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2009-07-01: Headlines
Laconia Citizen: Laconia prison passes into history 2009-07-01
A victim of the current economic crisis, the LRF has been eyed for closure several times and by all accounts it was never meant to be a prison.
New York Times: As Iran Seeks to Quash Foes, Ahmadinejad Cancels Africa Trip 2009-07-01
Mr. Khajehpour had been detained at the airport coming into the country from Britain, and like many others, has disappeared into the notorious Evin pri ...
The News Journal: Bill would reform handling of sex crimes in prisons 2009-07-01
State Rep. James "JJ" Johnson, D-Jefferson Farms, introduced legislation Tuesday that would change ...
Los Angeles Daily News: Call to action: Immigration reform must start this summer 2009-07-01
Statewide, the costs are even greater, prompting the governor to consider releasing illegal immigrants from prison early to save cutting other vital ...
San Mateo Daily Journal: Juvenile sentencing reform shot down 2009-07-01
A state bill giving juvenile offenders sentenced to life in prison without parole a chance at freedom was shot down yesterday by the Assembly Public Safety ...
WND.com: Sotomayor Achilles' heel? Wrongly imprisoned man 2009-07-01
Eventually he ran out of state court appeals procedures, and then was given until April 24, 1997, to demand habeas corpus. According to reports, his lawyer ...
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Belarus' prison population totaled 36533 people as of June 1, Mr. Huminski said. Seventy-seven percent of the prisoners were convicted of minor ...
Sioux City Journal: Iowa prison population is dropping 2009-07-01
At the same time, Iowa's prison overcrowding problem has shrunk, with the system currently housing an inmate population about 14 percent over design ...
Los Angeles Times: Majority at public hearing oppose California's proposed lethal ... 2009-07-01
Condemned prisoners have a right to habeas corpus appeals in federal court, but a lack of funds for lawyers and jammed court calendars grossly delay ...
Drug War Chronicle: I went to visit Will Foster in Jail A Couple of Nights Ago 2009-07-01
Desperate, Foster filed a writ of habeas corpus and won! A California judge ruled the warrant invalid, and Foster was a free man again. But not for long.
New Straits Times: Police chief throws Bintulu MP a dare 2009-07-01
Of these, 22 were released after serving their two-year sentence at the Simpang Renggam detention camp. Sources said police now wanted to move silently so ...
Saugus Advertiser: Ethics reform bans gifts; empowers ethics commission 2009-06-30
The felony charge for gifts greater than $1000 would carry a penalty of 5 years in prison, a $10000 fine, or both, and would apply to both the recipient ...
JURIST: Attorney General's remarks show its time to end disparity in crack ... 2009-06-30
Sentiment had been building in Congress to reform the law, and Senators Orrin Hatch and Ted Kennedy had co-sponsored a bill to reduce the disparity ...
Washington Post: > Ezra Klein 2009-06-30
Health reform was going to fail on cost control. And what of jobs? Obama, they said, had to take a firmer hand with the Congress. His hands-off approach w ...
Examiner.com: Litigation not legislation is the fastest way to reform Child ... 2009-06-30
So we have the anomaly of innocent parents rotting in prison, while children still die from abuse. The Center for Disease Control in Atlanta claims th ...
The Washington Independent: ACLU to Argue Against Use of Evidence Obtained Through Torture ... 2009-06-30
The ACLU will argue tomorrow that the federal judge in Jawad's habeas corpus case should rule that evidence gathered through torture is still too unreliable ...
ReadMedia (press release): State Unveils Blueprint for Prison-Based Addiction Services Under ... 2009-06-30
... as a model for enhancements to drug treatment readiness within the State's correctional facilities as called for under Rockefeller Drug Law reform.
Independent Online: SA prisoners overcrowded 2009-06-30
The effect of these realities is that we experience a significant burden on our ability to manage overcrowding," she said. Speaking during the debate ...
NPR: Madoff Received Maximum Sentence, 150 Years 2009-06-30
Morning Edition, June 30, 2009 · Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff's prison sentence of 150 years delivered a measure of relief to some ...
Greenville Herald-Banner: Alleged throat slasher due in court Tuesday 2009-06-30
Heath filed a writ of habeas corpus from the Hunt County Jail, where he remained in custody Monday, seeking a reduction in his $35000 bond on a charge ...
FOX 21 Online: Advocates: key prison reforms struck from final Wisconsin budget 2009-06-30
MADISON (WPR) Prison reform advocates in the state legislature aren't happy with the Governors budget veto message.
Inquirer.net: Missing farmer's kin to seek court help 2009-06-30
... Philippines -- The family and colleagues of a farmer allegedly abducted in Taguig City are set to file a petition for a writ of habeas corpus to put ...
TPMCafé: Newt is (gasp) right about _anything_? 2009-06-30
Our dear friend Newtie the Gingrich has very enlightened views (at least in the abstract) about prison reform. I did a quick Google to see if the Eye ...
NOLA.com: Man nabbed for eating, then skipping the tab - The Times-Picayune 2009-06-30
But he has been released twice due to prison overcrowding. The first incident occurred June 22 at Melancon's Annex in Metairie, according to an incident ...
National Review Online Blogs: From my (probationary) Constitutional Powers Guy (The field ... 2009-06-30
Lincoln and his Army General declined to let the marshal into the fort, where Merryman was being held in violation of a SCOTUS order for habeas corpus. 6.
Fall River Herald News: GUEST OPINION: Time for prison reform is now, 07-01-09 2009-06-30
Until the Legislature adopts widespread prison reform, including: reviewing sentencing guidelines, expanding the role of probation and parole ...
