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Washington Appellate Court: Personal Restraint Petition Proper Vehicle to Challenge Community Supervision by David Reutter On December 17, 2024, the Court of Appeals of the State of Washington, Division II, held that a trial court lacked personal jurisdiction over the state Department of Corrections (DOC) and dismissed a motion to …
Alabama Denies Parole to Dead Prisoner by Having granted release to a whopping 3% of eligible state prisoners so far in 2024—that’s 25 parole grants out of 792 hearings—the Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles (BPP) likely surprised no one when it denied release to Frederick Bishop on March 9, …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
How Parole and Probation “No-Association” Conditions Hamper Successful Reentry by Once upon a time, parole and probation officers actually helped those under their supervision. In the rehabilitation-oriented 1970s, for example, they assisted in finding housing and employment, knowing that more support for a newly released prisoner made reoffending less likely. …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
North Carolina Court of Appeals Reinstates Parolee’s Parental Rights, Says Parole Conditions Barred Him from Visiting Minor Daughter by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 5, 2023, the Court of Appeals of North Carolina reinstated a parolee’s parental rights that had been stripped for lack of contact with his …
Parole and Probation Accused of Driving Prison Growth by David Reutter David M. Reutter One alternative to incarceration that criminal justice reformers clamor for is probation or parole. A May 2023 report by Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) counted nearly 3.7 million people in the U.S. under some form of community …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
New Jersey Supreme Court Revives Parolee’s Challenge to Administratively Imposed Treatment Program by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 3, 2023, the Supreme Court of New Jersey held that a state prisoner’s parole could not be conditioned on his enrollment in a residential treatment program (RTP) when he is …
Illinois Eases Restrictions on Prisoners Released Under Supervision by On July 28, 2023, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) signed a new law that eases restrictions on released prisoners still under state supervision. SB 423, which took effect in January 2024, modifies requirements to complete the final stages of a sentence, …
Publication • February 1, 2024
An Overview of Intermittent Confinement and Weekend Incarceration in the US-Feb 2024 Electronic copy available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4723504 0 THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY MORITZ COLLEGE OF LAW DRUG ENFORCEMENT AND POLICY CENTER An Overview of Intermittent Confinement and Weekend Incarceration in the U.S. Pete Leasure, Douglas A. Berman, and Jana Hrdinová …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Ex-felons on Parole and Probation Now Allowed to Vote in Minnesota by On March 3, 2023, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) signed into law SF26/HF28, also known as the “Restore the Vote” act. The bill, which was passed by Democratic majorities in the state House and Senate, allows ex-felons to …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Arkansas Parole Board Denies Release to Sex Offender For Failure to Find Appropriate Housing by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On February 2, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas dismissed a state prisoner’s habeas corpus petition challenging denial of his parole because he did …
Second Circuit Restores Qualified Immunity for Parole Commissioners Imposing Onerous Conditions for Prisoner’s Release by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On March 20, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed a lower court’s denial of summary judgment to members of the New York Board of Parole …
Article • May 1, 2023 • from PLN May, 2023
Fourth Circuit: No Civil Commitment at Release for Federal Prisoner in North Carolina Without Considering Conditions by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian On November 17, 20222, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit stopped the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) from civilly committing a prisoner being released …
Predatory Probation Still Alive in Georgia, Other States by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In a January 2022 report by the Fines and Fees Justice Center (FFJC), a national hub for the movement to reform criminal justice fines and fees, researchers documented the costs of private probation and found …
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
New Jersey Sex Offenders Excluded From Programming, Chances for Early Release by Mario Palomo byMario Palomo Prisoners at New Jersey’s Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center (ADTC)—all convicted sex offenders—do not have access to the same programs and benefits that other state prisoners do, according to a letter excerpted in a …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Hawaii Supreme Court Orders New Parole Hearing for Prisoner Held Since 1979 by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Over 42 years after he was sentenced to Life with Possibility of Parole (LWPP), a pro se Hawaii prisoner took a step closer to the promise contained in his sentence on October …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Tenth Circuit Says Parolee May Not be Forced to Participate in Religious Program Under Threat of Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In a lawsuit alleging prison officials used coercion to force an atheist parolee into participating in Christian programming, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth …
California Supreme Court: CDCR Cannot Exclude Nonviolent Sex Offenders From Proposition 57 Parole Consideration by On December 28, 2020, the Supreme Court of California held that California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) regulations excluding nonviolent sex offenders with from parole consideration under Proposition 57, the Public Safety and Rehabilitation …
Article • February 13, 2021
Virginia Court of Appeals Upholds Lifetime Probation With Bar on Personal Internet Use in Response to Sex Offender’s Probation Violation by In an unpublished opinion issued on December 17, 2019, the Court of Appeals of Virginia upheld the probation conditions imposed on a sex offender for probation violations, including requiring …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
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Pay Up or Lockup: Housing Shortage Kept Cash-Poor Parolees Behind Bars by Ike Swetlitz by Ike Swetlitz, Searchlight New Mexico, originally published July 22, 2020 Source Material David, 28, was counting the days until January 6, 2012, when his prison sentence would end and he would be released on parole. …
Article • June 1, 2020 • from PLN June, 2020
Thinking in a Pandemic: Let the People Go by Joseph Margulies States should release from prison far more than the very small percentage of low-level, nonviolent offenders they hold. by Joseph Margulies, Boston Review, April 20, 2020 http://bostonreview.net/law-justice/joseph-margulies-prisons-and-pandemics COVID-19 spreads where people congregate. With rare exception, it preys on the …
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