Sentences with phrase «federal prisoner»

While seldom successful, a section 2255 action stands as the last chance for a federal prisoner to upend a wrongful conviction or sentence.

Mr. Berman... I am the wife of a federal prisoner who was severly enhanced by the replacement judge at sentencing.

«These are not ZIP codes,» Bain said, as he rattled off the federal prisoner numbers of Darleen Druyun, formerly a top Air Force procurement officer and then a Boeing executive, and Mike Sears, former Boeing chief financial officer.

Finally, though, the grown - up Ludlow (Josh Gad, «Jobs»), a conspiracy theory geek and Plant (Peter Dinklage, «X-Men: Days of Future Past»), a perverted federal prisoner, are reunited to become the «Arcaders.»

Their goal is to disrupt the cartel activities of one of the most prominent criminal organizations in Juarez, which they do by disturbingly overstepping their jurisdictional boundaries, first sweeping into Mexico to retrieve a federal prisoner and then stealing him out of the country again to interrogate him on American soil.

WAMC's Alan Chartock In Conversation with Andrew Mckenna, Author of Sheer Madness: From Federal Prosecutor to Federal Prisoner.

It's the single largest federal prisoner release in American history.

He is the only federal prisoner to ever receive a death sentence.

In 2011, most state and federal prisoners were minorities — black and Hispanic prisoners alone accounted for over 60 percent of total prisoners, far greater than their share of the total U.S. population, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

If the sentence is carried out, he would join a group of just three federal prisoners executed since 1988, when capital punishment by the U.S. government was reinstated.

According to the United States Department of Justice, percentages range from 45 percent of federal prisoners to 56 percent of state prisoners and 64 percent of inmates in local jails.

Federal prisoners, including those with mental illness, are being kept in solitary confinement for long periods of time in violation of federal policy, according to a new report.

His comments come a month after President Obama announced the early release of about 6,000 non-violent offenders — the largest one - time release of federal prisoners in the nation's history.

While the number of state and federal prisoners continues to fall, former inmates are often reincarcerated because of technical parole violations.

Our President can pardon federal prisoners for their crimes but can not seem to find a way to pardon the student loans for the citizens who are trying to better themselves??

CD 800, paragraph 34 says that federal prisoners should get the same quality of health care that they can get in the community.

Federal prisoners can also call the Office of the Correctional Investigator (OCI) for help: 1-877-885-8848.

It would be more diplomatic and more accurate to say instead that «the immediate custodian rule, which applies to normal federal prisoners, does not now and should not extend to immigration detainees.»

This sentence also has some obfuscating adjectives: should we infer from the wording that there is a different rule for «abnormal federal prisoners» than for «normal» prisoners»?

The petitioner is asking that the immediate custodian rule, which applies to normal federal prisoners, be ignored in favor of a rule which would provide more equal justice to all immigration detainees.

Federal prisoners are regulated by the Corrections and Conditional Release Act, SC 1992, c 20, [CCRA] and its regulations.

Of course, they could abolish the federal death penalty with an ordinary act of legislation, and the President could pardon or commute the sentences of all federal prisoners on death row.

Since relocating to Texas, Ms. Rol has volunteered with the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program and Clemency Project 2014, a working group of lawyers and advocates providing pro bono assistance to federal prisoners who would likely have received a significantly shorter sentence had they been sentenced today.

Justice Peter Leask found the prolonged and indefinite segregation of federal prisoners violates their rights to life, liberty, and security of the person (s. 7 of the Charter) and discriminates against mentally ill and Indigenous prisoners (s. 15 of the Charter).

These changes reduced the sentences of, and is continuing to lead to the early release of, many thousands of federal prisoners.

Indeed, as we explain, the state courts also have the constitutional power and duty to afford such relief to federal prisoners, but Congress has the power to withdraw such cases from the state courts by giving the federal courts exclusive jurisdiction (even implicitly) over such claims.

That is, an essentially unregulated market of «paralegals» who may be offering legal services to federal prisoners and harming those prisoners in the process.

If, as I suspect, that communications like this one are intended to induce inmates to hire «paralegals» to prosecute section 2255 motions, I am concerned that federal prisoners are being fleeced.

Whether you believe legal services should be expanded or not through deregulation, surely we can all agree that federal prisoners deserve protection from incompetents who seek to profit from their misfortune.

