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27 Nov 2012, 5:40 am by Gritsforbreakfast
That may be true in the short term, but the outcome would not be stable long-term unless more resources are devoted to community supervision and structural changes are made to Texas sentencing regime. [read post]
3 Jan 2019, 7:36 am by Benson Varghese
Our team includes former prosecutors and board certified attorneys with decades of experience. [read post]
24 Jan 2010, 6:07 am by Gritsforbreakfast
But as these remarks point out, those investments pay off over a longer term than just the initial biennium.Expanding on those investments, as NCCD advocates, represents the best path forward toward further reducing incarceration rates and actually beginning discussions in earnest about closing prisons and significantly reducing the number of prisoners. [read post]
12 Apr 2011, 10:01 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The parole board is full of Perry appointees, so don't blame Grits, "liberals," etc.. [read post]
11 Jan 2012, 5:01 am by Gritsforbreakfast
County Judge Brian Lee noted it is used most often when the subject may already in jail, prison, or dead. [read post]
4 Jun 2014, 3:07 pm by Rick St. Hilaire
The attorney is licensed in NH and is not certified by the TX Board of Legal Specialization or by regulators in NY as a "specialist" or "expert. [read post]
23 Jun 2007, 3:40 am
Making the decision to identify a class of low-level offenders and reduce their sentences by a short amount across the board makes a lot more sense to me than the haphazard way Texas uses back-end controls to reduce prison overcrowding now, especially as a short-term crisis management measure. [read post]
7 Aug 2007, 7:29 am
"As the recent order of the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles suspending Davis' execution has rendered his motion to stay execution moot, it is hereby dismissed," the court ruled.Arguments in the motion for a new trial are expected to be heard during the high court's three-month fall term, which begins Sept. 4, spokeswoman Jane Hansen said Monday.At issue is Chatham County Superior Court Judge Penny Haas Freesemann's denial of Davis' extraordinary… [read post]
16 May 2021, 9:10 pm by Series of Essays
Lynn McDonough, Managing Editor April 13, 2021 | Prison Reform and Olmstead | Scholar argues that a key disability rights framework could support prison reform or even abolition. [read post]
30 May 2007, 2:52 am
Secretary of State for the Home Department and Another Court of Appeal “The failure by the Parole Board to consider speedily the entitlement of a long-term prisoner to parole made his continued detention after eligibility for parole arbitrary, unjustified and therefore unlawful. [read post]
27 Jan 2009, 2:13 am
R (Black) v Secretary of State for Justice [2009] UKHL 1; [2009] WLR (D) 19 “S 35(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1991, in allowing the Secretary of State for Justice rather than the Parole Board to determine whether certain long-term prisoners should be released on licence at the half-way stage of their sentence, did not [...] [read post]
30 Jan 2009, 2:34 am
Regina (Black) v Secretary of State for Justice House of Lords “The provision requiring lawfulness of detention to be determined by a court was not infringed when the Secretary of State for Justice rather than the Parole Board determined whether certain long-term prisoners should be released on licence. [read post]
26 Nov 2013, 1:54 pm by Sasha Volokh
Prison litigation is important in the U.S., but always in terms of instrumental concerns like the constitutional rights of prisoners and the accountability of prison authorities. [read post]
13 Nov 2008, 5:35 am
A judge reduced his prison term by six months because of the weight-related hardships endured during his 20 months of detention after his arrest.In its decision this week, the Quebec Parole Board cited Mr. [read post]
29 Apr 2010, 11:17 am by Anna Christensen
However, 44 argued cases are still pending, and will be decided before the end of the Term. [read post]
21 Sep 2015, 6:25 pm by Dan Flynn
Stewart Parnell, a second-generation chief executive of a family-owned peanut enterprise who once served on the national Peanut Standards Board, was sentenced to a 28-year prison term on Monday for a series of criminal charges that amounted to his knowing that the peanut products he was shipping were contaminated with potentially deadly Salmonella. [read post]
26 Nov 2008, 2:47 pm
  Here are the basics: The Nebraska Supreme Court is again being asked to decide whether judges are usurping the state Board of Parole by sentencing people to minimum terms of life in prison. [read post]
26 Oct 2018, 12:40 pm by Amy Howe
Haymond, the justices will weigh in on a challenge to the constitutionality of a federal law that requires additional prison time for sex offenders who violate the terms of their supervised release. [read post]