Cherokee Sentinel: Passage to India: "Rise of the Rest" 2009-06-30
Under Article 32, anyone can file a petition in the Supreme Court for any writ, including habeas corpus. because of the Court's heavy caseload, ...
WISC: Gingrich Calls For Prison Reform In Milwaukee Stop 2009-06-30
MILWAUKEE -- Newt Gingrich is calling on federal officials to overhaul the nation's prison system, an issue he knows isn't a typical Republican hot-butt ...
Christian Science Monitor: Supreme Court leaves hanging the case of detained Uighurs 2009-06-30
"The Great Writ of habeas corpus which used to be 'open the jail door and do it now' – forget that, it's gone," Mr. Willett says. The Uighurs cannot be sent ...
Boston Globe: Changes urged to state criminal records law 2009-06-30
"Let's do CORI reform this session. Let's get it done now," he said, adding, "I just put a young man to work who spent 15 years in jail.
Atlanta Journal Constitution: Much riding on pick for Ga. high court 2009-06-30
However short the closure or reduced access, or denial of counsel, essential freedoms, including habeas corpus, the “great writ” by which courts can free ...
International Crisis Group: Sri Lanka's Judiciary: Politicised Courts, Compromised Rights 2009-06-30
The “habeas corpus” remedy putatively available in the high courts rarely succeeds in gaining releases. Some relief can at times be found by filing ...
Australia.TO: Sri Lanka - camps, media…genocide? 2009-06-30
... describing it merely as a holding centre for "refugees"; today the lowest-common-denominator descriptor seems to be a "detention" camp.
CBS2 Chicago: Chicago Investigator Urges Reform Before Olympics 2009-06-30
A former top aide to Mayor Richard M. Daley is currently serving a federal prison sentence for using fraud to hide patronage on the city payroll.
Detroit Free Press: Out-of-state inmates on the way to Michigan? 2009-06-30
Arnold Schwarzenegger, as he deals with prison overcrowding and budget deficits. Two weeks ago, Michigan made a pitch for 1200 prisoners from Alaska.
Malaysia Star: Many things to many people 2009-06-30
In many cases in India, habeas corpus has been issued to order release of people wrongfully detained on the orders of the House. Lower courts: About 10 day ...
Momento 24: 1:20 pm – Carrascosa's habeas corpus denied by court. 2009-06-30
The space for comments on each article of momento24.com is offered to the community. Participation is free and its content reflects only the reader' ...
Macon Telegraph: Court denies Doorbal death-sentence appeal 2009-06-30
A federal judge denied his habeas corpus petition, and the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that ruling on Monday.
JURIST: Coming to America? Obama's Limited Options for Holding Guantanamo ... 2009-06-30
When the government was unable to effectuate his removal, a federal court of appeals granted his habeas corpus petition and ordered his release.
The Associated Press: US lawyer imprisoned in Belarus freed after pardon 2009-06-30
Emanuel Zeltser, a 55-year-old diabetic, was sentenced to three years in prison in August 2008 after being convicted in a closed trial on charges h ...
Arlington Advocate: Education reform: Experts assess impact of 1993 reform law, ... 2009-06-30
A child like her is almost sure to fail on paper, a good candidate for welfare, prison, foster care. What would it take to follow a different path?
St. Louis American: New evidence will be considered in Clemons case Missouri Supreme ... 2009-06-30
This is a response to Clemons' most recent petition for a writ of habeas corpus. According to the order, Manners is appointed “with full power and authority ...
Dallas Morning News: State Editorial Rdp 2009-06-30
... black voters literacy tests that asked the number of bubbles in a soap bar, the news content of the Peking Daily or the definition of habeas corpus.
Auburn Journal: The Rise of Private Armies — Mercenaries, Murder and Corruption ... 2009-06-30
And you have an ongoing position, by the Obama administration, formed under Bush, that these prisoners don't have right to habeas corpus.
Columbia Daily Tribune: State high court rejects Helmig petitions 2009-06-30
The state high court denied the habeas corpus petition and said it could be filed in DeKalb County, where Helmig is incarcerated at the Crossroad ...
2009-06-30: Headlines
Greenville Daily Reflector: Editorial: SEC review - Time to examine investor protection 2009-06-30
Congressional reform of those rules is desperately overdue, and should be a priority while the spotlight still shines on this malfeasance.
World Socialist Web Site: Supreme Court upholds white firefighters' discrimination claims 2009-06-30
... opposition to habeas corpus for Guantánamo Bay prisoners [Antonin Scalia and police-state rule], and key role in blocking the counting of Florida vote ...
Winston-Salem Journal: Black's leniency request 2009-06-30
The evidence against Black revealed how much North Carolina needed that reform. In 2007, federal prosecutors offered to seek a shorter prison sentence ...
Nashua Telegraph: Prison officers: Cuts have created unsafe conditions 2009-06-30
Overcrowding and smaller meals have added to the tension, Cascio said. "That creates what we call in corrections a recipe for disaster," Cascio said.
Arlington Advocate: Education reform: Experts assess impact of 1993 reform law, ... 2009-06-30
A child like her is almost sure to fail on paper, a good candidate for welfare, prison, foster care. What would it take to follow a different path?
Washington Post: Plain Vanilla 2009-06-30
BERNARD L. MADOFF has been sentenced to 150 years in prison for swindling hundreds of people out of billions of dollars. The equivalent of a life sentence ...
guardian.co.uk: Guardian Daily: Brown's plans to reform public services 2009-06-30
Disgraced Wall Street financier Bernard Madoff was sentenced yesterday to 150 years in prison - the maximum sentence. Dan Roberts, the Guardian's head ...
