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April 14, 2010 The federal residential drug abuse program (RDAP) is rarely discussed and, even more rarely the subject of litigation. For this reason (and others), we found intriguing today's Ninth Circuit panel ruling in Mora-Meraz v. Thomas, No. 09-35413 (9th Cir. Apr. 14, 2010). Her...

September 24, 2007 Here are three lessons we can learn from the case of crooked cop William Phillips, who is to be paroled in November after spending nearly 40 years in jail. Lesson One: Beware of testifying before an outside agency investigating the police department if there is evil in your p...

Halfway House Time / RDAP If you are sentenced to federal prison, the last 10% of your sentence will be spent in a half-way house if your paperwork is submitted on time by the staff at your facility and the halfway house has a bed for you. The Second Chance Act states that you can ask for up to ...

By Marina Alvarez - 2003 From PositiveWords I've always loved helping others. From a young age, I had hopes and dreams of finishing school to become a social worker. In school, I was popular, got good grades, made the honor roll and was voted valedictorian of my junior high school graduating clas...

Steve Thompson,Yahoo! Contributor Network Apr 2, 2008 I'd imagine that jail is the last place you'd want to start a substance abuse treatment program, but some people don't have the option. When you find yourself incarcerated for a drug-related offense, you no longer have access to the substance...

Saturday, July 21, 2007 A big story in North Carolina this year has been the downfall of Jim Black, former four-term House Speaker. Black, 72, is from Matthews, a suburb of Charlotte, so he doesn't live far from me and the story has, of course, been large here. In Feb, he pled guilty to one c...

Penelope Patsuris, July 31,2002 NEW YORK - Note to Samuel Waksal, Kenneth Lay, Bernard Ebbers, Dennis Kozlowski and the Rigas family: If you are in fact sentenced to do prison time, keep these pointers in mind. Inmate etiquette dictates that you don't rat, don't cut in line, don't reach, don't a...

FEDERAL RULES OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE What is Rule 35? Rule 35 is simply a correction or reduction of prison sentence. There are quite a few stipulations under this Federal Rule, but Rule 35 (b) and the sections under Rule 35 (b), are specifically related to sentence relief or reduction for pro...

White-collar crooks in the U.S. use rehab to shorten their jail time.Kai Falkenberg Forbes Magazine  January 12, 2009 Feb. 9 will be a big day for Samuel Waksal, the former chief executive officer of biotech firm ImClone. That day he'll be released from federal custody after serving five yea...