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28 Oct 2018, 5:48 am by Howard Friedman
LEXIS 177365 (D NV, Oct. 16, 2018), a Nevada federal district court held that a Mexican-American inmate's free exercise rights protected by RLUIPA were violated when the Nevada prison system implemented a requirement of the Nevada Indian Commission that participation in Native American religious ceremonies in prison be limited to those of Native American heritage. [read post]
12 May 2011, 11:45 am by Inimai Chettiar, ACLU
" I spoke about the urgent need for smart reforms to our criminal justice system — alongside members of Right on Crime (a conservative group led by Newt Gingrich), district attorneys, chief justices, and Mark Earley (former Republican Virginia Attorney General and CEO of faith-based Prison Fellowship Ministries). [read post]
8 Jan 2015, 12:02 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
But it does present an opportunity to shutter more and perhaps even all the state's youth prisons. [read post]
22 Nov 2013, 8:34 am
The man who drove his van into a Jacksonville home and killed a sleeping 17-year-old was sentenced this month to 12 years in state prison. [read post]
11 Nov 2016, 5:31 pm by Ezra Rosser
Many have referred to this disturbing trend of schools directly referring students to law enforcement or creating conditions under which students are more likely to become involved in the justice system — such as suspending or expelling them — as the “school-to-prison pipeline. [read post]
A Bolivian criminal court found ex-president Jeanine Anez guilty Friday of inciting a coup and sentenced her to 10 years in prison. [read post]
12 Mar 2020, 6:00 am by Ryan J. Farrick
Both women spent years working for the Department of Corrections. [read post]
17 Jan 2021, 4:05 pm by Michel-Adrien
The Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL) will host a webinar on January 28, 2021 on Prison Law: Researching Health and Legal Implications of Aging Prison Populations. [read post]
3 Oct 2017, 5:50 am by Gritsforbreakfast
For local decision makers, sending someone to prison is "free" and makes them someone else's problem, while keeping them on supervision in the community requires local actors to manage them. [read post]
12 Apr 2022, 6:44 pm by Bill Marler
 The brothers are currently in federal prison after their 2014 trial where they were found guilty of deliberately sending peanut butter, tainted with Salmonella, into the food system. [read post]
15 Jun 2020, 1:24 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Been asked a few times now by reporters where to get data about racial disparities in the Texas criminal-justice system. [read post]
11 May 2022, 7:19 am by John Elwood
Federal prisoners raise that issue in pending petitions in Ham v. [read post]
24 Nov 2009, 5:53 am by Gritsforbreakfast
But that's been happening in other states, most recently with our neighbor to the northeast.According to this brief AP report, a new prison "was scheduled to open partially this year [in Arkansas], but those plans were aborted when $6.6 million was slashed from the prison system’s budget. [read post]
20 Jun 2007, 5:39 pm
This is now the world's biggest system of what are effectively concentration camps, though most of these prisoners are behind masonry walls and inside prison buildings.For minorities, the statistics are even more brutal. [read post]
6 Jun 2012, 6:36 am
Post to TwitterMiami Criminal Defense Lawyer Blogs on The System and The Practice [read post]
7 May 2007, 5:59 am
"It doesn't take much more than that to force the system into a meltdown," Gibbons warned of the crowded conditions, and lobbied for lawmakers to pass his $300 million budget request for prison expansion. [read post]
28 Jul 2020, 2:19 pm by jlucivero
While the proposed Senate package would provide $200 million for the Bureau of Prisons to address COVID-19 in federal facilities, this funding falls dramatically short of the resources needed at the state and local level nationwide. [read post]
6 Jan 2020, 11:55 am by John Floyd
Penalties at the federal level are likely to start with decades in prison. [read post]
6 May 2022, 10:11 am
More than a third of US prisoners are mentally ill. [read post]