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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
Rikers Island Detainees Wait in “Black Hole” for Competency Treatment by The number of detainees waiting for competency treatment at New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex jumped from 100 in 2024 to 127 by February 2025. The average length of stay has also risen, from 70 to 80 days, …
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, …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Competency Evaluation Ordered for Condemned Utah Prisoner by David Reutter On February 13, 2024, the Third Judicial Circuit Court in and for Salt Lake County, Utah, ordered an examination to determine if death row prisoner Ralph Leroy Menzies, 65, is competent to be executed. Menzies’ attorneys argued that he suffers …
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 …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Washington Fined Over $100 Million for Delays in Competency Evaluations and Restoration by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On July 7, 2023, Judge Marsha J. Pechman of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington found the state Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) in material breach …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
California Appellate Court: Time Spent in Mental Hospital to Restore Competency is Time Served by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 28, 2023, the CaliforniaThird District Court of Appeals ordered a lower court to recalculate a prisoner’s custody credits for time spent in a facility to bring the …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Washington Racks Up More Than $98 Million in Fines for Failure to Timely Hold Competency Hearings by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett In 2018, the State of Washington reached a settlement to reform its forensic health system. [See: PLN, Aug. 2017, p.22; May 2019, p.54.] As part of the settlement, …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Seventh Circuit: Indiana District Court Erred in Denying Counsel to Prisoner by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 4, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held an Indiana federal district court abused its discretion in denying a prisoner’s motion for appointment of counsel in …
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 …