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Publication • 2017
American Friends Service Committee - Drug Sentencing in Arizona A Prescription for Failure, 2017 Drug Sentencing in Arizona: A Prescription for Failure Written by: Rebecca Fealk, MPA Caroline Isaacs, MSW American Friends Service Committee – Arizona August 2017 Written by: Rebecca Fealk, MPA Caroline Isaacs, MSW American Friends Service Committee …
The Sentencing Project - Fact Sheet Private Prisons in the United States, 2017 FACT SHEET: PRIVATE PRISONS IN THE UNITED STATES Private Prisons in the United States Private prisons in the United States incarcerated 126,272 people in 2015, representing 8% of the total state and federal prison population. Since 2000, …
Publication • 2017
Office of the Inspector General - Safe Prisons Program Management Office FY 2016 Statistics, Texas, 2017 Safe Prisons Program Management Office FY 2016 Statistics Offender Transportation Alleged Sexual Assault Criminal Cases Opened by OIG Transportation Sep 0 Oct 0 Nov 0 Dec 0 Jan 0 Feb 0 Mar 0 Apr …
Publication • 2017
Bureau of Justice Statistics - American Indian and Alaska Natives in Local Jails, 1999-2014, 2017 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics September 2017, NCJ 250652 Todd D. Minton, BJS Statistician Susan Brumbaugh and Harley Rohloff, RTI International A n estimated 10,400 American Indian and …
Publication • 2017
The Sentencing Project - Immigration and Public Safety, 2017 IMMIGRATION AND PUBLIC SAFETY For more information, contact: The Sentencing Project 1705 DeSales Street NW 8th Floor Washington, DC 20036 (202) 628-0871 sentencingproject.org twitter.com/sentencingproj facebook.com/thesentencingproject This report was written by Nazgol Ghandnoosh, Ph.D., Research Analyst, and Josh Rovner, Juvenile Justice Advocacy …
Publication • 2017
John Kelly - Memo on Implementing the President's Border Security and Immigration Enforcement, ICE, 2017 January 25. 2017 MEMORANDUM FOR: Kevin McAleenan Acting Commissioner U.S. Customs and Border Protection Dan Ragsdale Acting Director U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Lori Scialabba Acting Director U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Kelli Ann Burriesci …
Publication • 2017
Legal Aid Justice Center - Driven by Dollars, 2017 DRIVEN BY DOLLARS A State-By-State Analysis of Driver’s License Suspension Laws for Failure to Pay Court Debt Authored by Mario Salas and Angela Ciolfi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Work on this project was made possible by a grant from the Laura and John Arnold …
Bureau of Justice Statistics - PREA Data Collection Activities, 2017 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics DATA COLLECTION PROFILE June 2017, NCJ 250752 Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 PREA Data Collection Activities, 2017 The Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (PREA; P.L. 108-79) …
Publication • 2017
United States Sentencing Commission - An Analysis of the Implementation of the 2014 Clemency Initiative, 2017 An Analysis of the Implementation of the 2014 Clemency Initiative U N I T E D S TAT E S S E N T E NC I NG COM M I S S ION …
An Examination of Florida's Prison Population Trends, 2017 Table of Contents Executive Summary ................................................................................................................ 2 Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 3 National Overview: Florida in Context ......................................................................................................... 3 Overview of Florida Adult Criminal Justice System ................................................................. 6 Crime Rate Trends ........................................................................................................................................ 6 Felony Filing Trends ..................................................................................................................................... 7 Sentencing Trends ........................................................................................................................................ 8 Jail Population …
Article • May 5, 2017 • from PLN May, 2017
Filed under: Statistics/Trends, Trials
The Case of the Disappearing Criminal Jury Trial by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Every person accused of a crime has the right to a trial by jury. That right is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, and is available to anyone charged with a serious criminal offense. But the number …
Article • May 5, 2017 • from PLN May, 2017
Indiana County is Leader in Sending People to Prison by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton In a major shift from just a decade ago, rural areas of the U.S. are more likely to send people to prison than urban areas. While big cities have been trying to reduce incarceration rates, …
Publication • May 3, 2017
Sentencing Project - Still Life, Life Sentences, 2017 STILL LIFE America’s Increasing Use of Life and Long-Term Sentences For more information, contact: The Sentencing Project 1705 DeSales Street NW 8th Floor Washington, D.C. 20036 (202) 628-0871 sentencingproject.org twitter.com/sentencingproj facebook.com/thesentencingproject This report was written by Ashley Nellis, Ph.D., Senior Research Analyst …
Publication • May 1, 2017
The Price of Prisons, Vera Institute of Justice, 2017 May 2017 The Price of Prisons: Examining State Spending Trends, 2010-2015 Chris Mai and Ram Subramanian Research Director’s Note In 2012, Vera’s Center on Sentencing and Corrections published The Price of Prisons: What Incarceration Costs Taxpayers, to answer a simple, yet …
Article • April 25, 2017
Will Hopes Raised by Clemency Initiative Pronouncements be Realized? by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna In December of 2013, President Obama created a wave of excitement in the incarcerated community when he announced the commutation or pardon of 21 federal prisoners, bringing his first-term total to 52, plus 10 clemencies, and …
Article • April 11, 2017
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Jail Time for Overdue Library Books Trending Nationwide by Joe Watson by Joe Watson When police in Copperas Cove, Texas, enforced a city ordinance in 2013 criminalizing the failure to return public library books on time, they illustrated perfectly the perpetuation of misspent tax dollars. In October 2013, after being called …
Article • April 11, 2017
Agency of U.S. Department of Justice Curbs Its Use of "Felon" and "Offender" by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The Office of Justice Programs (OJP), a U.S. Department of Justice Agency, has instituted a policy discouraging the use of the terms "felon" and "offender" in its communications referring to released …
Article • April 3, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
State Sentencing Reforms Doing Little to Reduce Nation’s Prison Population by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton With almost 7 million people under some sort of correctional supervision, including probation and parole, the United States continues to lead the world in terms of tough-on-crime policies and incarceration rates. Although there have …
Article • March 31, 2017
Filed under: Crime, Statistics/Trends, Police
The Dangerous Notion of a Nationwide Crime Wave by Joseph Margulies by Joseph Margulies, Verdict In a recent Wall Street Journal Op-Ed, Heather MacDonald, a conservative analyst with the Manhattan Institute, blamed the so-called “Ferguson effect” for the increase in violent crime experienced in several U.S. cities last year. As MacDonald …
Article • March 28, 2017
Brutal Crimes Don't Justify Bad Laws by Jean Trounstine By Jean Trounstine, Truthout A true tragedy, driven by a media frenzy, often provokes a misguided need to do something as quickly as possible and leads to bad public policy - like California's Three Strikes sentencing law. Massachusetts Juvenile Judge Jay D. …
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