Greenville Herald-Banner: Alleged throat slasher due in court Tuesday 2009-06-30
Heath filed a writ of habeas corpus from the Hunt County Jail, where he remained in custody Monday, seeking a reduction in his $35000 bond on a charge ...
Auburn Journal: The Rise of Private Armies — Mercenaries, Murder and Corruption ... 2009-06-30
And you have an ongoing position, by the Obama administration, formed under Bush, that these prisoners don't have right to habeas corpus.
WQOW TV News 18: Gingrich says calls for prison reform in Wis. stop 2009-06-30
AP - June 29, 2009 8:45 PM ET MILWAUKEE (AP) - Newt Gingrich is calling on federal officials to overhaul the nation's prison system, an issue he says he ...
National Review Online Blogs: Re: Colorblind Constitution 2009-06-30
The ad hoc, extra legal quality of the prohibited acts suggests an extremely limited remedy (eg, habeas corpus, mandamus, prohibition) role for federal ...
Sun-Sentinel.com: Prison reform efforts ramping up 2009-06-29
The Coalition for Smart Justice addressed an open letter last week to Crist and legislators, calling for comprehensive reform in the state prison system ...
The News-Press: Justin Grodin case will go on for several years 2009-06-29
A final appeal is a writ of habeas corpus on the federal level. It attacks the constitutionality of the trial. If all appeals are denied, the defendant c ...
San Francisco Chronicle: Obama and the stone tablets 2009-06-29
Yet two big problems now confront health care reform that only Obama's intervention can solve. The first is the absence of substantial Republican support ...
FOXNews: Supreme Court Delays Decision on Chinese Muslims at Guantanamo 2009-06-29
Kagan also argued that because the Uighurs are no longer considered enemy combatants and free to leave Guantanamo, there is no need for a judicial order ...
Daily Mail: Prison guards find 80 bombs in British jails over 12 years 2009-06-29
'After the near total destruction of HMP Ashwell by fire and with the present level of overcrowding they need to be especially vigilant.' In the last year ...
MetroWest Daily News: Mass. prison system overcrowded; Patrick aims to fix it 2009-06-29
The governor is also taking aim at another prison reform that could shorten sentences and free up room inside the prisons.
Colorado Springs Gazette: Sensible sentence 2009-06-29
This page would be flattering itself to believe local judges read the editorials and heed their suggestions in efforts to ease prison overcrowding.
Newsradio 620: Tell Me Again Why Wisconsin Doesn't Have the Death Penalty? 2009-06-29
Even if Jordan is sentenced to life in prison without the potential for parole, there's always the possibility that some progressively-minded legislat ...
Politics Daily: Michelle Obama Speaks Out on Wellness, But Not Before Congress 2009-06-29
So says the East Wing, even as President Obama presses Congress to pass his health care reform proposals. Mrs. Obama starts the week with an appearance ...
Detroit Free Press: Granholm: We can take Calif. prisoners 2009-06-29
Jennifer Granholm offered empty beds in Michigan prisons to house inmates from California today as the Golden State seeks solutions to prison overcrowding ...
Hub: 'Raising the Bar' gets 'really intense' 2009-06-29
He's sent to a detention camp, where kids simply dig holes. There's wry wit, plus superb direction from Andrew Davis ("The Fugitive").
Wall Street Journal: New Rift Opens Over Rights of Detainees 2009-06-29
... when it ruled the Military Commissions Act of 2006 unconstitutionally stripped Guantanamo detainees of habeas corpus, a legal proceeding to challenge ...
Times Record News: Matter of Record (June 29) 2009-06-29
Director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus. Albert Cobos Arredondo Jr. vs. Director of the Texas Department ...
Reuters: Michigan offers to house California prisoners 2009-06-29
Schwarzenegger's office has proposed easing prison overcrowding by transferring inmates who are undocumented immigrants to federal custody.
Reuters: UN's Ban to visit Myanmar to urge democratic reform 2009-06-29
Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace laureate and the country's main opposition leader, has been in prison or under house arrest off and on since 1989.
Examiner.com: Obama's 'transparency' myth 2009-06-29
First, it was his “preventive detention” reversal, where he promised to continue Bush's defacto suspension of habeas corpus. Then it was the suppression ...
Examiner.com: Obama pulls "a Kerry" concerning Gitmo detainees 2009-06-29
... Order mandating its closing by January, 2010, in addition to granting the constitutional privilege of the writ of habeas corpus to detainees held there.
Atlanta Journal Constitution: Much riding on pick for Ga. high court 2009-06-29
However short the closure or reduced access, or denial of counsel, essential freedoms, including habeas corpus, the “great writ” by which courts can free ...
Schenectady Gazette: Thank you, Brian Williams! 2009-06-29
Ninety-two people were arrested at the Supreme Court for asking our government to stop using torture and grant habeas corpus to Guantanamo detainees;
Baxter Bulletin: Arkansas prison troubles echo problems of the past 2009-06-29
US District Judge J. Smith Henley took the first step toward reform in 1965, when he ordered guards to stop using corporal punishment.
Daily Kos: NRO on Madoff: Give Him a Break 2009-06-29
Unlike poor black guys, who, as the right-wing argues, look forward to going to prison and require us to reform prisons to make them tougher.
Examiner.com: Who is really affected by health care reform? 2009-06-29
Sometimes I wish I had gone to prison instead of college. At least I would have learned a trade or two and started being independent once I got out.
