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23 Sep 2015, 1:47 pm
The cast of characters in The Birth of American Law includes the usual suspects—George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James Madison. [read post]
17 Aug 2015, 8:00 am by Dan Ernst
Here’s the line-up for the DC Working Class History Seminar for 2015-16:September  19Jennifer Luff (Durham University-UK)“Banning reds: the origins of Britain's secret government purge, 1926-1928”Dana Caldemeyer (ABD, University of Kentucky) "Undermined: Blacklegging Businessmen and the 1889 Coal Strike”November 7Seth LaShier (ABD, George Washington University)“Limits to Protest: Hosea Williams and the Struggle for Civil and Economic Rights… [read post]
22 Mar 2015, 3:21 pm by Michael Lumer
The remaining history can be found online or in this article in the Washington Post. [read post]
22 Mar 2015, 3:21 pm by Michael Lumer
The remaining history can be found online or in this article in the Washington Post. [read post]
30 Sep 2014, 8:53 am by Gritsforbreakfast
A federal court recently ordered Louisiana to install air conditioning in at the Louisiana State Penitentiary. [read post]
27 Aug 2014, 8:00 am by Dan Ernst
In opposing torture and infamy, Beccaria inspired America's founders to jettison England's Bloody Code, heavily reliant on executions and corporal punishments, and to adopt the penitentiary system.The cast of characters in The Birth of American Law includes the usual suspects—George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James Madison. [read post]
8 May 2014, 12:16 pm by Bill Otis
The Washington Post reports:Oklahoma's attorney general asked a court Thursday to delay putting an inmate to death in the wake of a botched execution at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary last month.Attorney General Scott Pruitt's office said in a court filing Thursday that it would agree to a six-month stay of the execution of inmate Charles Warner, who was scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection next week. [read post]
9 Apr 2014, 1:23 pm by Stephen Bilkis
C., upon information that defendant was then confined in the United States Penitentiary at Atlanta, was confined in the United States Penitentiary at Lewisburg, and requested said Director to transfer said defendants to the jurisdiction of this state in the Federal House of Detention, New York City, so that the District Attorney could obtain a writ directing their appearance for trial on the instant indictment in the County Court of Queens County. [read post]
5 Apr 2014, 2:26 pm by Stephen Bilkis
A Queens Robbery Lawyer said that these defendants pleaded guilty before the Federal Court and were sentenced on July 28, 1959 to serve extensive terms in the Federal Penitentiary at McNeil Island in the State of Washington. [read post]
11 Feb 2014, 8:42 am
’s Religiosity Study Kent Kerley and his coauthors examined the relationship between religiosity and negative prison behaviors at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, Mississippi. [read post]
9 Oct 2013, 6:44 pm by Patrick S. O'Donnell
His legal appeals brought his freedom last week when a federal judge in Baton Rouge ruled his indictment had been unconstitutional because the grand jury excluded women.Wallace had only a few days to savor the victory.One of the ‘Angola 3,’ whose long-term solitary confinement at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola became a cause celebre for prison reform advocates, Wallace died of complications of liver cancer Friday in New Orleans, his attorneys said. [read post]
8 Aug 2012, 9:29 am
He was serving a life sentence at Walla Walla State Penitentiary when his DNA was obtained. [read post]
4 Aug 2012, 9:32 am by Steve Hall
John Kitzhaber.But Haugen’s execution by lethal injection at the Oregon State Penitentiary isn’t imminent.A judge ruled that Haugen has a legal right to reject the reprieve Kitzhaber ordered, but a separate hearing is required to set a new date for an execution. [read post]
20 Jul 2012, 10:44 am by Joe Sanders
He spent 12 years incarcerated at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, Wash. [read post]
12 Jul 2012, 7:30 am by W.F. Casey Ebsary, Jr.
Thus, mens rea was eliminated as an element of the offense of possession of a controlled substance under Washington law by implication not express intent of the legislature. [read post]
2 Jul 2012, 7:47 am by Steve Hall
Seven men await execution at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, where the execution chamber sits at the end of Unit 6, an old, brick living unit built in 1932. [read post]
25 Jun 2012, 1:37 pm by CJLF Staff
Supreme Court Ruling on Arizona Immigration Law to Impact Other States: Pamela Constable of The Washington Post reports the U.S. [read post]