WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama says he will ban the use of solitary confinement for juvenile and low-level offenders in federal prisons, citing the potential for “devastating, lasting psychological consequences” from the use of the isolation as punishment. “It ...

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State v. McClelland (Lawyers Weekly No. 012-023-16, 19 pp.) (Robert Hunter Jr., J.) Appealed from Rowan County Superior Court (Christopher Bragg, J.) N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: After jail inmate Mathis challenged a correctional officer, defendant told his fellow inmate, “I’m ...

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State v. Cooley (Lawyers Weekly No. 012-022-16, 25 pp.) (Linda Stephens, J.) Appealed from Wake County Superior Court (Paul Ridgeway, J.) N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: Defendant’s girlfriend testified that she never received a letter that defendant purportedly sent her from ...

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GRAHAM, N.C. (AP) — Alamance County has closed part of its jail because of a decline in inmates. The Times-News of Burlington reported that the sheriff’s office decided to temporarily close an annex that had housed 30 female inmates. A ...

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