Sentences with phrase «federal prison inmates»

Yesterday, the Law Memo blog posted a link to a 9th Circuit decision, Pollard v. GEO Group, holding — contrary to what other courts of appeals have ruled — that federal prison inmates may recover damages under the Bivens doctrine from employees of private corporations running those prisons pursuant to contracts with the Bureau of Prisons.

A federal prison inmate in Florida who previously received five years for threatening to kill then - President Barack Obama and others has been sentenced to another four years and three months for threatening to kill Trump.

Not exact matches

(The federal Bureau of Prisons moved roughly 1,300 of the inmates in its one prison there to facilities off the island.)

Of a total federal inmate population of 156,238, prison authorities say only 1,021 fit the description — which includes everyone from insurance schemers to bankruptcy fraudsters, counterfeiters to election - law tamperers to postal thieves.

«I spent over a decade of my life working at the issue [of prison reform], including half a decade at the NAACP, and yet here you have a former inmate turned entrepreneur who's been able to bring relief to almost a quarter of federal inmates in just a couple of years,» Jealous says.

The company, which was started by former prison inmate Frederick Hutson in 2012, now has 23 percent of the market share of federal prisons, according to Jealous.

The Texas prison population, one of the largest of any state, counting inmates in both state and federal custody (not including Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees), is around 160,000 inmates.

The only federal prison in Puerto Rico, MDC Guaynabo, is located in the northern part of the island and currently houses 1,389 inmates.

While state - level private prisons have received significant media scrutiny, Seth Freed Wessler's investigation into the federal facilities — which are used exclusively for noncitizen inmates — offers a rare examination into the willful neglect that Yates» memo acknowledges and seeks to finally end.

Arkansas already allows inmates to grow beards for medical reasons and Muhammad's beard would be permissible in 43 state and federal prison systems across the country.

For their video verité Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House, Susan and Alan Raymond interviewed inmates in the Lewisburg (Pennsylvania) Federal Prison.

On Sept. 4, to the cheers of fellow inmates wishing him well, Dennis Dale McLain, 43, walked out of the Federal Correctional Institution in Talladega, Ala., where he had just finished serving almost as many months in prison (29 1/2) as games he had won pitching (31) for the Detroit Tigers in 1968 — the year he was the dominant player in baseball, the American League's Most Valuable Player and winner of its Cy Young Award.

After that six weeks in Sanford, McLain spent short stretches at two other jails before he wound up in what he regards as the very bottom of the belly of the beast, the United States Penitentiary in Atlanta, the federal prison that two months after his release would become a site of rioting, destruction and hostage - taking by Cuban - born inmates.

The announcement comes a week after the DOJ released a report concluding that private prisons holding federal inmates «incurred more safety and security incidents per capita than» federal prisons managed by the government.

The Associated Press - ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)- Gov. Andrew Cuomo is seeking federal approval to extend Medicaid coverage to inmates who face serious health challenges immediately before they're released from prison.

A former guard at a federal detention center is facing a sentence of life in prison after being convicted of sexually abusing female inmates.

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The resolution also preempts a number of plans in Cuomo's own budget, on taxes, free college courses for prison inmates, and spending authority over federal health care funds.

A year after the Department of Justice banned putting juvenile inmates in federal prisons into solitary confinement, a small network of inmate advocates has undertaken an effort to end the practice in some of upstate New York's county jails.

Cuomo wants New York to be the first state in the nation to extend Medicaid coverage to inmates who face serious health challenges immediately before they're released from prison, which requires federal approval.

Federal authorities have found that some private prisons have sought to reduce overcrowding by improperly confining rule - abiding inmates in segregated units, which are similar to solitary confinement.

Juveniles will no longer be housed at a Wisconsin youth prison that's been under federal investigation and the subject of multiple lawsuits alleging inmate abuse, Gov. Scott Walker announced on Thursday.

Earlier this year, the federal Bureau of Prisons announced it would slash some 6,000 jobs and transfer more inmates to private facilities.

