NEWS UPDATES DELAWARE A career criminal convicted of killing a man during a drug deal 10 state Board of pardons, which was impressed by his apparent conversion http://www.ccadp.org/abdullahhameen-news.htm
Extractions: after midnight as punishment for the murder of Troy Hodges in 1991. Hameen's execution came after several appeals were filed Thursday by his attorneys and supporters seeking to have his death sentence commuted to life in prison. The appeals were rejected by the state superior and supreme courts. "It was a long shot," defense attorney John Malik said. Hameen's supporters argued that he had become a model inmate and mentor to other prisoners and at-risk youngsters. But prosecutors and some members of the state Board of Pardons were troubled by his long and violent criminal career, during which he killed 2 men and shot and seriously wounded 2 others. Some also doubted that his conversion from hardened criminal to peace- loving activist was genuine, noting prison writings in which he blasted the criminal justice system as racist and oppressive. Hameem becomes the 13th condemned inmate to be put to death in Delaware since the state resumed capital punishment in 1992.
TalkLeft: Man Facing Execution Tonight Denied DNA Test Last week, the Georgia Board of pardons and Paroles refused the Innocence Project s The criminal justice system is as flawed as any human system, http://talkleft.com/new_archives/007307.html
Extractions: Main Monday :: July 19, 2004 Man Facing Execution Tonight Denied DNA Test Apparently, this is a first . Eddie Crawford is on Georgia's death row and scheduled for execution tonight. Last week, the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles refused the Innocence Project's request for a DNA testeven though the IP offered to pay it. Barry Scheck, a lawyer who presented the case to the Board of Pardons and Paroles last week, said that to his knowledge it was the first time a death row inmate had been denied DNA testing after making every possible appeal at the state level. "It's just never happened before," Mr. Scheck said. "Usually some clemency board, or the governor or someone, will step in." In Georgia, the Board of Pardons is the final authority on clemency matters. Heather Hedrick, a spokeswoman for the board, said it reached its decision because DNA testing had already proven guilt, there had been overwhelming circumstantial evidence and Mr. Crawford had confessed shortly after the crime.
Probation & Parole Board of pardons and Paroles protects the public by thoroughly The Probation Department provides support for the criminal, Juvenile and Family Courts http://talkjustice.com/links.asp?453053932
David Finn: Dallas Texas Attorney, Texas Parole Definitions David Finn, Dallas criminal lawyer concentrating in drunk driving (DWI), Special Needs Parole is an early parole, with Board of pardons and Parole http://www.dallascriminallawyer.com/texas_parole.html
Extractions: Texas Parole Definitions Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) manages the overall operation of the state's prison system, parole, and state jail systems. It also provides funding, training, and certain oversight of parole. TDCJ is the largest state agency in Texas. Institutional Division (ID) of the TDCJ is responsible for managing and operating the State's prison system for the confinement of adult felony offenders. Parole Division (PD) of the TDCJ is responsible for operating the state's adult parole system and supervising offenders on parole or mandatory supervision. The parole Division does not, however, make decisions to grant, deny, or revoke parole or mandatory supervision. The Texas Board of Criminal Justice (TBCJ) governs the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Its nine non-salaried members serve staggered six-year terms and are appointed by the Governor. The Board is required by statute to meet once per calendar quarter. The nine members are appointed by the Governor to oversee the TDCJ, which provides confinement, supervision, rehabilitation, and reintegration of the state's convicted felons. TBCJ members have neither jurisdiction over nor input into parole decisions.
Is Your Criminal Record Keeping You From Working? You may be able to get a charge removed from your criminal record if the charge is To request an application for a pardon, contact Board of pardons and http://www.larcc.org/pamphlets/benefits_work/criminal_record_pamphlet.htm
Extractions: Is Your Criminal Record Keeping You From Working? For more information Employers or potential employers can get information about your criminal record from a credit report, the state police and/or from a record check on a national level. In most cases, the employer must first get your permission in writing. In general, the employer can find out about: Employers cannot ask an applicant or current employee to tell about any arrest, charge or conviction that was if your record has been erased. Also, an employer in Connecticut cannot refuse to hire, fire, or discriminate against an applicant/employee solely because of a charge or conviction that was erased. Some of the charges that should be erased are those... that have been dismissed; for which you were found not guilty; that were nolled at least 13 months ago; (But not when there are several charges from one arrest, and some charges are nolled while the others ended in convictions).
