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7 May 2012, 10:54 am
Almost all 157 dead row inmates in North Carolina have filed for similar hearings. [read post]
24 Jun 2010, 7:45 am
"Judd also admits that he is now getting complaints from inmates that their lawyers are lazy.Now let's stop for a moment. [read post]
27 Apr 2010, 11:11 am
An Associated Press article this morning reports that the Supreme Court has agreed to consider reinstating a $625,000 judgment against Ohio prison officials who did nothing to prevent a guard's sexual assault of an inmate and then punished the victim.Justices said Monday they would review a federal appeals court decision from last year in a case that actually began back in 1996. [read post]
9 Jun 2006, 1:00 am
[JURIST] The Supreme Court of Virginia [official website] has ordered [text, PDF; summary] a new trial for death row inmate Daryl Atkins, instructing the trial court to determine whether Atkins is mentally retarded and therefore ineligible for the death penalty [JURIST news archive] after the 2002 US Supreme Court ruling in Atkins v. [read post]
2 Apr 2004, 7:24 am
Following a Wednesday International Court of Justice ruling that the United States was in violation of the 1963 Vienna Convention for failing to allow 51 Mexican death row inmates in the US to receive legal assistance from their government, Mexican President Vicente Fox indicated today that he might ask that Court and the United Nations to take action against the US. [read post]
31 Jan 2008, 6:17 pm
[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] on Thursday stayed the execution [order, PDF] of Alabama death row inmate James Harvey Callahan "pending the timely filing and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari. [read post]
14 Nov 2005, 7:48 am
According to US Newswire: "There were 3,315 state and federal death row inmates on December 31, 2004, -- 63 fewer than on the same date in 2003, the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. [read post]
11 Mar 2005, 8:27 am
[JURIST] A US Department of Justice report released Friday described allegations of mistreatment of Muslim prisoners at several US federal prisons and documented one instance where a warden and guards discriminated and retaliated against Muslim inmates who had complained. [read post]
3 Mar 2014, 10:16 am
Supreme Court this morning heard an appeal from Florida death row inmate Freddie Lee Hall, who’s scored above 70 on most of the IQ tests he’s taken since 1968, but says ample evidence shows he is mentally disabled and therefore cannot be executed because of that, according to an Associated Press article last Friday. [read post]
27 Oct 2010, 5:38 am
"Arizona executes inmate after federal judge lifts stay": Today's edition of The Arizona Republic contains an article that begins, "In only the second Arizona execution since 2000, convicted killer Jeffrey Landrigan died by lethal injection late Tuesday after the U.S. [read post]
13 Jun 2008, 8:20 am
The paper reports that lawyers for an inmate there facing execution next week filed court papers on Thursday accusing the judge at his double-murder trial of having an affair with the prosecutor. [read post]
30 Jan 2015, 7:20 am
At Thursday's hearing on the ban, Prosecutor Army Lieutenant Colonel David Long also argued that the court order means that inmates could set prison policies. [read post]
22 Jun 2005, 9:56 am
[JURIST] A lawyer for the first Kuwaiti inmate to be freed [JURIST report] from the Guantanamo Bay detention center [JTF Guantanamo official website] argued before a Kuwait City tribunal Wednesday that his client should not be tried in Kuwaiti court and complained he was only given a summary of US interrogations. [read post]
7 Nov 2010, 6:42 am
Greene: Questioning study that showed inmates in solitary getbetter - The Denver PostA controversial study by Colorado's Corrections Department claims to debunk the widely held theory that solitary confinement harms prisoners. [read post]
29 Jan 2014, 7:40 am
[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] issued an order [text] Tuesday evening staying the execution of Missouri death row inmate Herbert Smulls. [read post]
13 Sep 2012, 10:37 am
[JURIST] The US House Committee on Foreign Affairs [official website] on Wednesday held a hearing [materials] to discuss the Chinese government's practice of harvesting organs from executed inmates. [read post]
29 Aug 2011, 2:06 pm
The Houston Chronicle reports that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice plans to equip prisoners with college degrees in biblical studies so they can later minister other inmates. [read post]
3 Feb 2009, 9:17 am
Suspects being taken to the county jail suddenly said they were suicidal, triggering a required trip to a hospital where two officers had to stay with the inmate until he was [read post]
14 May 2009, 4:24 pm
5-14-2009 Kansas:State hopes to reduce contraband, screening choresKansas prisoners will soon have access to limited electronic banking, e-mail and video family visitations.It is all part of a move by the Kansas Department of Corrections to improve security in state prisons and reduce contraband, all while reducing staff time to screen regular mail.For the state's 8,619 inmates and their [read post]
28 Jun 2006, 10:10 am
Banks [Duke Law case backgrounder; JURIST report] Wednesday that the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections [official website] could set regulations forbidding the most difficult inmates from reading and possessing general-interest newspapers and magazines, despite arguments that such regulations violated the [read post]
