Sentences with phrase «for federal prisoners»

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

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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 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 federal policy, according to a new report.

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.

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).

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.

Most famous as the site of a federal prison, Alcatraz Island was first a military fortress, home to the first lighthouse on the Pacific Coast in the mid 1850's, and a military prison for prisoners of the Civil and Spanish American Wars.

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??

This is already requiring the marshals to send prisoners far away from their eventual court dates, says Shereen Cherlick of the Federal Defenders office for the Southern District of California.

An example of his exemplary pro bono service is the favorable monetary settlement Bob achieved on behalf of a prisoner in a Section 1983 federal lawsuit he prosecuted against the Cook County Department of Corrections involving civil rights violations for refusal to provide medical treatment.

The West Coast Prison Justice Society operates Prisoners» Legal Services, a legal clinic for federal and provincial prisonePrisoners» Legal Services, a legal clinic for federal and provincial prisonersprisoners in BC.

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

This «Question and Answer» booklet is for prisoners who identify as First Nations, Inuit and Métis, and who are imprisoned in a federal prison or healing lodge run by the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC).

Laura also led the team, conducted direct and cross-examinations of expert and fact witnesses, and made the closing argument in a federal jury trial challenging conditions of confinement for a prisoner.

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»?

One federal judge appointed him to represent prisoners in a collective action over second - hand tobacco smoke (a case that resulted in compensation for the clients and the banning of tobacco from Maryland's prisons), another asked him to serve on the U.S. District Court's task force regarding electronic discovery, and the Chief Judge asked him to serve on that court's bench - bar subcommittee on attorneys» fees.

There are programs for prisoners in Canadian correctional facilities, both federal and provincial.

The reality is that amongst many middle class Georgians, they will be very judgmental on cases that either lack a damages punch (the State Court case only had 2.5 months of medical care) or lack a strong liability claim (the Federal case was brought by prisoners in a van that rear ended a tractor trailer) Both of these are tough cases for either damages problems or liability problems.

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.

If a federal bill reduces a sentence for a crime, can a prisoner get relief at the state level, possibly by stating the original sentence was cruel and unusual punishment?

Military commissions organized during the late civil war, in a State not invaded and not engaged in rebellion, in which the Federal courts were open, and in the proper and unobstructed exercise of their judicial functions, had no jurisdiction to try, convict, or sentence for any criminal offence, a citizen who was neither a resident of a rebellious State nor a prisoner of war, nor a person in the military or naval service.

The prisoner is held in federal custody, the feds (and anyone they employ) should be the answerable part and the federal courts are the proper venue for litigating any such claim.