AN ACT CONCERNING CRIMINAL JUSTICE PLANNING This bill creates the criminal Justice Policy and Planning Division within and Public Safety, and the Board of pardons and Paroles and (2) consult the http://www.cga.ct.gov/2005/ba/2005HB-06976-R02-BA.htm
Extractions: OLR Bill Analysis AN ACT CONCERNING CRIMINAL JUSTICE PLANNING SUMMARY The bill requires the division to collaborate with certain agencies, consult certain officials, and those agencies and officials must provide information and data that the division needs. The bill includes provisions on the confidentiality of that information. The bill requires the division to develop correctional population projections for planning purposes and report them annually by November 1. It must develop a reporting system to track trends and outcomes related to policies designed to reduce prison overcrowding, improve rehabilitation efforts, and enhance reentry strategies for offenders released from prison. The division must issue monthly reports beginning by November 1, 2006. The bill requires the system to define outcomes for major programs, annually report them, and delineate strategies to measure outcomes when information is not available to measure the effectiveness of particular programs. The first yearly report is due by January 1, 2007 and can be included in a report and presentation the division must make annually by January 1 to the Appropriations and Judiciary committees about its activities, recommendations, and specific actions necessary to promote an effective and cohesive criminal justice system. By law, the Office of Victim Services (OVS) may compensate certain crime victims, or their immediate families when the victim is deceased, incapacitated, or a minor child, for actual and reasonable expenses, lost wages, and pecuniary and other losses resulting from injury or death. The bill eliminates deadlines by which certain applicants must apply for waivers of the statute of limitations.
Criminal Justice Subject Guide, Lane Library, AASU Covers most criminal justice topics, including corrections administration Georgia Dept. of Juvenile Justice Georgia State Board of pardons and Paroles http://www.library.armstrong.edu/subguidecriminal.html
Extractions: Covers 190 journals including full text and image for about 50 of the titles most frequently accessed by criminal justice researchers. Covers most criminal justice topics, including corrections administration, law enforcement, social work, industrial security, drug rehabilitation, and criminal and family law. Omnifile Full Text Mega Edition from WilsonWeb A suite of databases for many academic disciplines. Includes full text articles from scholarly journals in the social sciences. Abstracts supplied back to 1984; full text dates from 1995. Select Social Science or Legal as the subject area, depending on your topic. Index to Legal Periodicals and Books provides the most thorough indexing for legal periodicals. It covers law reviews, bar association journals, university publications, yearbooks, institutes, government publications, and books. Does not include full text. It can be searched individually, or along with the Omnifile.
Extractions: Table of Contents October 10-12, 1993 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada T HE FSP FAMILY/COMMUNITY SUPPORT MODEL: NATURAL SUPPORT NETWORKS Comment assurer le soutien familial aux ex-delinquants? Kathy Selber, Director of Professional Practicum Toni Johnson, Field Specialist Michael Lauderdale, Clara Pope Willoughby Centennial Professor School of Social Work, The University of Texas at Austin Changes in values and behavior are best kept in place by the existence of social networks that affirm the changes through support, vigilance and consistency. Whether it be team sports, religious groups, successful corporations or therapeutic communities, the role of social networks is well-established in maintaining changes in behavior and values (Lauderdale, 1983). Nowhere is the difficulty in establishing or maintaining socially relevant behavior more apparent than in the criminal justice field. Among the significant issues that continue to plague criminal justice efforts are the high rates of recidivism in behaviors of released offenders that eventuate in reincarcerations. Recidivism with alcohol and substance abuse in spite of intensive treatment efforts in correctional facilities is commonplace. Indeed both national data and state of Texas figures routinely indicate recidivism rates of approximately 50 percent (Beck and Shipley, 1989). Theoretical Basis for the Intervention Model (Natural Support Networks) Additionally, important were the works of Merton (1975), Cloward and Ohlin (1960), Miller (1958), Blau and Blau (1982) and in more recent years Stark (1987), Cohen and Machalek (1988) that related deviant or criminal behavior at the level of the individual and small group to larger social and cultural contexts (Lauderdale, 1980). Important among these contributions were observations that related crime patterns to specific ecological niches and how these niches related to broader social norms and structures (Lauderdale and Inverarity, 1984; Lauderdale, et. al., 1990).