The Department of Justice aims to reduce and «ultimately» end its practice of sending inmates to private prisons, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates said in a memo to the Federal Bureau of Pprisons, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates said in a memo to the Federal Bureau of PrisonsPrisons.

As of last December, less than 23,000 federal inmates were housed in private prisons.

Inmates of the Abakaliki Federal Prisons in Ebonyi state are demanding to be allowed to cook food in their cells, choose their Provost, take indian helm...

Since assuming the title of commissioner, the former federal prosecutor has worked to repair relations with the FBI and other federal agencies — relationships that suffered under the regime of James Burke, the former police chief who is serving prison time for beating an inmate and trying to cover it up.

The Office of Inspector General revealed that mentally ill inmates in federal prisons are being placed in confinement for long periods.

Though yoga classes in prisons are not rare anymore, training inmates to become yoga teachers had never been done before, until last April, when FCI Otisville, a medium - security federal prison for men in New York state engaged with the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Ranch, a spiritual retreat center located in New York's Catskills Mountains.

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When the inmates took over Attica prison, or when the American Indian Movement stood up to the federal government at Wounded Knee, they asked Kunstler to be their lawyer.

Based on the memoirs of Piper Kerman, the show follows the lives of inmates at a women's federal prison.

Lockout (PG - 13 for profanity, sexual references and intense violence) Futuristic, sci - fi thriller about a wrongly - convicted federal agent (Guy Pearce) who is offered a pardon in return for rescuing the President's daughter (Maggie Grace) from an outer space prison where she's been taken hostage by bloodthirsty inmates.

Will Ferrell is about to be an inmate in a federal penitentiary and Kevin Hart is his prison survival coach in Warner Bros..

Additionally, local and federal government agencies are now guaranteeing minimum levels of occupancy in new jail contracts (private prisons are paid per inmate), which sets a minimum amount of profitability from quarter to quarter and year to year.

There are several tailwinds that could propel private prisons to new heights: private correctional facilities house only a fraction of all inmates in the United States and the world, state and federal governments are more willing than ever to outsource prison management to a private company, and the number of incarcerated people continues to grow at a rate faster than the general population.

My friend Damon Day were talking about federal student loan issues and somehow we got to taking about inmates in a federal prison and how they could deal with their student loans.

The maximum - security, minimum - privilege Alcatraz facility was specially designed for inmates so troublesome that other federal prisons couldn't handle them.

A new report says federal prison officials rarely grant «compassionate release,» even for the most gravely ill inmates.

Previous: Escaped federal inmate is captured returning to prison with booze, pot, home - cooked food

The Dallas Observer reports (via Consumerist), that Gary Cole, an inmate at a high - security prison in Colorado, filed a federal lawsuit in Texas this week alleging that Taco Bell stole his idea for the Doritos tacos.

Hidden among the corporate reports and bureaucratese in Federal Communications Commission docket No. 12 - 375 are letters from prison inmates and their families, pleading for relief from high phone rates.

Earlier this year, a Globe and Mail investigation uncovered significant disparities in the way Canada's provincial, territorial, and federal prison systems were tracking the length of time that inmates were spending in solitary confinement.

At any one time, he says, there about 400 inmates in segregation in federal prisons in Canada, including youth (under the age of 21) and the mentally ill.

All three appeals are of decisions in criminal cases, including an appeal of a Federal Court of Appeal decision on the use of prison assessment tools on aboriginal inmates.

Federal inmates challenge decision by Correctional Service Canada that cut prison work pay, Toronto Star

The court «without comment or recorded dissent... rejected Missouri's request to put on hold a federal judge's order requiring that prison authorities transport the inmate to a St. Louis clinic for an abortion.»

Under § 505.2, the Director of the Bureau of Prisons determined that, based upon fiscal year 2011 data, the fee to cover the average cost of incarceration for Federal inmates in Fiscal Year 2011 was $ 28,893.40.

Counsel for Jewish inmate in federal prison who asserted First Amendment violation for the wrongful denial of Kosher food; argued appeal to the Fifth Circuit, which reversed dismissal of prisoner's case.

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