criminal justice system

CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/04/us/oklahoma-inmates-release-mass-commutation/index.html

https://apnews.com/02cd9e0b507244d6bb773e285057a7fb I'm certain there will be people to disagree with how judges decides who stays in jail and who goes home. People are in an uproar seeing as how several people accused of child abuse were allowed low bail (still in jail though) in NM. The...

No surprise, bleeding heart liberals will probably cheer this: Oddly enough, I tend to agree with them on the case at hand: In this case, it's such a minor offense and the bail is so ridiculously low that it's hard to argue that the threat of its forfeiture would be sufficient to ensure...

Exclusive Video: Violence Inside Rikers This is disturbing.

In the "Did Not See That One Coming" category, Charles Koch, one of the billionaire brothers responsible for influencing a lot of government policy (mainly through Republicans) wants to do things like ease sentencing on non-violent offenders and put more money into public defenders in order to...

Do you think our justice system should institute mandatory sentencing guidelines where judges have no discretion at all? (but perhaps a lowering of the sentences themselves and they take into account prior criminal activity) Or do you like the present system that has a min and a max sentence...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41822218/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts He remembers nothing of his crime. Psychiatrists say he's not faking his amnesia. Should he be paroled or is a life sentence a life sentence.

A person is convicted and will do time in a correctional facility and will be released. What is the best time spent to minimize relapse in crime? My suggestion is sensory deprivation; restricted environmental stimulation therapy. A dark cell with no sound for 23 hours a day, one hour to meet...

Short segment on NPR's Weekend Edition this morning about the fact that the US criminal justice system is unique among "civilized" nations for sentencing juvenile offenders to "life without the possibility of parole". They profiled a young woman (now 34) who was sentenced at 16 under the felony...

Radley Balko reports This is madness. :(