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A United Nations committee on racial discrimination found that the use of facial recognition and other algorithm-driven technologies for law enforcement and immigration control may risk deepening racism and xenophobia and could lead to human rights violations.
The victories of Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, who won her bid for re-election, George Gascon in Los Angeles and Jose Garza in Austin, Tx., reflected slow but steady support for prosecutors bent on changing the “tough on crime” approach that has driven mass incarceration. But they still represent a small percentage of prosecutors.
More than 1.2 million cases were pending in immigration courts in October—a record number, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. That will be among the challenges faced by Alejandro Mayorkas, named by President-elect Joe Biden to head the sprawling Department of Homeland Security.
A new Bureau of Justice Statistics report shows that an overwhelming majority of youth who were victimized by staff reported previous inappropriate contact with their abuser.
According to a new Pretrial Justice Institute report, extensive data prove that risk assessment instruments (RAIs) used on individuals seeking release pretrial are inherently flawed. They don’t accurately predict flight risk or violent crime offense risk, and are making assessments with biased data.
Protesters against police violence should be on the same side of the barricades as Second Amendment opponents of stricter gun controls, argues a Virginia law professor. Both fear the government’s “monopoly of force.”
As Americans prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving, police are unlikely to play a significant role in enforcing compliance with advisories warning against travel and limiting the number of people around the dinner table to curb the spread of COVID-19—if the results of a new survey on police enforcement of pandemic restrictions so far are any indication.
The Council on Criminal Justice panel will evaluate two dozen commonly proposed reforms aimed at preventing police use of excessive force, reducing racial biases, increasing police accountability, and improving the relationship between law enforcement and the communities it serves.
Countering police claims that people released on bail helped drive an increase in shootings, a Loyola University study argues that a key factor may be the “stress” produced by the pandemic.
It’s an “unprecedented, stressful” time for those confined to prison during the pandemic—and for those who work in them, a webinar was told Wednesday. The lack of clear guidance about when a vaccine will be available to correctional populations hasn’t helped matters.