Posted by Scott Packard on Wed, Apr 14, 2010 @ 03:00 PM
Let's make this short and sweet...onward to the Hotlinks!
In international news, a Russian judge was gunned down in the streets of Moscow. Judge Eduard Chuvashov was the judge who sentenced neo-Nazis to prison for hate killings and was seen as a oppositionist target for a far right ultranationalist terror group.
The Montana Department of Corrections will not see a drastic cut to their budget, despite a newly released report showing their inmate population has dropped. The budget, however, helps the MTDOC implement rehabilitative programs offered to low-level offenders. "What many states are just doing now, Montana has been doing for years" quoted DOC director Mike Ferriter.
Work-release inmates from the Virginia Department of Corrections aided residents and police personnel in city wide trash cleanup effort last Thursday and Friday reported in the http://www.nvdaily.com/.
The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections quietly transferred over 1,600 inmates out of state to other parts of the country, including Michigan and Virginia. Although controversial, it's the safest way conduct a high risk logistical operation.
A federal appeals court has ruled against attorney J. Tony Serra and his case of setting fair wages for working inmates. "Prisoners do not have a legal entitlement to payment for their work" said the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco in a 3-0 ruling.
And in this week's news of the weird:
A Collier County, FL deputy has been reprimanded for using a Taser device on a colleague in a joke that went terribly wrong.