
Junk Bonds to Junk Science? Drug Treatment Program Questioned by Greg Dober by Gregory Dober What was worth approximately $554 million in 2007 and is valued at about $94 million today? The correct answer is the stock market value of a firm formerly known as Alaska Freightways Inc., a shell …
My Space Becomes “No Space” for Online Sex Offenders by David Reutter My Space Becomes "No Space" for Online Sex Offenders by David M. Reutter After online social networking giant MySpace.com, under pressure, disclosed on July 24, 2007 that it had purged 29,000 sex offender profiles from its website, state …
Article • April 15, 2008 • from PLN April, 2008
Michigan Counties Unsuccessful at Collecting Costs of Jail Imprisonment by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 12, 2007, the Lenawee County Commission became embroiled in a debate over how to collect $6.3 million in outstanding ?room and board? fees from former jail prisoners that had accrued over the past …
Making the Bad Guy Pay: The Growing Use of Cost Shifting as an Economic Sanction by Kirsten D. Levingston by Kirsten D. Levingston1 "At some point, we have to be able to say to people who have been incarcerated, and served time on probation or parole upon release, you have …
Article • January 15, 2008
SJ Reversed on PO Unreasonable Search/Detention Claims by The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court's grant of qualified immunity to three New Mexico probation officers on unreasonable residential search claims. It also reversed summary judgment on an unreasonable detention claim. In February 2000, Carly Bliss was convicted …
Article • December 15, 2007 • from PLN December, 2007
Eighth Circuit Holds Sweat Patches Generally Reliable by The Eighth Circuit court of appeals held that sweat patches were a sufficiently reliable method of determining drug usage to support federal probation revocation. Mark Lou Meyer, a federal prisoner, appealed an Iowa federal district court?s revocation of his probation. Two conditions …
Article • December 15, 2007
Ohio Probation Violator Entitled to Credit for Time Served in Halfway House by The Ohio Court of Appeals held that after a convicted prison guard violated his probation, he was nonetheless entitled to credit for time served earlier in a halfway house, since it amounted to "confinement." Guard Richard Holda …
Article • October 15, 2007 • from PLN October, 2007
Filed under: Sentencing, Probation
Probation Condition Restricting Pets at Residence Held Overbroad by The California Court of Appeal, District 4, held that a probation condition requiring informing a probation officer of any pets in the probationer?s residence was invalid because it was overbroad. Reyes Quintero pled guilty to methamphetamine possession and was sentenced to …
Article • May 15, 2007
Federal Probationer Not Required To Give DNA For Prior Conviction by The U.S. Eastern District Court of California determined that taking DNA for a prior conviction violated the Fourth Amendment ban on illegal searches. Danny Miles was on federally supervised release in California for possession of a firearm by a …
Article • May 15, 2007
United States Supreme Court Holds that Probation Violators Must Be Afforded Representation at Probation Revocation/Resentencing Hearings by United States Supreme Court Holds that Probation Violators Must Be Afforded Representation at Probation Revocation/Resentencing Hearings This was a consolidated case in which two Washington state prisoners were granted certiorari after the state …
Immunity Granted to Sex Offenders in Treatment by The Wisconsin Supreme Court has held that Gary Tate was entitled to immunity for statements made during court-imposed sex offender treatment, and the revocation of his probation for refusing to make admissions to his crime without immunity was improper. Tate, 47, was …
Article • May 15, 2007
Protesters' Sentences, Probation Conditions, Upheld; Special Assessments Reversed by The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals in a consolidated review of five cases, upheld the sentences and conditions of probation for five persons convicted of disobeying a park ranger's order, but reversed a special assessment levied by the trial court. …
Article • May 15, 2007
Protesters' Sentences, Probation Conditions, Upheld; Special Assessments Reversed by Protesters' Sentences, Probation Conditions, Upheld; Special Assessments Reversed The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals in a consolidated review of five cases, upheld the sentences and conditions of probation for five persons convicted of disobeying a park ranger's order, but reversed …
Article • May 15, 2007
Colorado District Court Refuses to Dismiss Probationer's §1983 Suit by Colorado District Court Refuses to Dismiss Probationer's §1983 Suit The U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado refused to dismiss a Colorado probationer's civil rights suit challenging the conditions of his probation. Mark Fritz was placed on 20 years …
Article • May 15, 2007
Texas Prisoner Denied Habeas Corpus Relief on Probation Violation by The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals denied habeas corpus relief, 28 U.S.C. §2254, to a Texas prisoner who claimed that his plea was not knowingly, intelligently and voluntarily made, because he was not told that to successfully complete probation …
Texas Sex Offender Counseling Provision Not Ex Post Facto by The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a statute enacted after a prisoner was convicted and sentenced is not ex post facto if it is not punitive. Texas prisoner George W. Rieck, Jr., filed a habeas corpus petition challenging …
Page 9 of 12. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 | Next »