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Two Italian researchers found a 40 percent reduction in most types of crime since a shelter-at-home advisory was announced in San Francisco and Oakland. Similar declines have been reported in other cities, but the researchers acknowledge more research is needed to understand the long-term impact of the coronavirus pandemic on criminal behavior.
Prison Policy Initiative has released a report saying those convicted of violent offenses are being categorically excluded from criminal justice reforms, limiting what can be done.
Some 3,000 fewer people on average are jailed in Chicago’s Cook County since bail policies were changed, while crime rates have continued falling, a new report finds.
Many critics have argued that America needs to radically rethink how prisons are constructed so they can function as rehabilitative environments. But a Colombian researcher finds that even modest changes in prison infrastructure can produce significant results.
The COVID-19 pandemic has injected a new meaning into the phrase “public safety.” It requires not just the release of incarcerated individuals, but ensuring their release doesn’t further endanger their health and the health of the communities to which they return, writes a Washington, D.C,-based attorney who specializes in sentencing and reentry issues.
Many analysts said widespread criticism of the 2014 police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., prompted police generally to be less proactive and emboldened criminals. A new study finds that changes in officer attitudes and practices were minor.
The National Registry of Exonerations says that, collectively, innocent people exonerated last year spent 1,908 years incarcerated, an average of 13.3 years lost per person. Official misconduct was blamed for most of the cases.
Police departments operating in U.S. colleges and universities have the same arrest and investigative powers as their municipal counterparts, but aren’t subject to the same standards of accountability and transparency, charges a new study.
Civil rights advocates have achieved significant success in curtailing racial profiling in traffic stops, and in practices that single out “Arabic-looking” individuals as terror suspects. But a third type of profiling that targets people of color for being in places where they don’t “belong” is the next challenge for law enforcement authorities, says a Pittsburgh law professor.
A new analysis by the the Prison Policy Institute of U.S. prison and jail populations demonstrates what it calls the “enormous churn” of people in and out of custody.