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2 Jun 2024, 3:00 am by Yosi Yahoudai
She was given about a dozen tampons and a dozen pads each month, though the exact number varied based on supply and was up to the discretion of the guards. [read post]
1 Jun 2024, 4:10 am by jonathanturley
For accusing politicians of corruption, Callender was charged with sedition, fined $200 and put in prison. [read post]
31 May 2024, 11:58 am by John Elwood
Although the government agrees that the categorical approach applies here, it argues that, based on the actual facts of the case, the 2nd Circuit’s decision is correct. [read post]
30 May 2024, 4:49 pm
Building on legal scholarship identifying the significant role of eugenic philosophy that manifests in penal policy and ongoing phenomena into the early twenty-first century, this article examines key figures in the backdrop of eugenics’ particular early developments, and leading figures—namely, Billy Graham and Prison Fellowship’s Chuck Colson—whose ministries operated in close proximity to the prison during the latter twentieth century… [read post]
20 May 2024, 8:05 pm by Stephen Halbrook
" However, no historical basis exists to disarm a person permanently merely for conviction of "a[ny] crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year," based solely on that label. [read post]
17 May 2024, 1:07 pm by John Ross
The Supreme Court just held that Title VII's ban on sex discrimination includes discrimination based on gender identity. [read post]
Solitary confinement has been a core feature of the US penal system since the 18th century — dating back to the earliest state prisons, where the inmates seen as most depraved were isolated to prevent the spread of their moral influence. [read post]
1 May 2024, 11:04 am by Barbara Moreno
SpearIt, Muslim Prisoner Litigation:  An Unsung American Tradition (2023). [read post]
Based on this ruling, a law from 1864 will govern abortion in Arizona rather than a law adopted in 2022. [read post]
12 Apr 2024, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Woman Sentenced to Month in Prison Over Theft of Ashley Biden’s Diary DNyuz – Adam Goldman (New York Times) | Published: 4/9/2024 A federal judge sentenced Aimee Harris to a month in prison for her role in a brazen scheme to steal the diary of President Biden’s daughter and sell it to a right-wing group in the hope of disrupting the 2020 election. [read post]
11 Apr 2024, 3:30 pm by Yosi Yahoudai
He served nine years in a Nevada prison and was paroled in 2017. [read post]
8 Apr 2024, 12:15 am
    The willingness of federal courts to send people to prison based on a crime that isn't expressed, much less defined, in any federal statute is at odds with the principle that only the people's elected representatives in the legislature are authorized to make an act a crime. [read post]
27 Mar 2024, 7:56 am by Janine P. Geske
A kid I sent to prison, with no chance for parole for a quarter century. [read post]
10 Mar 2024, 8:42 am
By the 12th century in its French form the cage described a broad range of enclosure—prisons, retreats, hideouts—spaces of confinement that was not normatively neutral. [read post]
8 Mar 2024, 6:02 pm
Four years ago next week, before I came to office, the country was hit by the worst pandemic and the worst economic crisis in a century. [read post]
8 Mar 2024, 12:30 pm by John Ross
Paul, Minn., which used to be peppered with stockyards and meatpacking facilities, redeveloped in the 21st century. [read post]
4 Mar 2024, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
Declarations from two forensic pathologists suggest that the killings occurred on the morning of Saturday, November 4, “based on the onset and progression of rigor mortis and livor mortis. [read post]
27 Feb 2024, 6:05 am by Katherine Yon Ebright
But that does not mean mass deportations based on the wartime authority are inevitable. [read post]