Jay Hurst is peer-rated AV Preeminent in criminal law, through Martindale-Hubbell*. He practices nationally, advising defense attorneys and individual defendants about the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and federal sentencing mitigation, plea agreements, appeals, collateral challenges (habeas corpus law), and civil rights actions.
Jay also helps inmates and their families through any Federal Bureau of Prisons issue, including prison placement, custody, and transfer; the Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP); discipline; health care; administrative remedies and appeals; and pre-release planning.Jay also occasionally represents individuals in North Carolina State courts. No matter where your federal case is, Jay can be there for you.
With these full admissions, Jay has represented defendants in U.S. District Courts around the country on a pro hac vice ("for this case") basis. Besides his criminal law practice, Jay also regularly seeks U.S. Government records under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and the Privacy Act.
Jay also helps inmates and their families through any Federal Bureau of Prisons issue, including prison placement, custody, and transfer; the Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP); discipline; health care; administrative remedies and appeals; and pre-release planning.Jay also occasionally represents individuals in North Carolina State courts. No matter where your federal case is, Jay can be there for you.
With these full admissions, Jay has represented defendants in U.S. District Courts around the country on a pro hac vice ("for this case") basis. Besides his criminal law practice, Jay also regularly seeks U.S. Government records under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and the Privacy Act.
Services
Advising attorneys in plea negotiations, or where appropriate, negotiating pleas directly with United States Attorneys;.
Calculating and mitigating sentences under both the advisory United States Sentencing Guidelines and non-Guidelines statutory arguments (so-called "variances");.
Providing detailed sentencing memoranda on the defendant's behalf, with creative sentencing and post-release alternatives to simple imprisonment;.
Assisting with prison custody issues, including Federal Bureau of Prisons security classifications, facility placements and transfers, drug abuse treatment (including RDAP), specific programming requests, and administrative inmate remedies;.
Calculating and mitigating sentences under both the advisory United States Sentencing Guidelines and non-Guidelines statutory arguments (so-called "variances");.
Providing detailed sentencing memoranda on the defendant's behalf, with creative sentencing and post-release alternatives to simple imprisonment;.
Assisting with prison custody issues, including Federal Bureau of Prisons security classifications, facility placements and transfers, drug abuse treatment (including RDAP), specific programming requests, and administrative inmate remedies;.
The inmate capacities of federal prisons were published annually, in the "State of the Bureau, " until about 2001.
Today, not even the "annual" State of the Bureau is published annually.
Today, you can get federal prison capacities here, from the E-Office of EJ Hurst II.
To get a feel for how overcrowded the BOP really is, compare these numbers to the weekly "Inmate Population Report, " published every Thursday at http://www.bop.gov/locations/weekly_report.jsp.
Part of Jay's work when helping future inmates get a prison placement is to review these numbers; to make the client aware of how "crowded" the options are; and to ask for prisons where there are beds available.
Today, not even the "annual" State of the Bureau is published annually.
Today, you can get federal prison capacities here, from the E-Office of EJ Hurst II.
To get a feel for how overcrowded the BOP really is, compare these numbers to the weekly "Inmate Population Report, " published every Thursday at http://www.bop.gov/locations/weekly_report.jsp.
Part of Jay's work when helping future inmates get a prison placement is to review these numbers; to make the client aware of how "crowded" the options are; and to ask for prisons where there are beds available.
On this Thanksgiving Day, one of my thanks goes to the Lexington Herald-Leader and it's most helpful editors.
Sadly, the topic, private, for-profit prisons, is not so light: Without this access, we had to wait for an Inspector General's report documenting dangerous patterns in the private-prison industry.
The Justice Department's top internal investigator found that.
Elected judges are bad for the republic and the law Sound jurisprudence simply cannot fit onto bumper stickers, or into 30-second ad buys.
Sadly, the topic, private, for-profit prisons, is not so light: Without this access, we had to wait for an Inspector General's report documenting dangerous patterns in the private-prison industry.
The Justice Department's top internal investigator found that.
Elected judges are bad for the republic and the law Sound jurisprudence simply cannot fit onto bumper stickers, or into 30-second ad buys.
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