Coordinated with US Marshals, Bureau of Prisons to calculate bills charges for Federal Prisoners

In particular, a Federal Bureau of Prisons complex computes and archives the accrued time served and time remaining of all Federal prisoners.

A majority of state and federal prisoners in the U.S. have at least one child under the age of 18 years.

Not exact matches

The complex is home to the death chamber where all three prisoners executed by the federal government since 1988 have died by lethal injection, including Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.

Tsarnaev's death sentence, once confirmed at the hearing, would make him one of just 59 prisoners condemned to execution in U.S. federal courts, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

The Arthur Liman Public Interest Program at Yale first collected data from state and federal corrections officials in 2014 and again, in more detail, last year, taking what amounts to a comprehensive census on the use of solitary confinement in the U.S. Researchers found that in the fall of 2015, at least 67,442 U.S. prisoners were kept in some kind of restricted housing.

Because of the lasting toll it takes on prisoners, President Barack Obama has called on state correction centers to reduce punishment by isolation and banned solitary confinement for juveniles in federal prisons.

They include: - The United Nations, The World Bank, Australian Federal Government, Australian Local Government, Police, Prisoner Transport, Major Australian Banks, Major Logistics and Transport Organisations, and Mining, Oil & Gas companies.

Weldon J. Rougeau, a long - time civil rights activist, has considered the issue of diversity from many perspectives — as director of the office of federal contract compliance programs at the U.S. Department of Labor during the Carter administration, as president of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and even as a prisoner for 78 days (58 of them in solitary confinement) in a Baton Rouge, La., jail cell when he was a student activist.

Drugs were found in the prison cell of former Suffolk County Police Chief James Burke at the federal detention center in Pennsylvania where he's serving a 46 - month sentence for beating a prisoner and orchestrating a cover - up of the assault, sources said.

The reforms come weeks after the federal indictment of former Chief of Department James Burke for allegedly beating a handcuffed prisoner and covering it up.

Last week, former Attica prison employees Sean Warner, Matthew Rademacher and Keith Swack walked away from criminal prisoner brutality charges in Wyoming County Court without having to testify or spend a day in jail, but the three men still face legal challenges in federal court.

Federal and local prosecutors said that there was insufficient evidence to bring criminal charges in the 2015 death of a prisoner at the Fishkill Correctional Facility who died after an altercation with a group of guards there.

Mr. Silver must surrender himself by noon on July 1; his lawyers have requested that he serve at the Federal Correctional Institution in Otisville, N.Y., a prison known for its familiarity with the housing of prisoners who, like Mr. Silver, are Orthodox Jews.

While prisoners can sometimes get access to educational courses now, they are ineligible for the federal Pell Grant program as well as the New York State Tuition Assistance Program (TAP).

The act will make it more difficult to make transfers of prisoners at the county jail who are wanted on federal charges by Homeland Security.

«Specifically, over a period of more than four years, the defendants attempted to cover up the assault of a handcuffed prisoner by Burke by obstructing the federal grand jury investigation and, when they learned that the scope of the investigation expanded into an investigation of the obstructive conduct, the defendants then attempted to obstruct the obstruction investigation,» Rohde wrote.

Disgraced former Staten Island Rep. Michael Grimm became Prisoner # 83479 - 053 Tuesday at the medium - security federal lock - up in Lewis Run, Pa..

Rivera is a political prisoner who has been in federal prison since 1981 after he was charged with conspiracy, according to reports.

And U.S. prisoners are often exposed to the same conditions working at disassembling e-waste for the government - owned corporation UNICOR Federal Prison Industries in Washington, D.C. «I visited a federal prison in California and I saw prisoners with hammers smashing apart CRT monitors,» says Ted Smith, chairman of the advocacy group Electronics TakeBack CoaFederal Prison Industries in Washington, D.C. «I visited a federal prison in California and I saw prisoners with hammers smashing apart CRT monitors,» says Ted Smith, chairman of the advocacy group Electronics TakeBack Coafederal prison in California and I saw prisoners with hammers smashing apart CRT monitors,» says Ted Smith, chairman of the advocacy group Electronics TakeBack Coalition.

Led by Rep. Frank Riggs, R - Calif., the House last year approved a related amendment to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act that would allow states to forfeit a small portion of their federal special education funding if they chose not to provide such services to otherwise eligible prisoners.