(PORTLAND PRESS HERALD) The Maine Department of Corrections is investigating to determine how the press obtained video and documents about a captain’s treatment of an inmate last year. The video and related documents recount how Capt. Shawn Welch, an official at the Maine Correctional Center in Windham, used pepper spray on an inmate who [...]
Global protests held in Troy Davis execution case
September 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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ShareThis Global protests held in Troy Davis execution case 16 Sep 2011 Some 300 protest rallies were held worldwide Friday ahead of a last-ditch parole board hearing for death row inmate Troy Davis, whose planned execution sparked an international movement. Davis is set to be executed September 21 for the 1989 shooting death of a [...]
California sued over requiring Sikh inmate to cut beard
March 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the state of California alleging that a Sikh inmate who refused to trim his beard for religious reasons was unfairly disciplined. Sukhjinder (sook-JIN’-der) Basra has said that guards told him he violated a rule prohibiting inmates from growing facial hair longer than a half inch. As punishment, [...]
