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29 Jan 2015, 4:15 am
Miami Herald reports that at a pre-trial hearing at Guantanamo Bay yesterday, the defense lawyer for former al Quaida commander Abd al Hadi al Iraqi asked for an expansion of the existing order barring female guards being used to transfer al Hadi to and from court and meetings with his lawyers. [read post]
20 Sep 2009, 3:35 am
[JURIST] The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) [official website] issued a plan [text, PDF; press release] Friday to reduce prison overcrowding as ordered [opinion, PDF; JURIST report] by a special panel of federal judges in August, but the plan falls short of the order's requirements. [read post]
25 Apr 2019, 7:01 pm
Even U.S. marshals say conditions at Cuyahoga County Jail are inhumane. [read post]
21 Apr 2020, 6:00 am
Oakland County's under-sheriff rhetorically asked attorneys whether they'd be willing to "Adopt-a-Con. [read post]
12 Dec 2011, 1:43 am
“A report into the death of a prisoner has suggested he was moved from a jail – where he felt safe – because an inspection was due to take place.” Full story BBC News, 10th December 2011 Source: www.bbc.co.uk [read post]
22 Sep 2007, 10:19 am
That's the title of Allan Turner's examination of the Claude Jones in today's Houston Chronicle. [read post]
26 Sep 2019, 3:21 pm
City Detention Center employees purportedly let Black Guerrilla Family gang members into Daquan Wallace's cell, where they beat him so badly he can no longer walk or talk. [read post]
11 Aug 2004, 3:45 pm
Nicholas Yarris, a Pennsylvania man who spent 22 years on death row before DNA evidence exonerated him from a rape and murder conviction, filed a lawsuit Wednesday alleging that detectives and prosecutors withheld evidence from his trial that could have set him free, AP reports. [read post]
16 Feb 2015, 5:21 pm
On UT-Austin's website today, a short essay on solitary confinement by Octavio Martinez Jr., executive director of the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, opened thusly:Of all the statistics that point to an urgent need to reform the use of solitary confinement in Texas prisons, there’s one that is most striking: The Texas Department of Criminal Justice released more than 1,200 people directly from solitary confinement back into Texas communities in 2013. [read post]
26 Sep 2007, 9:30 am
[JURIST] Texas continued with the lethal injection execution of a convicted murderer Tuesday, despite the US Supreme Court's grant of certiorari [cert. petition, PDF] in a case reviewing whether the method is cruel and unusual and therefore unconstitutional. [read post]
4 Feb 2019, 5:12 am
Family of Chicago man held in custody and denied medical treatment will settle for $1 million. [read post]
15 Jul 2020, 4:00 am
In Hartkemeyer v. [read post]
20 May 2019, 5:24 am
A prisoner faces additional charges after trying to escape and triggering the sprinkler system. [read post]
2 Apr 2024, 1:07 pm
WaPo reports.The six plaintiffs in the class-action suit filed Friday, who are Christian, Muslim, Santerian and atheist, are... arguing it has religious significance. [read post]
21 May 2019, 5:51 am
14 Dec 2008, 10:45 pm
Colleague Lord Erskine wonders:What's a normal job like? [read post]
18 Aug 2012, 12:04 pm
A federal appeals court upheld a lower court’s decision to exonerate a Prince William County man who was in jail on death row in a murder-for-hire case. [read post]
21 May 2019, 5:51 am
12 Oct 2008, 4:50 pm
The San Francisco Chronicle reports today about an aggravated felon who was able to stave off removal, largely by having the resources to go back into criminal court to have his previous guilty plea withdrawn, plus he had terrific community... [read post]
10 May 2010, 9:39 am
In an interesting legal maneuver, Michael Beuke, who's scheduled to be executed Thursday for a 1983 violent crime spree that included aggravated murder, two counts of attempted aggravated murder, three counts of aggravated robbery, and three counts of kidnapping, filed motion last week for another restraining order to stop that execution. [read post]
