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25 May 2022, 12:41 pm
Another month has delivered yet another report of an inmate’s death inside a jail. [read post]
8 Feb 2019, 4:15 am
Ct., Feb. 7, 2019), the majority said it was granting the state's application because the inmate had waited until ten days before his Feb. 7 execution date to seek relief. [read post]
27 Jan 2022, 4:20 am
§ 1915(g) limits an inmate's ability to bring a suit in forma pauperis, i.e. without paying the usual filing fee, if the inmate has previously had three suits dismissed for lack of merit. [read post]
5 Dec 2017, 4:10 am
The state of Tennessee last month agreed to a settlement of $45,948, plus up to $35,000 in attorneys' fees, in a suit that was brought by an employee of a state corrections agency who complained that the program he was required to teach to inmates was heavily religious. [read post]
23 Dec 2021, 11:25 pm
That practice that has long been decried by human rights groups for the stress it puts on death-row prisoners, for whom any day could be their last.Two death row inmates in November launched a law suit against the government, demanding a change to the practice and compensation for the impact of it.The United States and Japan are the only industrialised democracies that still carry capital punishment and rights groups such as Amnesty International have demanded change for decades.The last… [read post]
10 Nov 2021, 4:20 am
., Nov. 9, 2021),the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a Michigan federal district court's dismissal of RLUIPA, free exercise, equal protection and due process claims brought by an inmate who sought to worship with other inmates of the Ifa faith and to obtain certain religious items for worship. [read post]
21 Sep 2022, 5:00 am
.), the court affirmed the trial court’s granting of a Plaintiff’s Motion to Compel discovery of a “psychological autopsy” report that the Defendant prepared after a prison inmate’s suicide.This case arose out of the Plaintiff's decedent's suicide while an inmate in a private prison owned by the Defendant. [read post]
17 Sep 2021, 2:16 pm
Responding to appellant's RLUIPA and free exercise claims, the court said in part:The prison must permit a reasonable opportunity for an inmate to engage in religious activities but need not provide unlimited opportunities to do so. [read post]
21 Nov 2011, 9:00 am
Massachusetts is one of two states lacking a law that allows inmates the right to post-conviction DNA testing that might prove their innocence. [read post]
6 Dec 2024, 8:00 am
Recent investigations and reports have exposed the sad reality that child inmates in California’s juvenile detention centers are often victims of sexual abuse and assault by staff and other inmates. [read post]
20 Mar 2009, 7:33 am
The women who are mostly nurses, said while they made their rounds, male inmates used graphic language and masturbated toward them. 'The conduct is so hostile, notorious and commonplace that it is referred to by prison staff and inmates alike as 'gunning,' '' according to the complaint. [read post]
13 May 2007, 12:45 am
Jewish inmates could obtain either pork-free or vegetarian meals. [read post]
9 Jul 2011, 7:53 am
” News of the strike, which began July 1, has spread, and inmates in prisons throughout California are said to have joined in solidarity: “There are inmates in at least a third of our prisons who are refusing state-issued meals,” said Terry Thornton, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. [read post]
23 Feb 2010, 10:19 am
The scheme was discovered after a how-to note was found in an inmate's cell. [read post]
27 Dec 2006, 11:29 am
Prisoner rights are in the picture again down in Georgia where an inmate serving a life sentence for murder filed a pro se suit back in July 2001 challenging that State's correctional institute's ban on allowing inmates to have direct access to the Internet.Cases about inmate rights to the Internet focus, according to a National Law Journal article yesterday, on whether to allow prisoners online correspondences, with advocates professing it's a free speech… [read post]
1 Mar 2007, 4:15 am
Federal inmates generally are detained in -- and classified to -- prisons run by the same Justice Department that has prosecuted the inmates. [read post]
10 Aug 2015, 4:15 am
Truthout yesterday published a lengthy investigative article on the barriers sometimes thrown up by jails to prevent women inmates from obtaining abortions. [read post]
4 Aug 2022, 5:00 am
Casey recommended termination of employment for a correction officer who engaged in a sexual relationship with an inmate, provided the inmate with contraband, and told the inmate to delay reporting a rape committed by another officer. [read post]
4 Aug 2022, 5:00 am
Casey recommended termination of employment for a correction officer who engaged in a sexual relationship with an inmate, provided the inmate with contraband, and told the inmate to delay reporting a rape committed by another officer. [read post]
4 Aug 2022, 11:00 am
Casey recommended termination of employment for a correction officer who engaged in a sexual relationship with an inmate, provided the inmate with contraband, and told the inmate to delay reporting a rape committed by another officer. [read post]
