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27 Nov 2019, 11:47 am
We have several big stories for you in today’s legal brief, including growing calls to spare the life of a Texas death row inmate. [read post]
29 Apr 2013, 8:07 am
I read an article this morning from the Washington Post about how some inmates are using the online consumer review site Yelp to rate jails and prisons. [read post]
12 Jun 2006, 3:15 am
McDonough [Duke Law case backgrounder; JURIST report], where the Court held that a death row inmate can challenge the constitutionality of a state's method of lethal injection [JURIST news archive] under 42 USC 1983 [text] even when all other appeals have been [read post]
30 Aug 2012, 1:33 pm
In addition to those executions, President Yahya Jammeh [official website] announced that all remaining death row inmates would be executed, by firing squad, by mid-September.... [read post]
24 Sep 2010, 11:50 am
"Inmates in Kentucky are entitled to only a single DNA test of old evidence regardless of what, if any, results an initial test produces, the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled yesterday," according to a Cincinnati.com article this morning. [read post]
20 Sep 2022, 10:23 pm
You may have heard of the concept of having a prison sentence reduced for “good behavior” in movies or TV, or of inmates leaving custody on parole. [read post]
28 Mar 2008, 1:38 pm
Violence involving inmates at the Baltimore City Juvenile Justice Center has spiked in recent months, according to data released this week by the state’s juvenile justice monitor. [read post]
10 Apr 2016, 12:29 pm
Prison officials are now faced with more than just housing inmates. [read post]
17 Feb 2010, 5:30 am
Supreme Court": The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina today contains an article that begins, "The fate of dozens of inmates sentenced to life in the 1970s is now in the hands of seven Supreme Court justices who grilled an attorney for the state Tuesday about how prison officials have handled credits for good behavior. [read post]
10 Jan 2008, 2:50 am
[JURIST] The Chicago City Council signed off Wednesday on a $19.8 million agreement to settle torture allegations by four former death row inmates against the Chicago police [official website]. [read post]
1 Sep 2023, 11:14 am
A former prisoner who was attacked by three other inmates at the Maryland Correctional Training Center has won a $4 million jury verdict. [read post]
18 Apr 2006, 4:05 am
Lawyers for the inmate, Willie Brown Jr. [read post]
11 Apr 2011, 11:03 am
[JURIST] The Spanish Supreme Court [official website, in Spanish] on Monday issued an indictment [text, PDF, in Spanish] against National Court judge Baltasar Garzon [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] for his order to place illegal wiretaps in jailhouses for the purpose of recording conversations between inmates and their lawyers. [read post]
30 May 2018, 6:00 am
Convicted cop-killer Demetrius Blackwell is suing New York City after being jumped by two other inmates in a borough jail. [read post]
31 Aug 2005, 12:02 pm
[JURIST] A California state prison inmate who led a radical Islamist group and three others were indicted Wednesday [DOJ press release; AG Gonzales' remarks] on charges that they were plotting terror attacks on several sites in Los Angeles. [read post]
11 Oct 2007, 10:58 am
The review could allow for new hearings for inmates who were classified as "enemy combatants" [JURIST news archive] and a reduction in the number of prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay. [read post]
22 Mar 2011, 8:15 am
., with the sentences of all 15 inmates on death row there being commuted to life in prison effective as of that date. [read post]
25 Jun 2016, 7:43 pm
One of the programs will provide 12,000 state and federal prison inmates government funding in order for them to take college courses. [read post]
27 Dec 2008, 6:53 pm
Not surprising was that, when Correction Secretary Theodis Beck in a letter to the editor offered his take -- calling for more people to be locked up -- a Central Prison inmate had an insightful response. [read post]
10 Jun 2008, 9:22 am
Prison confused over deportation"A jail housing foreign nationals has wrongly released inmates without proper preparation after assuming in error that they would be deported.There was no proper resettlement strategy at HMP Bullwood Hall in Essex, according to Chief Inspector of Prisons, Anne Owers.The prison had been for women but was changed to take foreign nationals.Some of them also signed documents they did not fully understand because of a lack of professional interpreters.The… [read post]
