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5 Nov 2020, 11:28 am by Gritsforbreakfast
TDCJ had 142,169 prisoners as of August 31, 2019, and 120,707 as of September 2020, giving Texas a 15% reduction (21,462 fewer inmates) over the last year.How significant a decrease that is depends on how you look at it, but it's not small potatoes. 21,462 fewer inmates represents about a 1.5% reduction in the total number of federal and state prisoners in the entire country, according to the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics. [read post]
27 Oct 2020, 3:32 pm by Stephen Honig
The Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued the Federal Bureau of Prisons for failure to release COVID statistics. [read post]
27 Oct 2020, 8:50 am by Matthew D. Lee
Compassionate Release is indeed a feasible option for some people who are incarcerated or about to surrender to a federal prison. [read post]
26 Oct 2020, 2:18 pm by Stephen Wermiel
In another prison case, Sotomayor on June 4 temporarily blocked lower court orders that would have required the federal prison in Elkton, Ohio, to transfer inmates either to other institutions or to home confinement to get them out of harm’s way from the virus. [read post]
23 Oct 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
He faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine and has agreed to forfeit $6.6 million he was paid for his work. [read post]
8 Oct 2020, 8:21 pm by Ilya Somin
One recent study that analyzed successful lawsuits filed against federal Bureau of Prison officials found that "the federal government effectively held their officers harmless in over 95% of the successful cases brought against them, and paid well over 99% of the compensation received by plaintiffs in these cases. [read post]
5 Oct 2020, 6:44 am by Jane Turner
He fought in Vietnam, and he fought the United States government, establishing himself as the first person to engage the whistleblower system at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). [read post]
28 Sep 2020, 7:27 am by Jane Turner
Birkenfeld took evidence of the currency transaction fraud at State Street Bank to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). [read post]
25 Sep 2020, 1:34 pm by Zachary Margulis-Ohnuma
Until 2018, compassionate release could only be sought by the Bureau of Prisons itself–judges could not act unless they were, in effect, asked to by the government that locked up the defendant in the first place. [read post]
Census Bureau, which is charged with gathering critical data about the American population for the federal government—data critical to the fair distribution of federal aid and representation in Congress. [read post]
28 Aug 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Two federal health officials said the shift came as a d [read post]
26 Aug 2020, 11:18 am by Cassandra Stubbs
In fact, the Bureau of Prisons confirmed that a correctional officer at Terre-Haute tested positive for COVID-19 after participating in the preparation of the July executions. [read post]
18 Aug 2020, 9:08 am by Phil Dixon
Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388 (1971) (allowing an implied civil action for damages against federal agents for certain civil rights violations), alleging the stops were unreasonable seizures in violation of the Fourth Amendment. [read post]
31 Jul 2020, 10:59 am by Michael Lowe
In Texas, both state and federal law enforcement are keenly focused upon the investigation and prosecution of all varieties of health care fraud, which can result in serious prison time upon conviction. [read post]
31 Jul 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Chris Christie is making big money from businesses trying to tap coronavirus relief funds from the federal government. [read post]
28 Jul 2020, 2:19 pm by jlucivero
While the proposed Senate package would provide $200 million for the Bureau of Prisons to address COVID-19 in federal facilities, this funding falls dramatically short of the resources needed at the state and local level nationwide. [read post]