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Publication • December 2, 2016
to subsequent arrests and convictions, having a snowball effect in terms of foreclosing opportunity: Once you start getting a record, it follows you for the rest of your life. A lot of people just end up pleading ...
out of the city’s criminal justice reforms. When the NYPD announced it would stop arresting people for smoking marijuana in public, for example, one of the exceptions to the new policy were people ...
, failing to signal when she changed lanes. After the 28-year-old questioned his instruction to put out her cigarette and refused to get out of the car, the trooper arrested her for assault of an officer ...
of Having a Record? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Can People with Records Get Record Clearance Relief ...
arrest in New York City for prostitution offenses and who has faced arrest and prosecution for prostitution in the past. Findings suggest a need to reevaluate the criminal legal response to people arrested ...
illness get little or no treatment. There is no way to know how many of the 404 prisoners would have lived had they not been arrested. But law enforcement officials and mental illness experts across ...
Publication • September 12, 2016
 ‘‘life­skills coursework’’ administered by a group that serves arrested sex workers. ‘‘Congratulations on being in a place where a lot of people care about you,’’ Adriana remembers the judge telling her as she ...
is generally accepted for securing release from jail after an arrest. It is a part of our culture: there are jokes about getting bail money if one anticipates getting into trouble and a Numerous reports ...
Publication • April 10, 2017
Filed under: Immigration
in. A handful of ICE programs operate specifically to get information from state and local police about noncitizens in their custody. These programs increase ICE’s ability to locate, arrest, and deport ever ...
law enforcement is for drug possession, amounting to more than 1.25 million arrests each year. And despite officials’ claims that drug laws are meant to curb drug sales, four times as many people ...
of thousands of people arrested for a wide range of crimes spend time locked up in jail because they do not post bail. Nearly every offense in California is bail-eligible, yet many defendants cannot afford ...
Publication • February 25, 2016
Filed under: Indigent Defense
clean water.  60% report that they frequently cannot get a night’s sleep due to constant police efforts to “move them along. A summary of people’s experiences in dealing with the criminalization ...
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never be the same as the hazard rate for people who had never been arrested. But it is reasonable to expect that an ex-offender’s hazard rate gets close enough — the longer he stays clean ...
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been arrested) would never be the same as the hazard rate for people who had never been arrested. But it is reasonable to expect that an ex-offender's hazard rate gets close enough - the longer he stays ...
Article • May 15, 2012
35,948 Arrested Yesterday by Maya Schenwar Wednesday, 23 May 2012 11:16 By Maya Schenwar, Truthout Last Friday, the day the NATO 3 were arrested, approximately 35,948 people were arrested ...
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. By initially eliminating people with conviction or arrest records from job applicant pools, people who may be highly qualified for certain jobs get screened out to the disadvantage of the employer, the individual ...
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that, if they come back out in the real world, they can't get a job. How is that going to help them become better people? They need to be healed internally, educated mentally, and given skills physically RIGHTS ...
Brief
. 16 So it was introduced mostly from the people who had been 17 in Miami. 18 then they began to get reports of it being associated 19 with methamphetamine as well. 20 Q ...
Brief • May 16, 2023
05/16/23 Page 14 of 18 PageID #: 14 89. His inability to get a lawyer cost him time and energy going to government offices and calling people who were responsible for appointing counsel to people like ...
Article • October 10, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
Filed under: Discrimination, Advocacy
for people with a criminal record by barring landlords from turning away potential tenants simply because they have past arrests or a criminal conviction. The bill has a long history, beginning in 2013 when ...
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