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Article • September 10, 2018
First Circuit Reverses Summary Judgment on Guard’s Disparate Treatment Claim by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit held that a lower court improperly granted Puerto Rican prison officials’ summary judgment on a female guard’s gender discrimination claim. Vilmarie Caraballo-Caraballo was hired …
New York City Decriminalizes Some Public Smoking of Marijuana in Policy Shift by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that as of September 1, 2018, the New York Police Department will no longer arrest individuals for the public smoking of marijuana in some …
Why Sex Offender Registries Keep Growing Even as Sexual Violence Rates Fall by Steven Yoder Lists that include out-of-state visitors are inflating the numbers and keeping fear at a boil. by Steven Yoder, theappeal.org Quentin (not his real name) was convicted eight years ago of child pornography possession in Florida. …
New York City Gang Database Increases 70 Percent Since 2014 by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Concerns are being raised about a 70 percent increase in the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”) gang database revealed in a recent public records request by CUNY School of Law professor Babe Howell. …
Article • August 15, 2018 • from CLN September, 2018
There’s No Rational Way to Justify America’s Drug Laws by Maia Szalavitz People assume a medical committee sat down to consider which recreational drugs were the safest and least addictive, and this wise group decided alcohol and tobacco should be legal, while marijuana and everything else shouldn’t. That’s not what …
ACLU Virginia -- Women in the Criminal Justice System - Pathways to Incarceration in Virginia, 2018 PHOTO: NARAL PRO-CHOICE OF AMERICA/FLICKR WOMEN IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: PATHWAYS TO INCARCERATION IN VIRGINIA Acknowledgement First and foremost, we would like to thank the residents of Friends of Guest House in Fairfax, …
Publication • August 1, 2018
New York State Parole Board - Failures in Staffing and Performance - A Report by the Parole Preparation Project and The Release Aging People in Prison Campaign, 2018 New York State Parole Board: Failures A Report and in by the Staffing and Performance Parole Preparation Project The Release Aging People …
Publication • August 1, 2018
Parole Preparation Project, New York State Parole Board: Failures in Staffing and Performance, 2018 New York State Parole Board: Failures A Report and in by the Staffing and Performance Parole Preparation Project The Release Aging People in Prison Campaign AUGUST 2018 New York State Parole Board: Failures in A Report …
Article • July 21, 2018 • from CLN August, 2018
Utah Supreme Court: Procedural Due Process Violated Where Failure to Participate in Sex Offender Treatment Program Used to Deny Parole to Prisoner Not Convicted of Sex Offense by David Reutter by David Reutter The Supreme Court of Utah held that the Board of Pardons and Parole (“Parole Board”) violated a …
Fifth Circuit Grants § 2255 Petition Challenging Failure to Register Conviction for Ineffective Assistance of Counsel by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed a district court’s denial of a former prisoner’s 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition, in which he claimed …
Article • July 21, 2018 • from CLN August, 2018
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Vacates Intellectually Disabled Prisoner’s Death Sentence by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania vacated a convicted murderer’s death sentence after concluding that the prisoner suffered from an intellectual disability, rendering him ineligible for the death penalty. The February 5, 2018, order replaced the …
Article • July 20, 2018 • from CLN August, 2018
Non-Unanimous Jury Verdicts Give Prosecutors ‘Awesome Power’ and Have Racist Roots by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Only Louisiana and Oregon allow non-unanimous jury verdicts to convict. In both states, the law allows just 10 of the 12 jurors to agree a person is guilty. While such laws give prosecutors …
Brief • July 6, 2018
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Article • June 18, 2018 • from CLN July, 2018
Filed under: Gang Policies, Sentencing
California Court of Appeal Rejects Gang Enhancement Based on Expert Witness’ Case-Specific Hearsay Evidence by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division Two reversed a trial court&rsquo;s imposition of a gang enhancement on a defendant when the evidence of gang activity consisted …
Article • June 16, 2018 • from CLN July, 2018
Do Black Lives Matter in the Supreme Court? by Michael Avery by Michael Avery Protests by tens of thousands of Americans, black and white, have urged us to remember that Black Lives Matter. The movement is an outgrowth of concern over the epidemic of police violence against black people. But …
Article • June 16, 2018
Marijuana Selling License Denied Due to Spouse’s Criminal Background by The Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board (&ldquo;WSLCB&rdquo;) rejected a woman&rsquo;s application for a retail marijuana license because her husband is serving a 44-year sentence for homicide. Libby Haines-Marchel, a mother of four, saw Washington State&rsquo;s 2012 legalization of recreational …
Assessing the Real Risk of Sexually Violent Predators: Doctor Padilla's Dangerous Data, Tamara Rice Lave and Franklin E. Zimring, 2018 ASSESSING THE REAL RISK OF SEXUALLY VIOLENT PREDATORS: DOCTOR PADILLA’S DANGEROUS DATA Tamara Rice Lave* and Franklin E. Zimring** ABSTRACT This Article uses internal memoranda and emails to describe the …
Statement of the Department of Justice on RLUIPA, 2018 Statement of the Department of Justice on the Institutionalized Persons Provisions of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 2000cc, is a civil rights law that protects …
Still Worse Than Second-Class: Solitary Confinement of Women in the United States, ACLU, 2018 Still Worse Than Second-Class Solitary Confinement of Women in the United States Still Worse Than Second-Class Solitary Confinement of Women in the United States © 2019 American Civil Liberties Union American Civil Liberties Union 125 Broad …
Article • May 22, 2018 • from CLN June, 2018
‘Black Identity Extremists’ Added to FBI List of Domestic Terrorists by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis An FBI report published in August 2017, and leaked two months later, identified a movement it refers to as &ldquo;black identity extremists&rdquo; as a new addition to the growing number of groups the agency …
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