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Experts “can say whatever they want,” said Simon Cole, director of the National Registry of Exonerations. That includes inventing odds like “one in a million” or “1 in 129,600,” the registry says. “
“The responsibility now falls to Congress,” said House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), who issued a subpoena Friday to obtain the unredacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s final report.
The Trump administration announced an ambitious program to reduce deaths from opioid overdoses in hard-hit communities across several states. The $353 million effort will test the idea that the best approaches to combat the drug crisis are well known but poorly implemented.
Fifty people already have been charged in the scheme to help parents buy their way into prestigious colleges. Consultant Rick Singer, who has pleaded guilty, said he did 761 “side deals.”
President Donald Trump’s fear that leaks and press speculation were “undermining” his presidency did not prevent him from cooperating with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into alleged Trump campaign collusion with Russians, Attorney General William Barr told a press conference Thursday.
The focus comes as the Justice Department issues two reports focusing on the mental health and safety of the nation’s police officers. One example given is the trauma experienced by members of the SWAT team that went to Columbine High School in 1999.
The only shelter for immigrants is full in the border city of 100,000. Mayor Douglas Nicholls says federal agents released nearly 1,000 migrants there in the past three weeks.
Students ages 12 to 18 experienced 827,000 crime victimizations at school and 503,800 victimizations away from school in 2017, says a new report. That compared with 749,400 victimizations at school and 601,300 away from school the previous year.
The way to reduce the number of Americans in prisons–and on parole–is to acknowledge that behavior doesn’t change overnight, experts say.
Inmates at Michigan’s only women’s prison suffered “unbearable itching” and permanent scarring because the Michigan Department of Corrections failed for more than a year to diagnose or properly treat a scabies outbreak, according to a class action lawsuit.