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Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Multitudes Caged for Failure to Pay Child Support, Driving Mass Incarceration by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 22, 2024, the federal court for the Eastern District of Kentucky sentenced Jesse Kipf to 81 months in federal prison for hacking into the Hawai’i Death Registry the year before. It …
Oregon Supreme Court: Governor Can’t Revoke Commutation After Sentence Expires by In a bizarre case of Orwellian government overreach, the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) reincarcerated former state prisoner Terri Lee Brown for a parole violation after her parole ended. But on May 8, 2024, the Oregon Supreme Court slapped …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Washington Appellate Court Reverses Parole Revocation Based on Hearsay by On April 2, 2024, the Washington Court of Appeals, Division II, reversed a decision by the state’s Indeterminate Sentence Review Board (ISRB) that relied only on hearsay evidence to sustain a criminal charge underlying a parole violation. In 2020, ISRB …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Maryland Pardons 175,000 Marijuana Misdemeanor Convictions by Maryland prisoners with misdemeanor marijuana convictions had them erased as of June 18, 2024, when Gov. Wes Moore (D) issued pardons for every state misdemeanor conviction for possession of pot or related paraphernalia. The pardons will not release any prisoners; the misdemeanor convictions …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
South Carolina Supreme Court Grants Prisoner Credit for Time Served Awaiting Revocation of Supervised Release by On January 9, 2024, the Supreme Court of South Carolina held that a prisoner detained while awaiting proceedings to revoke community supervision must receive credit for time served prior to the revocation becoming final. …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Filed under: Revocation Proceedings
Eighth Circuit Upholds Key Parts of Missouri Parole Reform by On October 5, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed key parts of a lower court’s ruling instructing the Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC) to revise its system for revoking parole in order to protect prisoners’ …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Less is More Act Cuts Parole Population by 40% in New York by By March 1, 2023, more than 17,000 New York parolees had been discharged early since the Less is More (LIM) Act took effect a year earlier, cutting the number of people on parole statewide by nearly 40%. …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
U.S. Probation System a “Quagmire” That Sets Defendants Up to Fail by An article published in Reason on January 26, 2023, cited numerous problems in probation systems nationwide, describing them as a “quagmire.” For the article, the magazine, a publication of the Libertarian California-based Reason Foundation, profiled Jennifer Schroeder, who …
Article • June 1, 2023
Convicted Murderer Released 16 Years Early Is Ordered Back to Prison by South Carolina High Court by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott At an emergency hearing on April 26, 2023, the South Carolina Supreme Court found a legal rationale to countermand the release of a convicted killer 16 …
Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022
Filed under: Revocation Proceedings
Nevada Supreme Court: DOC Owes Parolee Credit for Any Days Over 60 Awaiting Revocation in Prison by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On May 24, 2022, the Supreme Court of Nevada ordered the state Department of Corrections (DOC) to credit a parolee for time he spent in custody awaiting parole …
Supreme Court of Kansas: Lower Court Did Not Have Authority to Revoke Probation Without a Warrant by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter On January 28, 2022, the Supreme Court of Kansas held that a state court has no authority to revoke and remand a state probationer to prison …
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
BOP Prisoners on Extended Home Confinement Not Headed Back to Prison When COVID-19 Emergency Ends by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian Imagine having a chance to get out of prison early, doing the right thing with the opportunity and working towards your ultimate freedom, only to have it taken …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Medical Paroles Revoked in California and Massachusetts by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Medical parole has always been rare, but new policies in California and Massachusetts are causing medical parolees to be reincarcerated and further limiting those eligible for medical parole. California has approved 210 medical paroles since 2014, far …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
New York Parole System Badly in Need of Repair by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss New York’s parole system is considered one of the nation’s worst, reincarcerating parolees at twice the national average, while parolees are the only segment of the state’s prison population that is still increasing. Reform advocates …
U.S. v. Campbell, CA, Opinion, Supervised Release, 2018 FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee, No. 17-50140 v. D.C. No. 2:16-cr-00387-BRO-1 THERESA HELENA CAMPBELL, Defendant-Appellant. OPINION Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Beverly Reid …
Brief • July 6, 2016
U.S. v. Chaker, CA, Opinion, Harassment, 2016 FILED NOT FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS JUL 06 2016 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff - Appellee, No. 15-50138 D.C. No. 3:15-cr-07012-LAB-1 v. MEMORANDUM* DARREN DAVID CHAKER, AKA Darren …