The Crime Report

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Investing in the wellness, training and safety of correctional officers is key to transforming the “broken” U.S. corrections system, according to a Blue Ribbon Commission of senior corrections staff, advocates, and representatives of incarcerated individuals. I’ve seen the loss of life.

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JURIST

MAY 22, 2021

The US Department of Justice filed an amended legal complaint Wednesday against Alabama and its Department of Corrections for several alleged violations of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. The Division also notified Alabama of the correctional officers’ frequent use of excessive force in July 2020.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 21, 2022

New York nonprofit organizations the Legal Aid Society (LAS) and Brooklyn Defender Services (BDS) Monday filed an order to show cause for contempt against the NYC Department of Corrections (DOC) for failing to comply with a December 2021 court order requiring it to provide access to medical care to persons incarcerated in New York City jails.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The post Fifth Circuit calls for reevaluation of minority-aggregation precedent in Texas voting rights case (corrected) appeared first on JURIST - News. NB: An earlier version of this article, published on Nov.

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Patently O

MARCH 31, 2021

For the most part, Certificates of Correction are boring, simple, and quite common. 254 & 255 provide for correction of minor mistakes by the PTO and applicant respectively. ” For applicant-mistakes, the correction is allowed for “clerical or typographical nature, or of minor character” made in good faith.

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JURIST

JANUARY 12, 2023

Oklahoma Department of Corrections Wednesday reversed a decision denying the presence of Scott Eizember’s spiritual advisor at his execution. The reversal of the decision was announced by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections Director Steven Harpe. Hood, and the way this would impact the victims.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Across the country this week, corrections officers have been indicted and sentenced for accepting bribes from inmates at detention centers and smuggling in contraband items in Pennsylvania, New York and Texas. Another Pennsylvania correctional officer was arrested and pleaded guilty to smuggling drugs and phones into jails last year.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Photo courtesy Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. To read about John Wetzel, the former Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PADOC), one might think he is the August Vollmer of prison management. Every corrections secretary should make the creation of a committed data bureau a top priority. John Wetzel.

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JURIST

JULY 20, 2021

The US District Court for the District of Arizona Friday ordered the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Recovery (ADC) to trial for failure to make agreed-upon progress toward prison healthcare reforms.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 14, 2023

Last week, the Alabama Department of Corrections announced a competitive pay increase for Alabama correctional officers as the state addresses a rough year in Alabama jails and prisons, including high death rates and a high-profile lawsuit against Alabama jail officers.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

The former nurse who alleged serious medical abuse at the now-closed LaSalle Corrections immigration jail facility in Ocilla, Georgia has filed suit against her former employer for retaliating against her for blowing the whistle on the private prison company, Lautaro Grinspan reports for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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HowAppealing

MARCH 21, 2024

“Alliance Defending Freedom Lawyer Enraged By Good, Correct Criticism Of Alliance Defending Freedom; The fallout over the Idaho attorney general’s sketchy arrangement with the activist legal organization is turning right-wing ideologues into mediocre bloggers”: Susan Rinkunas has this essay online at Balls and Strikes.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

A corrections officer at the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Eddyville was attacked in a common area of the prison on Christmas morning according to Kentucky State Police, reports the Associated Press.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Three correction officers working at Rikers Island correctional facilities in New York have been charged with federal program fraud in two complaints unsealed in the Eastern District of New York on Thursday. While on sick leave, the officers submitted forged medical notes to the Department of Corrections. Strauber said. .

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Above The Law

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The post Firms Fined For Not Having Correct Targeting Policies In Place When Making Up Performance Numbers appeared first on Above the Law. The word ‘hypothetical’ does a lot of heavy lifting, but not, apparently, as much as a piece of internal paper no one in marketing would read or understand.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 11, 2023

A now-former sergeant for the Philadelphia Department of Prisons pleaded guilty in federal court to violating a detainees civil rights and to a charge of falsification of records related to the use of excessive force on a detainee at Philadelphia’s Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Although the figures, based on data from the most recent BJS census, are over two years old, they correlate with more recent anecdotal descriptions of a resource-strained correctional system burdened by overcrowding. corrections, which statistically confines more citizens per capita than anywhere else in the world. Males comprised 92.8

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JURIST

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Wednesday that it has opened a statewide investigation into the conditions in the five secure juvenile correctional facilities operated by the Texas Juvenile Justice Department. . The DOJ has not yet reached any conclusions regarding the allegations in the matter. .

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The Crime Report

JULY 12, 2021

But a new slate of difficulties — from a deadlier COVID-19 variant to anti-vax misinformation — has slowed vaccination rates in prisons, particularly among corrections staff. Despite physical and mental health concerns, states haven’t required corrections officers to get vaccinated. California Gov.

