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29 May 2012, 5:58 am
The Denver Post All 50 inmates who escaped from Colorado prisons since 2000 were captured, most within 24 hours of absconding. [read post]
12 Jul 2006, 5:35 am
[JURIST] Ohio authorities on Wednesday morning executed the first inmate under new lethal injection guidelines implemented last month in a move to prevent extreme pain during an execution. [read post]
5 Aug 2012, 8:23 am
[JURIST] A judge in the Washington County Circuit Court of Oregon [official website] ruled Friday that a death row inmate is not required to accept clemency granted to him by Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber [official website]. [read post]
6 Feb 2005, 3:27 am
[JURIST] More than 300 inmates were released Sunday from the US-run Abu Ghraib prison [Wikipedia article] on the outskirts of Baghdad. [read post]
7 Feb 2009, 3:48 pm
2-7-2009 Kansas: An inmate's claim he shouldn't be classified as a sex offender while in prison because he was never convicted of any sex offenses has been denied for failing to file the complaint in a timely manner. [read post]
17 Jan 2010, 7:19 am
I will teach you some very valid techniques on how to survive prison using these ways to survive jail tips that are coming from actual former inmates. [read post]
20 Oct 2006, 1:21 am
[JURIST] Michael Dewayne Johnson [backgrounder; TDCJ offender profile], a death row inmate in Texas, committed suicide Thursday, 15-hours before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
15 Jul 2009, 8:36 pm
(AP) -- A South Carolina inmate charged in the death of a fellow prisoner has been sentenced to 10 months in prison because investigators don't think he meant to kill the man.The Aiken Standard reports that 37-year-old Andrew York pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter Wednesday. [read post]
25 Oct 2019, 12:37 pm
— The inmate’s request was a surprising one, made three days before he was to be executed in October 2018: Edmund Zagorski told the state of Tennessee he’d rather die in the electric chair than receive a lethal injection. [read post]
17 Dec 2014, 7:25 am
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit [official website] on Tuesday overturned [opinion, PDF] a lower court ruling that would have granted inmate Michelle Kosilek taxpayer-funded sex-change surgery. [read post]
25 Dec 2014, 3:56 pm
[JURIST] Four death row inmates filed a complaint [complaint, PDF] on Wednesday challenging Substitute House Bill 663 [text], a measure providing for the confidentiality of entities involved in the manufacture of drugs for use in capital punishment by lethal injection, and of the persons involved in executing a sentence of capital punishment. [read post]
17 May 2021, 12:46 pm
Henry McMaster has signed into law a bill that forces death row inmates for now to choose between the electric chair or a newly formed firing squad in hopes the state can restart executions after an involuntary 10-year pause. [read post]
15 Oct 2015, 12:56 pm
[JURIST] Death row inmates in Indonesia have been denied the right to counsel, beaten and coerced into confessions, according to an Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] report [text, PDF] published Thursday. [read post]
17 Mar 2015, 10:20 am
[JURIST] A transgender inmate in Massachusetts on Monday asked [cert. petition PDF] the US Supreme Court [official website] to overturn a ruling denying her request for sex reassignment surgery. [read post]
19 Jul 2010, 10:41 am
(AP) - Maryland is considering becoming one of the few states to allow condemned inmates to choose a clergy member not employed by the state to be in the execution chamber when they die.Corrections officials must balance the sensitive issues of security during one of the gravest tasks undertaken by the state and religious freedom during a condemned person's [read post]
3 May 2021, 3:03 pm
— Texas county pays $1.6 million settlement in death of allegedly untreated ill inmate. [read post]
19 Jan 2015, 11:09 am
[JURIST] Attorneys for four death-row inmates on Monday proceeded in a challenge [JURIST report] to an Ohio law [text, HB 663] by filing a motion [text, PDF] for a preliminary injunction. [read post]
4 Sep 2012, 3:12 pm
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered state prison officials to provide taxpayer-funded sex-reassignment surgery to a transgender inmate serving life in prison for murder. [read post]
8 Dec 2008, 8:43 am
[JURIST] A judge in the Court of First Instance of the High Court of Hong Kong [Judiciary website] ruled on Monday that inmates have a constitutional right to vote while serving sentences. [read post]
10 Nov 2010, 2:23 pm
California Watch, October 27, 2010 by Kendall Taggart http://californiawatch.org/watchblog/how-do-prisons-treat-their-pregnant-inmates-6168 Barry Krisberg, a fellow at the UC Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice and former president of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, said about this new report: “What these people did is look at what’s going on at the state level, and really the unfinished story is [...] [read post]
