Federal prosecutors are trying to reign in an inmate who has filed over 3,800 lawsuits and keeps filing more. The prosecutors have asked a judge to stop him from filing any more, calling his suits a waste of judicial resources.…
A Defendant’s former defense attorney appeared in federal court last week to explain why he recorded over 60 conversations with the Defendant in jail. Attorney Terry Haddock was working with the government while he represented Shannon Williams. During the course…
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/7061333.html Authorities on Friday identified an ironworker with no criminal record as the suspect held in jail for four months in 1996 after the Houston Police Department’s troubled fingerprint analysis unit wrongly tied his fingerprint to a homicide, records show.…
In an attempt to reduce the number of inmates in already overcrowded prisons, California is starting to make big changes in sentencing. The state has set a goal of reducing the prisoner population by 6,500 out of the current 167,000…
A number of lawyers are urging a federal appeals court to allow a case against John Yoo to go forward. Yoo worked for the Office of Legal Counsel and advised the president on legal issues, including waterboarding and other interrogation…
Shon Hopwood was sentenced to 13 years for robbery in 1999 and vowed to the sentencing judge that he would change. Within three years he was drafting a successful certiorari petition to the Supreme Court for a fellow inmate. Recently…
The Ninth Circuit of Appeals reversed a prior decision, holding that mandatory strip searches for all incoming inmates were justified. The court reasoned that jail officials deserve deference and that there was documented evidence of a severe contraband smuggling problem.…
A sheriff in Massachusetts who charged inmates rent, and fees for services, must return $750,000 he collected over a three year period. The sheriff was attempting to teach inmates financial responsibility, and among fees, charged $5 a night in rent,…
Aug 26, 2009 04:30 AM THOMAS WALKOM In the topsy-turvy world of security, few stories are more bizarre than that of Adil Charkaoui. Six years ago, the federal government jailed him as an alleged Al Qaeda sleeper agent. Now, it…