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11 Dec 2006, 11:18 pm
[JURIST] US District Judge Lawrence Karlton [official profile] said Monday that the state of California has six months to remedy overcrowding in the state's prison system, which is 70 percent overcapacity with 173,000 total inmates, before he will decide whether to establish a three-member judicial panel to make recommendations to fix the problem. [read post]
14 Sep 2007, 10:37 am
Overcrowding and understaffing at Texas prisons has forced inmates to devise their own safety solutions in response to prison gang violence, reports Patrick Brendel at The Back Gate. [read post]
5 Apr 2009, 7:01 pm
Inmates lounged in bed because there were no court hearings or visitations scheduled.It was sometime during that quiet time that Isaac Jackson, a 40-year-old homeless man, was strangled in bed.He wasn't found until jail deputies rushed to the cell to fix an overflowing toilet at [read post]
27 Apr 2009, 3:35 pm
4-27-2009 Massachusetts:The highest court in Massachusetts has rejected an appeal by an inmate convicted of killing a priest at the center of the Boston clergy sex abuse scandal.Joseph Druce strangled John Geoghan (video of guards trying to get into cell during attack) in his prison cell in August 2003. [read post]
1 Jun 2009, 9:13 pm
This is one way they have to develop such a system and it helps to protect society in the long term...6-2-2009 Massachusetts:WEB ALLOWS INMATES TO FORM RELATIONSHIPSA baby-faced young man in a white T-shirt stares from the computer screen. [read post]
27 Sep 2017, 6:25 am
The state of Colorado is paying $171,000 to the estate of Dennis Choquette, a former inmate at Southern Colorado prison. [read post]
14 Apr 2020, 6:06 pm
Maryland’s top jurist called Tuesday for the state’s judges to meet with prosecutors and defense counsel to identify inmates at heightened risk of dying from the COVID-19 virus and determine which ones should be released from prison, where communicable diseases thrive. [read post]
26 Nov 2008, 2:12 pm
"Court says lukewarm food hot enough for prison": Today in The San Francisco Chronicle, Bob Egelko has an article that begins, "State prison rules say inmates are entitled to two hot meals a day - but it's up to prison officials to decide how hot is hot enough, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday. [read post]
15 May 2007, 7:04 am
from the diaries of the tennessee dude... she said it in her opinion piece on sunday - "Finality trumped justice" - that's what andrea hopkins said in the aftermath of philip workman's execution last week...she "got" the message about the appeals system - if you dot your "i"(s) and cross your "t"(s) while conducting the appeals of a death row inmate it's okay at the end of the day if... [read post]
23 Jan 2010, 5:19 am
Pueblo Chieftain CANON CITY - Although the inmate population at the state's 20 prisons is declining, state officials have no plans to close another prison after closing the Colorado Women's prison here last year. [read post]
12 Mar 2010, 6:00 am
Bill Nelson describes responding to a 2007 inmate attack on Limon staffer Pam Kahanic (left). [read post]
22 Jul 2010, 5:35 am
In memory of the homeless pastor who served the poor — and for the sake of inmates under the watch of officers who remain on-duty while the case is being investigated [read post]
21 Feb 2014, 2:56 am
Under the agreement, the state will immediately halt the use of solitary confinement for youth, pregnant inmates, and developmentally disabled and intellectually challenged prisoners. [read post]
5 Sep 2012, 4:17 pm
"Accused prison guard killer's mental status in question at trial": Michael Doyle of McClatchy Newspapers has a report that begins, "One of two inmates accused of killing a federal prison guard in Atwater, Calif., would have his mental travails aired in public under an appellate court ruling that potentially brings a long-delayed trial closer. [read post]
22 Mar 2006, 7:58 am
Smith to six months in prison for abusing detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison [JURIST news archive] by using his unmuzzled dogs to intimidate inmates. [read post]
20 Mar 2010, 3:14 am
Taking away good time from one class of inmate will end up in court and also get shot down. [read post]
21 Mar 2014, 10:47 am
[JURIST] Uruguayan President Jose Mujica [official website, in Spanish] announced on Thursday that his country has agreed with US President Barack Obama to take five inmates at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST backgrounder], reportedly stating that they would be "welcome to work and stay with their families in Uruguay." [read post]
10 Feb 2009, 12:57 am
Based on the evidence presented, the panel concluded that overcrowding has resulted in the state's failure to deliver constitutionally-adequate mental and physical health care to inmates. [read post]
7 Jul 2008, 8:49 am
The case involved an inmate at a state prison who sued the prison's physician regarding a prescription. [read post]
28 Jul 2005, 3:41 pm
[JURIST] Republican lawmakers in the Senate on Thursday agreed to delay the Streamlined Procedures Act of 2005 [text], a bill limiting the rights of death row inmates to extend appeals in federal courts, because of strong Democratic opposition. [read post]
