by Matt Clarke
The Pew Charitable Trusts’ Economic Mobility Project and Public Safety Performance Project issued a collaborative report in September 2010 on the impact of incarceration on economic mobility. The report found a strong negative effect of incarceration on upward economic mobility not only for former prisoners but also ...
by Matt Clarke
On March 19, 2010, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that a federal district court violated Rule 32.l(b)(2) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure when the judge used videoconferencing technology to appear at a supervised release revocation hearing.
Christopher R. Thompson was convicted in federal ...
by Matt Clarke
The Fifth Circuit court of appeals reversed a Louisiana district court’s denial of qualified immunity for a prison doctor.
Anthony Gobert, a former Louisiana state prisoner, was incarcerated at the Elayn Hunt Correctional Center (EHCC) and on work release when his leg was accidentally crushed below the ...
by Matt Clarke
A Texas court of appeals has conditionally granted a prisoner’s petition for a writ of mandamus, voiding a district court’s order garnishing funds from the prisoner’s trust fund to pay court costs in an old case.
Roger L. Keeling, a Texas state prisoner, was convicted in 1992 ...
By Matt Clarke
On February 9, 2009, a Nevada state court restored the statutory good conduct time lost by a prisoner in a disciplinary proceeding in which the presiding official was biased.
Brian Eugene Lepley, a Nevada state prisoner, was charged with the disciplinary infraction of knowing he was infected ...
by Matt Clarke
On March 4, 2009, the Seventh Circuit court of appeals held that a prisoner who alleges retaliation for free speech was not required to show that the speech engaged in concerned a matter of public interest.
Jimmy D. Bridges, a Wisconsin state prisoner, filed a civil rights ...
By Matt Clarke
On November 7, 2007, the Fifth Circuit court of appeals ruled that the "mailbox rule" did not apply to Texas state habeas corpus actions.
Gene Edward Howland, a Texas state prisoner, delivered a state petition for a writ of habeas corpus to prison officials for mailing to ...
By Matt Clarke
On June 8, 2009, the Fifth Circuit court of appeals held that a Texas prisoner has no First Amendment right to use profanity in legal mail directed at opposing counsel and the Fourteenth Amendment did not protect his good time credits from forfeiture in disciplinary action resulting ...
By Matt Clarke
An Illinois court of appeals has held that the Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) must pay the court costs and attorney fees for an indigent person committed under the Illinois Sexually Dangerous Persons Act (SDPA), 725 Ill. Comp. Stat. Ann. 205/0.01 et seq., who applied for discharge. ...
By Matt Clarke
An Arizona court of appeals has reversed the denial of attorney fees and award of costs to defendants in a suit brought to compel Maricopa County Sheriff Joseph M. Arpaio to produce public records.
In 2004, the Phoenix New Times (PNT), made nine requests of the Maricopa ...
