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Courts

Manafort Case Prods Look at Wide Federal Sentencing Disparities

By TCR Staff | March 22, 2019

Questions about former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort’s sentence prompted a new study that found stark disparities in prison terms handed down by federal judges that ranged, in over half the nation’s 155 federal courthouses, from 23 months to as much as four years or more.

Russia Probe

Barr: No Trump Obstruction, Mueller Finds No Conspiracy

By Crime and Justice News | 4 hours ago

Special counsel Robert Mueller did not find that President Trump or his campaign schemed with Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, said a summary released Sunday by Attorney General William Barr. Barr and Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein concluded there was insufficient evidence to say President Trump obstructed justice.

Prosecutors

Mueller's 'Legacy is...Secure' As Prober of a President

By Crime and Justice News | 5 hours ago

Former FBI director will be remembered for one of the most consequential investigations in U.S. history. Critics may judge him not aggressive enough against the president.

Police Shooting

Ex-East Pittsburgh Officer Acquitted in Fatal Shooting

By Crime and Justice News | March 23, 2019

A jury took under four hours to conclude that former East Pittsburgh police officer Michael Rosfeld was not guilty in the killing of Antwon Rose II, 17, last June.

Policing

Chicago Police Officer Killed in Apparently Random Attack

By Crime and Justice News | March 23, 2019

Off-duty officer John Rivera, 23, was sitting in a car with three other people, including another off-duty officer, when two assailants walked up, one pulled a gun and began firing into the vehicle.

School Crime

Teachers Object to Training Drills With Airsoft Guns

By Crime and Justice News | March 22, 2019

An Indiana sheriff’s office said it would no longer use guns that fire projectiles after teachers at one school were left with welts, bruises and abrasions in a realistic “active-shooter” drill.

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Drugs

Fentanyl-Related Deaths Rose More Than 1,000%

By TCR Staff | March 22, 2019

Deaths from the synthetic opioid fentanyl skyrocketed more than 1,000 percent from 2011 to 2016, according to a new report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Health Care

New Study Takes Novel Census of Prison Pregnancies

By TCR Staff | March 22, 2019

The huge increase in female incarceration in recent decades has overwhelmed American prisons in their health care of pregnant women. A new study takes stock of the numbers of pregnancies, births, and more in an attempt to standardize the quality of maternal health.

Russia Probe

Until Mueller Report Drops, Journalists Feverishly Speculate

By Crime and Justice News | March 22, 2019

Is actual Mueller report news afoot or are we witnessing “the bored angst of journalists”? Whatever may come, the speculative frenzy surrounding the report’s supposedly imminent release has peaked (or has it?).

Drugs

Is Congress Poised to Fix Legal Marijuana's Banking Problem?

By Crime and Justice News | March 22, 2019

Federal legislation that would remove a critical barrier to the development of legal marijuana sellers’ and growers’ business — a legitimate way to use the banking system — has more momentum in Congress than before. But some states are making moves of their own.

Immigration

3 Reasons Why Migrant Numbers at the Border are Up

Conditions in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras haven’t changed dramatically, nor have U.S. immigration laws yet. So why have so many more migrant families flocked to the U.S. border now?

Forensics

A Fingerprint Proves a Man’s Innocence, 36 Years Late

A combination of prosecutorial obstinance, lack of legal leverage to enable post-conviction scientific testing, and an evolving science kept a man in prison until a simple test was run last week and he was freed.

Civil Liberties

Breathalyzers in Limbo, Georgia DUI Law Gets Temporary Fix

One month after the Georgia Supreme Court found breathalyzer refusals could not be used as evidence against drivers, state legislators have patched up policing procedures while plotting a longer-term fix.

Police Misconduct

NJ Defendants Kept in Dark About Cop-Witnesses Who Lied

Few troubled New Jersey police officers are ever outed in court, leaving the citizens they accuse of crimes unable to challenge the officers’ credibility. The state’s AG is working on a fix.

