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Bill Would Aid Relatives Of 9/11 Immigrant Dead
Seattle :: WA :: USA | about 7 hours ago
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November 22, 2009 Fourteen immigrants who were in the country illegally when their relatives were killed in the World Trade Center attacks are still waiting to gain permanent residency, and their lawyer said their tenuous immigration status could be...
Tags: Ms. Maloney, Ms. Steinberg, Congress, humanitarian parole, small group, House Judiciary Committee, Seattle, Illegal immigration to the United States, Immigration to the United States, Illegal immigration, September 11 attacks, Crimes, Carolyn B. Maloney, Parole, Social Issues
Can sex offenders be cured? :Michael Lindsey case raises questions about treatment
South Bend :: IN :: USA | about 22 hours ago
Credibility Despite a disturbing criminal past, friends and family believed Michael Lindsey had made significant strides in the decades he spent behind bars. For more than 20 years, the man was a model prisoner, espousing deep religious beliefs, completing law courses...
Tags: Jan Lindsey, Michael Lindsey, sex offenders, SOMM, entry programs, South Bend Community Re-Entry, South Bend Parole Office, Tim Blakley, lindsey cases, old woman, South Bend, Parole, Eve, Sex offender, Recidivism, Probation officer, Law Crime
County probation program under fire
Parole :: MD :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Hamilton County's intensive probation program is so ineffective that the convicts in it are more likely to commit crimes than others convicted of similar crimes who never receive supervision, according to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction....
Tags: Hamilton County's Probation Department, Hamilton County Commission, Hamilton County Program, Hamilton County Probation Department, successful rate, Mike Walton, intense supervision, Cleveland, Casey DeNoma, supervision probation, Parole, Recidivism, Probation, Sex offender, Penal system of Japan, Prison, Penology, Criminology, Psychopathy, Law Crime
Manu Sharma parole lands Sheila Dikshit in dock
New Delhi :: India | 3 days ago
Credibility The Delhi chief minister may have to do a lot of explaining for giving preferential treatment to the son of former Union and Haryana minister and Congress MLA Venod Sharma, ignoring the fact that he's a life convict and dozens of other inmates in the...
Tags: Delhi High Court, New Delhi, preferential treatment, India, Murder of Jessica Lall, Parole, Venod Sharma, Murder, Sheila Dikshit, Criminal law, Manu Sharma, Crime in India, Law Crime, Tihar Prisons
Spaniard denies being drug smuggler; lay judges hand him 10 years
Chiba :: Japan | 3 days ago
Credibility A Spanish man was sentenced to 10 years and fined ¥5 million in a lay judge trial Friday for smuggling illegal stimulants into Japan in May. He had pleaded innocent. Orquin Mompo Fernando, 38, was the second defendant to claim innocence in a lay judge...
Tags: ones probation, lay jury, lay judges, jury trial, Japan, Chiba, Probation officer, Probation, District court, Criminal law, Punishments, Suspended sentence, Law Crime, Jury, Criminal procedure, Parole
Mandatory drug sentences will increase parole board workload, senators hear
Ottawa :: Canada | 3 days ago
Credibility A federal bill that would impose mandatory jail time for serious drug crimes would increase the workload of the parole system, and the government intends to inject more than $100 million over five years to ease the burden, according to the commissioner...
Tags: Don Head, CSC, National Parole Board, Senate, Neil Boyd, substances abuse, Canada, Ottawa, Mandatory sentencing, Parole, Correctional Service of Canada, Drug policy of the United States, Prohibition, Drug control law, Hemp, Legality of cannabis, Social Issues
Perdue: Lifers got no time credits
Raleigh :: NC :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility Prison officials never doled out credits for good behavior to those sentenced to life in the 1970s. It's the latest position Perdue's administration has taken on the question of freedom for dozens of inmates convicted of murder, rape and robbery more...
Tags: Raleigh, California Proposition 9, Criminal law, Parole, Life imprisonment, Law Crime, Social Issues, New York State Division of Parole, Penal system of Japan
Victor Chang killer to stay in jail
Sydney :: Australia | 3 days ago
Credibility In a majority decision, the NSW Parole Authority today refused parole to one of the killers of the pioneering heart surgeon Victor Chang. Dr Chang was shot dead in Mosman in July 1991 in a failed extortion attempt by Phillip Choon Tee Lim and Chew Seng...
Tags: Victor Chang, chang killer, Australia, Sydney, SMS, Parole board, Murder, Criminal law, Parole, Law Crime, Im
Courts to assess indigent costs
Parole :: MD :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility The subject dominated discussion at Wednesday's monthly criminal law judges gathering at the Regional Justice Center. In a nutshell, indigent defendants who are represented by the public defender or a private appointed attorney will be charged on a sliding...
Tags: public defenders, Kohn, Clark County, county judges, Nevada Supreme Court, Judge Jennifer Togliatti, indigent defenders, Parole
Novato pair arrested in counterfeiting case
Novato :: CA :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility John William Gobbin, 42, and Joye Lynn Brown, 46, were taken into custody after investigators executed a search warrant at their residence on Chase Street, said Novato police Sgt...Investigators obtained the warrant after Gobbin, a state parolee, was...
Tags: John William Gobbin, Novato, Parole, Criminal law, Novato California, Counterfeit money, Law Crime
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