Dennis Archer set to address ALA meeting
The Metropolitan Detroit Chapter of the Association of Legal Administrators (ALA) will host its next member meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 15 at Eddie Merlot’s in Bloomfield Hills.
The meeting, which begins with check-in at 11:30 a.m., will featuring guest speaker Dennis Archer, who will shed light on how to create a good partnership between managing partners and administrators.
Also at the meeting, ALA will be collecting gently-used career dress wear to support the Lighthouse of Oakland County Career Dress program.
There is no cost for members to attend and non-members pay $35.
Members are encouraged to invite their managing partners at no additional cost.
To register, contact Cara Blazek at cblazek@plunkettcooney.com or 248.901.4082.
Appeals court overturns long drug sentence
HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania Superior Court has overturned the longest drug sentence ever imposed in a central Pennsylvania county as “manifestly unreasonable and excessive.”
Blair County Senior Judge Thomas Peoples imposed the 104½- to 216-year sentence four years ago against 43-year-old Gene “Shorty” Carter, of Philadelphia. Carter had been convicted of running a major heroin ring — while still serving time in a halfway house for a previous drug conviction.
The judge, who has since died, imposed mandatory sentences for 16 separate crimes Carter committed, then ran them consecutively.
Although the appeals court upheld those convictions, the Altoona Mirror reports that the court ordered Carter must be resentenced.
The court cited a 2013 U.S. Supreme Court decision which determined juries must decide whether mandatory sentences are warranted, not judges.
Rresentencing has not been scheduled.
All NYC inmates aged 18-21 to be housed in single jail
NEW YORK (AP) — More than 1,000 hard-to-manage inmates ages 18 to 21 will be moved to a single Rikers Island facility by the end of the year and will be required to take hours of classes, receive counseling and be exempt from solitary confinement.
The plan comes as officials continue to be frustrated by increased levels of violence across the lockups.
It departs from a long-standing practice of housing young adult inmates among more hardened, experienced prisoners — and builds on an inmate management strategy commonly used in juvenile jails across the country to promote and reward good behavior.
The new young adult housing plan was born in part out of a series of mandated reforms by city jail watchdogs and federal prosecutors, who this summer reached a settlement agreement with corrections officials after suing over pervasive violence in the jails.That deal, combined with a change in state law, requires, among other things, separating 18-year-old inmates from 16- and 17-year-olds.
Jails Commissioner Joseph Ponte said he included inmates ages 19 to 21 in the housing plan because neuroscientists say that the brain isn’t fully formed until age 25 and that subjecting young adult inmates to 23-hour isolation to punish bad behavior is harmful.
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