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.
Six years after indictments and multiple convictions, the BOP says it will finally take custody of nine Aryan Brotherhood members
Already serving a life sentence for murder, North Dakota State Penitentiary inmate Alex Eggleston used a spray bottle of feces and urine against two officers during a 2021 incident
A federal jury found the Pierce County Jail’s medical provider violated the constitutional rights of an inmate by failing to address a serious blood clot that led to amputation
Baldacci gave pardons to 51 of the 193 individuals who requested clemency in 2010 — more than in any other year of his administration
The ruling came after a female guard checked a male inmate’s genitals and buttocks in an attempt to find drugs or weapons
Lawmakers plan to make eliminating parole eligibility for violent habitual offenders a legislative priority
Fulton Superior Court has placed an elected judge in charge of system after the recent killing of a state trooper
In one of his last official acts — or non-acts — before leaving office, New Mexico’s governor refused to pardon the Old West outlaw
Experts who study civil commitment laws nationally say New Hampshire is bucking the trend and adhering to its ‘Live Free or Die’ motto
A letter from the Atlanta mayor, DA, police chief calls for a probe of the court system
In some of the worst federal court cases, the guilty go free
The Oakland City Council voted 7-1 in closed session Tuesday night to suspend the application process for permits that would have let recipients set up four industrial-scale indoor pot farms
Since his release in July, Michael Anthony Green has worked for his attorney as a volunteer, reading letters from inmates, looking for others who might be wrongfully imprisoned
Abuse of inmates at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and complaints of detainee torture will be one focus of the study
Each year about 1,600 convicted felons ask the state to officially forgive them for past crimes, of which an average of 38 percent are granted
Where we are, where we were, where we are going
Parliament moved Thursday to freeze the assets of Russian officials involved in the death in prison of a corporate lawyer
‘We needed to come off lockdown so we can go to the law library and start the paperwork for a lawsuit’ says one inmate
A nationwide shortage of sodium thiopental led Oklahoma to alter its three-drug cocktail
Officials say they are first focusing on deporting people who have committed violent crimes, including killers, rapists and robbers
The protest and the role cell phones and text messaging have had in its organization have drawn national and international media attention
Struck down the federal government’s challenge to the portion of the law that prohibits the transport of illegal immigrants.
Nearly half of 287(g) detainees charged with minor offenses.
A new California law gives judges the option of sending parents for training when their kids are convicted of gang crimes for the first time.
Gov.-elect Rick Scott, who takes office Jan. 4, has said that his prison plan does not include closing prisons, changing sentencing laws or releasing prisoners.
Federal appeals court has upheld a voter-approved measure requiring convicted murderers to wait as long as 15 years between parole hearings
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled Thursday that prosecutors can indict an unknown suspect’s unique DNA profile
The judge who ordered the hearing is from a county has sent more inmates to the lethal-injection gurney than any other in the U.S.
Suspects will have to pay more if they want out
Attempt to outlaw cell phones renewed after Charles Manson was discovered with a phone in his cell
The number of fraudulent payments to inmates has climbed 37 percent since 2004
The only inmate in modern history to survive an execution attempt must stay on death row
The government alleged Hutley was not justified when he used pepper spray on the inmate and hit him repeatedly on March 6, 2009
