by Phillip Smith, November 02, 2011 - Hundreds of federal crack cocaine prisoners began walking out prison Tuesday, the first beneficiaries of a US Sentencing Commission decision to apply retroactive sentencing reductions to people already serving time on federal crack charges. As many as 1,...
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This 580 page document is available through InmateAid by download only. Due to the lengthy nature of this PDF file, if you are interested in keeping up with the exact nature of the language in the Federal Sentencing Laws and to absolutely know what the Sentencing Guidelines are. Click here to rea...
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Appropriations Update Second Chance Act Funding Under Consideration in the House and Senate On April 17, 2012 the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Commerce, Justice, and Science released their fiscal year 2013 justice funding bills. In the House, appropriators proposed $70 milli...
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By Margaret Newkirk - March 01, 2012 In September 2009, Georgia police stopped Charles Canion for driving erratically and found a bag in his car containing traces of methamphetamine. Arrested and convicted a third time for drug possession, Canion was locked up for two years at an average cost ...
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Rough justice in America Never in the civilized world have so many been locked up for so little July 22, 2010 | SPRING, TEXAS THREE pickup trucks pulled up outside George Norris’s home in Spring, Texas. Six armed police in flak jackets jumped out. Thinking they must have come to the wron...
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Series on Amazon Kindle by Glenn Langohr Grapples with the Current Prison Hunger Strike Monday, January 30, 2012 Having spent 10 years in prison on drug charges himself, Glenn Langohr published 5 books after his release to bring awareness to some of the flaws within the criminal justice sys...
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October 6, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - media@aclu.org CONTACT: (212) 549-2666 CHARLESTON, SC – The American Civil Liberties Union today filed a lawsuit challenging an unconstitutional policy at the Berkeley County Detention Center in Moncks Corner, S.C. barring all books, magazines and newspa...
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BOOK REVIEW February 21, 2010 When Kenneth Hartman was 19, he came across a drifter in a Long Beach park and, for no particular reason, beat him to death. For that 1980 murder, he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. There, Hartman proved himself to be the kind o...
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When Mark Melvin asked his friend to order him a Pulitzer Prize-winning history book, he didn't expect to have to file a lawsuit in order to read it.But Melvin is currently in jail, and the book in question, "Slavery By Another Name" by Douglas A Blackmon, was returned to its sender by ...