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OH Parole Board - Guidelines Manual, OH DRC, 2007

Publication • March 8, 2016

Filed under: Parole/Probation Searches, Legal Materials, Parole, Parole Conditions, Parole Liability

OH Parole Board - Guidelines Manual, OH DRC, 2007 OHIO PAROLE BOARD GUIDELINES MANUAL Third Edition July 1, 2007 Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction Terry J. Collins, Director July 1, 2007 Preface The purpose of the Ohio Parole Board revised Guidelines Manual is to assist the Parole Board in ...

Electronic Monitoring Has Become the New Debtors Prison

Article • March 3, 2016

Filed under: Indigent Defense, Parole Conditions

Electronic Monitoring Has Become the New Debtors Prison by Eric Markowitz It all started with a traffic violation. Antonio Green didn’t have a license and admits he shouldn’t have been driving. But when his mother’s 1994 Chrysler Sebring broke down at a Taco Bell near their home in October last ...

Inside Kentucky's Unregulated, Private Probation Industry

Article • March 1, 2016

Filed under: Private Prisons, Probation, Parole Conditions

Inside Kentucky's Unregulated, Private Probation Industry by By James McNair, Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting This article was produced by the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting, a new, nonprofit newsroom from 89.3 WFPL News and Louisville Public Media. Read more at kycir.org. ELIZABETHTOWN -- Getting busted with a small amount ...

Strange Vicissitudes of Lifer Parole Victories and Defeats, First District Appellate Project (Ternus), 2012

Publication • February 16, 2016

Filed under: Release and Reentry, Parole, Parole Conditions

Strange Vicissitudes of Lifer Parole Victories and Defeats, First District Appellate Project (Ternus), 2012 F IRST D ISTRICT A PPELLATE P ROJECT T RAINING S EMINAR January 20, 2012 THE STRANGE VICISSITUDES OF LIFER PAROLE VICTORIES AND DEFEATS F RAN T ERNUS Staff Attorney First District Appellate Project January 2012 ...

Ninth Circuit: Appeal Challenges Probation Revocation for Exercising First Amendment Rights

Article • February 3, 2016 • from PLN February, 2016

Filed under: Parole Board Misconduct, Judicial Misconduct, Parole Conditions, First Amendment

Ninth Circuit: Appeal Challenges Probation Revocation for Exercising First Amendment Rights by A former federal prisoner is appealing the revocation of his supervised release for engaging in conduct that he argues is protected under the First Amendment. The Cato Institute, Electronic Frontier Foundation, ACLU, Brechner First Amendment Project at the ...

Sex Offenders Rally to Fight Discriminatory Laws

Article • February 2, 2016 • from PLN February, 2016

Filed under: Sex Offender Registration, Sex Offenders (Discrimination), Sex Offender Residence, Advocacy, Release and Reentry, Parole Conditions, Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act

Sex Offenders Rally to Fight Discriminatory Laws by Mark Wilson Advocates for reforming laws restricting where registered sex offenders can live, and for challenging sex offender registries, have vowed to continue the fight despite facing roadblocks, which organizers admit make it difficult to eliminate the discriminatory treatment that many sex ...

Computer Risk Assessments Gaining Popularity in Granting Paroles

Article • February 2, 2016 • from PLN February, 2016

Filed under: Racial Discrimination, Prison Reform, Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Parole, Parole Conditions

Computer Risk Assessments Gaining Popularity in Granting Paroles by Derek Gilna New diagnostic computer programs designed to predict whether an offender will re-offend are being credited with helping reduce the number of prisoners in correctional facilities across the nation, but experts caution that while useful, the software tools are not ...

No Resources for Programs to Help Prisoners Make Parole in West Virginia

Article • November 10, 2015

Filed under: Parole Board Misconduct, Overcrowding, Parole, Parole Conditions

No Resources for Programs to Help Prisoners Make Parole in West Virginia by Christopher Zoukis No Resources for Programs to Help Prisoners Make Parole in West Virginia by Christopher Zoukis West Virginia's prison and jail population has continued to grow despite the passage of a sweeping prison reform bill, so ...

Federal Court Denies Absolute Immunity to Parole Officers

Article • October 28, 2015

Filed under: Sex Offender Residence, Parole Conditions, Qualified Immunity, Judicial Immunity, Parole Liability, Parental rights

Federal Court Denies Absolute Immunity to Parole Officers by Christopher McWhorter Federal Court Denies Absolute Immunity to Parole Officers by J. Christopher McWhorter The district court for the Southern District of New York denied claims that parole officers were acting in a quasi-judicial role when they forbade a registered sex-offender ...

Seventh Circuit Vacates Unduly Restrictive Supervised Release Conditions

Article • October 26, 2015 • from PLN November, 2015

Filed under: U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, Parole Conditions

Seventh Circuit Vacates Unduly Restrictive Supervised Release Conditions by Derek Gilna Seventh Circuit Vacates Unduly Restrictive Supervised Release Conditions by Derek Gilna In a consolidated case involving post-release restrictions imposed on federal defendants, the Seventh Circuit struck down those portions of a district court’s judgment it deemed beyond the scope ...

