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About 5.2 million Americans are unable to cast a vote, disenfranchised by virtue of a felony conviction, making up 2.3 percent of the nation’s voting-age population, according to a new report from The Sentencing Project.
COVID-19 outbreaks continue their rapid growth in the nation’s jails, prisons, and detention centers, says a new report for the Council on Criminal Justice by Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and the Center for Public Health and Human Rights at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.
A University of Virginia Law professor argues for replacing incarceration of repeat “quality of life” offenders with a different approach that could allow them to rehabilitate at their own pace. He notes drug clinics in some countries offer a precedent for the strategy.
Due to a lack of preparedness in the legal world, many lawyers and their clients are battling to make sure their communications stay between them — and away from the eyes and ears of hackers domestically and abroad, a new NYCLU report details.
Women serving prison sentences suffer serious trauma both before and during incarceration, according to a new study by the Urban Institute. Researchers say improved awareness of their plight, and better services in the prison systems are urgently needed.
A paper authored by three of the nation’s most prominent criminologists counters hardline warnings that reductions in prison populations endanger public safety. In fact, the paper argues, social and demographic trends such as fewer teen births are propelling lowered crime rates.
Older inmates mentor younger ones in a specialized unit that has fostered a profound “culture change” in the Washington, D.C. Jail, according to a recent report by the Justice Policy Institute.
Rising youth unemployment will provide a “fertile field” for the expansion of Mexico’s crime cartels in the aftermath of COVID-19 — and is likely to pose a new threat to national security in America’s southern neighbor, three researchers predict.
For most Americans, it’s less about abolishing police departments than changing them to reflect a new generation’s perceptions of policing, and the needs of an increasingly complicated U.S. justice landscape, according to a new report.
Researchers and prosecutors issued the first detailed blueprint on how to judge prosecutors’ work, in a project funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Charles Koch Foundation.