Police Misconduct

Troubled Philly Cops Find Home in Sensitive Intelligence Center

For the past seven years, one place Philadelphia police get assigned when they have been deemed unfit for regular duty is a highly sensitive, federally funded, Homeland Security intelligence-sharing center. That troubles some outside the department.

Texas Says AC in Prisons Might Cost a Cool $1.2 Billion

New Series on Sheriffs Starts with Report on Jail Deaths

NZ Firearms Ban Sets Stage for Complicated Buyback

FBI Joins Boeing Post-Crash Criminal Investigation

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Research & Analysis

  • Reforming the System
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    Cost, Red Tape Blamed for Low Rate of MI Expungement

    Few of the people who are intended beneficiaries of a Michigan law allowing for expungement of criminal convictions actually obtain this relief, according to a new report. Reasons also include “fear and mistrust” of justice system.

  • Terrorism
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    ‘Shared Distress’ of Terrorism Creates Compassionate Citizens

    Acts of terrorism are likely to result in more 'social solidarity,' according to the journal Psychological Science, which published a study analyzing Twitter responses in France to the 2015 attack on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. 

  • Drugs
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    Opioids Prescriptions ‘Getting Longer’

    Research published by the Journal of the American Medical Association shows prescriptions lasting 30 days or longer rose from 18.3 percent of opioid prescriptions to 24.9 percent. Longer opioid use has been tied to a higher risk of addiction and overdose.

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    debt
    Income-Based Fines Could Reduce Justice Debts for Poor: Study

    Americans owe nearly $136 billion in criminal debt—most of which is unrecoverable. Scholars and experts gathered at a Brookings forum Friday to discuss a new proposal for “graduated sanctions” that could remove the crushing burden from justice-involved individuals and their families.

  • White Collar Crime
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    White Collar Crime Prosecutions Decrease Under Trump: Report

    Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse reported a 35.7 percent dip in white collar cases from five years ago.

  • Race and Equity
    Black, Latino Drivers Stopped More Than Whites: Study

    Stanford University researchers have compiled the most comprehensive evidence to date suggesting there is a pattern of racial disparities in traffic stops---the largest such dataset ever collected---which points to pervasive inequality in how police decide to stop and search white and minority drivers.

Read the Winning Entries in the 2019 John Jay Justice Journalism Awards

Read the Winning Entries in the 2019 John Jay Justice Journalism Awards

TCR’s Ten Women Who Changed Justice in 2018

TCR’s Ten Women Who Changed Justice in 2018

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  • Juvenile Justice
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    Locking Up Juvenile Truants, Runaways Called ‘State-Sanctioned Trauma’
    By Charlotte West/The Appeal | March 21, 2019

    Washington detains more children for status offenses such as truancy and running away than any other state in the country. State lawmakers want to change that.

  • Viewpoints
    Return of the Wiseguys: The American Mafia’s Uncanny Resilience
    By Christian Cipollini | March 21, 2019

    The murder of alleged Gambino crime boss "Frankie Boy" Cali outside his Staten Island home this month fanned speculation about a new Mafia war. But there are three sides to every mob story, writes a veteran observer of U.S. organized crime.

  • Hate Crimes
    protesters
    Take White Nationalist Violence Seriously, Faith Leaders Tell FBI
    By TCR Staff | March 21, 2019

    Citing a number of attacks on houses of worship and dismissive comments by the president and FBI, a group of civil rights and faith leaders want a meeting with the FBI director to press for more enforcement.

  • Q&A
    el chapo
    Catching a Kingpin: The Hunt for ‘El Chapo’ and the Deadly Lessons of the Opioid Crisis
    By Isidoro Rodriguez | March 20, 2019

    When drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzman was convicted last month, many people scored it as a major victory in America’s drug war. But in a conversation with TCR about his new book, Jack Riley, the DEA agent who helped bring Guzman to justice, said the country still hasn’t learned the real lessons of the struggle with opioid cartels and their enablers.

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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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