Kids who are sentenced by college-football-loving judges who are disappointed after unexpected team losses are finding themselves behind bars for longer than kids who are sentenced after wins or predicted losses.
Category: Press Coverage
Reuters — Parole System Questioned After Murder of NBA Star’s Cousin
Some criminal justice experts caution that limiting early release programs could backfire…
WNYC News – New York
East New York, Brooklyn has the highest number of shooting deaths in New York City this year with 6, and 10 other types of homicides. But there’s a 40-block radius on the border with Brownsville where there hasn’t been a shooting since February, and there hasn’t been a fatal shooting since November 2014.
Criminal Justice and the Young
To the Editor: “Don’t Treat Young Adults as Teenagers,” by Laurence Steinberg, Thomas Grisso, Elizabeth S. Scott and Richard
How Cops Terrorize People Without Even Arresting Them
by Allie Gross March 24, 2016 Around 5 PM on an icebox cold Tuesday evening this month, Shagwaina Clark* began
Jailhouse Blues: Nicaragua’s Take on Prison Reform
in Foreign Affairs by Jennifer Peirce In 2013, a group of men incarcerated at Nicaragua’s La Modelo prison started a