Iowa Independent: HIV-positive man's prison sentence shines light on Iowa law 2009-06-29
Rhoades, whose only previous offense had been a 2006 operating-while-intoxicated conviction, was sentenced to 25 years in prison and a lifetime of parole.
The News International: Heatwave claims two lives 2009-06-29
The recovery orders were issued by the district and sessions judge on a habeas corpus petition filed by the detenue's husband Muhammad Arshad, who said th ...
The Women's International Perspective: US Should Follow The Rule of Law on Guantanamo Detainees 2009-06-29
As Amnesty International has indicated,one year after the US Supreme Court ruled that the detainees were entitled to a prompt habeas corpus hearing ...
Los Angeles Times: Monday's Highlights 2009-06-29
Holes: Shia LaBeouf stars in the 2003 movie as a teenager accused of a crime and sent to a bizarre detention camp where the other inmates spend their day ...
Religious Action Center (press release): Reform Movement Commends Report on Prison Rape, Calls for Action 2009-06-29
Saperstein: “These numbers, likely underreported, serve as an alarming reminder of the scourge of prison rape and the immediate need for preventative ...
Harare Tribune: Dr. Paul Mutuzr: Tsvangirai falling on sword 2009-06-29
... habeas corpus with regard to Obama's restoration of Bush's military tribunals for Guantanamo prisoners indefinitely held there, cosmetic Wall Street ...
Los Angeles Times: To get more, they need Gitmo 2009-06-29
Outside Washington, town after town, from Colorado to Montana to Tennessee, proposed bringing the enemy combatants to their communities.
Cato @ Liberty: The Jurisprudence of Detention: Definitions and Cases 2009-06-29
This is the set of six petitioners that won the right to habeas corpus hearings at the Supreme Court. They were picked up in Bosnia and allegedly planned ...
2009-06-29: Headlines
Examiner.com: Obama's 'transparency' myth 2009-06-29
First, it was his “preventive detention” reversal, where he promised to continue Bush's defacto suspension of habeas corpus. Then it was the suppression ...
The News-Press: Justin Grodin case will go on for several years 2009-06-29
A final appeal is a writ of habeas corpus on the federal level. It attacks the constitutionality of the trial. If all appeals are denied, the defendant c ...
Times Record News: Matter of Record (June 29) 2009-06-29
Director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus. Albert Cobos Arredondo Jr. vs. Director of the Texas Department ...
USA Today: Witch hunts and torture 2009-06-29
Ironically, accused witches had more habeas corpus rights than did Gitmo detainees under the Bush administration: They were informed in precise terms of ...
Washington Post: Two Judges Target Cocaine Penalties 2009-06-29
By Del Quentin Wilber Federal judges are beginning to equalize punishment for crack and powder cocaine crimes, resulting in shorter prison terms for crack ...
Wall Street Journal: New Rift Opens Over Rights of Detainees 2009-06-29
... when it ruled the Military Commissions Act of 2006 unconstitutionally stripped Guantanamo detainees of habeas corpus, a legal proceeding to challenge ...
Nashua Telegraph: Prison officers: Cuts have created unsafe conditions 2009-06-29
Overcrowding and smaller meals have added to the tension, Cascio said. "That creates what we call in corrections a recipe for disaster," Cascio said.
San Francisco Chronicle: Obama and the stone tablets 2009-06-29
Yet two big problems now confront health care reform that only Obama's intervention can solve. The first is the absence of substantial Republican support ...
MetroWest Daily News: Mass. prison system overcrowded; Patrick aims to fix it 2009-06-29
The governor is also taking aim at another prison reform that could shorten sentences and free up room inside the prisons.
New York Daily News: Calm ends in Iran; protesters gather again in streets 2009-06-29
AP AP A supporter of pro-reform leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, flashes victory signs during a gathering near Ghoba Mosque in Tehran, Iran.
World Socialist Web Site: A revealing picture of the American presidency 2009-06-29
He has defended the Bush administration's attack on habeas corpus, military tribunals, indefinite detention of alleged terrorists, rendition and domestic ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty: Russia: Police Crime Wave Sparks Talk of Reform 2009-06-28
He came away with a broken nose and a prison sentence for threatening the well-being of a police officer. But there have been no charges against ...
Gulf Times: Epidemic of self-harm sweeps women's jails 2009-06-28
Juliet Lyon, director of the Prison Reform Trust, said: “Women injure themselves repeatedly in prison because they are mostly in a terrible state: po ...
Inquirer.net: Sounding Board Jointly or separately 2009-06-28
... namely when Congress wants to revoke a declaration of martial law or a suspension of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus (VII,18).
TVNZ: Controversial prison plan could head to court 2009-06-28
He told Guyon Espiner on TVNZ's Q + A programme that overcrowding is a problem in New Zealand prisons and more facilities are needed to cope with the 12500 ...
Independent: Private prisons 'performing worse than state-run jails' 2009-06-28
Juliet Lyon, the director of the Prison Reform Trust, said: "There are some good private prisons but there are also some very poorly performing ones.
AZ Central.com: An invisible woman is laid to rest 2009-06-28
Most, like Donna Hamm, executive director of Middle Ground Prison Reform, only heard of Powell after she was gone. While helping to plan Powell's funeral ...
MLive.com: County considers using vacated stae prison to house jail prisoners - Muskegon Chronicle 2009-06-28
County Administrator Bonnie Hammersley told commissioners Tuesday she is exploring options to use the soon-to-be vacant prison to ease inmate overcrowding ...
Daily Home Online: The marijauana debate 2009-06-28
First, it would significantly reduce prison overcrowding. According to her figures, Nall says that some 30 percent of Alabama inmates are serving time ...