Welcome To The Best Of New Orleans! News Feature 03 20 01 Sinclair s role as a FBI informant in the pardons scandals rocked Angola and the Sinclair has already burned a lot of bridges to his criminal past, http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/2001-03-20/news_feat.html
Extractions: Shared Fate Billy Wayne Sinclair has a new book, a devoted wife, and a debt that he is still paying for murdering a Baton Rouge store operator in 1965. By Allen Johnson, Jr Editor's note: The following is the second part of "Keys to Freedom," a three-part series on criminal rehabilitation, redemption and forgiveness. Billy Wayne Sinclair is an uncommon killer. He has a lot going for him despite having spent the last 35 years in prison for his conviction for the 1965 murder of James C. Bodden, a popular convenience store operator, during an attempted robbery in Baton Rouge. Sinclair is up for parole again this year. Although the state Parole Board has rejected him six times since 1992, he can offer fresh evidence of his rehabilitation, while holding together strong support on the outside for his release. Sinclair, now 56, can boast a string of achievements and backing beyond his prison record for employment, conduct and participation in rehabilitation programs, all of which the board is required to consider by law. An eighth-grade drop-out who became self-educated on death row, he is an active jailhouse lawyer who has recently co-authored a book about his life as a convicted killer and a federal informant in the state pardons-for-sales scandals at Angola state penitentiary in the mid-'80s. Co-authored with his wife, Jodie Sinclair
LAC Does the state consider other criminal history records beyond the federal Copies of pardons are forwarded to the central repository and will appear on http://www.lac.org/lac/main.php?view=profile&subaction1=IA
LAC Does the state consider other criminal history records beyond the federal list of convictions Vermont Department of Corrections, pardons, available at http://www.lac.org/lac/main.php?view=profile&subaction1=VT
Extractions: How Do These Releases Differ? As in most states, the Governor has the authority to alter the sentence of a person who has been convicted under state law during that person's incarceration in a state, regional or county detention facility, after they have been released on parole, or even after the sentence has been served completely. In West Virginia, the authority is established in the Constitution, Article VII, Section 11. "The Governor shall have power to remit fines and penalties in such cases and under such regulations as may be prescribed by law; to commute capital punishment and, except where the prosecution has been carried on by the house of delegates, to grant reprieves and pardons after conviction; but he shall communicate to the legislature at each session the particulars of every case of fine or penalty remitted, of punishment commuted and of reprieve or pardon granted, with his reasons therefor." Different orders are used, depending on the specific effect on the sentence which is intended. These documents are permanently recorded with the Secretary of State and entered into the Executive Journal.
Work-place Administrative Pardons: Why, When, How This course deals with workplace administrative pardons in educational and other It is a maxim of the law that there can be no crime without a criminal http://www.forgiver.net/pardons.htm
Extractions: LearnWell Institute Online Continuing Education for Human Service Professionals NURSES COUNSELORS LVNs about us ... home Work-place Pardons: Why, When and How OBJECTIVES of LearnWell Course: At the completion of the course, you will describe, as it concerns work-place administrative pardons, 1. their meaning, 2. the reasons they are granted, 3. the occasions appropriate for granting them, and 4. the methods for granting them. LearnWell.org Course LWF601. Welcome to this accredited 3-contact-hour Continuing Education course with instant online processing and certification 24/7. Study the course below, take the 12-question multiple-choice TEST , register and pay $24 online. If you score 75% or above, you may print your CE certificate on your printer as soon as you finish. If you have difficulty printing your certificate, click here. You may retake the test. The instructor is R. Klimes, PhD, MPH. LearnWell will appreciate your feedback. This course is offered by the LearnWell Forgiveness Center.
