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13 May 2014, 6:04 pm by Annette Demers
We are in the 21st century and our democracy has reached its maturity. [read post]
5 Mar 2015, 7:56 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Read the whole thing.NPR last year ran an extensive series on court fees, see:As court fees rise, poor are paying the priceUnpaid court fees land the poor in 21st century Debtors Prisons Supreme Court ruling not enough to prevent Debtors PrisonsBig fees for the Big Easy's poorest defendantsCourt fees drive many poor defendants underground State by state court feesSee also prior Grits coverage of Ms. [read post]
1 Nov 2018, 3:59 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Your correspondent has been openly pleased with the success of Texas' debtors-prison reform legislation from 2017. [read post]
28 Oct 2015, 4:09 am by Ingrid Wuerth
 The President’s veto last week of the NDAA was based in part on his objection to the restrictions it places on such transfers. [read post]
15 Mar 2008, 6:47 pm
Already, the Florida Department of Corrections has converted three prisons into faith-based institutions -- two for men, one for women. [read post]
28 Dec 2017, 6:00 am by Alyssa Bernstein
From the late 19th through early 20th century, prostitution in Egypt was legal, regulated, and widely patronized by colonial British soldiers. [read post]
2 Feb 2010, 10:27 am by Jonathan Simon
The two victims hung yesterday included a 19 year old and a 37 year old, both accused of having plotted to assassinate leaders, based on confessions their lawyers strongly suggest were wrung by torture. [read post]
28 Feb 2014, 10:10 am
Analogously, in the prison context, one can imagine two dimensions of quality: humane in-prison conditions and low recidivism after prison. [read post]
20 Apr 2015, 5:56 am
At the time, parole was essentially replaced with a system that institutionalized a thirty three percent reduction in a sentence, based on good behavior in prison. [read post]
28 Apr 2021, 2:11 pm
Based on the notion that women who committed crimes, even felonies, might be taught law-abiding ways through education, hard work, and humane treatment, the Tehachapi prison experiment demonstrated that newly enfranchised female voters had gained traction in public life. [read post]
28 Apr 2021, 2:11 pm by Christine Corcos
Based on the notion that women who committed crimes, even felonies, might be taught law-abiding ways through education, hard work, and humane treatment, the Tehachapi prison experiment demonstrated that newly enfranchised female voters had gained traction in public life. [read post]
27 Mar 2019, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
Both capacious and generative, I know of no other work that comes close in offering so many fresh interpretations of twentieth-century US history and revisions of twentieth-century US historiography. [read post]
20 Mar 2015, 10:02 am by By Harold Jordan, ACLU of Pennsylvania
  The President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing Reform also tackled the school-to-prison pipeline and “zero tolerance” discipline within schools. [read post]
1 Oct 2010, 3:08 am by Guest Blogger
LoganIt is safe to assume that in 2020, like today, a significant majority of the nation’s convicts will be subject to community supervision of some kind, not prison or jail. [read post]
8 Oct 2012, 2:39 pm by Kenneth B. Weckstein
In recent financial fraud cases, federal courts have handed down prison sentences that would deter Methusaleh, nevermind your average, silver-haired fraudster: 100 years for 58 year-old Edward Okun, 150 years for septuagenarian Bernie Madoff, and another century or so for mogul Allen Stanford, 62. [read post]
3 Nov 2008, 7:06 pm
Osborne (08-6), an implied question is whether an inmate has a right under the Fourteenth Amendment, after conviction, to seek that type of evidence when the right is based upon the Supreme Court's 1963 ruling in Brady v. [read post]
14 Apr 2016, 8:03 am by Gritsforbreakfast
And must prisons be the ONLY institution in society utterly unaffected by the advent of 21st century technology? [read post]