Daily Kos: Cthulhu Intelligence Hypothetical Diary (Legal) 2009-06-28
(2) Does the habeas corpus petition carry weight in the United States courts? Why or why not? (3) Does Emsal have the right to be free of indefinite ...
AllGov: Obama Inching Towards Bush View Ending Habeas Corpus 2009-06-28
... almost 100 detainees in prison without any trial—a violation of the right of habeas corpus that's been justified in the name of national security.
Dallas Morning News: shedding some light on a dark chapter 2009-06-28
Komatsu and Shimomura see similar attitudes at work in the aftermath of 9/11 and the establishment of the Guantánamo Bay detention camp in Cuba.
AngolaPress: In Wake of Recent Rapes, UN Helps Reform Prisons 2009-06-27
For its part, MONUC called on the authorities to initiate prison reform to ensure conformity with internationally recognized standards in the treatment ...
South Bend Tribune: Judge told to appear in court 2009-06-27
Gotsch made the order after a writ of habeas corpus petition was filed by Walter Jennings, who is seeking the custody of his son. Also ordered to appear ...
New York Times: Frank Connor/Universal 2009-06-27
... turn informants using extortion, round up innocent family members and make their lives miserable, set aside habeas corpus, be pre-emptive,” he said.
2009-06-28: Headlines
TheDay: The Best Alternative To Gitmo: A New Court 2009-06-28
These courts would be presumptively adjudicatory in nature (trials to begin within one year of capture), would provide habeas corpus hearings within three ...
Salt Lake Tribune: Salt Lake County aims to free jail space by more counseling 2009-06-28
In addition to dealing a blow to a drug-offender-reform program and eliminating 160 full-time prison jobs, the cuts forced officials to close the Diagnostic ...
TVNZ: Q + A: Guyon Espiner interviews Barry Matthews 2009-06-28
BARRY Well I mean it's easy to say that but the evidence from overseas is that double bunking is - the issue is overcrowding not double bunking ...
MLive.com: County considers using vacated stae prison to house jail prisoners - Muskegon Chronicle 2009-06-28
County Administrator Bonnie Hammersley told commissioners Tuesday she is exploring options to use the soon-to-be vacant prison to ease inmate overcrowding ...
Daily Home Online: The marijauana debate 2009-06-28
First, it would significantly reduce prison overcrowding. According to her figures, Nall says that some 30 percent of Alabama inmates are serving time ...
Oshkosh Northwestern: Alcohol-related crashes get lawmakers' attention 2009-06-28
This is exactly why we have pledged to act on meaningful drunk driving reform legislation." Killed in the crash on US 41 in Brown County were Arielle ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty: Russia: Police Crime Wave Sparks Talk of Reform 2009-06-28
He came away with a broken nose and a prison sentence for threatening the well-being of a police officer. But there have been no charges against ...
AllGov: Obama Inching Towards Bush View Ending Habeas Corpus 2009-06-28
... almost 100 detainees in prison without any trial—a violation of the right of habeas corpus that's been justified in the name of national security.
Mindanao Examiner: Reds vow justice for abducted Filipino activist 2009-06-28
“They have been directly named as respondents in the habeas corpus case filed by the Burgos family. The pieces of evidence against the three include ...
TVNZ: Controversial prison plan could head to court 2009-06-28
He told Guyon Espiner on TVNZ's Q + A programme that overcrowding is a problem in New Zealand prisons and more facilities are needed to cope with the 12500 ...
AZ Central.com: An invisible woman is laid to rest 2009-06-28
Most, like Donna Hamm, executive director of Middle Ground Prison Reform, only heard of Powell after she was gone. While helping to plan Powell's funeral ...
Dallas Morning News: shedding some light on a dark chapter 2009-06-28
Komatsu and Shimomura see similar attitudes at work in the aftermath of 9/11 and the establishment of the Guantánamo Bay detention camp in Cuba.
Tulsa World: A good idea 2009-06-28
Nor will $4 million in savings a year and an additional 300 or so beds solve the prison overcrowding problem. But it will help.
Daily Kos: Cthulhu Intelligence Hypothetical Diary (Legal) 2009-06-28
(2) Does the habeas corpus petition carry weight in the United States courts? Why or why not? (3) Does Emsal have the right to be free of indefinite ...
Philadelphia Inquirer: The media's love affair with President Obama 2009-06-28
And on Wednesday, ABC News aired "A Conversation with the President," an hourlong prime-time special on health-care reform taped in the East Room of ...
Inquirer.net: Sounding Board Jointly or separately 2009-06-28
... namely when Congress wants to revoke a declaration of martial law or a suspension of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus (VII,18).
TVNZ: Controversial prison practice could head to court 2009-06-28
He told Guyon Espiner on TVNZ's Q + A programme that overcrowding is a problem in New Zealand prisons and more facilities are needed to cope with the 12500 ...
South Bend Tribune: Judge told to appear in court 2009-06-27
Gotsch made the order after a writ of habeas corpus petition was filed by Walter Jennings, who is seeking the custody of his son. Also ordered to appear ...
Hartford Courant: Rell Opposes Democrats' Budget Item That Would Close 2 Prisons 2009-06-27
The state has fewer prison inmates than it did on the day of the tragic Cheshire killings in July 2007.
TPMCafé: Roots Rot 2009-06-27
The Post didn't mobilized on the invasion issue, the torture issue, the warrantless spying issue, or the habeas corpus issue or...hmmm.
