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Exonerated Prisoner Appointed to Connecticut’s Parole Board
Article • October 3, 2016 • from PLN October, 2016
Filed under: Out of State Transfers, DNA Testing/Samples, Failure to Protect (General), Overcrowding, Parole, Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement
Exonerated Prisoner Appointed to Connecticut’s Parole Board by Christopher Zoukis In an unusual turn of events, a former prisoner was appointed to Connecticut’s Parole Board. While ex-prisoners are typically not considered as parole board members, state officials decided that Kenneth F. Ireland was a qualified candidate. In 1989, when he …
DNA Keeps Overturning Convictions, But Spike in Exonerations Owed to Other Factors
Article • August 5, 2016
Filed under: Police Misconduct, Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct, DNA Testing/Samples, Witnesses, Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment
DNA Keeps Overturning Convictions, But Spike in Exonerations Owed to Other Factors by Joe Watson Nicole Harris, Henry Lee McCollum and Leon Brown have lived through their own nightmares of injustice. All three were wrongfully convicted of the heinous murders of children. Combined, they spent nearly 70 years in prison …
Connecticut Police, City Liable For Withholding, Doctoring Evidence In False Arrest
Article • January 15, 2009
Filed under: Police Misconduct, Government Misconduct, Wrongful Imprisonment, Police, False Arrest
Connecticut Police, City Liable For Withholding, Doctoring Evidence In False Arrest by Connecticut resident Christopher Russo appealed the dismissal of his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action after being falsely arrested and imprisoned for over seven months. He was acquitted after police were forced to present exculpatory evidence. The ruling was …
Forbidding Prison Nurse From Leaving Work States False Imprisonment
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Sentencing, Wrongful Imprisonment, Employee Litigation
Forbidding Prison Nurse From Leaving Work States False Imprisonment by The plaintiff prison nurse alleged that, while suffering from a severe bout of poison ivy and trying to leave for medical treatment, she was "held hostage" by her supervisor and prevented from leaving the premises. The supervisor, by instructing an …