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Victims’ rights, gun violence and—no surprise— marijuana legalization are among the criminal justice issues appearing on state ballots in next month’s midterm elections. Here’s why you should pay attention to the outcomes.
Unless U.S. corrections authorities develop specialized reeducation programs, Americans imprisoned for terrorist-related offenses will threaten U.S. domestic security when they are released, a journalist who wrote a book on ISIS warned Monday. Joby Warrick said Europeans have a better approach.
TRUE, a pilot program at a maximum security facility in Connecticut, offers prisoners a path back to normalcy, with educational programs and schedules they help devise. It’s one of several innovative experiments in changing correctional practices that reformers hope will change the face of U.S. prisons.
Human trafficking and organized crime have increased since the administration toughened immigration policies, an immigration writer told an Oct. 9 John Jay conference. That’s made both legal and illegal immigrants—particularly women—vulnerable to exploitation, speakers said.
A new program that provides opioid-dependent inmates with small drug doses to help ease their withdrawal when they leave prison shows promising results in Philadelphia. So why do so many U.S. corrections authorities resist medication-assisted treatment?
The furor over Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s alleged sexual misconduct as a 17-year-old raises questions about how he would rule on key juvenile justice cases, a John Jay College conference was told.
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen says a “situation awareness room” in Washington will help states monitor attempts to sabotage the midterm elections. But despite her assurances, experts told a cybersecurity summit Oct. 2 that the U.S. has no credible deterrence strategies to prevent foreign cybermeddling.
Legislators and courts need to rethink the “fear” mentality that results in long prison terms for violent offenders, and consider more nuanced strategies that take account of the different factors that drive violence in America, leading victims’ advocates and community activists told a John Jay conference last week.
Although inmates in just 16 states reportedly participated in the prison strike that began last month, their complaints deserve a better national hearing than they received, prison reformers tell The Crime Report.
In Part Two of our investigation of America’s sex trafficking crisis, TCR finds a burgeoning “niche” industry of private nonprofit groups—many comprised of ex-cops or military operatives—who operate outside law enforcement. One former FBI agent maintains that if such groups didn’t exist, the picture would be a lot grimmer.