Search for: "PHILADELPHIA PRISON SYSTEM" Results 41 - 60 of 529
Sorted by Relevance | Sort by Date
RSS Subscribe: 20 results | 100 results
13 Dec 2011, 10:11 am by DE
Weston had served less than four years in prison for a 1984 conviction for starving to death a man, 25, she kept trapped in her Philadelphia apartment. [read post]
25 Apr 2018, 3:00 pm
I had the fortune of being hired and then rapidly promoted to an executive leadership position at a telemarketing company in Philadelphia. [read post]
20 Mar 2015, 10:02 am by By Harold Jordan, ACLU of Pennsylvania
  The President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing Reform also tackled the school-to-prison pipeline and “zero tolerance” discipline within schools. [read post]
10 Aug 2015, 12:30 pm by Guest Blogger
” Focusing only on police, or even prisons, risks obfuscating the larger context in which aggressive police actions and mass imprisonment have emerged. [read post]
19 May 2014, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
[Matt Stroud, The Verge; earlier] Milwaukee cop drives into sober woman’s car, charges her with DUI [WITI via Greenfield] Tweet Tags: crime and punishment, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, policeCrime and punishment roundup is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
23 Mar 2012, 9:46 am by Doug B.
After a few failed experiments with hard labor in public or having the public come into prison to watch prisoners work, a newer vision took hold, starting in Philadelphia and New York. [read post]
4 Aug 2020, 6:30 am by ernst
Shapiro, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, has published Solitary Confinement in the Young Republic in the Harvard Law Review:Walnut Street Jail (NYPL)America’s first system for punishing criminals with solitary confinement began at the Walnut Street Jail, an institution that stood right behind Independence Hall in Philadelphia. [read post]
20 Jun 2012, 11:45 am
In an op-ed in today's Philadelphia Inquirer, Legal Director of the Pennsylvania Innocence Project, Marissa Boyers Bluestine, questions how many Pennsylvanians remain in prison for crimes they didn't commit and what forms of evidence will be available to help prove their innocence. [read post]
12 Oct 2009, 5:01 am by James Edward Maule
, Real Property Tax Assessment System: Broken and Begging for Repair, Philadelphia Real Property Taxes: Pay Up or Lose It, and How to Fix a Broken Tax System: Speed It Up? [read post]
27 Aug 2007, 3:37 am
Ed Rendell has rolled out a far-reaching legislative package to overhaul the state's crowded prison system that would include releasing some criminals early, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. [read post]
2 Dec 2022, 1:06 pm by John Floyd
He was committed to the state prison system in 1990 with a 30-year sentence for armed robbery. [read post]
23 Oct 2018, 5:07 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Michael Coard, a left-wing critic of the city’s criminal-justice system, wrote in the Philadelphia Tribune that Krasner was the “blackest white guy I know. [read post]
17 Jul 2019, 8:55 am by Michael Rushford
  Julie Shaw of the Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Larry Krasner, a former defense attorney elected in 2017, has filed a brief in a capital case before the state's highest court, arguing that the justices should utilize the King's Bench power to strike down the death penalty law due to systemic problems. [read post]
22 Jan 2009, 9:43 am
Following the examination, the parole freeze was lifted; however, the examination report suggested that the system needed to better deal with the "worst of the worst" criminals in Pennsylvania's prison population. [read post]
13 Aug 2017, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
It’s not good federalism [Natalie Delgadillo, Governing] Angling to end suit, Philadelphia offers to end use of asset forfeiture funds for law enforcement [Robert Moran, Philadelphia Inquirer] White-collar prosecution: “Time To Revisit The Yates Memo? [read post]
4 Jan 2012, 2:13 pm by The LBN Team
If that lawyer is not screened for quality, trained to handle the client’s type of case or paid enough to cover the time required, the client is unlikely to get fair treatment — whether in the Philadelphia system or anywhere else. [read post]