Texas Legislature Online - Bills In/Out Of Committee in the institutional division of the Texas Department of criminal Justice. Board of pardons and Paroles and parole panels of the Board of pardons http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlo/reports/cmte/77R/C200.HTM
TITLE 7. REHABILITATION OF INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES CHAPTER (a) The commission may obtain criminal conviction record information from (b) The pardons and paroles division and institutional division of the Texas http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/statutes/docs/HR/content/htm/hr.007.00.000111.00.
Extractions: TITLE 7. REHABILITATION OF INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES CHAPTER 111. TEXAS REHABILITATION COMMISSION SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL PROVISIONS SUBCHAPTER B. ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS SUBCHAPTER C. POWERS AND DUTIES OF COMMISSION See, also, italicized material following text of this section SUBCHAPTER D. VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION SERVICES
NCADP National Coalition To Abolish The Death Penalty Allridge had no prior criminal record, but the jurors were not instructed to Since 1999, the Board of pardons and Paroles has received over 120 requests http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/ncadp/news.jsp?key=533&t=
Extractions: Yes, for both foster care and adoption, applicants must be barred for conviction of attempt, facilitation, solicitation, or conspiracy to commit specific violent and sexual felony offenses listed in the federal law and may also be excluded based upon misdemeanor convictions involving violence against children. N.D. Cent. Code ยง 50-11.3-02(2)(c), (4).
Wisconsin Statutes Table Of Contents Paroles and pardons. PDF Folio. Vehicles. 340. Vehiclesgeneral provisions. Vehicles-civil and criminal liability. PDF Folio; 346. Rules of the road. http://www.legis.state.wi.us/rsb/Statutes.html
Extractions: Table of Contents As updated through August 17, 2005 and 2005 Wisconsin Act 43 (Only Printed Volumes are Official under s. 35.18 (2), Wis. Stats.) The following list provides links to all of the Chapters of the Wisconsin Statutes. The underscored "PDF" following each chapter title is a link to the chapter in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format. You will need a copy of Adobe Acrobat to view them. Click here to download a free copy. PDF is best for printing and viewing. Text looks like the official version, but searches can only be performed in single chapters. The underscored "Folio" following each chapter title is a link to the chapter in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format. Folio is best for searching. Text doesn't look like the official printed version and printing is difficult. Chapters are listed here under subject matter heads, corresponding to the former Titles, which were eliminated in the 1979 session of the Wisconsin Legislature. Searching by chapter titles for the desired subject matter is not a dependable method for finding all applicable law unless you know the book well, for the specific item you are looking for may not be in the chapter you select.
Extractions: SCI Pittsburgh, formerly known as Western Penitentiary, was Pennsylvania's oldest operating correctional institution until January of 2005 when it was closed. Opened in 1882, the facility is located on 21 acres of land with approximately 12 acres located inside the walled perimeter. The facility is located on the banks of the Ohio River, approximately five miles from downtown Pittsburgh. SCI Fayette SCI Greensburg SCI Greene Renewal, Inc.
Criminal Justice / Mental Health Consensus Project the Board of pardons and Parole, the Attorney General s Office, with Mental Impairments (TCOMI), Texas Department of criminal Justice (TDCJ) http://www.consensusproject.org/the_report/toc/ch-IV/ps20-release-decision
Extractions: Ensure that clinical expertise and familiarity with community-based mental health resources inform release decisions and determination of conditions of release. Inmates typically are released from prison through one of the three following ways: Over the past two decades, numerous state legislatures have limited the discretion available to parole boards, or have eliminated discretionary parole altogether (see sidebar on following page). A collateral consequence of limiting this discretion has been to reduce the opportunity to tailor release conditions for inmates who have a mental illness. In those states where parole boards still have some discretion, parole decision makers may be reluctant to exercise it when the potentially eligible inmate has a mental illness. Parole board members' lack of confidence in community-based mental health services also contributes to their reluctance to release from prison a person with mental illness. In the face of incomplete information, inadequate assessments, lack of confidence in community resources for this population, misconceptions about mental illness, or fear of a negative public response, parole board members may choose not to release the inmate, thereby compelling him or her to serve the maximum sentence allowed by law.