JURIST: Support for crack cocaine sentencing reform signals more rational ... 2009-06-27
Finally, the crack cocaine guideline amendments put into effect by the US Sentencing Commission in 2007, and made retroactive for people currently in pri ...
GlamSham: New York Movie Review 2009-06-27
The Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp is a detainment facility operated by Joint Task Force Guantanamo of the United States government since 2002 in Guantanamo ...
TPMCafé: Roots Rot 2009-06-27
The Post didn't mobilized on the invasion issue, the torture issue, the warrantless spying issue, or the habeas corpus issue or...hmmm.
Times Online: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad regime plots purge after Iran election protests 2009-06-27
All last week families sat huddled on newspapers in hot sunshine outside the feared Evin prison as they waited for the updating of a handwritten notice ...
Huffington Post: Liu Xiaobo and China's Future 2009-06-27
Liu's apparent "crime" is that he is seeking reform as one of the more prominent signers of Charter 08, a petition calling for a greater respect of the rule ...
Daily Kos: Obama Considering Indefinite Detention: Why, and What It Me ... 2009-06-27
Bush, 553 US _ (2008), which clearly extended the writ of habeas corpus to detainees sited at Guantanamo and, indeed, any similar future facility.
The Associated Press: Quiet crackdown drains force from Iran dissidents 2009-06-27
They say plainclothes security agents have also put dozens of the country's most experienced pro-reform leaders behind bars. The Iranian government say ...
TVNZ: Prison numbers force hard decisions 2009-06-27
Matthews told Guyon Espiner that overcrowding is a problem in New Zealand prisons and more facilities are needed to cope with the 12500 inmates projected ...
AngolaPress: In Wake of Recent Rapes, UN Helps Reform Prisons 2009-06-27
For its part, MONUC called on the authorities to initiate prison reform to ensure conformity with internationally recognized standards in the treatment ...
TPMCafé: Roots Rot 2009-06-27
The Post didn't mobilized on the invasion issue, the torture issue, the warrantless spying issue, or the habeas corpus issue or...hmmm.
New York Times: Frank Connor/Universal 2009-06-27
... turn informants using extortion, round up innocent family members and make their lives miserable, set aside habeas corpus, be pre-emptive,” he said.
Memphis Commercial Appeal: Annual meetings put focus on peace 2009-06-27
... for the civil rights museum, said today's forum topics will include Guantanamo Bay, where a US naval base has housed a detention camp since 2002.
World Socialist Web Site: The tragic journey of a displaced Tamil family in Sri Lanka 2009-06-27
My sister and her two daughters are still in a detention camp. Kishore's bladder was pieced by shrapnel when the Sri Lankan army was shelling Putumattalan.
2009-06-27: Headlines
Daily Kos: Obama Considering Indefinite Detention: Why, and What It Me ... 2009-06-27
Bush, 553 US _ (2008), which clearly extended the writ of habeas corpus to detainees sited at Guantanamo and, indeed, any similar future facility.
Charleston Post Courier: Chief justice assails system 2009-06-27
Many sentencing-reform proposals involve alternatives to prison, especially for nonviolent criminals. At any given time, Malloy said, half of the state' ...
New Straits Times: Between safety and liberty 2009-06-27
The civil libertarians would have us believe that if due process and habeas corpus are to have any meaning, the eight people still being held for militant ...
Memphis Commercial Appeal: Annual meetings put focus on peace 2009-06-27
... for the civil rights museum, said today's forum topics will include Guantanamo Bay, where a US naval base has housed a detention camp since 2002.
Vanguard: Amnesty: How can it bring peace to Niger Delta? 2009-06-27
And they include Sobomabo Jackreece aka Egberipapa who is currently languishing in a JTF detention camp in the state. A source close to Egberipapa said ...
World Socialist Web Site: The tragic journey of a displaced Tamil family in Sri Lanka 2009-06-27
My sister and her two daughters are still in a detention camp. Kishore's bladder was pieced by shrapnel when the Sri Lankan army was shelling Putumattalan.
New York Times: Frank Connor/Universal 2009-06-27
... turn informants using extortion, round up innocent family members and make their lives miserable, set aside habeas corpus, be pre-emptive,” he said.
GlamSham: New York Movie Review 2009-06-27
The Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp is a detainment facility operated by Joint Task Force Guantanamo of the United States government since 2002 in Guantanamo ...
IGN: Prison Break: The Final Break DVD Review 2009-06-27
June 26, 2009 - I'll admit it, I haven't watched Prison Break regularly since about the middle of season two.
Drug War Chronicle: Feature: American Nightmare -- Will Foster and Justice, Oklahoma Style 2009-06-26
With nothing to lose, Foster fought the warrant by filing a writ of habeas corpus and winning its dismissal in the California courts in 2006.
Daily Kos: Locking Them Up For Life... 2009-06-26
And instead of not just suspending, but eliminating, the right of habeas corpus - the seven century-old right of individuals to challenge the terms of their ...
Independent: Epidemic of self-harm sweeps women's jails 2009-06-26
Juliet Lyon, director of the Prison Reform Trust, said: "Women injure themselves repeatedly in prison because they are mostly in a terrible state: po ...
guardian.co.uk: Iran opposition alleges plot to implicate Mir Hossein Mousavi 2009-06-26
Tajzadeh's wife, Fakhrosadat Mohtashamipour, told the pro-reform website Emruz that she and a lawyer had been denied access to him since his arrest the day ...
guardian.co.uk: We need healthier justice 2009-06-26
Two recent Prison Reform Trust reports show how taking a commonsense, public health approach would pay off. In the first, No one knows: Prisoners' voice ...
guardian.co.uk: Show Britain is on the right side by barring torture, say security ... 2009-06-26
... but says that both involve suspending the legal right of habeas corpus - the right of the accused to hear the evidence against them.
