Death Row at San Quentin, which currently houses 622 inmates.The Death Penalty Information Center has this short summary of a study recently completed by the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ)…
Judgment Day Posts
“ Two Separate Societies: One in Prison, One Not”; Marie Gottschalk provides this opinion piece in the Washington Post. Here’s the intro: Forty years ago, the Kerner Commission concluded in its landmark study of…
Tomorrow the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Irizarry v. United States, a case involving judges’ duty to notify parties before departing from the sentencing guidelines. If you’re looking to…
The New York Times has this article about the U.S. Supreme Court declining, without comment, to hear the case of Christopher Pittman who received a 30-year prison sentence for killing his grandparents and setting…
SCOTUSblog provides “The Week Ahead” here. The Court will hear oral arguments in two high profile criminal cases this week. On Tuesday, the Court will hear Irizarry v. United States, a case…
The New York Times had this article over the weekend about New York’s decision to keep four prisons open despite the state having 9,000 fewer inmates than it did in 1999. Former Governor Elliott Spitzer…
The Kansas City Star has this editorial discussing the Second Chance Act signed into law by President Bush early last week. Here are highlights: Thousands of offenders leave prison each year unprepared for life…
With all the [continued] Baze publicity, going largely unnoticed was the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision this week to grant cert in Chambers v. U.S. (06-11206). Just five days after the Court ruled in Begay v.…
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,…
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…