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20 May 2008, 9:08 pm
Supreme Court yesterday allowed Virginia to set an execution date for a death row inmate who is challenging the state's method of lethal injection as painful and inhumane. [read post]
4 Nov 2007, 12:28 am
Here's how the New York Times has put the question: The central question of Baze is: Does the Eighth Amendment bar an execution method that creates an unnecessary risk of pain and suffering, or does it merely protect inmates against the wanton infliction of pain and suffering? [read post]
24 Jan 2015, 6:43 am
Gross [docket], originated when four death row inmates filed a complaint [complaint, PDF] against the Director of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections [official website] for the use of the midazolam drug in the state's lethal injection protocol as cruel and unusual punishment, alleging that the drug can cause a substantial... [read post]
5 Dec 2017, 1:31 pm
ANNAPOLIS – Maryland must be held liable for the full damages awarded when it defends a sued state employee who is later found liable for gross negligence on the job, a plaintiffs’ lawyer told Maryland’s top court Tuesday in seeking to recover an $18.5 million judgment in the slaying of a prison inmate feet away ... [read post]
5 Jun 2018, 9:53 am
Appealing to fundamental human rights of dignity, pride, and hope are the cornerstones of this new law offering the change and a whole new life for some inmates. [read post]
23 Oct 2008, 8:17 pm
One of the nine inmates on death row in Texas facing execution in the next 30 days is Gregory Wright. [read post]
30 Jun 2008, 9:45 pm
Last month I noted that one of the lesser-publicized cases heard by the Fifth Circuit en banc last month was the habeas case brought by Texas death row inmate Eric Lynn Moore. [read post]
30 May 2010, 6:49 am
[JURIST] A task force initiated by the US government to evaluate the status of Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees has reported that only 10 percent of inmates were terrorist leaders [report, PDF] when President Barack Obama [official website] took office in 2009. [read post]
30 Nov 2010, 12:22 pm
In August 2009, a special panel of federal judges ordered [opinion, PDF; JURIST report] California to reduce its prison population by about 46,000 inmates, finding that the prisons are overcrowded. [read post]
2 Oct 2009, 11:36 am
In the midst of a very high-profile campaign for statewide prison reform, White's 15-attorney firm got a favorable judgment for an inmate who claimed he was wrongly thrown into solitary confinement â€â [read post]
21 Dec 2010, 6:43 am
The conditions there — the legacy of the war on drugs and long, mandatory sentences — are so bad that a federal court has found that they deny inmates constitutional rights to adequate health care and other basic [read post]
14 Jun 2004, 1:00 am
The New York Times this Monday highlights a Texas death-row inmate's appeal of his sentence based on the probability of future danger, a Michigan Court of Appeals decision to reenstate a ballot proposal to end affirmative action in public universities, and controversy surrounding a proposal by doctors not to treat lawyers involved in medical malpractice law. [read post]
27 Sep 2015, 8:06 am
[JURIST] The Obama administration on Friday notified Congress of its plan to release Guantanamo Bay inmate Shaker Aamer [Reprieve.org profile] to the United Kingdom next month. [read post]
27 Jun 2007, 4:31 pm
A terminally ill Oklahoma death row inmate was executed yesterday after his final appeal for a reprieve was denied by the US Supreme Court. [read post]
5 Jan 2010, 4:54 am
Copyright © 2009 AELEAELE Law Enforcement Legal Center reports that an appellate court upholds the termination of a corrections officer who failed to search a laundry truck leaving the jail; an inmate was hiding in a laundry basket and escaped. [read post]
1 Dec 2018, 1:55 pm
His violent death in an upstate New York prison in April 2015 is another tragic story of the deadly consequences of having mentally ill inmates guarded by correctional officers with neither the training nor inclination to humanely handle them. [read post]
6 Mar 2007, 1:57 pm
As residents evacuated, the jail flooded to inmates' chests and police scrambled to enforce order without any communication. [read post]
14 Feb 2018, 1:10 pm
Roy Ward, an inmate on death row, argued that the process was unconstitutional because a change in the combination of drugs is a substantive rule that must be promulgated by the Indiana Administrative Rules and Procedures Act (ARPA) [text, PDF]. [read post]
20 Feb 2015, 4:47 am
Additionally, the ADC must increase the amount of time inmates with... [read post]
15 Nov 2016, 7:59 am
Indictments unsealed last month allege that the scheme at the Eastern Correctional Institution involved 18 prison guards, 35 inmates and 27 civilians who helped coordinate the flow of drugs and other contraband. [read post]
