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20 Feb 2004, 8:24 am
Lawyers for convicted DC sniper John Allen Muhammad sought a new trail for their client Thursday, saying that letters that his associate Lee Boyd Malvo sent to another inmate in prison were improperly excluded as evidence. [read post]
23 Sep 2005, 12:34 pm
[JURIST] Human Rights Watch [advocacy website] has accused prison officials at the New Orleans Templeman III prison facility of leaving hundreds of inmates to fend for themselves [HRW press release] during Hurricane Katrina [JURIST news archive], calling the prisoners' experience a "nightmare. [read post]
4 Dec 2009, 4:06 pm
Westword Last week, we reported on the bludgeoning death of inmate Ronald Ferguson, a convicted child molester, at the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility outside of Canon City. [read post]
16 Apr 2011, 8:54 pm
"With students' help, UT professor wins Supreme Court decision in death row case": Sunday's edition of The Austin American-Statesman will contain an article that begins, "In October, 11 University of Texas students from the School of Law's Capital Punishment Clinic traveled to Washington to hear their professor present his plea for death row inmate Hank Skinner in front of the U.S. [read post]
10 Mar 2020, 1:20 pm
By Elizabeth Dye, Above the Law, Mar. 10, 2020If middle schoolers can ‘shop cats ‘n’ shit into their TikToks, then the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) can work out how to redact a video of an inmate getting stabbed in the dining hall. [read post]
3 Nov 2009, 1:50 pm
A recent article in the Tennessee Law Review (subscription required) highlights the work done by the ACLU Capital Punishment Project in their representation of Richard Taylor, a severely mentally illness death-row inmate in Tennessee. [read post]
23 Oct 2013, 12:35 pm
An inmate in Shelby County Correctional Facility…. [read post]
30 Sep 2007, 1:25 am
The Huntsville Item published a moving account of the funeral for Texas Correctional Officer Susan Canfield who died trying to prevent two inmates from escaping during a prison work detail. [read post]
28 Nov 2009, 9:49 pm
The New York Times New York State's highest court has rejected the last vestiges of a lawsuit by families of inmates who claimed that the prison system overcharged them for telephone calls from their loved ones. [read post]
2 Aug 2017, 1:25 pm
Supreme Court decision triggering new sentences for inmates serving mandatory life without parole for crimes committed as juveniles has had a far greater effect: The ruling is prompting lawyers to apply its fundamental logic — that it’s cruel and unusual to lock teens up for life — to a larger population, those whose ... [read post]
6 Jul 2021, 12:20 pm
It developed out of studies of fraudsters, including inmates convicted of embezzlement. [read post]
14 Apr 2008, 12:52 pm
The case that will get the most attention comes on Wednesday, when the Court considers the constitutionality of a Louisiana inmate's death sentence. [read post]
6 Feb 2007, 11:11 am
Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments in an Americans United-sponsored case challenging tax funding of Prison Fellowship's "InnerChange Freedom Initiative" (IFI) for inmates in Iowa.The case is receiving heightened scrutiny because of a surprise development: Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day ... [read post]
18 Mar 2020, 2:49 pm
Criminal justice partners in Baltimore, which has the highest volume of criminal cases in the state, are working to reduce courthouse traffic, caseloads and the inmate population as the coronavirus pandemic continues. [read post]
7 Jul 2014, 7:37 am
[JURIST] Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainees on Thursday filed [motion, PDF] an emergency application in the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] for a temporary restraining order prohibiting the government from depriving the inmates of the right to pray communally during the month of Ramadan. [read post]
23 Feb 2005, 12:53 pm
[JURIST] In a decision handed down Wednesday morning, the US Supreme Court [official website] has ruled that state prisons cannot temporarily segregate inmates by race, except in the most extraordinary circumstances. [read post]
12 Feb 2008, 11:22 pm
Under the new law, Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom [official profile] will have to decide whether to grant clemency to the 24 inmates currently on [read post]
14 Aug 2009, 12:56 am
[JURIST] Federal and state officials toured a prison in rural Michigan Thursday in anticipation that it could eventually hold inmates [JURIST report] currently detained at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
31 Mar 2011, 8:08 am
An alert reader called our attention to the fact that military death row inmate Timothy Hennis’s counsel filed his reply brief in Hennis’s appeal of denial of habeas relief. [read post]
3 Jan 2011, 5:35 am
” Like many of his fellow inmates, he plays the online games FarmVille and Street Wars. [read post]
