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The gene variant responsible for blondness in dark-skinned indigenous islanders is distinctly different from the gene that causes blond hair in Europeans, researchers report.
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APA Announces New Changes to Drafts of the DSM-5, Psychiatry's New “Bible”Scientific American (blog) | DSM-5 Debate: Committee Backs Off Some Changes, Re-Opens Comments - TIME - General Psychiatry News
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Ken Clarke calls on big business to give ex-prisoners a chance to find jobs The Independent The academies began opening four years ago but this is the first to allow prisoners, who are all risk-assessed first, to serve the public. While it does not accept sex offenders or prisoners with mental-health issues, it provides offenders with a good ... and more » |
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ITAHARI: Prison houses in the east are crammed with inmates, some housing even more than they can accommodate. And with the mercury rising, these coolers have turned into a hellhole, subjecting those cooling their heels behind bars to serious health hazards.
It’s not that the inmates have not voiced their concerns; they have even launched agitations at times. As many as 93 jailbirds languishing in Sankhuwasabha District Prison had about a month ago submitted a 10-point demand to Chief District Officer requesting him to do the needful to upgrade the jail. But the situation of the prison, which can accommodate only 35 jailbirds, has not changed a bit.
Compared to prisons in the eastern hill region, condition of jails in the Tarai region is worse. The Eastern Region Prison at Jhumka, Sunsari is home to 638 prisoners, exceeding its capacity by 138. Employees at these prisons say that with the onset of summer, the jailbirds are at the risk of contracting diseases. Situation in some of the jails is so bad that the jailbirds have to sleep in turn for the want of enough space.
Chief of Siraha jail Babita Mahato said prisoners usually suffer from diarrhoea and scabies and at times fall unconscious due to the scorching heat. “More than a dozen jailbirds fall sick every day,” said Mahato.
Chhabilal BK, assistant jailer at the Eastern Region Prison said these crowded jails with the lack of water and electricity have turned into hell.
General Manager of the Department of Prison Durga Bhandari admitted that jails in the east were in dilapidated condition. According to him, 42 inmates of Dhankuta jail have been crammed in a dark room of a court after an old prison building in Dhankuta collapsed.
Construction of prison buildings in Ilam and Jhapa is under way. Bhandari said his department had launched a campaign to expand jails and has managed one health worker in each prison in the region. “DoP has plans to expand jails across the country,” added Bhandari, according to whom, there are 13,500 jailbirds in prisons across the country. …
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It’s not that the inmates have not voiced their concerns; they have even launched agitations at times. As many as 93 jailbirds languishing in Sankhuwasabha District Prison had about a month ago submitted a 10-point demand to Chief District Officer requesting him to do the needful to upgrade the jail. But the situation of the prison, which can accommodate only 35 jailbirds, has not changed a bit.
Compared to prisons in the eastern hill region, condition of jails in the Tarai region is worse. The Eastern Region Prison at Jhumka, Sunsari is home to 638 prisoners, exceeding its capacity by 138. Employees at these prisons say that with the onset of summer, the jailbirds are at the risk of contracting diseases. Situation in some of the jails is so bad that the jailbirds have to sleep in turn for the want of enough space.
Chief of Siraha jail Babita Mahato said prisoners usually suffer from diarrhoea and scabies and at times fall unconscious due to the scorching heat. “More than a dozen jailbirds fall sick every day,” said Mahato.
Chhabilal BK, assistant jailer at the Eastern Region Prison said these crowded jails with the lack of water and electricity have turned into hell.
General Manager of the Department of Prison Durga Bhandari admitted that jails in the east were in dilapidated condition. According to him, 42 inmates of Dhankuta jail have been crammed in a dark room of a court after an old prison building in Dhankuta collapsed.
Construction of prison buildings in Ilam and Jhapa is under way. Bhandari said his department had launched a campaign to expand jails and has managed one health worker in each prison in the region. “DoP has plans to expand jails across the country,” added Bhandari, according to whom, there are 13,500 jailbirds in prisons across the country. …
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Federal Bureau of Prisons now requires LGBT employee representation in system - Steve Rothaus' Gay South Florida
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Equality Florida says the Federal Bureau of Prisons now is requiring LGBT employee representation in the national federal prison system.
