The Justice Policy Institute has this article today about Shelby County ‘s jail incarceration rate, which is currently ranked third in the country. The article states the jail, like many in America,…
Category: Incarceration
Just days after President Bush signed the Second Chance Act, the AP is reporting Senator and presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has her own plan to reduce the number of prisoners returning to…
The Death Penalty Information Center discusses two reports released this week by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California on the high costs of California’s death penalty system. The…
Excerpts from the San Francisco Chronicle story: Lawmakers from California to Kentucky are trying to save money with a drastic and potentially dangerous budget-cutting proposal: releasing tens of thousands of convicts from…
The Sentencing Project has this today: In an opinion piece published in the annual report of the Open Society Foundation of South Africa, Marc Mauer cautions policymakers to avoid the U.S.…