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25 Nov 2024, 8:16 am by David Oscar Markus
  Here's another emotional story about a debate between D.C. jail inmates and JMU students about whether life without parole should be abolished:Harold Cunningham was locked up more than three decades ago and told he would never see the outside of a prison after committing a string of armed robberies and murders.On Friday, he stood in a courtroom again. [read post]
21 Feb 2014, 4:08 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Via Ozymandius, citing a new paper from the journal Crime and Delinquency:personnel in charge of running prisons and jails with large populations of Hispanic inmates must comprender what the inmates are saying. [read post]
17 Apr 2020, 7:27 am by David Oscar Markus
From Professor Berman's blog, check out these numbers which are now dated:To provide some context for these number, consider that the federal inmate population is "only" 175,000, and yet there are already 13 official COVID deaths within the federal inmate population [as of 4/13; this number is now way higher]. [read post]
18 Feb 2017, 3:37 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Also, Dallas Observer coverage.There were protests at the Harris County Jail this week surrounding another questionable inmate death ruled a suicide by authorities. [read post]
25 Aug 2014, 11:32 am
Part of the reason for this is that most visits at the jail are non-contact visits, where the attorney still must speak to the inmate through a glass wall. [read post]
29 Nov 2015, 5:00 am by Howard Friedman
LEXIS 159291, Sept. 30, 2015) and dismissed a Rastafarian inmate's complaint that he was not permitted to properly celebrate the Rastafarian holy day, the birthday of Haile Selassie.In Trapp v. [read post]
22 Nov 2015, 9:18 am by Howard Friedman
LEXIS 155804, Oct. 30, 2015) and dismissed a Muslim inmate's complaint that he was denied a Kosher diet, the opportunity to pray in common areas, and a Quran. [read post]
12 Aug 2013, 6:45 pm by Rumpole
Even more mysterious, the footage shows that at least two inmates were  ready for the doors to open, because once the doors opened they jumped out and quickly armed themselves and went to attack a third inmate who is the alleged  leader of an inner city gang. [read post]
1 Apr 2015, 3:04 pm
We don't trust in-custody inmate testimony because (inter alia) we're concerned  -- for good and empirical reasons -- that inmates might lie and incriminate another prisoner to get a reduced sentence in their own case.We don't trust accomplice testimony for identical reasons.As a result, in California, you've got to have corroboration. [read post]
9 Mar 2013, 5:41 pm by Howard Friedman
Defendant, Angel Dillard, visited inmates at the Sedgwick County jail through a non-profit religious ministries program. [read post]
9 Nov 2014, 10:00 am by Howard Friedman
LEXIS 156618 (WD WI, Nov. 4, 2014), a Wisconsin federal district court dismissed Muslim inmates' claims that prison authorities refused to accommodate their Ramadan fast and have a special meal for Eid al-Fitr. [read post]
2 May 2013, 10:07 pm
Edward Ridley of Cordele, Georgia thinking when he tried to smuggle some pot to an inmate in Chinese food in a styrofoam container? [read post]
23 Jun 2018, 8:37 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The demotion of a warden and several other "ranking officers" in response to Keri Blakinger's reports in the Houston Chronicle on illegal quotas being applied to inmate discipline systems at multiple units has had Grits singing the opening verse to this tune from the Old Crow Medicine Show all morning. [read post]
22 Jun 2022, 4:10 am by Howard Friedman
Nevertheless, that fact alone should not be construed as excluding any real weighing of the competing individual and public interests but should rather be interpreted in the light of the circumstances of each individual case....... domestic authorities did not sufficiently assess whether the gathering of a certain number of inmates for Friday prayers may, in the individual circumstances of the case, generate a security risk that they should have been treated differently from the collective… [read post]
25 Jan 2024, 5:49 am by Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD
 Nitrogen hypoxia causes death by forcing the inmate to breath only nitrogen, depriving the person of oxygen. [read post]
5 Apr 2015, 1:15 pm by Blonde Justice
" Working in my office on Easter Sunday, because my effort means a lot, I decide to open some inmate mail. [read post]
21 Oct 2020, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
Participating inmates lived in a separate pod and had access to a microwave and initially were able to single-bunk. [read post]
27 Feb 2024, 5:00 am
The court noted that, in alleging that the Defendants failed to maintain the slip/resistant surface on which he slipped, the inmate had adequately alleged an injury that was caused by a dangerous condition of Commonwealth real estate.The court otherwise found that the inmate’s other negligence claim that were not connected to the negligent maintenance claim were barred under Pennsylvania law. [read post]
29 Apr 2020, 5:31 am by David Oscar Markus
  There, we see 14 staff members who have tested positive, but no inmates. [read post]
8 May 2014, 6:28 pm by Michel-Adrien
The Auditor-General also found fault with government for not looking at whether population pressures were making it more difficult for inmates to be transferred to lower-security facilities. [read post]