Equality Florida: Federal Bureau of Prisons now requires LGBT employee representation in system
"I expect Chief Executive Officers at every level to demonstrate support for diversity and inclusion. Every BOP institution and office should provide training and foster an atmosphere that provides access to all Special Emphasis Program areas (e.g., Federal Women's Program; Black Affairs Program; Hispanic Employment Program; Selective Placement Program; Asian/Pacific Islander and Native American Indian Program; lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Program) that have been identified by the President, the Department of Justice, and the Bureau of Prisons. Managers and supervisors must be leaders in supporting Affirmative Employment Committee meetings, events, and activities," writes director Charles E. Samuels Jr. in a Jan. 23, 2012, memo.Here's the Equality Florida news release:
In a groundbreaking move, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has announced that every federal prison in the U.S. will appoint an LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) representative to their long-standing Affirmative Employment Program. The BOP employs approximately 40,000 nationwide, and until now, the LGBT staff did not have a designated representative in the program.
With the addition of an LGBT representative to the BOP’s Affirmative Employment Program, each of the more than 120 BOP facilities will hold at least one event each year that will serve to educate and inform the staff about LGBT diversity issues.
The directive also requires each facility to designate one person as the LGBT Special Emphasis Program Manager, to ensure that equal opportunity issues and concerns affecting LGBT employees are adequately addressed.
The announcement comes just one year after Brian Winfield, managing director of Equality Florida, met with a small team of courageous employees at Florida’s Coleman Federal Correctional Complex to plan the first-ever LGBT staff event within the BOP.
With the support of senior officials at the correctional complex, Winfield worked with the team to create an extremely successful event in June, nationally recognized as Gay Pride Month. As the 2011 event’s keynote speaker, Winfield was the first advocate to speak about LGBT issues at an officially sanctioned staff event within a Federal prison complex.
“I am so proud to have worked with this group of employees whose efforts impacted national policy,” said Winfield. “It is only because they believed that LGBT individuals and issues needed more visibility, and because it was the right thing to do, that employees at federal prisons now have a place at the table within the Bureau of Prisons.”
On June 28, 2012, Equality Florida will once again address staff at Coleman, as Nadine Smith, Equality Florida’s executive director, will be a featured speaker at the facility’s “Lunch & Learn” event. Employees at Coleman’s four correctional facilities are invited to attend the event during their lunch hour to learn about diverse cultural issues.
Earlier this year, BOP Director Charles E. Samuels, Jr. issued a memo specifically addressing Affirmative Employment Programs. In it, he stated, “I am personally committed to ensuring that we provide an environment where diversity is valued, understood and embraced at all Bureau of Prison locations... Every BOP institution and office should provide training and foster an atmosphere that provides access to all Special Emphasis Program areas.”
The memo listed various program areas that, for the first time, included a, “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Program.” A program that originated around a conference table in Coleman, Florida.
Equality Florida is the largest civil rights organization dedicated to securing full equality for Florida's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
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Known as “klondike” or “the hole”, this subterranean holding cell was the most severe form of solitary confinement. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Known as “klondike” or “the hole”, this subterranean holding cell was the most severe form of solitary confinement. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)This week, the The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry released a policy statement condemning the use of solitary confinement for juveniles. There is no comprehensive data on how many teens and even younger children are in solitary confinement in the United States, but it is safe to say that the number run into the thousands. Juveniles in adult prison often end up in solitary confinement, and isolation is widely used in juvenile facilities as well.
On the ACLU “Blog of Rights” today, David Fathi, Director of the ACLU’s National Prison Project puts the statement in context:
On the ACLU “Blog of Rights” today, David Fathi, Director of the ACLU’s National Prison Project puts the statement in context:
As any parent knows, teenagers are different than adults. This common-sense observation is backed by hard scientific evidence; we know that an adolescent’s brain continues to grow and develop well into his or her twenties. The fact that teenagers’ brains are still developing makes them especially vulnerable to trauma of all kinds, including the trauma of social isolation and sensory deprivation.
That’s why the leading American child psychiatry association just approved a policy statement opposing the use of solitary confinement in correctional facilities for juveniles. The American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry represents over 7,500 child and adolescent psychiatrists and other interested physicians….PLEASE; READ MORE THERE AND SIGN THE PETITION!
