Despite federal legislation aimed at preventing the rape of prisoners and the adoption of "zero-tolerance" policies toward sexual assault of prisoners by many jurisdictions, the sexual assault of prisoners by jail and prison employees continues to be prevalent throughout the United States. This is demonstrated by the multitude of media ...
On February 9, 2016, a Texas court held that a person adjudged delinquent for capital murder as a juvenile and later transferred from the Texas Youth Commission to the adult prison system is not subject to the extraordinary parole review requirement set forth in §508.046, Texas Government Code (TGC).
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On March 2, 2015, a California Court of Appeal held that the blanket enforcement of California’s residency restrictions against all registered sex offender parolees (RSOPs) in San Diego County was unconstitutional.
This case involves four RSOPs who are representative of the over 150 RSOPs in San Diego County who filed ...
A Texas man, Michael Phillips, 57, recently became the first person to be cleared of a crime by DNA testing he did not request.
Phillips was accused of raping a white teenage girl at a Dallas motel in 1990. The victim, who had partially removed her attacker’s face mask during ...
According to prisoners who were incarcerated at the anti-terrorism detention facility in Tal Afar, Iraq, as Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) forces closed on the prison, guards began slaughtering the prisoners in their cells.
"At about 2 a.m., three of the guards came into our cell ... and ...
According to an investigation conducted by the Texas Tribune, guards and prisoners are rarely prosecuted for the contraband cell phones found within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ). The investigation discovered that only 5% of the cellphone smuggling cases investigated by the TDCJ's Office of Inspector General from 2009 ...
On April 9, 2014, a New Mexico federal grand jury indicted former Gallup-McKinley Adult Detention Center captain John Greene, 70, on charges related to the sexual assault of three female prisoners at the jail.
Greene was charged with three counts of violating the civil rights of the prisoners by engaging ...
Bernard Ammerman, the District Attorney of Willacy County, Texas believes that debt for privately-operated prisons may overwhelm the county's finances. In July 2012, he publicly complained that the county may not be able to repay the debt incurred for the construction and later renovation of a private "tent city" prison ...
Of the fifteen physicians employed by the Louisiana prison system, nine have received medical board disciplinary sanctions. Of those nine, two have served time in federal prison, five are on probation, two have their practice limited to "institutional settings," two can't treat patients under 18 years old and one has ...
Hepatitis C is a slow-progressing potentially-fatal viral disease that ultimately destroys the liver. Unlike HIV, the hepatitis C virus (HCV) is resilient, capable of surviving for weeks outside the human body. It is spread by blood-to-blood contact and is very common among users of intravenous drugs. The immune systems of ...
