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: Kansas Federal Defender

"A Very Rough Place to Serve Time"

By Melody Evans and Kirk Redmond

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For anyone with federal clients at Jackson County, Kansas, here's a thought straight from Prof Berman's blog Sentencing Law and Policy. The judge reduced the sentence because the federal detainee spent seven months in horrid pre-trial confinement:As detailed in this article from the Newark Star-Ledger , a district judge in New Jersey last week granted a variance in response to evidence that prison conditions in a county jail were horrid. Here are the basics from the news account:Ruling that overcrowding and poor conditions at the Passaic County Jail are "shameful" and have been ignored for too long, a federal judge has taken the dramatic step of cutting the sentence of a federal inmate being housed there by seven months. The federal public defender's office in New Jersey has argued for such reductions for years, but the case marked the first time it has been successful, officials said...continue to full post

Full post as published by Kansas Federal Defender on October 30, 2007 (boomark / email).

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