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25 Feb 2016, 7:01 am
Supreme Court ruling, all inmates who were sentenced as juveniles to life in prison without parole are eligible to be re-sentenced. [read post]
13 Sep 2007, 12:11 pm
Some of the inmates had signed a petition complaining of leaky roofs and toilets, poor air quality and mold in the jail. [read post]
30 May 2022, 1:50 pm
Inmates planning to challenge their state convictions in Federal Court are worried about the recent Supreme Court case Shinn v. [read post]
4 Feb 2019, 7:40 am
Administrative law — Inmate complaint — Exhaustion of remedies Steven Tarpley, a former inmate at North Branch Correctional Institute, filed a civil complaint in the Circuit Court for Alleghany County against several individuals, including the warden, Frank Bishop, and several correctional officers, the appellees herein. 1, 2 The appellees filed a motion to dismiss or ... [read post]
26 Feb 2008, 6:06 pm
According to the report:Approximately 65 percent of the inmates are awaiting trial, most of whom have been waiting for their trial for years. [read post]
24 Apr 2007, 9:50 am
[JURIST] The three-drug "cocktail" used to execute death row inmates by lethal injection [JURIST news archive] can fail, causing inmates to suffer a painful death, according to a study [text] published Monday by PLoS Medicine [journal website]. [read post]
10 Mar 2019, 1:46 pm
Paul Harris, No. 18-12418 (February 19, 2019) The Eleventh Circuit affirmed a prison guard defendant’s conviction for Hobbs Act extortion based on evidence that he confiscated contraband from inmates for his personal use and that the inmates “consented” by not reporting the defendant out of fear that they would be punished for… The post United States v. [read post]
11 Sep 2006, 12:48 am
[JURIST] Detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison [JURIST news archive], recently transferred from US to Iraqi control [JURIST report], are allegedly being tortured by prison officials, according to an independent observer who told the UK's Telegraph that screaming was heard coming from the inmate cell blocks, that health conditions there are unacceptable, and that inmates are given inadequate food [read post]
1 Apr 2020, 4:00 am
The policy was challenged by a Muslim inmate who was disciplined for praying next to his bunk at a prohibited time. [read post]
10 Jul 2010, 5:53 am
The inmate, Marvin Louis Booker, 56, of Denver, had been arrested about 1 a.m. [read post]
19 Mar 2012, 8:15 am
Gonzales [docket; cert. petition, PDF], the court will determine whether 18 USC § 3599(a)(2) [text], which provides that an indigent capital state inmate pursuing federal habeas relief "shall be entitled to the appointment of one or more attorneys," impliedly entitles a death row inmate to stay the federal habeas proceedings he initiated if he is not competent to assist counsel.... [read post]
15 Jun 2010, 10:40 am
6-15-2010 New York:ALBANY - Whether or not inmates are being held illegally in state prisons is "irrelevant" to the state's authority to commit them to secure mental hospitals as dangerous sexual offenders, a divided New York Court of Appeals held today.A 4-3 majority ruled that the civil commitment statute for sex offenders, Article 10 of the Mental Hygiene Law, applies to "dangerous" inmates [read post]
5 Aug 2009, 10:42 am
"California Prisons Must Cut Inmate Population," is Solomon Moore's report in today's New York Times.A panel of federal judges ordered the California prison system on Tuesday to reduce its inmate population of 150,000 by 40,000 â€â [read post]
22 May 2006, 2:49 am
[JURIST] The US prison and jail population added prisoners [press release] from mid-2004 to mid-2005 at a rate of 2.6 percent and more than 1,000 new inmates a week, reaching a total of 2,186,230 inmates behind bars according to a Justice Department Bureau of Justice Statistics [official website] report [summary; PDF text] released Sunday. [read post]
25 Sep 2007, 6:53 am
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] ruled Monday that foreign prisoners do not have a cause of action under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations [PDF text] if police do not inform the inmate of their right under the treaty to call the inmate's home country embassy following arrest. [read post]
24 Nov 2010, 8:38 am
They will be picking inmate brains to gather tips on unsolved crimes by distributing playing cards. [read post]
28 Feb 2010, 2:50 am
Other articles relevant to this issue: Indiana wants to trim cost of educating inmates (Note comment: Education reduces recidiviism) --- Some Question Why Sex Offender Still Can't Read (Note: Education affects sex offender therapy) --- Three State Recidivism Study (Note: The analysis of the data indicates that inmates who participated in education programs while incarcerated showed lower [read post]
7 Sep 2011, 12:01 pm
The Mansfield News Journal carried a story yesterday morning about a Richland Correctional Institute inmate’s suing the state prison system, claiming his civil rights were violated when bound legal books were replaced with computers.Richland County inmate Dwayne Harris, convicted of rape, kidnapping, felonious assault, and aggravated assault in 1989, saying he no longer had access to law books, [read post]
18 May 2010, 6:02 am
The Clarion - Law students sue Colorado prisonTwo students in the Sturm College of Law’s Civil Rights Clinic (CRC) are suing a Colorado state prison for violating an inmate’s constitutional rights. [read post]
22 Apr 2014, 10:09 am
A joint request for a stay of execution [AP report] filed by the inmates' lawyers on Monday, the latest of a series of... [read post]
