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28 Jul 2015, 1:20 pm by Associated Press
WASHINGTON  — Some federal and state prisoners could soon be eligible for federal student aid to take college courses while behind bars. [read post]
6 Aug 2017, 8:00 am by Howard Friedman
LEXIS 120621 (WD NC, Aug. 1, 2017), a North Carolina federal district court upheld a prison's refusal to recognize "Nation of Israel" (a white-supremacist group) as an approved religion and the concomitant limit on the number of religious texts that an adherent can possess.In Evans v. [read post]
21 Feb 2017, 12:22 pm by Robert Hambrick
 Yet she often had only one sentencing tool at her disposal, the authority to confine and punish federal defendants with long minimum mandatory prison terms.... [read post]
17 Mar 2013, 8:32 am by Howard Friedman
LEXIS 22697 (D SC, Feb. 20, 2013), a South Carolina federal district court dismissed on ripeness grounds because plaintiff had been transferred to a different prison a complaint that prison policies barring magazines and paper materials in cells deprived him of the ability to receive Christian materials to study his faith. [read post]
20 Feb 2007, 11:10 pm
A Wisconsin federal district court took a novel approach in denying a claim by an atheist prisoner that he should be permitted to form a study group for inmates who designate themselves as atheists, humanists, freethinkers and "other" and inmates who have no religious preference. [read post]
25 Sep 2011, 8:25 am by Maureen Cosgrove
[JURIST] Former Pennsylvania Judge Michael Conahan, 59, was sentenced on Friday to 17 and a half years in federal prison for his involvement in a juvenile sentencing scandal [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
2 Jun 2008, 12:18 pm
Weiss, the prominent class-action lawyer, was sentenced on Monday to 30 months in prison by a federal district judge in Los Angeles for his role in concealing illegal kickbacks to plaintiffs. [read post]
1 Jun 2012, 7:42 am
Richard Cartagena, 43, Oldsmar, Florida, was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for mortgage fraud conspiracy. [read post]
12 May 2024, 2:20 pm by Yosi Yahoudai
More to Read The post Federal prosecutors urge 40 years in prison after Pelosi attacker’s ‘assault on our democracy’ appeared first on J&Y Law Firm. [read post]
13 Jun 2007, 9:37 am
LEXIS 40499 (ND WV, June 1, 2007), a federal prisoner complained about his removal from the Bureau of Prisons kosher meal plan. [read post]
31 Jul 2011, 7:56 am by Howard Friedman
LEXIS 82289 (ED CA, July 26, 2011), a California federal magistrate judge recommended that a Muslim inmate's challenge to prison rules barring inmates from possessing prayer oils in their cells be dismissed on qualified immunity grounds. [read post]
10 Jan 2012, 10:56 am by constitutional lawblogger
The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 today that a prisoner in a privately run federal prison in California cannot sue guards for a violation of his Eighth Amendment rights under Bivens v. [read post]
28 Dec 2022, 7:12 am by Associated Press
President Joe Biden signed into law a bill requiring the federal Bureau of Prisons to overhaul outdated security systems and fix broken surveillance cameras. [read post]
27 Apr 2023, 1:55 pm by Madeleine O'Neill
A former Maryland correctional officer's request to appeal a federal jury verdict in a prisoner assault is at the center of a key procedural question being considered by the U.S. [read post]
22 May 2015, 1:21 pm by Steve Lash
A prisoner alleging an assault by a guard need only participate in the prison’s internal investigation of the allegation before filing suit in federal court, a U.S. appeals court held in reviving a lawsuit by a convicted murderer who claims he was roughed up in a Baltimore jail. [read post]
18 Feb 2014, 10:39 am by Reed Allmand
 Jamie Bolinger, also known as Jammer, 36, of Martinsville, Indiana was sentenced to 102 months in federal prison after he pled guilty to a slew of offenses including extortion, drug […] [read post]
3 Oct 2014, 3:59 am by Immigration Prof
Teresa Giudice was sentenced yesterday in federal court to 15 months in prison on conspiracy and bankruptcy charges while her husband, Giuseppe “Joe” Giudice, was sentenced to... [read post]
4 Sep 2011, 6:21 am by McNabb Associates, P.C.
Arguello to serve 72 months (6 years) in federal prison, followed by 2 years on supervised release, for traveling in interstate commerce in commission of murder-for-hire, United States Attorney John Walsh and FBI Special Agent in Charge James Yacone announced. [read post]
13 May 2013, 11:07 am
Matthew Daniels, a 46-year-old Grand Haven man who pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return, was sentenced on Wednesday, May 8 to six months in federal prison. [read post]