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News in Brief by Alabama: Elmore County Jail guard Lita Williams, 57, was arrested and charged with first-degree promoting prison contraband on May 21, 2025, the Wetumpka Herald reported. Her arrest followed discovery of a cellphone in a jail cell during a routine search two weeks prior. Data from the …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Trial Rescheduled for Ohio Prisoner Accused of Murdering Fellow Prisoner by Trial didn’t start as scheduled on July 26, 2024, for Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (SOCF) prisoner Austin Burke, 25, who is accused of murdering fellow prisoner Ruben Melendez, 65, in August 2023. That’s because Burke was handed a new …
Eleventh Circuit Addresses First Amendment, Due Process Interests in Georgia Prisoner Emails by New communications technology introduced in prisons and jails has raised questions as to how prisoners’ First Amendment rights are implicated. Such concerns were addressed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on June 23, …
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
Former Judges in Pennsylvania ‘Kids for Cash’ Scandal Must Pay $206 Million in Damages by Ashleigh Dye by Ashleigh N. Dye On August 18, 2022, a federal judge in Pennsylvania ordered two former state judges to pay $206 million in damages for taking $2.8 million in kickbacks to shut down …
Beating Death in Oahu Jail Ends With Acquittal of Mentally Ill Killer by Kevin Dayton by Kevin Dayton, Honolulu Civil Beat A jail prisoner who admitted to the fatal beating of another prisoner in 2019 has been acquitted of murder, concluding a case that triggered scrutiny of the state’s practice …
Article • July 1, 2021 • from PLN July, 2021
Wisconsin Prisoner In Vegetative State After Suicide Attempt Wins New Trial on Jury Instruction Error by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a jury’s judgment in a civil rights action alleging guards at Wisconsin’s Madison County Jail (MCJ) were deliberately indifferent to …
ARA v. Commonwealth of Virginia, VA, Opinion, Expunging Felony Arrest Record, 2018 PRESENT: Lemons, C.J., Goodwyn, Mims, Powell, Kelsey, and McCullough, JJ., and Russell, S.J. A.R.A. 1 v. Record No. 170199 OPINION BY STEPHEN R. McCULLOUGH March 1, 2018 COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF …
State of Missouri v. Gilmore, MO, Opinion, Insufficient Evidence for Controlled Substance Conviction, 2018 SUPREME COURT OF MISSOURI en banc STATE OF MISSOURI, Respondent, v. VICKI LEANN GILMORE, Appellant. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Opinion issued January 16, 2018 No. SC96341 APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT …
Jones v. United States, DC, Appeal Brief, Assault, 2017 3/14/2018 ELAINE JONES APPELLANT v. UNITED STATES APPELLEE | FindLaw Not a Legal Professional? Visit our consumer site Register | Login CASES & CODES PRACTICE MANAGEMENT Forms FindLaw Caselaw United States JOBS & CAREERS NEWSLETTERS Lawyer Marketing Corporate Counsel DC Court …
U.S. v. Schultz, CO, Order, Guard Misconduct, 2006 Case 1:00-cr-00481-WYD Document 1679 Filed 08/24/06 USDC Colorado Page 1 of 9 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO Judge Wiley Y. Daniel Criminal Action No. 00-CR-00481-WYD UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, v. ROD SCHULTZ, Defendants. ORDER THIS …