Former Federal Prisoner’s Appeal Challenging Potential Self-Incrimination Dismissed as Moot

Article • October 23, 2015

Filed under: Mootness, Probation, Parole Conditions

Former Federal Prisoner’s Appeal Challenging Potential Self-Incrimination Dismissed as Moot by Former Federal Prisoner’s Appeal Challenging Potential Self-Incrimination Dismissed as Moot The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has dismissed a former prisoner’s appeal challenging, on Fifth Amendment grounds, the lower court’s revocation of his supervised release, the ...

Betances v. Fischer, NY, Memorandum and Opinion Denying Defendants Appeal, Post-Release Supervision, 2015

Brief • October 23, 2015

Filed under: State Law Claims, Parole, Probation, Parole Conditions, Alternative Sentencing

Betances v. Fischer, NY, Memorandum and Opinion Denying Defendants Appeal, Post-Release Supervision, 2015 Case 1:11-cv-03200-SAS Document 121 Filed 10/14/15 Page 1 of 30 i :USOC SONY UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT I DOCUMENT LELECTRONICALLY Jj nee#: __ . . ll tI FILED ll _ j\ ~-~~~~~~-~~~~~~~~-~~-~~-~-~~~-------------~LR~TE t:l~:~~~~fr!j;?"=JJ PAUL BETANCES, LLOYD A. ...

Vermont DOC Practive of Imprisoning People After Rejecting Parole Plan

Article • October 14, 2015

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America, Parole, Parole Conditions, Overdetention

Vermont DOC Practive of Imprisoning People After Rejecting Parole Plan by Vermont DOC Practive of Imprisoning People After Rejecting Parole Plan The Vermont Department of Corrections’ (VDOC) process of reviewing prisoners’ post-prison accommodations plan is the subject of a prisoner’s lawsuit alleging VDOC abuses its discretion in denying prisoners release ...

Untreated Drug Offenders Cost Oregon $21.6 Million

Article • October 9, 2015

Filed under: Statistics/Trends, Cost of Prison Systems, Probation, Parole Conditions, Drug Treatment/Rehab

Untreated Drug Offenders Cost Oregon $21.6 Million by Mark Wilson Untreated Drug Offenders Cost Oregon $21.6 Million by Mark Wilson Failing to treat substance abuse addictions of nearly half of the highest risk Oregon offenders, released between 2008 and 2011, cost crime victims and the state an estimated $21.6 million, ...

Digital Darkness and Silence for Sex Offenders in the Information Age

Article • September 25, 2015 • from PLN October, 2015

Filed under: Sex Offender Registration, Parole/Probation Searches, Parole, Probation, Parole Conditions

Digital Darkness and Silence for Sex Offenders in the Information Age by Andrew Extein Digital Darkness and Silence for Sex Offenders in the Information Age by Andrew Extein, Truthout; Copyright, Truthout.org. Reprinted with permission. http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/29077-digital-darkness-and-silence-for-sex-offenders-in-the-information-age Is my Furby a computer?” With five months in jail and eight months of parole ...

10th Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Halfway House Escape Charge

Article • September 25, 2015 • from PLN October, 2015

Filed under: Escapes, Electronic Monitoring, Parole Conditions

10th Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Halfway House Escape Charge by Derek Gilna 10th Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Halfway House Escape Charge by Derek Gilna A federal prisoner without any detainers (“holds” placed by other law enforcement agencies) can generally count on a period of community confinement at the end of ...

Life Without Parole

Article • August 31, 2015 • from PLN September, 2015

Filed under: Parole Board Misconduct, Open Meetings, Parole, Parole Conditions

Life Without Parole by Beth Schwartzapfel Life Without Parole Inside the secretive world of parole boards, where your freedom may depend on politics and whim. by Beth Schwartzapfel, The Marshall Project* Reynaldo Rodriguez was 19 with a young son, a good job and no criminal record when he shot and ...

Mandamus Improper Remedy to Challenge Illinois DOC’s “Violating at the Door” Policy

Article • August 31, 2015 • from PLN September, 2015

Filed under: Mandamus, Parole, Habeas Corpus, Parole Conditions

Mandamus Improper Remedy to Challenge Illinois DOC’s “Violating at the Door” Policy by David Reutter Mandamus Improper Remedy to Challenge Illinois DOC’s “Violating at the Door” Policy by David Reutter On November 20, 2014, the Illinois Supreme Court refused to assume jurisdiction over a petition for writ of mandamus seeking ...

Illinois Supreme Court Affirms Supervised Release Period Despite Sentencing Omission

Article • August 28, 2015 • from PLN September, 2015

Filed under: Sentencing, Parole, Parole Conditions

Illinois Supreme Court Affirms Supervised Release Period Despite Sentencing Omission by Derek Gilna Illinois Supreme Court Affirms Supervised Release Period Despite Sentencing Omission by Derek Gilna The Illinois Supreme Court has affirmed the imposition of a period of mandatory supervised release (MSR) that was inadvertently omitted from a sentence by ...

CA: Persons on Community Supervision Eligible to Seek Transfer to Another State

Article • July 31, 2015 • from PLN August, 2015

Filed under: Parole, Parole Conditions

CA: Persons on Community Supervision Eligible to Seek Transfer to Another State by Lonnie Burton CA: Persons on Community Supervision Eligible to Seek Transfer to Another State by Lonnie Burton Reversing a lower court’s ruling to the contrary, the Court of Appeal for the Fourth District of California held on ...