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The Crime Report

MAY 8, 2023

Recent reports by KCCI’s Investigative team indicate that assaults on corrections officers in Iowa prisons are increasing, and officers fear that there will be more deaths, James Stratton reports for KCCI. Reports suggest that the drop in corrections officers is another reason behind the rise in assaults.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, Michigan chapter (CAIR-MI) filed a lawsuit Monday against the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) for making Muslim and Moorish Science women remove their hijabs for mugshots. Photographs of the women without their hijabs are posted on MDOC’s public website. Thanks for your support!

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Above The Law

AUGUST 15, 2023

Santa Clara Valley Healthcare in California has begun notifying 43,000 patients about their eligibility for billing corrections and refunds. The system’s patient outreach effort is a result of a recently settled lawsuit filed against Santa Clara County.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Of those arrested today are civil servants, NYPD employees, and a Captain for the Department of Corrections. The schemes involved fraudulent filings under the Economic Injury Disaster Loan program and the Paycheck Protection Program. . “Of

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FDA Law Blog

APRIL 21, 2024

But that’s the controversy here: Did FDA approve LYTGOBI NDA 214801 on September 30, 2022 when the Agency issued its initial approval letter , or on October 5, 2022 when FDA issued a corrected approval letter ? Rather, “permission for commercial marketing” was only effective upon FDA’s issuance of its corrected October 5, 2022 letter.

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HowAppealing

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

“Government immunity from false credit reporting hits thin ice at Supreme Court; The high court will decide if the government should face lawsuits when it fails to correct false credit reports”: Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service has this report.

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The Crime Report

JULY 27, 2021

An undercover FBI investigation and sting operation into an attempted murder plot has revealed that Ku Klux Klan members were working inside the Florida Department of Corrections, with significant power over inmates, Black and white, reports the Associated Press.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 30, 2022

According to recently obtained documents, John Metz, 34, lost his job at the Shawangunk Correctional Facility in 2019 due to his affiliation with the Identity Evropa white nationalist group. Metz allegedly engaged in Slack communication with the hate group, planning “real-life activism with the group.”

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Arizona Corrections Lt. Mark Hasz is preparing to argue that the alleged aggravated assault he was charged with two years ago was a justified use of force and that Hasz is the victim of retaliation by the county and state for whistleblowing about conduct by the state’s prison director months before his arrest, ABC15 reports.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Top New York corrections officers are hopeful a new law that prohibits double-bunked housing in state prisons will help slow pending prison closures and reduce record-high numbers of violent attacks on staff, reports the Adirondack Daily Enterprise. Governor Kathleen C.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

A white correction officer at Rikers Island, David Warwick, has accused a Black Department of Corrections civilian dispatcher of making racist comments and retaliating against him for filing a complaint with the state Division of Human Rights, Janon Fisher reports for The New York Daily News.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Female correction officers report pervasive sexual harassment and assaults being while on the job at Rikers Island, with the Department of Correction union saying at least 24 employees have been victims of sexual assault by an inmate this year, reports CBS New York. It’s currently a class A misdemeanor.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A former corrections officer at a private prison in Georgia has been sentenced to 12 months in prison and three years under supervision for accepting thousands of dollars in bribes to “[turn] a blind eye” to smuggling and contraband in the federal facility, the Southern District of Georgia USAO announced Wednesday.

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HowAppealing

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

“Adnan Syed’s Accidental Justice: His exoneration shows the legal system is designed to cement wrongful convictions, not correct them.” The post “Adnan Syed’s Accidental Justice: His exoneration shows the legal system is designed to cement wrongful convictions, not correct them.”

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The Crime Report

JULY 23, 2021

The number of adults under correctional supervision, including those on probation or parole, decreased from 2018 to 2019, according to two reports released by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). correctional populations from 2009 to 2019, identifies a drop of 65,200 people under correctional supervision between 2018 and 2019.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 7, 2022

After a guard at the Pontiac Correction Center in Illinois experienced a sexual harassment incident with an incarcerated man, his supervisor, Lt.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The allegations have been forwarded to the Department of Corrections’ Special Investigation Division. The Department of Correction has called the accusations “false rumors” and maintains that it has a “zero-tolerance policy” towards the exploitation or abuse of inmates.

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HowAppealing

OCTOBER 1, 2021

“The ‘Shadow Docket’ Diversion: Alito corrects liberal distortions of the Court’s unsigned orders.” ” This editorial will appear in Saturday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

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