Justice Alito noted that the Supreme Court’s rulings on excessive force call for looking at the totality of circumstances to determine whether, at the time the force was used, it was reasonable for the police to use it.
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Correctional Education Crucial to Inmates’ Future Success
Correctional education for juveniles is key to getting them out of the prison system, and it’s great to see that crucial prison programs are being rolled out across the nation.
Read More »Appeals Court Tosses FCC Rate Controls on Most Prison Calls
Studies show inmates who stay in contact with their families while incarcerated have lower recidivism rates.
Read More »Florida Bill Seeks To Educate Prisoners to Reduce Recidivism
Education is a key component to reforming inmates and keeping them from returning to prison
Read More »Lawmaker Pushes Reforms Aimed at Disabling Michigan’s School to Prison Pipeline
A Michigan lawmaker is set on hobbling the school-to-prison pipeline in his state.
Read More »Appeals Court: Prison Litigation Reform Act Doesn’t Apply to Suits Filed by Ex-Prisoners
The federal Prison Litigation Reform Act prohibits prisoner-filed lawsuits over prison conditions unless the inmate has first exhausted available administrative remedies.
Read More »Jails Scandal Brings Ex-L.A. County Sheriff Three Years in Prison
About 20 members of the county sheriff’s office were charged with conspiring in various ways to block the probe, lying to federal investigators, witness intimidation, and conspiring to cover up their actions.
Read More »States Must Refund Payments to Those Later Exonerated
State legislatures cannot create obstacles that make it tough for people whose criminal convictions have been overturned to recover fines or restitution damages they have already paid, according to an April 19 U.S. Supreme Court decision.
Read More »Supreme Court to Decide If Defendant Claiming Mental Illness Entitled to Expert Witness
To win, defendant McWilliams must show not only that he needed an independent expert advisor-witness, but also that the state’s failure to provide one violated a clearly established constitutional requirement.
Read More »Inmates at Ohio Prison Secretly Built Computers, Used Them for Crimes
Investigators eventually found the jerry-rigged computers, which inmates had used to commit identity and credit card theft, hidden on pieces of plywood stashed above the ceiling tiles of a conveniently located storage closet.
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