Feminine Hygiene in Prisons

The United States relies more heavily on imprisonment than any country in the world, with the War on Drugs the major driving force behind high incarceration rates.  While common perception paints young men as the greatest victims of the drug war, conspiracy.

An inmate at the High Desert State prison has been stabbed to death. Andrew Ryan Thurgood, 26 was serving time for a motor vehicle theft when the stabbing occurred at the corrections facility, located just outside Las Vegas. He was pronounced dead.

Law Enforcement Took More Through Asset Forfeiture Than Burglars Took Last Year   Over the course of 2014, more stuff was taken from citizens of the United States by law enforcement officers than by burglars. These takings occurred as part of civil.

As noted at White Collar Criminal Prof Blog and The Justice Fellowship, the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security held a hearing last week on "Over-criminalization of Conduct and Over-federalization of Criminal Law." Organizations which addressed the.

Clark County Prosecutors May Not be Turning Over Exculpatory Evidence Prosecutors are vested with authority to bring criminal cases against defendants for violations of state law. The role of prosecutors is a role of public trust. Prosecutors are not permitted to bring.

Defendants who are arrested and who are charged with violating the law will attend a bail hearing as one of the first steps in the criminal justice process. The purpose of this bail hearing is to make a determination on whether the.

Why would African American defendants being prosecuted for in federal court on charges that could carry the death penalty adopt a bizarre defense developed by white supremacists, one that the trial judge himself  describes as legal "suicide"? The full story of the.

Despite the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals' seeming to take district courts to task in other decisions for failure to consider factors under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) which tend to favor the government pursuant to Booker, Section 3553(a) mitigating factors which tend to.

Not much is scarier than knowing you can be arrested at any moment. When the federal, state or local law enforcement has an arrest warrant with your name on it, you can be picked up immediately if you meet the police. Regardless.

This summer, the Las Vegas Justice Court released a new revised bail schedule , which became effective May 26, 2015.  The new schedule has since taken effect, which means that all bookings into the Clark County Detention Center and other local detention.