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Breaking News

‘Frustrated’ Trump Did Not Obstruct Justice in Russia Probe: Barr

By TCR Staff | 5 hours ago

President Donald Trump’s fear that leaks and press speculation were “undermining” his presidency did not prevent him from cooperating with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into alleged Trump campaign collusion with Russians, Attorney General William Barr told a press conference Thursday.

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Policing

Police Mental Health After Critical Incidents Gets Long-Awaited Attention

By TCR Staff | 6 hours ago

The focus comes as the Justice Department issues two reports focusing on the mental health and safety of the nation’s police officers. One example given is the trauma experienced by members of the SWAT team that went to Columbine High School in 1999.

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Immigration

Yuma, Az., Fearing 'Catastrophe,' Declares Immigration Emergency

By TCR Staff | 7 hours ago

The only shelter for immigrants is full in the border city of 100,000. Mayor Douglas Nicholls says federal agents released nearly 1,000 migrants there in the past three weeks.

Prosecutors

TX Police Groups Seek Dallas Prosecutor's Removal

By Crime and Justice News | 10 hours ago

One of Texas’ largest police unions called for the removal of Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot, who has announced plans not to prosecute certain low-level crimes. “We don’t remember not prosecuting crime as part of his platform,” said one union leader.

Technology

Microsoft Denied a Police Facial Recognition Request

By Crime and Justice News | 10 hours ago

The technology firm rejected a California law enforcement agency’s bid to install facial recognition technology in officers’ cars and body cameras, citing human rights concerns. Microsoft concluded it would lead to innocent women and minorities being disproportionately held for questioning.

Homepage Featured

Portrait of a Modern-Day 'Prison Abolitionist'

By Crime and Justice News | 10 hours ago

Abolition includes not just the closing of prisons but the presence of support systems that many communities lack. Instead of asking how society should deal with violent people, abolitionists ask how to get people the resources they need long before the moment when, as Ruth Wilson Gilmore puts it, they “mess up.”

Immigration

NY Stops ICE From Warrantless Arrests in Courthouses

By Crime and Justice News | 10 hours ago

During the Trump administration, courthouses increasingly have become places where immigrants appearing on unrelated matters have been taken into federal immigration custody.

Prisons

Suit: Prison Guards Laughed at Beating of Black Inmates

By Crime and Justice News | 11 hours ago

Another inmate identified as a member of the white supremacist Aryan Brotherhood was sentenced to a 54-year term for the attack, which was captured on surveillance footage and went viral.

Probation and Parole

Parole Ordered for Clark In Police Killing Case

By Crime and Justice News | 12 hours ago

Judith Clark took part in a deadly 1981 robbery of a Brink’s armored car in which two police officers and a guard were killed. The son of a victim said, “We’re outraged and sickened by this whole decision.”

Prosecutors

Email Release Leaves Public In the Dark on Smollett Case

By Crime and Justice News | 12 hours ago

Cook County prosecutor Kim Foxx released thousands of pages of inconsequential emails about the Jussie Smollett case but refused to make public anything that explains how the deal to drop charges against the actor was struck.

School Shootings

Threats Continue in Columbine After Teen’s Suicide

Eighteen-year-old Sol Pais traveled from Florida to Colorado, bought a shotgun and talked on social media about the 1999 Columbine massacre before killing herself.

Sex Crime

Judge Blocks Release of Robert Kraft Spa Video

A Florida judge temporarily blocked the release of video that police claim shows New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft being sexually pleasured by a spa worker, Prosecutors said they are required to release the video under the state’s Public Records Act.

Drugs

DOJ Charges 31 Doctors In Illegal Pain-Pill Ring

Dozens of medical professionals in five states were charged Wednesday with illegally prescribing more than 32 million pain pills, including doctors who prosecutors said traded sex for prescriptions and a dentist who unnecessarily pulled teeth from patients to justify giving them opioids.

School Crime

Woman Found Dead in Denver School Threat

More than a dozen school districts were closed Wednesday after the FBI and local police warned of an 18-year-old woman “armed and dangerous” in the Denver area. Sol Pais, 18, who had an “infatuation” with the Columbine High School shooting whose 20th anniversary is Saturday, was found dead in an apparent suicide later on Wednesday.

