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3 Apr 2009, 2:44 pm
"Court asked to block release of sex offenders": The Associated Press has a report that begins, "The Obama administration is seeking to block the release of sex offenders who have completed their federal prison terms, despite federal court rulings invalidating a law allowing the indefinite commitment of 'sexually dangerous' prison inmates. [read post]
5 Oct 2017, 4:46 pm
., a correctional facility social worker in Connecticut was terminated after she suffered a seizure while on duty and alone with an inmate. [read post]
16 Nov 2006, 12:14 pm
Waseca is a low security facility housing male inmates, about an hour south of Minneapolis/St. [read post]
15 Jul 2004, 3:22 am
The Pentagon has announced that charges have been filed against a fourth inmate at Guantanamo Bay, who is one of 15 detainees designated to face a military tribunal. [read post]
21 Mar 2006, 3:28 am
Smith guilty on six counts of abusing detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison [JURIST news archive] for using his unmuzzled dog to intimidate inmates. [read post]
29 Dec 2006, 10:36 am
[JURIST] The State of California has decided not to appeal a December 21st decision [text, PDF] of the California 1st District Court of Appeal [official website] restoring voting rights [JURIST news archive] to approximately 100,000 inmates serving a year or less for felony convictions in local jails. [read post]
1 Jan 2005, 4:15 am
[JURIST] In a bid to expedite the already-urgent task of finding and burying the more than 4000 local victims of last Sunday's South Asian tsunami, officials in the Thai Department of Corrections have offered reduced prison terms to volunteering inmates convicted of petty crimes serving sentences of less than two years. [read post]
17 Aug 2018, 4:35 am
Butler says officials failed to properly supervise inmate Carlos Johnson, Jr., incarcerated at The post Georgia Nurse Sues Over Medical Staff Safety in State Prisons appeared first on Legal Reader. [read post]
18 Oct 2018, 5:37 pm
A California prison psychologist who claims she was locked up in a cell with a convicted rapist as punishment for defending transgender inmates has accepted a $275,000 settlement. [read post]
4 Nov 2018, 1:10 pm
Hellerstein’s lawsuit, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ordered the District Court to prevent guards, State Police and correctional personnel from inflicting any further cruelty on the inmates, as had been committed for at least several days, the judges said. *** Read more… Image [read post]
26 Feb 2003, 9:09 am
[JURIST] The Death Penalty Clinic at UC Berkeley School of Law [official website] is being credited with filing two amicus briefs that helped Thomas Miller-El, a black Texas death row inmate, convince the US Supreme Court Tuesday that his claim of racial bias in the jury selection for his murder trial was due a hearing. [read post]
18 Aug 2004, 11:44 am
Clarke Paulus, who faces court-martial in the death of an Iraqi prison inmate, will not be allowed to subpoena federal Judge Jay Bybee, who, while serving as head of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, wrote memos saying the Geneva Conventions don't apply to some prisoners of war. [read post]
27 May 2005, 10:18 am
[JURIST] Reuters is reporting that the US military has begun an investigation into the shooting death Friday of an Iraqi inmate at Abu Ghraib prison [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
23 Aug 2007, 12:27 pm
[JURIST] Japan's national bar association Thursday criticized the execution of three death row inmates and called for a moratorium on the death penalty [press release, in Japanese] until new safeguards can be enacted to prevent wrongful executions based on dubious evidence. [read post]
7 May 2016, 1:32 pm
The Research Project interviewed 385 death row inmates in the country and found [Guardian report] consistent narratives of unfair trials, inadequate communication with legal representation, taunting behavior from corrections officers and rampant torture. [read post]
31 Jan 2007, 12:06 pm
The last federal inmate executed in New York was Gerhard Puff in 1954. [read post]
14 Apr 2010, 6:32 pm
Cell-doors open, trouble pours out of private prison - The Denver PostA disturbance at the privately owned Hudson Correctional Facility 25 miles northeast of Denver International Airport was sparked when cell doors in a unit housing 41 inmates from Alaska inexplicably opened early this morning. [read post]
11 Feb 2014, 4:01 am
The California prison system currently houses about 120,000 inmates but is only designed to hold about 80,000. [read post]
19 Mar 2014, 11:30 pm
When the federal government passed the Abolition of Early Parole Act, three inmates serving sentences for first-time, non-violent offences argued that the retroactive application of such legislation infringed their right not to be “punished again” for the same offence. [read post]
3 Mar 2021, 5:32 pm
And Andrea Salcedo of The Washington Post reports that “South Carolina could force death row inmates to choose between electric chair, firing squad. [read post]
