This Friday, Michael Maldonado, 47, a resident of the Kettle Moraine Correctional Institute who has been incarcerated for 31 years for a crime he committed when he was 15, will be one of 12 applicants considered by Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers’ Commutation Advisory Board. Maldonado’s supporters believe he has served more than enough time for […]
A free presentation by local attorney Heidi Fowler explaining Indiana’s Expungement Law and local resources for legal assistance will be given on Sept. 22 beginning at 6 p.m. The event will be held at the auditorium at Ivy Tech Community College — Coliseum Campus, 3800 N. Anthony Blvd. Use door No. 6 facing Crescent Avenue.
Belgrade author Canyon Hohenstein draws on his experience leading a Montana inmate wildfire crew for his fictional novel “Who Tames the Flames,” exploring wildland firefighting, trauma, redemption and life with prisoners away from cell walls. Hohenstein discussed the book and the 2021 Swan Valley fire that inspired it at the Country Bookstore on Thursday, reflecting on the incarcerated firefighters he led and the personal stories that shaped his book.
Yellowstone County voters have approved a jail bond once before, in 1984, but only after a jail riot, a lawsuit and an intervention by the federal courts.
Half of the terminally ill inmates deemed eligible for compassionate release died while their cases were still in court.
Angel DeJesus spent much of his adolescence involved with Virginia’s Department of Juvenile Justice and a chunk of his adulthood in Virginia Department of Corrections facilities. He’s now a public speaker and youth mentor, after being pardoned by former Gov. Ralph Northam in January 2022. When he learned that Gov. Abigail Spanberger is assembling a […]
When the Wisconsin Commutation Advisory Board meets on August 21 to review 12 applications for a commutation, a form of executive clemency Gov. Tony Evers can order to shorten or modify a criminal sentence, each board member’s recommendation will be based, in part, on the perception of the applicant’s likelihood of re-offend. The applicants and […]
The Arkansas Advocate’s series on prison overcrowding won first place for in-depth reporting in the Arkansas Pro chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists’ annual Diamond Awards over the weekend. The Advocate’s reporters were recognized in several categories in the awards, which recognize the best journalism from Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas. […]
The question of retroactive justice — resentencing for those serving life without parole sentences handed down before the ruling — remains unanswered.
Dawson Barry Simmons initially faced 11 sexual intercourse without consent charges in two separate cases when he was 17 and 18 years old.
