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26 Oct 2006, 12:05 pm
Supreme Court has agreed to hear three Texas death penalty cases in its new term, a move that veteran court watchers called the latest signal of the court's increasing frustration with how condemned inmates' appeals are handled by Texas' highest criminal judges and the 5th U.S. [read post]
4 Mar 2010, 11:43 am
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, the attorney for a Nebraska state prison inmate/artist who was prohibited from sending drawings of a marijuana leaf and a bare-breasted woman to his mother and to the Maoist Internationalist Movement has "won" an attorney's fee in the amount of $1.50. [read post]
8 Mar 2012, 5:00 am
Despite the stay, Lopez was unlawfully deported to Honduras in October where he died alongside 360 other trapped inmates that were killed in a Honduran prison fire. [read post]
31 Mar 2007, 10:12 pm
The sad case of seafood importer (and now federal prison inmate) David Henson McNab may be the sort of thing Alexander Hamilton had in mind when he wrote of the presidential pardon power: "The criminal code of every country partakes so much of necessary severity that without an easy access to exceptions in favor of unfortunate guilt, justice would wear a countenance too sanguinary and cruel. [read post]
10 Oct 2008, 1:56 pm
A dozen condemned inmates in the so-called "death watch" cells on Texas death row are set for lethal injection over the next six weeks. [read post]
5 Apr 2009, 7:02 pm
The legislation reauthorizing the state Parole Board changes the vote needed to release inmates convicted of murder or a sexual offense. [read post]
27 May 2011, 7:18 pm
Ivery CrossOriginal Article 05/27/2011 By John Paul NILES - A former Niles police officer who admitted to sexually assaulting an inmate received a five to 15 year prison sentence Friday. [read post]
22 May 2009, 2:23 pm
"New plea on innocence," is Lyle Denniston's SCOTUS Blog report.Saying that no court has ever held a hearing on a Georgia death row inmate's claim of innocence of a murder 20 years ago, and noting that the Supreme Court is his last hope, lawyers for Troy Anthony Davis have asked the Justices to order a full review in a lower court of the claim that someone else committed the crime and that key witnesses against Davis have recanted. [read post]
26 Jun 2009, 7:59 pm
It would not surprise me if the inmates or guards did this, and made it look like a suicide. [read post]
16 Mar 2009, 6:22 pm
Inside the small brick building across from the courthouse, inmates had the run of the place, having sex with their jailer girlfriends, bringing in recliners, taking drugs and chatting on cell phones supplied by friends or guards, according to authorities. [read post]
23 May 2008, 6:16 am
Yesterday at the Ashland, KY, prison camp, we deposed Ray Blankenship, who is the former chairman of the board of supervisors from Buchanan County, and we had a court reporter, and videographer, and they were two women from Lexington, and on his way out, the witness/inmate gave them a nod and told them he was particularly glad they came by to see him.Sprung from the prison, I rolled on down to Paintsville, to draw on the good karma (hey, we're undefeated in Johnson County) and the good… [read post]
25 Feb 2008, 11:34 pm
Sunday's Des Moines Register reported that under the state's contract with the program, the state can teminiate it if enrollment falls belaow 60 inmates. [read post]
20 May 2008, 12:52 pm
Before the ink on the court's opinion was dry, officials in Virginia, Texas, Florida and Oklahoma set in motion plans to execute inmates whose deaths had been on hold. [read post]
11 Feb 2007, 9:51 am
As this Forbes article details, "Corrections Corp. of America, which operates prisons and detention facilities, said Thursday its fourth-quarter profit climbed 37 percent, as inmate populations rose and new contracts went into effect. [read post]
7 Apr 2008, 8:11 am
The Kansas native's undergraduate degree is in correctional administration; as a young adult she dreamed of working with prison inmates as either a probation officer or halfway-house counselor to help them leave their mistakes behind. [read post]
11 May 2009, 4:46 am
Read first-person reports by seven Pennsylvania inmates who made sworn statements that they are electrocuted, beaten, half-starved,... [read post]
27 Sep 2007, 10:07 am
The number of inmates in adult correctional facilities in the United States has topped two million for the first time, the Census Bureau said yesterday. [read post]
22 May 2012, 6:30 am
A federal district court has dismissed an inmate's suit against Verizon and others for failure to state a claim for relief, finding the allegations were "obviously 'fantastic' and clearly 'delusional.'"The plaintiff suggested that Verizon wiretapped his phone and gave the recordings to the FBI. [read post]
19 Sep 2008, 1:37 am
View the article here 09/18/2008 Former Coryell County jail guard Lindsey Ann Russell, 30, is charged with a state jail felony in connection with an alleged incident involving improper sexual activity with an inmate. [read post]
21 Sep 2007, 10:35 am
District Court for Middle Tennessee , Wednesday, postponed the execution of Edward Harbison next week in finding that that state's new protocol for administering lethal injections "does not ensure that inmates are properly anesthetized before the lethal injection is administered, which could result in a terrifying, excruciating death. [read post]
