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A study by the UC Davis Firearm Violence Research Center estimated that as many as two out of every three Californians have been exposed indirectly to gun violence in the course of their normal daily activities. “I would expect the situation would be worse in many other states,” says research leader Dr. Garen J. Wintemute.
The American criminal justice system is overly concerned with the punitive elements of justice at the expense of meaningful correction. Strengthening family ties may be the solution, according to a report from the Orrin G. Hatch Foundation.
In some cases, search warrants executed by American law enforcement have highlighted parts of a broken system that have led to death — even as officers lack no legal justification for being present. Using the case of Breonna Taylor, a University of Kentucky law professor charges the search warrant system is undermining law enforcement.
The dominance of plea bargaining and the lack of transparency throughout the justice system should be addressed with “legal safeguards” to protect defendants, argues a forthcoming paper in the Stetson Law Review.
Since the start of the pandemic, corrections authorities around the U.S. have tightened “needlessly cruel” barriers to family contacts—ranging from curtailing visits to raising fees for phone calls―that will increase recidivism and worsen the emotional health of incarcerees, two separate research reports warn.
Although bail reform in New York successfully reduced city and state prison populations, it has failed to resolve economic inequality in the state’s pretrial detention system, argues Daniel Chasin in the Cardozo Law Review.
New research has found that Black Americans who have spent time in jail or prison are 65 percent more likely to die prematurely, even if it’s been years since their incarceration, while having no meaningful impact on the long-term health of white former inmates, reports Health Day.
Handgun owners previously convicted of, or charged with, intimate partner violence are more likely to re-offend, according to a new study by the UC Davis Violence Prevention Research Program.
According to new research published by the ACLU-PA, courts within the commonwealth routinely assign unaffordable cash bail, incarcerating thousands of people simply because they cannot afford to pay their way out. The researchers outline recommendations that the courts can take on the path to reform.
The study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics looked at the employment history of a sample of 51,500 federal prisoners over a four year period since their release in 2010.