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Breivik trial forces Norway to look again at insanity - Updated News
Breivik trial forces Norway to look again at insanity - Updated News
In Breivik’s case, there is no doubting the extreme severity of his criminal act. His killing of 77 people is the worst case of murder in Norway since World War II. The unanswered question is whether he can be held to account for a massacre to which he confesses.
Two psychiatric reports have come to conflicting conclusions as to whether Breivik was psychotic at the time of his action. The first set of experts believed he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, yet the second report concluded that he showed no signs of psychosis.
Although Norwegian courts are able to disregard forensic psychiatry reports, in practice it is extremely rare for them to do so. And a quirk in Norway’s penal code means that the question of psychosis is particularly important.
Psychological or medical
Criminal insanity in the penal code of countries such as the UK and US is based on the psychological principle. This means that, in Breivik’s case, he would have to have carried out the killings specifically because of his psychosis in order to escape a jail term.
Because Breivik has stated that he was aware that what he was doing was illegal, if he were being tried in, for example, the UK he would be unlikely to escape punishment under these conditions.
The Norwegian legal system, however, is based on the medical principle. According to the 44th paragraph of Norway’s penal code, simply being psychotic at the moment of action would automatically exempt Breivik from punishment. There is no need for his psychosis to be the direct cause for his actions.
Confusing to many Norwegians, this element of the law has been debated for years, with criticism increasing in the aftermath of the 22 July 2011 attacks.
Ill or extreme?
The initial psychiatric report’s conclusion that Breivik was psychotic would leave him likely to escape imprisonment. A main objection to this report was that a minority of right-wing individuals are known to share Breivik’s extreme world view, as demonstrated by the appearance of Facebook groups and websites calling for his release as a hero.
The second psychiatric report – which came after widespread criticism of the initial assessment of psychosis – sees Breivik as showing signs of narcissistic and antisocial personality disorders, such as grandiose thoughts about his own importance and a lack of remorse and empathy.
The second report still describes his actions as related to a mental health problem, but its diagnoses would not stop Breivik being sent to jail.
So the Breivik case has raised the question of how we determine the extent to which extreme opinions, ideas and traits should be understood as symptoms of mental illness.
This problem is illustrated by a saying in psychiatric circles that a single person believing in something is delusional, while two people professing the same belief make up a religion.
Misconceptions
It is painful for Norwegian society to consider that we may have lived side by side with someone who sanely and deliberately carried out such extremely hateful and violent acts. But if he is deemed criminally insane, Breivik would be sentenced to psychiatric care rather than to prison, and the public does not really wish that to happen either.
Professor Simon Wessely of the Institute of Psychiatry in London recently argued in the Lancet that Breivik’s case highlights two common misconceptions. First, that people believe that barbaric criminal acts must be due to mental illness. Second, that psychiatry exists to absolve people from their criminal responsibility.
This, he says, caused the outrage expressed by Norwegians when the first report considered Breivik sane.
Prof Wessely also points out how the Breivik case reveals Norway’s continuing prejudice against mentally ill people, despite its reputation as a country where even the prime minister may take sick leave due to depression.
Indeed, even Breivik himself has described the death penalty as preferable to psychiatric care, although his objection is that he believes a verdict of insanity would undermine his credibility.
Several Norwegian experts, including forensic psychiatrist Randi Rosenqvist who herself has observed Breivik at Ila prison, have called for Norway’s medical principle to be removed. They believe it to be too liberal.
Revenge
Further clouding the issue is Breivik’s deliberate use of central stimulants and anabolic steroids ahead of the murders, as psychosis induced by intoxication is explicitly not covered by the 44th paragraph of the penal code concerning state of mind at the moment of action.
Breivik’s trial has forced Norway to hold a mirror up to itself, to re-examine how it assesses criminal insanity.
The case has highlighted the arbitrary aspects of how Norwegian society draws the line between sane and insane. It has also stirred calls for revenge in an otherwise peaceful society.
While Norwegians have gathered in public to sing anti-war songs, anonymous comments have emerged on news websites calling for a return to the death penalty, whether or not Breivik is deemed “ill”.
