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27 Jan 2012, 8:20 am
(Originally posted on the Safe California blog) On Monday, Joe D'Ambrosio became the 140th person to be exonerated from death row since 1973 in the United States, and the sixth from Ohio. [read post]
1 Apr 2015, 11:35 am by Kent Scheidegger
Jackson, Attorney General of the United States(and later Associate Justice of the Supreme Court)to the United States AttorneysApril 1, 1940It would probably be within the range of that exaggeration permitted in Washington to say that assembled in this room is one of the most powerful peace-time forces known to our country. [read post]
19 Jan 2011, 12:22 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
They've threatened to cancel the contract if the state won't increase compensation for inmate healthcare.A bizarre contradiction on parole There's a flat-out bizarre element to the Board of Pardons and Paroles' budget given that HB1 would shutter the Central Unit and eliminate more than 1,500 private prison beds: Cuts to the parole board would cause the agency to process more than 6,000 fewer parole cases each year, which… [read post]
12 Sep 2019, 8:53 pm by Jamie Markham
Meanwhile, the back-end procedure for removing a person from SBM (G.S. 14-208.43) goes before the Post-Release Supervision and Parole Commission, not a judge—and so far, every enrollee who has petitioned the Commission for removal has been denied relief. [read post]
8 Nov 2011, 9:03 am by CJLF Staff
" Clemency Denied for Condemned Idaho Inmate: Rebecca Boone of The Associated Press reports The Idaho Commission of Pardons and Parole will not consider a clemency request from Paul Ezra Rhoades, who is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on November 18. [read post]
16 Feb 2010, 12:20 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Though the agency requested an exemption from budget cuts, here's the proposal (pdf) the Texas Department of Criminal Justice submitted to state leadership yesterday regarding how it would cut 5% from its budget without closing any prison units - mostly by laying off more than 3,000 employees. [read post]
31 Dec 2007, 3:28 am
The Sunset Commission said low parole rates were the main cause of prison overcrowding in the last few years along with lengthier sentences "enhanced" by the Legislature. [read post]
25 Feb 2012, 8:30 pm by ebcarpenter
(3)  Retaliating against any witness, victim, juror, judge, party, attorney, or informant by knowingly engaging in any conduct which results in bodily injury to or damage to the property of any such person or the communication of threats to do so with the specific intent to retaliate against any person for: The attendance as a witness, juror, judge, attorney, or a party to any criminal proceeding or for producing evidence or testimony for use or potential use in any criminal proceeding, or… [read post]
21 Jun 2022, 4:48 am by Jeff Welty
­­ The trial court conducted a sentencing hearing under the statutory procedures enacted to conform to the United States Supreme Court’s determination in Miller v. [read post]
14 Dec 2007, 8:17 am
Keeping inmates on death row costs the state $72,602 per year for each prisoner, according to the commission. [read post]
30 Aug 2009, 7:59 am
That has local criminal justice authorities and county leaders concerned that the Sonoma County Jail could fill with parolees who have violated parole and inmates who under today's regulations would be sent to state prison. [read post]
29 Jun 2019, 3:12 pm by John Floyd
§ 924 has been a contributing factor in the reduction of violent crime in the United States. [read post]
25 Jan 2007, 7:17 am
And thousands of parole-eligible non-violent offenders sit in prison after being refused parole in defiance of the parole board's own guidelines. [read post]
14 Jun 2009, 3:16 pm
  For reasons that were not stated in the record, the defendant was released from parole early in July 2005. [read post]
31 Oct 2010, 8:07 pm by Jeralyn
Canada states the amount of time Omar would serve is up to the parole board but prisoners are generally eligible after serving one-third of their sentence. [read post]
3 Mar 2009, 10:08 am
"Capital punishment is rightfully on its way out in the United States. [read post]
4 Jan 2017, 7:11 am by David Rangaviz
  That, despite the fact that the United States currently houses 2.2 million people in our prisons and jails. [read post]
4 Jan 2017, 7:11 am by David Rangaviz
  That, despite the fact that the United States currently houses 2.2 million people in our prisons and jails. [read post]