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A federal court has temporarily blocked federal prison officials from transferring a transgender woman to a men’s facility and denying her access to gender-affirming…

During COVID-19 pandemic, the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) implemented a policy to allow phone calls to be free to adults in custody. Each month those in custody could make up to 500 minutes of calls at no cost. However, with the end of the pandemic declared over a year ago and the BOP under…

A military appeals court has ruled against the Defense Secretary’s effort to throw out the plea deals reached for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other defendants…

Zimbabwe has abolished the death penalty, a widely expected move in a country that last carried out the punishment nearly two decades ago (access full article…

In tribute to the life, character, and public service of James Earl "Jimmy" Carter Jr., the thirty-ninth President of the United States, and consistent with the President’s declaration of a National Day of Mourning in an…

The Defender Services Office announces that there will be an increase to the Criminal Justice Act (CJA) panel attorney hourly rates.

CJA Panel Attorney Hourly Rate Increase

The panel attorney hourly rates is increased from $172 to $175 for non-capital work and from $220 to $223 for…

Alabama ended 2024 with six executions conducted for the year, with half of them using the controversial method of nitrogen gas hypoxia (access…

This unpublished per curiam opinion from the Fifth Circuit—affirming a denial of qualified immunity—gives no hint of the…

Married guy with 3 kids and a household income of around $300 a week underreports that income to get food stamps. In 1995. Gets 3 years' probation. Otherwise has a clean record. Can that constitutionally bar him from owning a firearm today?…

Allegation: Harrisburg, Penn. detective misrepresents and omits key facts in order to get man charged with a bevy of serious and not-so-serious crimes after 2017 shooting. Some charges are dropped, and he's acquitted of all the rest after spending 18 months in jail. Can he sue Detective Jacob…