(BBC News)
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Breivik trial forces Norway to look again at insanity
As Anders Behring Breivik’s trial progresses in Oslo district court, the big question remains whether he can be considered responsible for his actions.
The penal codes of most Western countries allow for punishment to be adjusted according to the severity of the criminal act. In addition, the perpetrator’s level of responsibility for their actions is usually considered. Other legal systems, such as the Sharia-based one of Iran, also make allowances for diminished responsibility.In Breivik’s case, there is no doubting the extreme severity of his criminal act. His killing of 77 people is the worst case of murder in Norway since World War II. The unanswered question is whether he can be held to account for a massacre to which he confesses.
Two psychiatric reports have come to conflicting conclusions as to whether Breivik was psychotic at the time of his action. The first set of experts believed he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, yet the second report concluded that he showed no signs of psychosis.
Although Norwegian courts are able to disregard forensic psychiatry reports, in practice it is extremely rare for them to do so. And a quirk in Norway’s penal code means that the question of psychosis is particularly important.
Psychological or medical
Criminal insanity in the penal code of countries such as the UK and US is based on the psychological principle. This means that, in Breivik’s case, he would have to have carried out the killings specifically because of his psychosis in order to escape a jail term.
Because Breivik has stated that he was aware that what he was doing was illegal, if he were being tried in, for example, the UK he would be unlikely to escape punishment under these conditions.
The Norwegian legal system, however, is based on the medical principle. According to the 44th paragraph of Norway’s penal code, simply being psychotic at the moment of action would automatically exempt Breivik from punishment. There is no need for his psychosis to be the direct cause for his actions.
Confusing to many Norwegians, this element of the law has been debated for years, with criticism increasing in the aftermath of the 22 July 2011 attacks.
Ill or extreme?
The initial psychiatric report’s conclusion that Breivik was psychotic would leave him likely to escape imprisonment. A main objection to this report was that a minority of right-wing individuals are known to share Breivik’s extreme world view, as demonstrated by the appearance of Facebook groups and websites calling for his release as a hero.
The second psychiatric report – which came after widespread criticism of the initial assessment of psychosis – sees Breivik as showing signs of narcissistic and antisocial personality disorders, such as grandiose thoughts about his own importance and a lack of remorse and empathy.
The second report still describes his actions as related to a mental health problem, but its diagnoses would not stop Breivik being sent to jail.
So the Breivik case has raised the question of how we determine the extent to which extreme opinions, ideas and traits should be understood as symptoms of mental illness.
This problem is illustrated by a saying in psychiatric circles that a single person believing in something is delusional, while two people professing the same belief make up a religion.
Misconceptions
It is painful for Norwegian society to consider that we may have lived side by side with someone who sanely and deliberately carried out such extremely hateful and violent acts. But if he is deemed criminally insane, Breivik would be sentenced to psychiatric care rather than to prison, and the public does not really wish that to happen either.
Professor Simon Wessely of the Institute of Psychiatry in London recently argued in the Lancet that Breivik’s case highlights two common misconceptions. First, that people believe that barbaric criminal acts must be due to mental illness. Second, that psychiatry exists to absolve people from their criminal responsibility.
This, he says, caused the outrage expressed by Norwegians when the first report considered Breivik sane.
Prof Wessely also points out how the Breivik case reveals Norway’s continuing prejudice against mentally ill people, despite its reputation as a country where even the prime minister may take sick leave due to depression.
Indeed, even Breivik himself has described the death penalty as preferable to psychiatric care, although his objection is that he believes a verdict of insanity would undermine his credibility.
Several Norwegian experts, including forensic psychiatrist Randi Rosenqvist who herself has observed Breivik at Ila prison, have called for Norway’s medical principle to be removed. They believe it to be too liberal.
Revenge
Further clouding the issue is Breivik’s deliberate use of central stimulants and anabolic steroids ahead of the murders, as psychosis induced by intoxication is explicitly not covered by the 44th paragraph of the penal code concerning state of mind at the moment of action.
Breivik’s trial has forced Norway to hold a mirror up to itself, to re-examine how it assesses criminal insanity.
The case has highlighted the arbitrary aspects of how Norwegian society draws the line between sane and insane. It has also stirred calls for revenge in an otherwise peaceful society.
