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Is Redemption Possible for Former Prisoners?
Loaded on June 3, 2015
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2015, page 26
Filed under:
Rehabilitation/Recidivism.
Location:
United States of America.
Is Redemption Possible for Former Prisoners?
The three women who were kidnapped and held hostage by Ariel Castro in a “house of horrors” in Cleveland, Ohio – tortured and sexually abused for roughly a decade – have been repeatedly praised for their strength and resilience since their rescue in May ...
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- Massachusetts: Wrongful Death Claims Survive Summary Judgment in Prisoner Suicide Case, by Mark Wilson
- Women, Incarcerated, by Sharona Coutts
- Arbitrator’s Award on Pay Raises for Prison Guards Costs Pennsylvania County $5 Million, by David Reutter
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- Second Circuit: Rule 41 Dismissal Requires Five Factor Analysis, by Mark Wilson
- Tennessee County Agrees to Improve Mental Health Care for Prisoners
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- Wyoming Prisoner Escapes from Private Transport Van, Remains on the Run, by Mark Wilson
- Over 100 Protestors Converge at GEO Group’s Shareholder Meeting
- Ninth Circuit: PLRA Fee Cap Inapplicable to Fees on Appeal
- Feds and Tennessee Officials Investigate Prisoners Using Facebook, by David Reutter
- Former Nurse at Maine State Prison Files Suit Over Racial Slurs, by Joe Watson
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- Ninth Circuit: Plata Doesn’t Bar Individual Injunctive Relief Claims; $26,000 Settlement, by Mark Wilson
- Supreme Court Reinstates Challenge to North Carolina Post-Release GPS Sex Offender Monitoring, by Derek Gilna
- Maryland DOC’s Ban on Media Interviews with Prisoners Upheld
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- California Tests State Prisoners for Valley Fever Amid Lawsuits, Deaths, by Derek Gilna
- Sixth Circuit: Group Strip Searches and Delousing at Ohio Jail State Claim, by David Reutter
- Fourth Circuit Finds No Sex Reassignment Surgery Evaluation States Claim; $13,000 Settlement
- Fifth Circuit Holds Texas Prisoner has Right to Free Kosher Meals, by Matthew Clarke
- Automatic Oregon Death Row Confinement Pending Resentencing Enjoined, by Mark Wilson
- Washington Prisoner’s Wife Prevails on PRA Claim for Investigative Report Redactions, by Mark Wilson
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- $266,653 Judgment in Lawsuit Challenging Alabama Prison’s Improper Sewage Discharge, by David Reutter
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