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29 Nov 2011, 7:22 am
It reasoned that although Congress has not provided a statutory standard for courts to apply when death row inmates seek to change their appointed counsel, it has provided a statutory standard — “the interests of justice” — for courts to apply when other prisoners seek to change appointed counsel, and it could not have intended a lower standard for death row inmates. [read post]
7 Nov 2021, 6:52 pm
“Supreme Court considers a minister’s role at the time an inmate is put to death”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report. [read post]
4 Nov 2014, 5:35 pm
Supreme Court denies appeal by Alabama Death Row inmate convicted in 1989 bombing death of judge": Kent Faulk of The Birmingham News has an article that begins, "The U.S. [read post]
31 Jan 2015, 6:10 am
"Prisons reach court-ordered inmate levels a year ahead of schedule": The Sacramento Bee has this report. [read post]
16 Sep 2009, 12:52 pm
"No new trial for Texas death row inmate despite Collin County prosecutor's affair with judge": The Dallas Morning News has this update. [read post]
17 Oct 2008, 5:19 am
[JURIST] The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) [official website] on Thursday ruled [judgment, DOC text; press release] that France [JURIST news archive] had violated the human rights of a psychotic inmate by failing to prevent his suicide. [read post]
18 Sep 2010, 5:08 pm
9NEWS.com | Denver | Colorado's Online News Leader | Inmate transforms white prison walls into works of artVIEW SLIDESHOW STERLING - For most of the nearly 25 years he'sbeen in prison, Michael Wentz stared at blank,seemingly endless white walls that promised to runas long as his prison sentence. [read post]
3 May 2016, 9:55 pm
"Texas prison ban on Muslim inmate beards, caps ruled illegal": The Associated Press has this report on a ruling that the U.S. [read post]
16 Mar 2007, 3:46 am
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] en banc Thursday that Robert Comer, an inmate on death row, "is competent to waive further proceedings... [read post]
8 Feb 2010, 9:17 am
Eighth Circuit rejects death row inmates' challenge to the constitutionality of Arkansas's protocol for execution by lethal injection: You can access today's ruling of the U.S. [read post]
18 Jan 2015, 7:25 am
Supreme Court to hear Wisconsin inmate's excessive force claim": Sharif Durhams of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has an article that begins, "The U.S. [read post]
11 Mar 2015, 11:33 am
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit [official website] on Tuesday ruled [opinion, PDF] that Virginia can continue to automatically house death row inmates in solitary confinement. [read post]
8 Jul 2015, 6:20 am
"U.S. appeals court stays Ohio death row inmate's potential execution": Reuters has this report. [read post]
17 Feb 2015, 10:40 am
"Hundreds of South Carolina Inmates Sent to Solitary Confinement Over Facebook": The "Deeplinks" blog of the Electronic Frontier Foundation had this post last Thursday. [read post]
14 Aug 2008, 1:12 pm
"Ex-inmate helps make Bush nominee 'controversial'": The Associated Press provides a report that begins, "Had this been like most nominations for federal judgeships, the chief lawyer with Corrections Corporation of America might have been packing up his office and heading for the courthouse by now. [read post]
27 Feb 2022, 8:41 am
., Feb. 25, 2022), a suit by an inmate, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals held:The district court properly determined that defendant Acosta was entitled to qualified immunity on Miller’s free exercise claim because Acosta’s conduct in refusing to provide Miller with his RMA [Religious Meat Alternative] meals when Miller did not show him a Religious Diet Card did not violate clearly established law. [read post]
13 Jun 2005, 4:12 am
[JURIST] In a unanimous decision Monday, the US Supreme Court [official website] declined to impose [JURIST report] stricter procedural limits on decisions by state officials to place certain inmates in "super-maximum security" prisons. [read post]
27 May 2016, 11:46 am
"State Supreme Court Upholds Abolishment Of Death Penalty, Including For Death-Row Inmates": Alaine Griffin and Matthew Kauffman have this front page article in today's edition of The Hartford Courant. [read post]
21 Jun 2011, 7:07 am
Colorado prison program teaches inmates about life beyond bars - The Denver PostReconnecting with old crime cohorts is a common way parolees get into trouble again and cycle back into prison. [read post]
19 Apr 2004, 9:38 pm
In Monday's rights and liberties news, a Jewish inmate has brought suit claiming discrimination by the state of Virginia's Department of Corrections for not providing special religious diets in its maximum security prison for women while providing such diets in all its men's prisons. [read post]
