(1984). 99. See Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83, 84-85 (1963). 100. See 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Supp. IV 1998). For a discussion of the role that habeas corpus has played in vindicating constitutional rights ...

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Hawaii Attorney General Hawaiis Imprisonment Policy and Parolee Performance 2011 Hawaii’s Imprisonment Policy and the Performance of Parolees Who Were Incarcerated In-State and on the Mainland Department of Sociology University of Hawaii at Manoa & Department of the Attorney General State of Hawaii January 2011 Project funding from the U.S. …

Risk Assessment Instruments in Correctional Settings, Council of State Governments Justice Center, 2013 ! Risk!Assessment!Instruments!Validated!and!Implemented!in!Correctional!Settings!in!the!United! States:!!! An!Empirical!Guide!! ! An#executive#summary#drawn#from#Sarah#L.#Desmarais#and#Jay#P.#Singh,#Instruments#for# Assessing#Recidivism#Risk:#A#Review#of#Validation#Studies#Conducted#in#the#U.S.#(New!York:# Council!of!State!Governments!Justice!Center,!2013).! INTRODUCTION! ! The!rates!of!crime,!incarceration,!and!correctional!supervision!are!disproportionately! high!in!the!U.S.!and!translate!into!exorbitant!costs!to!individuals,!the!public,!and!the!state.! Within!three!years!of!release!from!jail!or!prison,!twoSthirds!of!offenders!are!rearrested!and!half! are!incarcerated!for!a!new!crime!or!parole!violation.1!Though!many!offenders!recidivate,!a! considerable!proportion!do!not.!Thus,!there!is!a!need!to!identify!those!offenders!at!greater!risk! of!recidivism!and!to!allocate!resources!and!target!risk!management!and!rehabilitation!efforts! accordingly.!Risk!assessment,!a!crucial!component!to!implementing!evidenceSbased!recidivism! reduction!strategies,!is!the!process!of!estimating!the!likelihood!an!offender!will!recidivate!by! identifying!those!offenders!at!higher!risk!and!in!greater!need!of!interventions.!Assessment! results,!based!on!ratings!of!empirically!or!theoretically!based!risk!and/or!protective!factors,!can! be!used!to!determine!intervention!targets,!appropriate!programming!level!and!intensity,!and! supervision!level.!There!is!overwhelming!evidence!to!suggest!that!assessments!of!risk! completed!using!structured!approaches!produce!estimates!that!are!both!more!accurate!and! more!consistent!across!assessors!compared!to!subjective!or!unstructured!approaches.2!More! and!more,!structured!risk!assessment!approaches!are!being!used!in!correctional!agencies.3! ! The!nearly!100Syear!history!of!risk!assessment!instrument!development!has!been! documented!on!several!occasions.4!The!focus!and!structure!of!risk!assessment!tools!have! shifted!significantly!over!time.!Studies!have!identified!the!important!evolution!of!risk! assessment!and!predictability!of!criminal!behavior,*!from!Burgess’!(1928)5!seminal!work!on!the! application!of!a!systemized!prediction!methodology!through!the!progression!of!the!four!distinct! generations!summarized!below.!! ! ! The!first!generation!of!risk!assessment!is!best!described!as!unstructured!professional! judgment,!in!which!the!assessor!relies!on!his!or!her!professional!training!and!information! gathered!from!the!incarcerated!individual,!official!records,!or!other!sources!to!inform!his!or!her! …

Report on the Human Rights Situation in the US, Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2012 MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION REPORT ON THE HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Moscow, 2012 Contents Introduction…………………………………………………………………… 3 U.S. participation in the international treaties and conventions on human …

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institutions noting the size of the issue and recommending that the FBOP should coordinate and share information with the states. Several states were called out (Alabama, California, Florida, Maryland ...

, pretrial reform has been committed to or implemented in New Jersey, Kentucky, Colorado, Maryland, New Mexico, Connecticut, Chicago, New York City. 26 cities are implementing new pretrial risk assessment ...

Prosecutorial Oversight, Innocence Project, 2016 Prosecutorial Oversight: A National Dialogue in the Wake of Connick v. Thompson march 2016 The Innocence Project would like to acknowledge and thank the following individuals who contributed to this report and its success: Lawanna Kimbro, Liz Jansky, Emily West, Stephen Saloom, Cookie Ridolfi and …

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1997. He was transported by TransCor on a 20-day trip that took him to New York, Michigan, Maryland, Kentucky, Wisconsin, South Dakota and several more passes through Ohio as other prisoners were picked ...

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Audit of the Department’s Use of Pretrial Diversion and Diversion-Based Court Programs as Alternatives to Incarceration, DOJ OIG, 2016 Office of the Inspector General U.S. Department of Justice Audit of the Department’s Use of Pretrial Diversion and Diversion-Based Court Programs as Alternatives to Incarceration Audit Division 16-19 July 2016 AUDIT …

Making the Grade - Developing Quality Postsecondary Education Programs in Prison, Vera, 2016 Center on Sentencing and Corrections Making the Grade Developing Quality Postsecondary Education Programs in Prison Ruth Delaney, Ram Subramanian, and Fred Patrick From the Director The benefits of postsecondary education programs for incarcerated students extend far beyond …

://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/aclu-squalid-conditions-at-troubled-baltimore-jail/ [http://perma.cc/465U-VXY8] (reporting on a motion to reopen prison conditions litigation against a Maryland jail for, among other ...

Committee for Freedom of the Press and current dean of the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism. “There have to be some benchmarks in the law or incentives. If you blow a deadline ...