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29 Nov 2015, 9:30 pm by Katie Cramer
Correcting these policy missteps, he argued, is essential to effectively addressing climate change in the twenty-first century. [read post]
29 Nov 2015, 5:00 am by Howard Friedman
MassLive reports on the decision.PennLive reports that on Tuesday, a Middle District of Pennsylvania federal district court judge, in a case on remand from the 3rd Circuit ordered the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections to comply with a June settlement agreement that requires Camp Hill prison authorities to allow Christian inmates 30 minutes of fellowship and group prayer in the dining hall on Christmas after the mainline Christmas dinner has been served… [read post]
23 Nov 2015, 7:32 am by Andrew Sykes
This post will address some of the most common errors people make using this strategy in Pennsylvania, where I practice, and will explain the correct way to buy a reserve. [read post]
8 Nov 2015, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
Established by the Safe Streets Act of 1968, LEAA required states to develop “comprehensive plans” for criminal justice policy and awarded grants to supplement the budgets of local courts, corrections agencies, and police departments. [read post]
5 Nov 2015, 10:00 am by The Public Employment Law Press
 The decision is posted on the Internet at:http://archive.citylaw.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/oath/14_Cases/14-1236.pdf Correction officer found guilty of violating a number of his agency’s rules OATH Index No. 1962/15A New York City correction officer [CO] was found to have been absent from his residence without authorization while on sick leave and was given instructions to report to the Department’s Health Management Division [HMD] with his shield,… [read post]
2 Nov 2015, 6:59 am by Glenn Neiman
  And, in one final twist, the Court reversed the decision rendered by the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, finding that it was the WCAB who issued the correct decision (finding that the mother was not entitled to workers’ compensation benefits in this unique and tragic situation). [read post]
27 Oct 2015, 5:44 am by Joy Waltemath
It noted that these statistics did not identify why the officers departed their employment, and there were too many questions of fact created by the prison’s ambiguous statistics of the race of “departed” employees for the court to find widespread termination of African Americans correctional officers. [read post]
26 Oct 2015, 1:30 pm by CJLF Staff
  The Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015, sponsored by Sens. [read post]
15 Oct 2015, 2:03 pm
"Death-row inmates, including Ballard, win a round in court": Riley Yates of The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania has a news update that begins, "A lawsuit by five Pennsylvania death-row inmates questioning the state's execution method will be allowed to go forward, the Commonwealth Court ruled Thursday in a suit that charges the Department of Corrections improperly changed the drug cocktail it intends to use for lethal injections. [read post]
23 Sep 2015, 2:28 am by Walter Olson
Larry Hogan blamed the state’s largest employee’s union for not being able to remove corrections employees who face charges that range from driving under the influence to assault….Since 2013, more than 200 Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services employees have been charged with crimes that include DUI, assault and having sexual relations with an inmate, yet they remain on the job. [read post]
16 Sep 2015, 7:00 am by Jonathan I. Nirenberg
The Third Circuit is the federal appellate court which handles appeals stemming from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and the Virgin Islands. [read post]
11 Sep 2015, 5:27 am by Associated Press
The Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services said in a news release that 52-year-old Patrick Merson of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, was charged Thursday with 11 offenses, including possession with intent to distribute a controlled ... [read post]
4 Sep 2015, 5:01 am by James Edward Maule
According to the property owner, people paying the parking fee asked what he was doing with the money, and that prompted the posting of the sign.Technically and literally, the sign is correct. [read post]
24 Aug 2015, 9:40 am by Steve Lubet
  Goffman herself has noted that checking visitor lists would not violate HIPAA (in this she is correct; although checking patient lists would violate federal privacy law). [read post]
21 Aug 2015, 7:21 am by Joe May
The last Census counted more than 160,000 people in correctional facilities, and they cannot vote. [read post]
13 Aug 2015, 5:42 am
Here, for example, Plaintiffs could have submitted a corrected advertisement that substituted “The State Department” for “The FBI” and “$5 million” for “$25 million” — or fixed the factual inaccuracies in countless other ways. [read post]