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.
Seth Adam Depiano, already serving a 13-year sentence for a $24M Ponzi scheme, now faces charges of wire fraud and identity theft in connection to a new $10 million scheme
The 27-year veteran with CDCR was accused of rampant sexual abuse during his time at Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla
Biden sets record by commuting sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted on nonviolent drug charges
Biden said he seeks to undo “disproportionately long sentences compared to the sentences they would receive today under current law, policy, and practice”
The Brooks family’s federal lawsuit against the COs calls for criminal charges and reform, citing systemic abuse at Marcy Correctional Facility
The lawsuit claims safety lapses under the California Model enabled a violent inmate to take a Sierra Conservation Center correctional officer hostage and assault her
Authorities say the inmate used a paring knife to attack a deputy during a routine cell check at the Onondaga County Justice Center
Authorities say the Telfair State Prison inmate used prison phones and outside contacts to carry out the alleged fraud, targeting family members and friends of his fellow inmates
A Lorain County corrections officer is accused of hitting an inmate’s head into a wall; he has been placed on administrative leave
Ex-New Orleans cop Len Davis was sentenced to death after he was convicted of ordering a woman killed in 1994 after she alleged he and his partner beat a young boy
Governor Brian Kemp’s plan includes pay raises, new facilities and repairs to decades-old infrastructure in the next 18 months
Aaron Brian Gunches, who is representing himself, said his death sentence is “long overdue” and asked the state’s highest court to skip legal formalities
The proposed bill aims to establish statewide standards and transparency for local jails, following a series of deaths and multimillion-dollar settlements
The FBI says Milan Federal Correctional Institution inmate David Verner used a smuggled cellphone to demand money and send explicit messages
North Carolina had 136 offenders on death row before Gov. Roy Cooper reduced the state’s death row population by more than 10%
The attorney general usually probes in-custody deaths, but Letitia James said four COs under investigation in the death of Robert Brooks have lawyers from her office
Investigators say correction officers blocked care for a sick woman on six separate occasions, leading to her death from organ failure
TDOC said it had “completed its revision of the lethal injection protocol, which will utilize the single drug pentobarbital”
Daniel Mitchell ordered a Federal Correctional Institute Butner Medium II CO to carry out a physical assault instead of using official discipline protocols, prosecutors said
A Shakopee State Prison inmate allegedly funneled state benefits through a fraud scheme involving a personal care attendant in Chicago
Trump said relatives of victims are angry that Biden spared the lives of some of the “worst killers in our country,” including inmates convicted of killing police and military officers
A Luzerne County corrections officer was holding a restraint belt when the inmate violently rushed back toward the CO, injuring her wrist which required amputation
A staffing crisis and unsafe conditions put the facility at odds with state law, but officials argue closure would worsen the system’s problems
Gov. Kathy Hochul has ordered the firing of 14 employees, most of whom are correctional officers, for their involvement in the attack
The move comes after more than a decade of complaints, audits, class action lawsuits and threats of a DOJ lawsuit
Those whose lives were spared by the move include those convicted in the killings of police and military officers and the killings of correctional officers or prisoners in federal facilities
The racketeering case against three gang members, filed in 2019, aimed to move California’s most violent gangsters from state prisons to BOP restrictive housing units
The Kentucky DOC requested the opinion from the state’s attorney general as the agency amends its administrative regulations regarding medical care for inmates
Kevin Ray Underwood admitted to luring Jamie Rose Bolin into his apartment and killing her as part of a cannibalistic fantasy
The Justice Department will pay an average of about $1.1 million to each of 103 women who sued the Bureau of Prisons over their treatment at FCI Dublin
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