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Carol Marbin Miller, a Miami Herald senior investigative reporter, was honored by the National Council on Crime & Delinquency for her investigation of Florida’s juvenile justice system. The story earlier won this year’s John Jay/H.F. Guggenheim Award for Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting.
Comprehensive Background Check (CBC) policies may not affect firearm background checks, a new study by the UC Davis Violence Prevention Research Program (VPRP) and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has found.
Gurbir Grewal, the state’s AG since January 2018, was responding to the findings of a team of New Jersey journalists who compiled a database of long-ignored reports documenting the use of force by police agencies around the state. The findings included evidence of racial bias.
As the Supreme Court signals it may rule in favor of a defendant who claims civil forfeiture violated the Eighth Amendment’s ban on “excessive fines,” a coalition of progressives, conservatives and libertarians is preparing to celebrate. But local governments could lose a major revenue source.
In a study of prisoners released in 2016, the Bureau of Justice Statistics found that more than seven in 10 violent offenders spend less than five years in state prisons, and prisoners served an average of 46 percent of their maximum sentence length.
Project New Opportunity (PNO), created under President Obama’s Clemency Initiative and the United States Sentencing Commission’s (USSC) 2014 reduction in drug sentencing guidelines, has proven successful in reducing recidivism among ex-incarcerees, a new study has found.
The 30-year-old Russian has been teaching yoga and baking cookies since she was arrested on charges of working for Russian intelligence during the 2016 election campaign, say sympathetic supporters. She was sent to administrative segregation this week for what prison officials claimed was her “safety.”
The nation seems to be emerging from the “long tunnel” of the opioid crisis, but substituting medical marijuana as an alternative form of care may land us in a “fog of extensive, additional public health repercussions,” warn Arizona researchers.
The FBI says its new National Use-of-Force Data Collection project’s goal is not to investigate specific cases, but “to offer a comprehensive view of the circumstances, subjects, and officers involved in such incidents nationwide.”
Efforts to “manage” the threat of cyber-sabotage from botnets— which harness multiple computers to disrupt the Internet— will fail, warns the Council on Foreign Relations. A new paper says they need to be destroyed through a multi-national effort.