INDIANAPOLIS — The House Public Health Committee voted 6-5 Monday to tighten access to pseudephedrine, a key ingredient used to make meth. The committee essentially put language that passed the House from House Bill 1390 into Senate Bill 80. Nothing would change for Hoosiers with an existing relationship with a pharmacy. They could still buy […]
What is behind it and what judges can do about it In Part 1 of this article in the September/October issue of Court Times, we considered research on the high victim attrition rate in criminal domestic violence cases, as well as some laws that judges can use to help ensure the integrity of the proceedings. […]
FROM THE INDIANA JUDICIAL CENTER At the links below, you will find a memo from Indiana’s Interstate Compact Commissioner and an advisory opinion from the Interstate Compact national officer regarding community corrections. Out-of-state offenders sentenced to community corrections placements are now subject to the terms of the Interstate Compact for Adult Offender Supervision (ICAOS) and […]
Purdue Polytechnic Richmond will be hosting a Graduate School Open House on Monday, February 22, 2016 in Tom Raper Hall, room 214, from 5:00 – 6:30pm. Purdue Polytechnic Richmond, 2325 Chester Blvd.,Richmond, IN 47374 Free refreshments will be available, compliments of Purdue Polytechnic’s Center for Professional Studies (ProSTAR). A representative from ProSTAR will be here to […]
The Super Bowl is America’s most watched national sporting event. On Feb. 7, there were lots of Super Bowl 50 activities that may have included alcohol, and that’s why the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the California Office of Traffic Safety and law enforcement officials cracked down on drinking and driving. The San Bernardino County […]
The Indiana General Assembly focused on criminal code reform during the 2014 and 2015 legislative sessions. House Enrolled Act (HEA) 1006, authored both years by Representative Greg Steuerwald, R-Avon, rewrote criminal penalties and sentencing statutes to keep low-level offenders in local communities where they will have better access to mental health and substance abuse […]
A special hearing was conducted in Miami County Circuit Court on Wednesday to recognize the first graduate of a new program started by Community Corrections. Earl VanHoose is the first graduate of the Miami County Correction’s Community-Based Treatment (CBT) program and said that it has helped him get his life back. “For the first six months […]
At the following link, you will find the minutes from the January 15, 2016 Justice Reinvestment Advisory Council (JRAC) meeting. January 2016 JRAC minutes The next meeting of the Justice Reinvestment Advisory Council will be held from 10:00 A.M. to Noon (EST) on February 19, 2016, in the 30 South Meridian Street Building. (Meeting Room […]
AUBURN — The DeKalb County Commissioners will proceed with plans to house a proposed community corrections facility in a former strip mall at the south edge of Garrett. During Monday’s meeting of the DeKalb County Council, Commissioner Don Grogg reported that the commissioners are “moving forward” with the community corrections proposal.
Administrative staff and files now line the hallway of the crowded Shelby County Probation Department in the top floor of the old Court House. In some areas, two probation officers share a single office, making conversations with probationers awkward, especially when they are juveniles and confidentiality is a must. But the department is on its way […]
By Matthew Perrone And Tom Murphy, The Associated Press
Two drugmakers have made a practice of buying and then dramatically hiking the prices of low-cost drugs given to patients with life-threatening conditions including heart disease, AIDS and cancer, according to excerpts from thousands of documents released by federal lawmakers. A congressional review of more than 300,000 pages from Turing Pharmaceuticals and Valeant Pharmaceuticals reveals […]