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Article • August 9, 2016
Urban Institute Published Report on Post-Conviction DNA Testing and Wrongful Conviction by Paresh Patel For decades, law enforcement investigations used forensic evidence (i.e. fingerprints, DNA, and ballistics) to include or eliminate suspects. Scientific advances and improvement in forensic analysis have helped to exonerate those convicted of serious crimes. In many …
Report: Private Probation, Prisons Should Be 'Phased Out' in Georgia by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), GEO Group and other for-profit companies must be driven out of Georgia's criminal justice system for it to be fair and effective, the Atlanta-based Southern Center for Human Rights (SCHR) argues in a recent …
Publication • August 9, 2016
Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Criminal Justice System, NACDL, 2013 Criminal Justice in the 21st Century: Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Criminal Justice System Supported in part by a grant from the Ford Foundation. Additional financial support for the conference provided by the Foundation for Criminal …
Publication • August 9, 2016
Cruel and Unusual: Sentencing 13- and 14-Year-Old Equal Justice Initiative Children to Die in Prison, EJI, 2007 “The susceptibility of juveniles to immature and irresponsible behavior means ‘their irresponsible conduct is not as morally reprehensible as that of an adult.’ Their own vulnerability and comparative lack of control over their …
Publication • August 9, 2016
Post-conviction DNA Testing and Wrongful Conviction, Urban Institute Justice Policy Center, 2012 F R E S E A R C H Post-Conviction DNA Testing and Wrongful Conviction R E P O R T John Roman, Ph.D. (202) 261-5774 JRoman@urban.org June 2012 Kelly Walsh, Ph.D. (202) 261-5434 KWalsh@urban.org Pamela Lachman (202) …
Publication • August 9, 2016
Timothy Cole Advisory Panel on Wrongful Convictions Research Details, 2010 Timothy Cole Advisory Panel on Wrongful Convictions: Research Details Table of Contents Introduction……………………………………………………………………………… 1 Chapter 1: Eyewitness Identification Procedures……………………………………... 6 Panel Recommendations……………………………………………………………… 6 Panel Report…………………………………………………………………………. 10 Concurring Report…………………………………………………………………... 38 Chapter 2: Recording Custodial Interrogations……………………………………... 46 Panel Recommendations……………………………………………………………. 46 Panel Report…………………………………………………………………………. …
Publication • August 9, 2016
The Poor Get Prison - The Alarming Spread of the Criminalization of Poverty, Dolan and Carr, 2015 THE POOR GET PRISON The Alarming Spread of the Criminalization of Poverty by Karen Dolan with Jodi L. Carr Lead Author: Karen Dolan is a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and …
Publication • August 9, 2016
Recalibrating Justice: A Review of 2013 State Sentencing and Corrections Trends, Vera Institute, 2014 CENTER ON SENTENCING AND CORRECTIONS Recalibrating Justice: A Review of 2013 State Sentencing and Corrections Trends JULY 2014 Ram Subramanian • Rebecka Moreno • Sharyn Broomhead FROM THE CENTER DIRECTOR This is the third in a …
Publication • August 9, 2016
Internal Exile Collateral Consequences of Conviction, ABA, 2009 internal exile Collateral Consequences of Conviction in Federal Laws and Regulations A collaboration of the American Bar Association Commission on Effective Criminal Sanctions and the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia Internal Exile Collateral Consequences of Conviction in Federal Laws …
Publication • August 9, 2016
The Vortex - The Concentrated Racial Impact of Drug Imprisonment and the Characteristics of Punitive Counties, Justice Policy Institute, 2007 The Vortex The Concentrated Racial Impact of Drug Imprisonment and the Characteristics of Punitive Counties A Justice Policy Institute Report December 2007 The Justice Policy Institute is a public policy …
Nebraska Law Limiting Sex Offender Internet Use “Guts” Constitutional Rights by David Reutter Driven by “rage” and “revulsion” of registered sex offenders, the 2009 Nebraska Legislature enacted LB 97, which allowed law enforcement to monitor and restrict Internet usage by those offenders. In an exhaustive order following a trial, U.S. …
Article • August 8, 2016
Massachusetts Man's Estate Paid Millions for Wrongful Conviction by The town of Ayer, Massachusetts, and five insurance companies have agreed to pay the estate of a man who spent 18 years in prison for a murder he did not commit a total of $3.4 million. A sixth insurance company, Western …
Man Nearly Executed, Awarded $14M after Exoneration by A former death row inmate who came within weeks of being executed was awarded $14 million by a federal jury in New Orleans after being cleared of his murder conviction. John Thompson, 40, spent 18 years in prison after being convicted of …
Federal Jury Awards $9 Million to Illinois Man Cleared of Rape He Was Convicted of as Teenager by Alejandro Dominguez, who spent four years in prison for a rape he did not commit, was awarded $9 million by a federal jury after DNA evidence cleared him of the charges. Dominguez, …
Article • August 5, 2016
Filed under: Sentencing, Juveniles
Miller Applies Retroactively in Florida by In a unanimous decision, the Florida Supreme Court held that the ruling in Miller v. Alabama, 132 S. Ct. 2455 (2012), which “forbids a sentencing scheme that mandates life in prison without possibility of parole for juvenile offenders,” is entitled to retroactive application. Before …
Article • August 5, 2016
Indefinite Pre-incident Detention of Indigents by Mississippi Challenged in Class Action Law Suit by David Reutter A class action challenging the indefinite jailing of persons in a Mississippi’s Scott County Detention Center without indictment or representation by counsel was filed on September 23, 2014. The lead plaintiffs are indigents who …
DNA Keeps Overturning Convictions, But Spike in Exonerations Owed to Other Factors by Joe Watson Nicole Harris, Henry Lee McCollum and Leon Brown have lived through their own nightmares of injustice. All three were wrongfully convicted of the heinous murders of children. Combined, they spent nearly 70 years in prison …
Article • August 4, 2016
Filed under: Parole
Successful Parole Program in Colorado Appears to be 86'ed Without Clements by Joe Watson A one-of-a-kind parole program in Colorado that boasts an otherworldly 98%-success rate now faces an uncertain future without Tom Clements—the former Colorado DOC chief who was murdered in 2013—advocating for the program and the prisoners who …
California Parole Agents Often Have Dangerously High Caseloads by When Jaycee Dugard escaped from captivity in Oakland, California sex offender Phillip Garrido's backyard, it became apparent that both state and federal parole officers had missed multiple opportunities to discover and rescue her during the 18 years she was held captive. …
Article • August 4, 2016
States Still Using Unconstitutional Debtors Prisons to Jail the Poor by Joe Watson The landmark 1983 U.S. Supreme Court decision Bearden v. Georgia reaffirmed the outlaw of so-called "debtors prisons"—the practice of incarcerating indigent people for being unable to pay off their debts—and requires that judges consider whether defendants are …
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