While Norwegians have gathered in public to sing anti-war songs, anonymous comments have emerged on news websites calling for a return to the death penalty, whether or not Breivik is deemed “ill”.
(BBC News)
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Death row inmate Hank Skinner’s decade-long fight for DNA testing, which he hopes will prove his innocence in a grisly West Texas triple murder, will take center stage this morning in the state’s highest criminal court….
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West Texas Lightning Storm (Photo credit: jeffk)Death row inmate Hank Skinner’s decade-long fight for DNA testing, which he hopes will prove his innocence in a grisly West Texas triple murder, will take center stage this morning in the state’s highest criminal court….
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In a new twist for a case full of them, lawyers of Kerry Max Cook, the Dallas man sentenced to death for a gruesome rape and murder before being exonerated two decades later, are accusing a prosecutor in his case of taking home the murder weapon as a dark, twisted souvenir.
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In a new twist for a case full of them, lawyers of Kerry Max Cook, the Dallas man sentenced to death for a gruesome rape and murder before being exonerated two decades later, are accusing a prosecutor in his case of taking home the murder weapon as a dark, twisted souvenir.
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Sensitive to dozens of DNA exonerations in recent years, judges on the nine-member Texas Court of Criminal Appeals today grilled the Texas solicitor general about what harm could be done by granting death row inmate Hank Skinner‘s decade-old request for biological analysis of crime scene evidence.
“You really tought to be absolutely sure before you strap a person down and kill him,” Judge Michael Keasler said.
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Sensitive to dozens of DNA exonerations in recent years, judges on the nine-member Texas Court of Criminal Appeals today grilled the Texas solicitor general about what harm could be done by granting death row inmate Hank Skinner‘s decade-old request for biological analysis of crime scene evidence.
“You really tought to be absolutely sure before you strap a person down and kill him,” Judge Michael Keasler said.
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By Alicia A. Caldwell Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Drug Enforcement Administration is investigating how its agents forgot about a college student who was picked up during a sweep and left him in a holding cell for five days without food, water or access to a toilet. Daniel Chong, 24, was never arrested, was not going to be charged with a crime and should have been released, said a law enforcement ...
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By Julie Watson Associated Press SAN DIEGO — A college student picked up in a federal drug sweep in California was never arrested, never charged and should have been released. Instead, authorities say, he was forgotten in a holding cell for four days. Without food, water or access to a toilet, Daniel Chong had to drink his own urine to survive and began hallucinating after three days because of ...
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By Greg Bluestein Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ga. — Lance Brown was hungry and homeless, so he decided to get thrown in jail by hurling a brick through a glass door at the Columbus courthouse building. Brown, 36, spent nine months in jail before his April trial. On Tuesday, he was sentenced to another month behind bars, and three years of probation that includes a six-month stay in a halfway house ...
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By Kevin Johnson USA TODAY The campaign to abolish the death penalty has been freshly invigorated this month in a series of actions that supporters say represents increasing evidence that America may be losing its taste for capital punishment. As early as this week, Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy, a Democrat, is poised to sign a bill repealing the death penalty in that state. A separate proposal has ...
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By Dudley Sharp The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Eighty-one percent supported and 16 percent opposed Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh's execution for the murder of 168 people, 19 of whom were infants. Moreover, 80 percent supported Saddam Hussein's execution. Western European nations, save one, also showed majority support. Polling has consistently found that 80 percent of Americans support ...
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The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County district attorney's office says a sheriff's deputy has pleaded no contest to charges that he smuggled drugs into a courthouse jail by concealing them in a burrito. A Justice System Integrity Division prosecutor says 27-year-old Henry Marin entered the pleas Monday in Superior Court to one count each of bringing drugs into a jail ...
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By Steve Visser The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Georgia Bureau of Investigation director Vernon Keenan isn't known for being soft on crime, but he is working to keep one class of "criminals" out of jail. Keenan, like sheriffs statewide, contends law enforcement turns jails into asylums at huge human and financial costs. Now, a study in which the GBI is partnering with the Georgia chapter ...
