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The care of pregnant women in federal prisons and in the custody of U.S. marshals does not always align with national guidelines on pregnancy-related treatment and care, according to a report to Congress conducted by the United States Government Accountability Office, released Wednesday.
A study by the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health found that jail inmates, already vulnerable because of ill health or substance abuse, were at greater risk of dying after experiencing the additional stress of being incarcerated.
The lack of racial diversity in jury boxes is due to state laws barring people with conviction records from serving, according to a new report from the Prison Policy Initiative.
Some of the hardline laws passed in previous decades — such as three-strikes laws — now conflict with most Americans’ perceptions of fair justice, and need to be adjusted accordingly, according to a forthcoming paper in the University of Illinois Law Review.
There are more people serving life sentences in the U.S today than the total prison population of the 1970s, and five times more than in 1984, according to the latest report from The Sentencing Project.
The risk that individuals may confess to crimes they have not committed should make evidence from confessions inadmissible in a criminal trial, according to a paper by a Texas law professor.
Being a female lawyer in criminal law means constantly having others tell you to “toughen up,” according to an American Bar Association task force. The task force found that while women have slightly outnumbered men in law school for the past four years, female law graduates make up a much smaller representation of actual attorneys, and an even smaller number of justice leaders.
Marijuana legalization can be a stepping stone to broader reforms of the criminal justice system, according to a forthcoming paper in the Arizona State Law Journal.
A comprehensive study by the Council on Criminal Justice of police data between 1977 and 2018 challenges the assumptions of many law enforcement critics. But it also offers a baseline for reformers about the “state of policing in America,” says Council President Adam Gelb.
Some 147 million court records and 101 million arrest records have been posted on the Internet just in the past 10 years—amounting to a minefield for individuals hoping to reintegrate into civil society, according to a new study. Much of the data will remain online forever unless authorities find a way to balance public access with privacy rights, the authors warned.