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14 May 2008, 8:49 pm
The Canadian Press has reported that Dunlop has retained Ottawa lawyer Lawrence Greenspon to handle the appeal, which he initially filed himself as an inmate. [read post]
5 May 2008, 5:41 am
Pretrial detainee had no expectation of privacy in her outgoing mail because of the reduced expectation of privacy of inmates. [read post]
8 Dec 2009, 5:25 am
Efrain Suarez, a prison inmate, sued the State of New York claiming that prison personnel were negligent in failing to address problems with his bed and that their unwillingness to address the situation -- and to attend to his medical needs after his fall -- violated his "civil rights. [read post]
9 Mar 2020, 5:48 pm
Try This Tempting Torture Taste Test Results Are In In many American prisons, punishment can come in the form of a bland mashed up block of food known as a “Nutraloaf” — a controversial “food product” that’s fed to inmates who have been cited for bad behavior. [read post]
12 Jan 2010, 10:23 am
The Court unanimously reversed the Sixth Circuit's decision to grant death row inmate Spisak's federal habeas petition. [read post]
30 Jan 2007, 4:38 am
Justice Department officials and their Iraqi counterparts visited the maximum security Broad River Correctional Institution, where they watched inmates make license plates and traffic signs. [read post]
6 Dec 2007, 2:09 pm
" Here are the basics:One month after the grant of certiorari in a case involving an inmate on Idaho's death row, attorneys for both the prisoner and the state attorney general's office have asked the Justices to vacate the Ninth Circuit ruling below and dismiss the case as moot.That should teach the Justices for taking yet another death case (even though this one raised an interesting plea issue). [read post]
2 Nov 2015, 12:37 am
Defense Lawyer Helps With Implements For Escape; Other Contraband (N.J.S.A. 2C:29-6) Charges New Jersey takes significant steps to protect the integrity of its jails and prisons, and any person who brings contraband, materials that can be helpful in an escape attempt, or weapons to an inmate is guilty of an offense under Implements for Escape; Other Contraband (N.J.S.A. 2C:29-6). [read post]
22 Apr 2009, 1:26 pm
The irony is that Mason is not a lawyer, but he is accused of recruiting former jail inmates who might need the assistance of a lawyer. [read post]
21 Apr 2021, 2:36 pm
Library Barbarian – Discourses in Academic Librarianship and Higher Ed – The Library’s Furniture – “…It is a not-so well-hidden truth that many makers of institutional furniture–including that which will replace the destroyed and vandalized desks of congress from the January 6 attack–comes from the underpaid and coerced labor of inmates in prison facilities. [read post]
25 Aug 2007, 3:12 am
In the wake of Texas' 400th execution since the US Supreme Court's 1976 reinstatement of the death penalty in America, AlterNet comments on the Bush administration's apparent plan to limit appeal rights for inmates on death row:The Bush administration is preparing to speed up the executions of criminals who are on death row across the United States, in effect, cutting out several layers of appeals in the federal courts so that prisoners can be "fast-tracked" to… [read post]
6 Jan 2011, 5:40 am
"Cross-sex strip searches ruled unconstitutional": Today in The San Francisco Chronicle, Bob Egelko has an article that begins, "A female jail guard's strip search of a male inmate was a 'humiliating event' that violated his rights, a divided federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled Wednesday. [read post]
1 Feb 2014, 8:37 pm
An official with the Department of Justice has signaled that the administration may be willing to consider much more extensive use of presidential clemency for inmates serving long sentences for nonviolent drug offenses under the former sentencing regime, a development I welcome in a new Cato post. [read post]
11 Nov 2007, 12:09 pm
The Court is expected to act this week on a motion to stay the scheduled execution Thursday evening of Florida death row inmate Mark Dean Schwab (Schwab v. [read post]
24 Sep 2011, 8:09 pm
According to Bay Minette police chief Mike Rowland, the program-- called Operation Restore Our Community-- will save the city $75 per day for each inmate that chooses the non-jail alternative. [read post]
8 Oct 2010, 2:29 am
We frequently hear that prisons are squeezed for money and that, therefore, we need to release "low level, non-violent" inmates (which, to read defense-oriented websites, is most of them) to rescue the public fisc. [read post]
6 Mar 2020, 7:56 am
Alabama inmate Nathaniel Woods was executed Thursday evening after the US Supreme Court denied a stay of execution. [read post]
29 Dec 2006, 2:32 pm
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued today involving the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, a three-judge panel divides over whether to reinstate certain claims asserted by a Virginia state prison inmate who sued to challenge his removal from the prison's Ramadan observance program. [read post]
15 Aug 2008, 5:59 pm
In addition to lots of new posts of note at Capital Defense Weekly and StandDown Texas Project, Howard Bashman got a chance here, just before heading out on a deserved vacation, to report on this Fifth Circuit ruling that denies habeas relief to Texas death row inmate complaining that jurors improperly considered passages from the Bible during the sentencing phase of their deliberations. [read post]
13 Nov 2009, 9:44 am
An Acting Supreme Court Justice in Manhattan dismissed a 1991 murder indictment "with prejudice" yesterday, finding an inmate jailed 18 years to be "actually innocent". [read post]
