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The Justice Department did not explain Adler’s departure. Last week, he issued prepared remarks saying that crime was falling in the U.S. as another DOJ agency said it was rising.
After first hinting he was considering tougher gun measures, President Donald Trump is now saying what the gun lobby wants to hear. He told a House Republican retreat Thursday that “Democrats want to confiscate guns from law-abiding Americans.”
The private prison industry is set to be upended after California lawmakers passed a bill banning the facilities from operating in the state. The move will probably close down four large immigration detention facilities that can hold up to 4,500 people at a time.
Fourteen criminal justice reform organizations ask Senate appropriators to provide the full $75 million authorized by Congress for the new law to improve rehabilitation of federal inmates.
Fed up with congressional squabbling, including among Democrats, the heads of 145 major companies are getting involved by sending a letter urging lawmakers to enact bills already introduced. “Doing nothing about America’s gun violence crisis is simply unacceptable,” the letter said.
Over the last 15 years, fees and costs for private attorneys in civil rights cases against the city totaled $213 million, the Chicago Tribune found. The city’s new top lawyer vows to rein in such spending.
Over two dissents, the Supreme Court said that while legal challenges continue, the Trump administration can cut off most asylum claims by people coming from Central America.
Department of Correction officials once made public data showing a sharp decline in violence at the Rikers Island Jail produced by the consulting firm McKinsey & Company, but may have ignored internal concerns that the numbers were bogus, according to a press report.
The general trend of violent crimes has been steadily declining since the 1990s, but that crime rate appears to have reversed in recent years, based on findings released from Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Jon Adler, director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance, announced $28 million in grants to the Public Safety Partnership, which he said had helped cut crime in cities like Milwaukee and New Orleans.