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3 Mar 2008, 4:34 am
"Some crack convicts could soon be set free": CNN.com provides a report that begins, "New sentencing guidelines were expected to lead Monday to the early release of more than a dozen federal inmates convicted on crack-cocaine charges. [read post]
3 Jan 2009, 11:22 pm
AP reports that in Montague County, the brand spanking new Sheriff's first official act was to move out all the inmates and close down the county jail in the wake of an FBI raid and apparent, rampant misconduct under his predecessor:A jail in northern Texas has been closed and its nearly 60 inmates transferred as authorities investigate what they call dangerous conditions for jailers and those behind bars â€â [read post]
6 Dec 2010, 12:31 pm by brian
The Lone Star state has also exonerated a dozen death-row inmates during that time period. [read post]
4 Nov 2011, 8:08 am by brian
Prison officials have since revised their procedures, which death row inmates allege are still flawed and exposing them to cruel and unusual punishment. [read post]
1 Jul 2007, 8:26 am
Thanks to How Appealing, I saw this article from the Philadelphia Inquirer entitled, "Death-row reversals of fortune; In 7 years, 50 Pa. inmates awaiting execution were spared by the courts. [read post]
9 Feb 2007, 8:08 am
(The Commission on Jail Standards has said they won't let them take new prisoners after that unless guard-to-inmate ratios are lowered.) [read post]
16 Jul 2007, 1:43 am
This article reviews Virginia's statute providing an inmate the right to file a writ of actual innocence to the Court of Appeals. [read post]
2 May 2007, 10:14 am
The ruling overturned a portion of a state law that allows inmates who pleaded guilty to crimes to request DNA testing after their conviction. [read post]
14 Dec 2011, 8:26 pm by Jeralyn
Second, BOP doesn't place inmates in the program at the beginning of their term when they have a long sentence like Blago. [read post]
31 Oct 2010, 6:02 pm by Howard Friedman
., Oct. 29, 2010), the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected an inmate's claim that his rights under RLUIPA were violated by officials' classification of pages he tore out of a religious magazine as contraband and their refusal to mail them out for him.In Shepherd v. [read post]
22 Aug 2012, 8:05 am by Steve Hall
The Tennessee Supreme Court has decided not to hear an appeal by two death row inmates who claim that changes to the state's lethal injection procedure are unconstitutional. [read post]
26 Jan 2016, 8:29 am by Mark Eiglarsh
The ruling must now be applied retroactively, providing relief to approximately 1,200 to 1,500 inmates. [read post]
19 Nov 2006, 11:30 am
Three other lawyers and an inmate also died in the hostage-taking and subsequent police raid...On Friday, four inmates took a total of 14 public defenders and a guard hostage after the lawyers informed them that they had lost a court appeal and would have to serve 40 years in jail on kidnapping charges... [read post]
4 Apr 2018, 12:47 am by Beaver Courie Law Firm
The five-member board has authority over all inmate grievances filed through the Administrative Remedy Procedure. [read post]
29 Jul 2017, 4:00 am by Berniard Law Firm
  It is unsurprising that inmates often complain about mistreatment from prison officials. [read post]
15 May 2024, 8:23 am by Stephen Bilkis
When inmates suffer significant harm due to cruel and unusual punishment or procedural injustices, they may seek redress through civil litigation. [read post]
28 Sep 2008, 11:40 am
LEXIS 73372 (D CO, Sept. 24, 2008), a Colorado federal district court rejected a magistrate judge's recommendation that an inmate's free exercise claim be dismissed because he failed to allege what religion he practices. [read post]