UN News Centre: In wake of recent rapes, UN helps reform DR Congo prisons 2009-06-26
For its part, MONUC called on the authorities to initiate prison reform to ensure conformity with internationally recognized standards in the treatment ...
BBC News: Police chief backs justice reform 2009-06-26
The chief constable of Scotland's second largest police force has backed plans to scrap short prison sentences in favour of community punishments.
Communitycare.co.uk: Prison Reform Trust highlights mental health and drug concerns 2009-06-26
Juliet Lyon, director of the Prison Reform Trust, questioned why government ministers were "hell-bent" on building more prisons rather than investing ...
Boston Globe: A season of reform 2009-06-26
The 40-page bill hammered out by both branches of the Legislature increases the penalties for bribery to up to 10 years in prison and a $100000 fine - up ...
Washington Post: Father of Gitmo Detainee Pleads for His Release 2009-06-26
Barre is seeking his release in a federal lawsuit filed against the government under the centuries-old legal doctrine of habeas corpus, which allow ...
Washington Post: Obama, Lawmakers Discuss Immigration 2009-06-26
"I don't think he could have be clearer today or more committed today that he wanted to make comprehensive immigration reform a reality," said Rep.
Washington Post: Ireland mulls taking in two Guantanamo prisoners 2009-06-26
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland is examining the possibility of taking in two Uzbek prisoners identified for resettlement from the US detention camp ...
Reuters: FACTBOX: Disagreements between Germany and the United States 2009-06-26
Although Merkel was a vocal critic of the detention camp for terrorism suspects in Guantanamo Bay and publicly pressed the US government to close ...
San Francisco Chronicle: Governor dumps plan to build prison hospitals 2009-06-26
A three-judge panel, including Henderson and Karlton, has concluded after extensive hearings in San Francisco that overcrowding at the pri ...
Lebanon Daily News: Seeking to stave off miscarriage of justice 2009-06-26
On April 16, the court denied the request, but it extended Davis' stay for 30 days to allow him to file a habeas corpus petition with the US Supreme Court.
THISDAY: The Enugu Prison Jail-break 2009-06-26
Therefore, we call on the Yar' Adua government to go beyond rhetorics in these matters of Prison decongestion and reform of the country's criminal justice ...
Peace fm Online: Newsticker requires javascript 2009-06-26
LINSOD therefore advised all aggrieved persons who believe their rights have been infringed upon to "go to court for applications of habeas corpus ...
Facing South: CLOSING THE GAP: Attorney general seeks review of cocaine ... 2009-06-26
For years drug reform advocates have pointed to the difference in sentencing for powder and crack cocaine as one glaring example of institutionalized racism ...
The Washington Independent: No Action Yet From Supreme Court on Kiyemba 2009-06-26
... (some seized as teenagers) who've now been cleared for release, yet after seven years, still remain imprisoned at the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay.
MiamiHerald.com: Woman in 1993 contract hit loses critical appeal on life sentence 2009-06-26
Cahn testified at Ramirez's habeas corpus hearing in May that he never advised her of the potential life sentence before trial because he and Barzee ...
Concord Journal: Fargo votes for sweeping ethics reform 2009-06-26
The felony charge for gifts greater than $1000 would carry a penalty of 5 years in prison, a $10000 fine, or both, and would apply to both the recipient ...
Montgomery County Courier: Senators claim $1 trillion health bill in reach 2009-06-26
A former Washington state prison inmate who says she was shackled during childbirth sued the state Thursday. Seattle-based women's rights organization Legal ...
Hartford Courant: House Approves Two-Year Budget That Rell Is Expected to Veto 2009-06-26
Rell's office says the difference is that Rell had called for studying the feasibility of closing one prison if the prison population drop ...
International News Network: Hearing of habeas corpus petition seeking registration of case ... - Online 2009-06-26
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court (IHC) has adjourned till the first week of summer vacation hearing of habeas corpus petition filed by social worker Khalid ...
Atlantic Online: A Provocative Preventative Detention Proposal 2009-06-26
... even after years of detention, camp authorities frequently still hadn't realized they were holding dozens of victims of mistaken identity.
The News International: Ruling reserved in child's custody case 2009-06-26
Yasmin filed an application in the court of the DSJ, saying that her in-laws had kept her three-year-old daughter in habeas corpus.
Background Briefing: Sentancing and Drug Laws
Human Rights Watch: California: Repeal Law Jailing Children for Life 2008-01-14
Senate Should End Life Without Parole for Juvenile Offenders | Californias State Senate should pass a law this month to end the sentencing of children to prison for life with no possibility of parole, Human Rights Watch said today in a report on a practice outlawed in most of the world.
Human Rights Watch: U.S.: Girls Abused in New Yorks Juvenile Prisons 2006-09-25
Violent Restraints, Sexual Abuse Must Stop | Girls in New Yorks juvenile prisons are being abused and neglected by state authorities, Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union charged in a report released today.
Human Rights Watch: Human Rights Watch Submission to the Human Rights Committee 2006-07-12
Human Rights Watch Supplemental Submission to the Human Rights Committee During its Consideration of the Second and Third Periodic Reports of the United States | In January 2006, Human Rights Watch submitted a list of issues for the Human Rights Committees reference while posing questions to the United States about its adherence to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (the ICCPR). Since that submission, the United States has enacted or begun to undertake new laws, policies, and practices that reflect the continuing failure of the U.S. to fulfill its obligations under the ICCPR. Oulined here are some of those developments, as well as some additional issues that HRW believes are central to the Committees work.