School Shootings

School Shootings More Common Before Columbine

It seemed like the 1999 Columbine High School killings ushered in a new era of school shootings. Yet Northeastern University criminologist James Alan Fox says school shootings were more frequent in the 1990s than they are today.

Los Angeles Still Leads U.S. in Fatal Police Shootings

Majority of Americans in States Without Death Penalty

CDC Links Herbal Supplement Kratom to 91 Deaths

20 Charged in Maryland Prison Corruption Ring

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Research & Analysis

  • School Crime
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    School Crime Incidents Increased in 2017: Report

    Students ages 12 to 18 experienced 827,000 crime victimizations at school and 503,800 victimizations away from school in 2017, says a new report. That compared with 749,400 victimizations at school and 601,300 away from school the previous year. 

  • Reforming the System
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    How Small Errors Combine to Send Innocent People to Prison

    A series of preventable mistakes sent George Cortez to prison for a murder he didn't commit. Philadelphia’s police, legal and judicial community used a groundbreaking DOJ initiative to come up with ways to make sure it never happens again.  

  • Reforming the System
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    Does College Education in Prison Work? Ask the 8,800 Inmates Who Got Pell Grants

    During the now-condemned "tough-on-crime” era, federal higher education assistance was made off limits to anyone in prison. But a pilot $35 million effort to revive it is now in its fourth year—and apparently flourishing—in 26 states.

  • Exonerations
    Richard Phillips
    The Price of Wrongful Convictions: 1,639 Years Behind Bars

    The 151 men and women released from U.S. prisons last year after their cases were dismissed spent a total of 1,639 years incarcerated for crimes they didn’t commit, the National Registry of Exonerations said in its annual report. The Registry called it a “record.”

  • Hate Crimes
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    How ‘Echo Chambers of Hate’ on Social Media Fuel Right-Wing Violence

    An examination of social media posts by two recent mass killers by the Anti-Defamation League suggests that a global shadow community of white supremacists goads its members into deadly hate crimes.

  • Policing
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    Prevention-Oriented Policing Means Less Crime: Study

    A Princeton University researcher confirms what many advocates of preventative policing have argued: the visible presence of more cops on the streets, rather than the number of arrests they make, can reduce crime.

Read the Winning Entries in the 2019 John Jay Justice Journalism Awards
TCR’s Ten Women Who Changed Justice in 2018

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  • Sex Crime
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    How Dismantling Rape Myths Won Cosby Conviction
    By Megan Hadley | April 17, 2019

    Landing a conviction in the second trial of actor Bill Cosby meant dismantling rape myths and educating jurors on the truths behind their preconceived beliefs on sexual assault, according to Kristen Gibbons Feden, the special prosecutor in the case.

  • Viewpoints
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    An Ex-Prisoner of America’s Drug War Speaks Out: It’s Not Over Yet
    By Anthony Papa | April 17, 2019

    In 2009, New York State finally abandoned one of the toughest drug laws in the nation. But according to one of the individuals trapped by the Rockefeller Drug Laws, the country still has a long way to go before ending its punitive approach.

  • Books
    From Gang ‘Shot Caller’ to Pastor: A Life-Altering Journey
    By Christine Bolaños | April 16, 2019

    Darwin “Casey” Diaz was once one of California’s most violent criminals. Today, the former gang leader counsels at-risk  young people. In a conversation with TCR about his new book, Diaz explains how he changed his life.

  • Media
    Criminal Justice Journalism Wins Pulitzer Prizes
    By Ted Gest | April 16, 2019

    Reporting by the South Florida Sun Sentinel and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on mass shootings won awards. Another winner was Hannah Dreier of ProPublica for a series on a crackdown on the MS-13 gang that also won a John Jay College of Criminal Justice prize this year.

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By TCR Staff | December 1, 2017

Moyers received TCR’s annual “Justice Trailblazer” award at a John Jay College dinner Feb. 15. See the video of his remarks here.

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