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Most candidates back ideas that past nominees sidestepped or rejected, a New York Times poll found. That may be in response to a shift in the political terrain as a result of mass shootings and an emboldened network of advocacy groups.
Court fees even for indigent defendants average more than $1,000 per case in Pennsylvania. Public defenders are asking judges to waive them.
Yes, according to a paper co-authored by Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr., — but that means changing the “notion of what their jobs entail” to include working for expanded prisoner education and improved reentry strategies, as well as sentence reform.
Traumatized students are more anxious, depressed, and they avoid going to school, according to documents obtained by Politico following shootings in Florida and Texas last year. The phenomenon is confirmed by experts who study the aftermath of mass shootings.
Gunshot detection technology is most effective when law enforcement agencies thoroughly incorporate it into day-to-day operations and other systems of investigative tools, says a new report from the Urban Institute.
The Vera Institute supports the NYC council vote to close Rikers Island Jail but only if five points are met, such as aiming for far fewer than 4,000 to be incarcerated in city jails, the current goal.
According to a University of Pennsylvania study, more than 47 million Americans are exposed to some form of crime during childhood. A calculation of the “colossal” long-term annual costs, from mental trauma and physical ailments to reduced income, should galvanize politicians into action, the authors argue.
Puncturing arguments that decriminalizing marijuana for recreational use will lead to more crime, a new study found no “major detrimental effects on public safety” in the two states since voters approved legalization in 2012.
Researchers are surprised by the downward misdemeanor trend, which pushes against assumptions about over-policing in urban areas. Some say the falling arrest rates signal a fundamental shift in crime prevention.
An analysis of 229, 274 people who were released from incarceration in North Carolina from 2000 to 2015 found that, compared with people who were incarcerated but not in solitary, those who spent any time in “restrictive housing” were 24 percent more likely to die in the first year after release, especially from suicide and homicide.