Human Rights Watch: U.S.: House Amendment Tilts Playing Field for Death Penalty 2005-10-27
Radical Changes to the Federal Death Penalty May Soon Be Law | The House has slipped an amendment into the Patriot Act Reauthorization Act that would dramatically skew federal death penalty cases in favor of the prosecution.
Human Rights Watch: United States: Thousands of Children Sentenced to Life without Parole 2005-10-12
National Study by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch Finds Majority Face Life for First Offense | There are at least 2,225 child offenders serving life without parole sentences in U.S prisons for crimes committed before they were age 18, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said in a new joint report published today.
Human Rights Watch: U.S.: Supreme Court Ends Child Executions 2005-03-01
With the Roper v. Simmons Supreme Court ruling abolishing the execution of child offenders, the United States joins the international consensus rejecting this cruel and inhuman punishment.
Human Rights Watch: U.S.: Children Are Collateral Casualties of N.Y. Drug Laws 2002-06-18
Excessively severe drug laws have deprived thousands of children of their parents, Human Rights Watch said today. Governor Pataki and New York politicians in Albany are now debating legislation to reform these drug laws
Human Rights Watch: U.S.: Incarceration Rates Reveal Striking Racial Disparities 2002-02-27
Human Rights Watch today released the first state-by-state incarceration rates for whites, blacks and Latinos based on actual correctional facility counts. The figures, compiled from census data for the year 2000, reveal the high percentage of blacks that are behind bars and dramatic racial disparities in the incarcerated population.
Human Rights Watch: U.S.: Pataki Drug Reform No Improvement 2001-07-16
New York Governor George Pataki's proposed drug law reforms would leave drug offenders vulnerable to excessive prison sentences and maintain prosecutors' undue power over sentencing decisions, Human Rights Watch charged today.
Human Rights Watch: US: A Human Rights Agenda for the Justice Department 2001-03-29
In a letter released today, Human Rights Watch called on the Bush Administration's Justice Department to promote and protect human rights in the United States. The letter outlines a human rights agenda for the new U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, on such issues as prisoner abuses, police brutality, sentencing, the mistreatment of immigrants, the federal death penalty, and the poor U.S. record on ratifying international human rights treaties.
Background Briefing: Prison Conditions in the United States
Human Rights Watch: Scores of Muslim Men Jailed Without Charge 2005-06-27
Justice Department Misused Material Witness Law in Counterterrorism Efforts | Operating behind a wall of secrecy, the U.S. Department of Justice thrust scores of Muslim men living in the United States into a Kafkaesque world of indefinite detention without charge and baseless accusations of terrorist links, Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union said in a report released today.
Human Rights Watch: U.S.: Maryland Death Penalty Moratorium Applauded 2002-05-09
Human Rights Watch applauded Maryland Governor Paris N. Glendening's decision today to impose a moratorium on executions in Maryland. Citing the need "to be absolutely sure of the integrity" of the death penalty process, Governor Glendening announced the moratorium would continue until an ongoing University of Maryland study on racial bias and the death penalty is completed and reviewed and acted upon by the state legislature.
Human Rights Watch: U.S.: Illinois Commission Highlights Death Penalty's Inherent Flaws 2002-04-17
Human Rights Watch welcomed the unanimous conclusion of the bi-partisan commission, appointed by Governor George H. Ryan to examine the administration of the death penalty in Illinois, that no system of criminal justice can guarantee absolutely that innocent persons will not be sentenced to death.
Human Rights Watch: U.S.: Incarceration Rates Reveal Striking Racial Disparities 2002-02-27
Human Rights Watch today released the first state-by-state incarceration rates for whites, blacks and Latinos based on actual correctional facility counts. The figures, compiled from census data for the year 2000, reveal the high percentage of blacks that are behind bars and dramatic racial disparities in the incarcerated population.
Human Rights Watch: U.S.: Bush Urged to Stop Federal Execution 2001-06-18
Human Rights Watch urged President Bush to halt Tuesday's scheduled federal execution of Juan Raul Garza. Citing continuing concerns over racial and geographic disparities in the application of the federal death penalty, HRW called for a stay of execution until the government can guarantee that race plays no role in the federal death penalty.
Human Rights Watch: US: Clinton Urged to Impose Moratorium on Executions 2000-12-12
Human Rights Watch commended President Clinton for staying the execution of Juan Raul Garza. The group urged the president to impose a moratorium on federal executions.
Human Rights Watch: U.S.: Florida Ex-Offenders Barred from Vote 2000-11-08
31% of State's African American Men Denied Vote | The permanent disenfranchisement of over 400,000 ex-offenders in Florida is likely to have determined the outcome of the presidential election, two non-partisan research and advocacy groups said.
Human Rights Watch: United States: Stark Race Disparities in Drug Incarceration 2000-06-08
Some states send black men to prison at rates 27 to 57 times greater than whites | The U.S. war on drugs has been waged overwhelmingly against black Americans, Human Rights Watch charged in a new report released "Punishment and Prejudice: Racial Disparities in the War on Drugs".
Human Rights Watch: Felon Laws Bar 3.9 Million Americans from Voting 1998-10-22
A stunning proportion of black men in the United States will not be able to vote in the November elections because they have been convicted of a felony, according to a new report released today by Human Rights Watch and The Sentencing Project. In seven states, a staggering one in four black men is permanently disenfranchised. In two states, Alabama and Florida, the ratio is one in three