Legal
Legal issues in the correctional system encompass various topics, including inmate rights, staff conduct, and compliance with state and federal laws. This directory offers articles and resources on the legal aspects of correctional facility operations, helping staff stay informed about the regulations and policies that govern their work. Understanding legal responsibilities is essential for minimizing liability and ensuring facilities operate within the law. For more information, explore our section on Corrections Policies.
Onondaga County Sheriff Shelley argued the closure of Jamesville Correctional Facility would strip powers from his office and impact public safety
New Jersey corrections officials credit a Las Vegas-based mail vendor for helping to stem the flow of synthetic drugs like K2 into facilities
The Justice Department said states are not constitutionally obligated to provide gender-affirming surgeries to prisoners
Nursery is on five acres of property at Avon Park Correctional Institute
Both bills are aimed at preventing the spread of AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections
Currently the lowest level of felony
The non-profit Star Project also offers therapy and mentoring to help prevent ex-cons from reoffending
The availability to reporters comes more than a year after the nonprofit John Howard Association issued a report about flooding, vermin, inoperable toilets, mold and more in the lockup
Corrections Officer Susan Canfield was killed by two inmates trying to escape
Follows an intensive investigation that involved communication with people who have spent significant amounts of time in extreme isolation
Relatives of a man who hanged himself with his bedsheet at the Sedgwick County Jail have filed a wrongful death claim against Sheriff Robert Hinshaw
Prosecutors will get to show the jury deciding Christopher Vaughn’s fate a cryptic poem - part of a coded journal allegedly taken from his cell in fall 2007
A bugging device uncovered in an air duct in the office of the Regional Jail Authority’s chief of operations
‘Legally innocent’ inmates are identified in newspaper probe
Legal experts say the group of Latinos who brought the civil case against Arpaio have a high bar to clear
Mom says COs conspired with an inmate to give him the opportunity to kill another prisoner
Opponents of the law say it amounts to an unconstitutional search and seizure
The Butte County Jail has released more inmates to avoid crowding and make space for high-risk offenders since the state shifted supervision of certain convicts to local governments
People are inventing so many new, legal ways to get high that U.S. lawmakers can’t seem to keep up
More than $5 million would go to Michael Tillman, who says officers tortured him for four days until he confessed to murder
The plaintiffs say Joe Arpaio’s officers based some traffic stops on the race of Hispanics who were in vehicles
Arpaio says investigators are positive President Barack Obama’s birth certificate is fraudulent
House Bill 1176 is designed to divert nonviolent drug and property offenders away from prison to less-expensive alternatives
The family of a 13-year-old boy who was fatally shot outside his Milwaukee home has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the 75-year-old suspect
Changes are taking place to a North Carolina law that gave death row inmates a new way to argue racial bias influenced their sentences
The high court threw out the ability to send children to prison for life with no chance of ever getting out
The mother of a teenager fatally beaten by Rikers Island inmates as correction officers turned a blind eye reached a $2 million wrongful death settlement with the city.
Critics of America’s self-proclaimed toughest sheriff say legal pressure has led Joe Arpaio to suspend his immigration sweeps
The news organizations filed a lawsuit last month over the portion of Idaho’s policy that prevents witnesses from viewing lethal injections from start to finish
The Supreme Court will decide whether police can follow and detain a suspect while they wait for a search warrant
Inmate Kevin Johns was convicted of strangling a man as the bus traveled on Interstate 70
Prosecution has been on hold for nearly a year while federal prosecutors battle over custody of the inmate
The high court refused to hear appeals from police in Hawaii and Washington, or people who got stun-gunned by officers
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