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18 Sep 2009, 9:00 am
Religion - A federal appeals court has ruled that a federal law, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), requires the Massachusetts Department of Corrections to provide prison inmates held in segregated units of prisons access... [read post]
A Michigan federal judge Tuesday sentenced Adam Fox to 16 years in prison for leading a plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. [read post]
29 Sep 2004, 11:42 am
Martha Stewart has been ordered to serve her five-month prison sentence at the federal prison in Alderson, West Virginia, rather than at the prisons in Connecticut or Florida requested by Stewart in a letter [PDF] to Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum on September 15. [read post]
10 Jul 2013, 7:12 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
And in December 2012, following a month-long trial in a lawsuit brought by the ACLU, a federal court issued a blistering opinion ruling that Alabama's HIV segregation policy violated the Americans with Disabilities Act. [read post]
24 Jan 2014, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
Now that the Justice Department has won a preliminary injunction from a federal district court ordering Florida prisons to make kosher meals available by July 1 to all prisoners with a sincere religious basis for keeping kosher (see prior posting), Muslim groups are asking for Halal meals as well. [read post]
8 Oct 2021, 7:00 am by Ryan J. Farrick
Alabama is still facing a federal lawsuit alleging inhumane conditions in its state-run prisons. [read post]
10 Jul 2011, 11:05 am by Howard Friedman
LEXIS 70654 (D NJ, June 30, 2011), a New Jersey federal district court rejected a Jewish inmate's free exercise and RLUIPA complaints that inmates in the Special Sentencing Unit could not join inmates elsewhere in the prison for religious services.In Razzoli v. [read post]
6 Nov 2015, 2:30 pm
Over 650,000 prisoners leave state and federal jails each year. [read post]
23 May 2011, 10:47 am by Rachel Myers, ACLU
The ACLU filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case before the Supreme Court, arguing that the federal court was right to order the state to reduce the size of its prison population. [read post]
24 Sep 2017, 1:48 pm by Howard Friedman
LEXIS 152476 (WD MI, Sept. 20, 2017), a Michigan federal district court dismissed complaints by a Messianic Christian prison ministry that mail it sent into prisons was being rejected.In Evans v. [read post]
16 Apr 2024, 4:38 pm by Yosi Yahoudai
Last month, federal authorities raided the facility, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons removed several of the top managers. [read post]
7 Dec 2017, 12:56 pm by Michael Lowe
Lowe was able to get probation on a Federal Child Porn case even though the client’s maximum guideline range was 168 months in the Bureau of Prisons. [read post]
3 Feb 2007, 10:49 am
LEXIS 95008 (MD PA, filed Feb. 1, 2007), a Pennsylvania federal district court adopted recommendations of a federal magistrate judge rejecting claims of a Rastafarian prisoner who had been refused an exemption from a prison's hair-length requirements. [read post]
24 Jul 2019, 6:12 am by Jason Whong
A news release says the three entered their pleas on Tuesday to a federal racketeering charge. [read post]
2 Nov 2014, 6:43 am by Howard Friedman
" The holding comes in a case in which a federal prisoner sought recognition of Humanism so the prison would create a Humanist study group. [read post]
13 Sep 2007, 2:28 am
[JURIST] A federal law allowing prison officials to indefinitely commit sex offenders to a mental hospital following their prison term is unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, effectively freeing five convicted sex offenders pending the government's filing of a motion to stay the order. [read post]
27 Jan 2020, 7:36 am by Jacob Dougherty
” The federal government argues that the relocation would impact the operations of the US Marshals Service and would isolate prisoners from their families. [read post]