Howard Kurtz
Inmates are not charged for the time their contacts spend on the system. To pay this inmate email fee, inmates buy “TRU-Units” for $0.05 each in groups of 40, 100, 200, 300, or 600 units. Prisoners select how many units they want to purchase on the welcome screen of the TRULINCS...
In the pandemic era, inmates have successfully obtained compassionate release based on the COVID-19 pandemic and specific underlying health conditions. These health conditions must place them at greater risk for COVID-19 contraction and severity of response. If the court grants the petition, inmates...
For example, staff and inmates tend to be more respectful at higher security levels, although both groups are more violent at the higher security levels. Likewise, lower security federal prisons staff tend to be more petty and nitpicky. Finally, low-security inmates tend to be middle-of-the-...
Act establishes that any complaints lodged by public defenders or by detained persons or inmates [...] daccess-ods.un.org 联邦公设律师法》 规定,公设律师或者拘留或监狱机构中的被拘留者或 囚犯提出的有关公职人员实施酷刑、残忍、不人道或有辱人格的待遇或者任何其 他侵犯人权行为的任何投诉,都应报...
For example, white, black, Spanish, and other groups may control the TVs. Prisoner Activities Inmates at this security level have access to educational classes, health services, recreation departments, and religious services. But starting at the medium-security level, prison staff institute ten-...
Federal court rules denying methadone to inmates may violate lawLast week, a federal court in Massachusetts granted a preliminary injunction requiring that a patient who is incarcerated be provided continued access to his methadone treatment. This is the first federal court in the country to find ...
Inmate Ronnie Jones eventually succeeded in hanged himself in his cell Afterwards, multiple inmates then threatened Ms. Detillion, blaming her for Mr. Jones' suicide. After an investigation of Ms. Detillion’s alleged misconduct, her employer initially reassigned her and later terminated her ...
Notice: Seventh Circuit Rule 53(b)(2) States Unpublished Orders Shall Not Be Cited or Used As Precedent Except to Support a Claim of Res Judicata, Collateral Estoppel or Law of the Case in Any Federal Court Within the Circuit.maverick Handley, Plaintiff-
“Over the last several years, we’ve seen groups in the East Bay, and more recently in Los Angeles and to some degree San Francisco, start to do a more intensive hand-holding process for applicants,” said Mike Herald, director of policy advocacy for the Western Center on Law and Povert...