Instead of trying to fix individual parts of the justice system, states should create a single regulatory agency that manages police, courts and corrections, proposes an Oregon Law Review paper.
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Bail bond companies earn billions in profits while providing little benefit to the public, charges a new policy paper released by the Prison Policy Initiative.
The U.S. had a fatal police shooting rate of 3.1 per million in 2019—and its police forces provided the briefest training period among the 18 countries examined, averaging only five months, according to a Rutgers University study.
Authors of a new report from the Alliance for Safety and Justice found a widespread disconnect between victim needs and justice system priorities.
The link between Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and criminal behavior is rarely acknowledged by courts as a mitigating factor in sentencing decisions, says a New York Law School study.
While electronic monitoring is meant to be an alternative to incarceration, an ACLU report says the system relies on excessive surveillance and abuse and is subject to racial bias. In Detroit, for example, Black people are twice as likely as whites to be under electronic monitoring.
The U.S employed nearly 137,000 federal law enforcement officers in 2020, of whom over 62,000 work under the Department of Homeland Security, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. More than 60 percent are white.
Despite representing only 13.6 percent of the population, Black people account for 53 percent of the 3,200 exonerations through August 2022, according to a report released Tuesday by the National Registry of Exonerations.
New research released by the Council on Criminal Justice shows that the gap between Black and white state imprisonment rates has narrowed significantly over the last two decades, with drug crimes driving the decrease.
The discovery was part of a 10-month investigation by the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.