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Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Settlement Reached Over COVID-19 Measures, Home Confinement Releases at FCC Lompoc by On October 11, 2022, the federal court for the Central District of California approved a settlement resolving a suit over COVID-19 precautions and releases filed by prisoners at the Federal Correctional Complex (FCC) in Lompoc, California, in May …
Brief • 2021
Filed under: Home Detention, COVID-19
Memorandum Opinion for the Attorney General, at Home Confinement for Federal Prisoners During COVID (Slip Opinion) Discretion to Continue the Home-Confinement Placements of Federal Prisoners After the COVID-19 Emergency This Office concluded in January 2021 that, when the COVID-19 emergency ends, the Bureau of Prisons will be required to recall …
Article • March 1, 2021 • from PLN March, 2021
Last-Minute DOJ Order Clears Way for Possible Return of Home Confinees to Prison by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Federal prisoners transferred tohome confinement to serve their sentences because of the COVID-19 emergency could return to lockup if a January 15, 2021, opinion issued by the U.S. Department of Justice …
Community Cages - Profitizing community corrections and alternatives to incarceration, AFSC, 2016 COMMUNITY CAGES: Profitizing community corrections and alternatives to incarceration e h t f o t r a P l Treatment Indusetriax Compl 2tic #no series AUGUST 2016 COMMUNITY CAGES: Profitizing community corrections and alternatives to incarceration AUGUST 2016 …
New Mexico Community Custody House Arrestees Used to Clean Private Land by Matthew Clarke An investigation by Albuquerque television station KRQE revealed that Bernalillo County house arrestees who were assigned to wash cars, pick up trash and pull weeds as part of their community service spent close to the same …
Article • August 2, 2016 • from PLN August, 2016
New York Federal Judge Challenges Collateral Consequences by In a move The New York Times called “striking,” and Gabriel J. Chin, a professor at the University of California, Davis School of Law said was “groundbreaking,” U.S. District Court Judge Frederic Block sentenced a young woman in a drug case to …
Due Process Triggered by Seizure from Home to Prison Confinement by In affirming a grant of summary judgment on qualified immunity grounds, The Sixth Circuit Court of appeals held that for purposes of due process and unreasonable seizure protections, home confinement differs materially from in prison confinement.  Because that right …
Article • November 10, 2015
Los Angeles County Jail Home Detention Program a Failure by Christopher Zoukis Los Angeles County Jail Home Detention Program a Failure by Christopher Zoukis The Los Angeles County Jail's early release program began in the late 1980s as a result of an adverse finding by a federal judge that the …
Your Home Is Your Prison: How to Lock Down Your Neighborhood, Your Country, and You by Maya Schenwar Your Home Is Your Prison: How to Lock Down Your Neighborhood, Your Country, and You By Maya Schenwar On January 27th, domestic violence survivor Marissa Alexander will walk out of Florida's Duval …
Article • September 18, 2014 • from PLN September, 2014
Former New Mexico State Senator Released from Prison by Former New Mexico State Senator Released from Prison Manny Aragon, 66, a former New Mexico state Senate leader, was released from federal prison on December 5, 2013. Although most federal prisoners are sent to a halfway house to complete the remainder …
West Virginia Sex Offender Does Not Have Right to Attend Specified Church by The West Virginia Supreme Court held on February 22, 2013 that a convicted sex offender does not have an automatic right to attend religious services of his choice. The Court’s ruling was not based on the right …
Arizona Jails Refuse to Incarcerate Some Offenders by In 2007, Glendale, Arizona resident Robert Ortis, 41, had an appetizer and a few drinks at a business lunch. Driving from the lunch to his nephew’s house, he began to feel weak and turned red. He recognized a high blood pressure event …
Article • March 15, 2011
Elderly Home Detention Program Eligibility Determined Based on Sentence Imposed Without Good Time by In determining eligibility for the Elderly Offender Home Detention Pilot Program (EOHDPP), the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) may not consider a prisoner’s earned good time in calculating whether a prison has served enough time to enter …
Article • March 15, 2010 • from PLN March, 2010
Massachusetts GPS Program Upheld by State Supreme Court by Mark Wilson The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court vacated a lower court order which found that a sheriff had violated state law when he released sentenced prisoners on a GPS-monitoring program. On March 8, 2007, Edward Donohue was convicted of his third …
Article • July 15, 2009
No Liberty Interest in Wisconsin Home Detention Program, Prisoner Waived Rights by On April 24, 2008, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that a prisoner has no protected liberty interest in participating in a Wisconsin home detention program (HDP) when a prisoner waives his rights. James …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN March, 2003
Home Detainee Has Fourth Amendment Rights by The Supreme Court of Virginia has held that a defendant who entered the Fairfax County Sheriff's Electronic Incarceration Program (Program) did not automatically waive his right to privacy of his home by agreeing to enter the Program. Upon entering the Program, Michael L. …