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24 Dec 2007, 9:42 am
"When you have a billion dollars' worth of outstanding restitution orders, you can see that the system is in collapse," said Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne Abraham. [read post]
30 Nov 2007, 8:14 am
"Today, Maryland is in a unique position to get out of the business of executing prisoners. [read post]
27 Aug 2015, 3:19 pm by Alan J. Borsuk
Similar increases are occurring in neighborhoods characterized by multi-generational poverty in cities including Baltimore, Philadelphia, St. [read post]
31 May 2011, 6:10 am by Nabiha Syed
” Other articles and commentators have focused on the effect that the Court’s decision might have on California’s prison and criminal justice systems. [read post]
30 Jul 2014, 11:32 am by Jamison Koehler
  However, like Karl Baker in Philadelphia, he doesn’t seem to care if we know this or not. [read post]
5 Nov 2020, 6:10 pm by Marty Lederman
  (Nor does this case remotely resemble Mooppan's hypothetical in which a state prison allows contractor or employee prison guards to bring peyote into the facility but not to bring in hoasca tea (a reference to the discriminatory treatment at issue in the Court's decision in Gonzales O Centro Espírita Beneficente União do Vegetal  (2006)). [read post]
28 Mar 2007, 9:47 pm
A few years later, when President George Washington was in Philadelphia (then the nation's capital), a slave named Ona Judge who helped Mrs. [read post]
27 Jun 2012, 9:21 am by Steve Hall
The change, manifest in court decisions starting in 2005, is a result of a confluence of factors: a drop-off in the crack-related crime wave that began in the late 1980s and that led states to move violent juveniles into the adult system and create mandatory prison terms for some crimes; an explosion in scientific research on adolescent brain development; a desire to cut costs by reducing prison populations; and the frustration of juvenile judges with mandatory… [read post]
10 May 2018, 4:12 am by SHG
“We should be proud that our constitutional system protects the rights of the accused, but over the past few years that system has allowed the safeguards protecting the rights of the innocent to be torn away. [read post]
26 Feb 2020, 3:50 am by Edith Roberts
Philadelphia, a challenge to Philadelphia’s exclusion of Catholic Social Services from the city’s foster care system because the group will not place children with same-sex couples that the court will hear next term, “is a significant escalation from most of the Supreme Court’s previous cases asking when religious people may seek an exemption from the law. [read post]
12 Sep 2022, 7:36 am by Justin Chan
Such a unit within the Philadelphia DA’s office worked with the Innocence Project to vacate the conviction of Termaine Hicks, who spent 19 years in prison based on the false testimony of police officers. [read post]
31 Mar 2007, 11:34 pm
The federal government and military also can execute prisoners. [read post]
18 Mar 2008, 4:16 pm
Barack Obama spoke today in Philadelphia. [read post]
9 Mar 2011, 5:59 am by Rachel, Legal Assistant
Everyone. - http://goo.gl/Tll74Judges dismiss wind turbine setback challenge - Markdale Standard - http://goo.gl/NXWHtObama creates indefinite detention system for prisoners at Guantanamo Bay - http://goo.gl/tf3rn- Rachel Spence, TorontoVisit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net TORONTO EMPLOYMENT LAW • TORONTO CIVIL LITIGATION & ESTATE LITIGATION • TORONTO FAMILY LAW & DIVORCE ORIGINALLY POSTED AT WISE LAW BLOG • SUBSCRIBE TO WISE LAW BLOG [read post]
10 Sep 2021, 1:47 pm by Joseph Longley
And jails and prisons should ensure access to medications for opioid use disorder for everyone who needs it. [read post]
10 Sep 2021, 1:47 pm by Joseph Longley
And jails and prisons should ensure access to medications for opioid use disorder for everyone who needs it. [read post]