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Milwaukee DA John Chisholm and Wisconsin Public Defender John Reed have crossed turf lines to collaborate in a system of “community-oriented” justice whose end goal is to put fewer people in prison. In a Harvard paper, they argue there’s no reason why other cities can’t follow a similar path.
These are among the numerous evidence-based alternatives now being used by corrections authorities across the U.S. to discipline unruly or dangerous inmates, according to a study by Marc Levin of the Texas Public Policy Foundation.
The massive anticrime law passed by Congress in 1994 is known as a “tough on crime” measure. Its “safety valve” provisions have allowed for the reductions in many federal drug penalties, a new analysis finds.
A University of California economics professors compared recidivism data in 25 states that have passed ‘Ban the Box’ policies and found that they might have had the opposite impact for African-American ex-offenders.
Of more than 2,300 jurisdictions that elect their prosecutor, fewer than 700 presented voters with more than a single candidate in 2014 and 2016, finds a new study. Still, most voters live in more-populous areas that give them a choice.
New jails built to accommodate the rising number of federal immigrant detainees and drug offenders awaiting trial are generating income for cash-strapped rural authorities, but they also create financial risk—and skew local priorities, says the Vera Institute of Justice.
Nearly half of U.S. law enforcement agencies had body cameras by 2016, but studies are finding no significant effects on measures of officer and citizen behavior or on public views of police.
The evidence is mixed, according to a Harvard Law School study, which argues that it should be used only when building careful protections against implicit racial bias into the algorithms.
A recent paper found that after Washington State legalized recreational marijuana in 2012, rapes decreased by as much as 30 percent, and thefts by 20 percent. But half of sheriffs surveyed in states that have legalized pot say crime rates have increased.
That’s the conclusion of a Johns Hopkins School of Medicine study, which may influence the kinds of interventions used to prevent deaths.