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By Michael Graczyk Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas man was spared from the death chamber Wednesday after a federal appeals court refused to overturn a district judge's reprieve for the prisoner who's facing execution for killing a neighbor more than 15 years ago. The decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals came after attorneys for Anthony Bartee filed a civil rights ...
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Washington Post The investigations have indicated an association with patterns of behavior from a small number of student athletes, UM President Royce Engstrom said in January. Four of the cases resulted in student conduct code action against eight students, ... Justice Department probes University of Montana student rape reportsChicago Tribune all 265 news articles » |
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Michael Bascum Selsor, 57, was executed for killing a Tulsa convenience store manager almost 37 years ago
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By Matt Gouras Associated Press DEER LODGE, Mont. — Montana officials on Friday rejected parole for a notorious "mountain man" who abducted a world-class athlete in 1984 to keep as a wife for his son, and then shot her and left her to die during a rescue attempt. The state Board of Pardons and Parole held its third parole hearing for Don Nichols as federal authorities search for his ...
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By Kevin Johnson USA TODAY The campaign to abolish the death penalty has been freshly invigorated this month in a series of actions that supporters say represents increasing evidence that America may be losing its taste for capital punishment. As early as this week, Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy, a Democrat, is poised to sign a bill repealing the death penalty in that state. A separate proposal has ...
via CorrectionsOne Daily News on 4/26/12
By Todd South Chattanooga Times Free Press CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — A 19-year-old Chattanooga man arrested in connection with a shooting Tuesday night was free on bond from murder charges in a separate shooting. Police arrested Demetrius Bibbs on Wednesday for a shooting at 2601 Fourth Ave. that injured 28-year-old Guy Wilkerson. Police believe the shooting is gang-related, according to a news release ...
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By Bill Rankin The Atlanta Journal-Constitution A federal prisoner who killed his cellmate because he was a child molester was spared the death penalty Thursday when a jury hearing the case could not reach a unanimous verdict. After deliberating two days, a federal jury in Atlanta could not arrive at a verdict as to whether Brian Richardson should live or die. Without unanimity on death, the sentence ...
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Chico Enterprise-Record RED BLUFF, Calif. — While waiting for an inmate work farm to materialize, Tehama County officials are planning a vehicle maintenance station as a work release option to ease jail populations. With the Tehama County Jail feeling the burden of increased population due to state prison realignment in Assembly Bill 109, administrators have had to think fast. AB109, which took ...
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This segment of "A View from the Sidelines" was generated by this e-mail by Sgt. Dominic Turner of the Door County, Wis. Sheriff’s Department. Although he is addressing his question on the justification of using force on an inmate based on Wisconsin training standards, his question has application to all correctional use-of-force situations. Remember that the purpose of the View from ...
via CorrectionsOne Daily News on 5/1/12
By Dirk Lammers Associated Press MADISON, S.D. — A 73-year-old South Dakota man accused of fatally shooting his long-ago classmate will plead guilty but mentally ill to a second-degree murder charge, his attorney said Tuesday. Defense attorney Scott Bratland said during a pretrial motions hearing in Madison that Carl Ericsson has been examined by a psychiatrist but that an affidavit has not been ...
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By Jeff Horseman The Press Enterprise RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Riverside County supervisors are being asked to OK development of new zoning rules for parolee/probationer homes — less than two years after banning them in unincorporated areas. The Board of Supervisors will take up the request from county staff at its meeting at 9 a.m. today at the County Administrative Center, 4080 Lemon St., Riverside ...
via CorrectionsOne Daily News on 5/2/12
By Matt Gouras Associated Press HELENA, Mont. — The only Canadian on death row in the United States is asking the Montana Parole Board to instead let him live the rest of his life in prison. Ronald A. Smith of Red Deer, Alberta, was sentenced to death in 1983, seven months after he marched cousins Harvey Mad Man, 23, and Thomas Running Rabbit, 20, into the woods just off U.S. 2 near Marias Pass ...
via CorrectionsOne Daily News on 5/3/12
By Errin Haines Associated Press ATLANTA — Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has signed legislation that will overhaul the state's criminal justice system to provide alternative sentences for nonviolent offenders and reduce soaring prison costs. Faced with budget pressures, Deal and other law-and-order Republican governors have been pushing to overhaul years of policies that were designed to lock up ...
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