Sentences with phrase «more federal prisoners»

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.»

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.