By Matt Clarke
The most powerful business group in Texas, the Texas Association of Businesses (TAB) has announced its intention to influence the future course of criminal justice reform in Texas. TAB president Bill Hammond said TAB will be lobbying to increase successful rehabilitation and community-based corrections programs and modify ...
by Matt Clarke
When the American government first determined that it would proceed with trials by military tribunal against the prisoners it held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the decision was met with skepticism by human rights advocates. The Supreme Court declared the first version of military tribunals to try 9/11 defendants ...
by Matt Clarke
On November 4, 2010, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals partially reversed the summary judgment granted to Michigan jail and medical personnel based on fatal deliberate indifference to a prisoner's serious medical needs.
Deceased former Muskegon County Jail prisoner Vernard A. Jones, Jr., was incarcerated in segregation ...
by Matt Clarke
A report describing a study by the Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) shows that prisoners who receive regular visits while in prison are 13% less likely to commit new felonies and 25% less likely to be technical violators of their release conditions. The study involved 16,400 DOC ...
by Matt Clarke
On November 29, 2011, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a district court's order denying the Rule 60(b) motion of a prisoner who had suffered serious medical complications and not timely received a court order to amend his complaint.
Douglas Burns, a Colorado state prisoner, filed ...
by Matt Clarke
The Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice has released a report detailing the deaths of prisoner in U.S. jails and prisons covering the years from 2000 through 2009. The rate of prisoner deaths in jails declined from 151 per 100,0000 prisoners in 2000 ...
by Matt Clarke
On November 22, 2010, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals held that Oklahoma state prisoners had no clearly-established right to the funds in their trust fund accounts in 2007.
Herman T. Clark, an Oklahoma state prisoner, was sued by a woman he had been convicted of shooting. ...
by Matt Clarke
On September 2, 2011, the Supreme Court of Alaska held that due process was violated when prison officials failed to record a prisoner's disciplinary hearing or allow him to call his accusers as witnesses.
Joseph James, an Alaskan state prisoner, was interviewed by grievance officer Carl Richey ...
by Matt Clarke
Recent reports filed in a long-standing federal lawsuit against Sheriff Joe Arpaio over deficiencies in the medical and mental health care of prisoners in the Maricopa County jail system have cited both improvements and persistent deficiencies. Meanwhile, a little-known section in the new federal health care laws ...
by Matt Clarke
On October 4, 2010, the Third Circuit held that a prisoner who has not been charged with or convicted of a sex offense may not be compelled to participate in sex offender treatment unless the prison first provides due process.
Charles S. Renchenski was convicted of murdering ...
