Human Rights in Brazil, Network for Social Justice and Human Rights, 2007 Human Rights in Brazil 2007 A Report by Network for Social Justice and Human Rights Human Rights in Brazil 2007 A Report by the Network for Social Justice and Human Rights Edited by: Evanize Sydow e Maria Luisa …

Excessive and lethal force - Concerns about deaths and illtreatment involving police use of tasers, Amnesty International, 2004 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS........................................................................................... 1 Introduction and summary ..................................................................................... 1 1. GENERAL CONCERNS ABOUT TASER USE ................................................... 4 1.2. Background on Taser Use ............................................................................... 4 1.3. Deployment of tasers in …

Incarceration Generation, JPI, 2013 Table of Contents Foreword........................................................................................................................................................ 02 Introduction................................................................................................................................................ 03 People in the Justice System Racial & Ethnic Groups Racism Institutionalized: A Look at the Criminal Justice System.................................................................................. 08 Criminal Justice Reform for Immigration Reform.......................................................................................................... 12 Children & Teens Youth in the Adult Criminal Justice System.................................................................................................................. 16 Rights of …

Voices from the Field - How CA Stakeholders View Public Safety Realignment, Stanford Criminal Justice Center, 2013 ST TANFORD saekeeFiigure DRAF FT FOR REV VIEW AND D COMMEN NTS Voicces fro om th he Fie eld: w Caliiforniia Stak kehollders View How Pub blic Saafety Realig R gnment Joan P …

The Health Status of Soon-To-Be-Released Inmates Vol 2, NCCHC, 2002 A Report to Congress Volume 2 The Health Status of Soon-To-Be-Released Inmates Volume 2 April 2002 iii Preface Through the mid-1990s, a number of studies, limited in scope, found a higher prevalence of certain infectious diseases, chronic diseases, and mental …

Final Report - Prison Sexual Assault, NPREC, 2009 NATIONAL PRISON RAPE ELIMINATION COMMISSION www.nprec.us REPORT NATIONAL PRISON RAPE ELIMINATION COMMISSION REPORT JUNE 2009 Contents Preface..v Commissioners. vii Commission Staff and Contributors........................................................xi Acknowledgments.. xiii Executive Summary............................................................................... 1 Introduction......................................................................................... 25 PART I: UNDERSTANDING AND PREVENTING SEXUAL ABUSE. 31 1. A Problem that …

White v. Watson, et al., IL, amended complaint, wrongful death, 2016 Case 3:16-cv-00560-JPG-DGW Document 26 Filed 07/19/16 Page 1 of 16 Page ID #85 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS DWAYNE WHITE, as Administrator of the ESTATE OF BRADLEY C. SCARPI, Plaintiff, v. ST. …

Collateral Damage - America's Failure to Forgive or Forget in the War on Crime, NACDL, 2014 Collat eral Damage America’s Failure to Forgive or Forget in the War on Crime A Roadmap to Restore Rights and Status After Arrest or Conviction N ATIONAL A SSOCIATION OF C RIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS …

America's Top Five Deadliest Prosecutors - How Overzealous Personalities Drive The Death Penalty, Fair Punishment Project, 2015 FAIR PUNISHMENT PROJECT AMERICA’S TOP FIVE DEADLIEST PROSECUTORS: How Overzealous Personalities Drive The Death Penalty JUNE 2016 Last year, a journalist asked Dale Cox, then the District Attorney of Caddo Parish, Louisiana, about …

Private Prison Execs Continue to Make Much More than Guards by Information collected by the federal government has revealed the conspicuous inequality between private prison executives and the guards that their corporations employ. According to data compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the median salary for private …

Medical Statistical Model Used to Estimate Wrongful Conviction Rate in Death Penalty Cases by Matthew Clarke An interesting collaboration between medical and law professionals, under the leadership of University of Michigan Law School professor Samuel R. Gross, led to the application of medical statistical analysis to exonerations of death-sentenced prisoners, …

Study Shows Modest Decline in Prison Populations by Derek Gilna A February 2016 study by The Sentencing Project, “U.S. Prison Population Trends 1999-2014: Broad Variation Among States in Recent Years,” found there has been a 2.9% average decline in the number of state prisoners during that period. Over those 15 …

Dallas Conviction Integrity Unit Gains National Notoriety by Matthew Clarke The word “first” was applied to Craig M. Watkins multiple times after his election to the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office in 2006. He was the county’s first black D.A., the first D.A. who had been a public defender before …

Multiple Suicides at Florida Jail a Cause for Concern by David Reutter Suicide is the leading cause of death among jail detainees according to an August 2015 report by the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. While 80% of jails in the U.S. reported no deaths in 2013, six percent reported …

Overcrowding at South Dakota Prison Impacts Family Visitation Program by A surge in female prisoners incarcerated on low-level drug charges led to the temporary shutdown of a program at the South Dakota Women’s Prison that helps prisoners maintain family ties and relationships. The Parent and Children Together (P.A.C.T.) program provides …

Breaking News: 18 Deaths in Six Months at Mississippi State Penitentiary by Derek Gilna Prison Legal News has learned through a public records request that 18 prisoners died at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman in just over a six-month period. The most recent reported death was that of Terry …

Does Smarter Sentencing Equal Lower Prison Numbers? by By Adam Wisnieski, The Crime Report The United States has the world’s highest incarceration rate—and efforts to reduce it have been the focus of studies by leading academics, advocacy groups and policymakers. Most recognize that if significant change is going to come, it …

Documenting and Explaining the 2015 Homicide Rise, National Institute of Justice, 2016 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs National Institute of Justice National Institute of Justice Documenting and Explaining the 2015 Homicide Rise: Research Directions Richard Rosenfeld* University of Missouri – St. Louis June 2016 *Dr. Rosenfeld prepared …

Police Integrity Lost - A Study of Law Enforcement Officers Arrested, Stinson et al, 2016 The author(s) shown below used Federal funds provided by the U.S. Department of Justice and prepared the following final report: Document Title: Police Integrity Lost: A Study of Law Enforcement Officers Arrested Author(s): Philip Matthew …

Banking on Detention - 2016 Update, DWN CCR, 2016 Banking On Detention 2016 Update About Us Detention Watch Network (DWN) works through the collective strength and diversity of its members to expose and challenge injustices of the U.S. immigration detention and deportation system and advocate for profound change that promotes …