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Texas Lawmakers Restrict Bail and Raise Criminal Penalties, Punt on Prison and Jail Conditions by Chuck Sharman When the Texas legislature adjourned its annual session on June 2, 2025, lawmakers had taken some steps to restrict bail and successfully fought back an effort to expand parole. Most other jail and …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Wait for Competency Restoration Averages 14 Months in Missouri Jails by By late January 2025, a critical shortage of providers had stranded 418 detainees waiting for competency restoration in Missouri jails an average of 14 months each. The number wait-listed for the services had jumped from 300 a year earlier, …
The Mind-Breakers: the Case of Ramzi Bin al-Shibh by St Clair, Jeffrey By Jeffrey St. Clair   This article originally appeared in Counterpunch on October 6, 2023. It is reprinted here with permission. Read the original at https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/10/06/the-mind-breakers-the-case-of-ramzi-bin-al-shibh/   On the first anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Pakistani ISI (Inter-Services …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
North Carolinian Left in Jail Awaiting Trial for 11 Years by On December 14, 2023, over a decade of pre-trial detention finally came to an end for a Charlotte murder suspect. Devalos Perkins, 37, pleaded guilty in Mecklenburg County District Court to voluntary manslaughter in the 2005 slaying of Justin …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Escape from Oregon State Hospital Results in Changes to Detainee Transports by Facing charges including attempted murder, assault and robbery, Christopher Lee Pray, 39, was being evaluated for fitness to stand trial on August 30, 2023, when he commandeered an Oregon State Hospital (OSH) transport van returning him from a …
U.S. v. Taylor, KY, Motion for Competency Evaluation, Illegal Distribution of Perception Drugs, 2013 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY AT LOUISVILLE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, PLAINTIFF | | | | V. Criminal Action No. 3:11-CR-105 | | | STACY ALLEN TAYLOR, | DEFENDANT Electronically Filed | MOTION …