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Apr 01 2024
News
Data: Buncombe County's Black youth disproportionately sent to criminal justice system
ASHEVILLE — New data presented at a recent Juvenile Crime Prevention Council meeting shows that a disproportionate number of complaints against Buncombe County’s Black youths are filed into the criminal justice system than are filed against other youth populations. Crime prevention and youth mentoring leaders say the statistics are concerning and highlight inequalities that need to be
Asheville Citizen-TimesMar 17 2024
News
What the Fani Willis ruling says about the criminal justice system
Much has already been written about Judge Scott McAfee’s ruling Friday allowing Fani Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, to continue overseeing the prosecution of Donald Trump and his co-defendants for allegedly conspiring to steal the 2020 election in Georgia. As my colleague Pema Levy explained, this was a momentous decision—one that means, at least for now, that the case with the
Mother JonesAug 13 2020
Background
Framing the debate on criminal justice reform: What citizens and policymakers should know
Americans across partisan, ideological, and racial lines are rethinking the country’s criminal justice system. This is entirely appropriate—and necessary. By situating decades-long trends in crime and punishment in the appropriate historical and comparative contexts, William Galston and Elizabeth McElvein hope to provide citizens and policymakers with a framework for assessing the
NAACPAug 13 2020
Background
Framing the debate on criminal justice reform: What citizens and policymakers should know
Americans across partisan, ideological, and racial lines are rethinking the country’s criminal justice system. This is entirely appropriate—and necessary. By situating decades-long trends in crime and punishment in the appropriate historical and comparative contexts, William Galston and Elizabeth McElvein hope to provide citizens and policymakers with a framework for assessing the
Brookings InstitutionAug 10 2020
News
Criminal justice, Chicago, riots, looting, crime, police brutality, police reform
Democratic Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot condemned a night of mass looting during a press conference Monday morning, warning “criminals and vigilantes” that “we are coming for you.”
Looters and rioters descended on the streets of Chicago early Monday morning after a man was reportedly hit during a shootout involving officers, according to Newsweek. Lightfoot addressed the chaos Monday
The Daily CallerJul 11 2022
Analysis
Charging a Bodega Worker Who Stabbed His Attacker Isn't Criminal Justice Reform
A 61-year-old New York City bodega worker recently found himself on Rikers Island—one of the most notorious jails in the U.S., known for its pervasive violence and its drumbeat of death.
The man's alleged crime: defending himself against an irate customer who had attacked him behind the cashier's counter.
Around 11 p.m. on July 1, 35-year-old Austin Simon entered the convenience
Billy BinionAug 13 2020
Background
Criminal Law Reform
The Criminal Law Reform Project (CLRP) focuses its work on the “front end” of the criminal legal system—from policing to sentencing— seeking to end excessively harsh criminal justice policies that result in mass incarceration, over-criminalization, and racial injustice, and stand in the way of a fair and equal society.
By fighting for nationwide reforms to pretrial detention and
ACLUApr 16 2024
News
These Trials Aren't Really About Donald Trump. They're About The Whole Criminal Justice System
Yes, the first (but not the last) criminal trial for ex-president Donald Trump began yesterday. The first criminal trial for a major party candidate while actively running for president. The first criminal trial for an ex-president. To be precise, Trump himself is on trial. But in reality, the criminal justice system and the political system next to it are the ones that really are. The entire
Daily KosApr 14 2022
News
Criminal justice reform faces political buzzsaw as GOP hones its midterm message
The Senate delivered former President Donald Trump a bipartisan criminal justice reform deal shortly after the last midterm election. Staging a sequel for President Joe Biden this year won’t be so easy.
Dick Durbin and Chuck Grassley, the top Democrat and Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, are still in talks over finalizing a package that would serve as a more narrow follow-
PoliticoMar 07 2024
News
NOPD headquarters potential move to Downtown deferred to Criminal Justice Committee
I’M ELIZABETH KUEBEL, WDSU NEWS. ELIZABETH THANK YOU. MEANWHILE, TALKS OVER THAT BIG MOVE FOR THE NOPD IS NOW BEING DEFERRED FROM TODAY’S COUNCIL MEETING TO THE NEXT CRIMINAL JUSTICE COMMITTEE MEETING. AS YOU KNOW, THE CITY IS PROPOSING MOVING HEADQUARTERS FROM ITS CURRENT BUILDING ON BROAD TO THE DXC BUILDING ON POYDRAS, WHICH IS NEAR CITY HALL AND THE SUPERDOME. THE MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR
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