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24 Aug 2014, 12:30 am
Goffman’s book shows how men like Mike get entangled in the criminal justice system; once they’re in, their youth is all but consumed in a spiral of police run-ins, court dates, bench warrants, prison, and probation. [read post]
22 May 2009, 2:06 pm
Seems to us that makes our judicial system no better than say, Cuba's, or Iran's. [read post]
10 Feb 2011, 12:56 pm
Copyright 2011, Philadelphia Bar Association. [read post]
10 Jun 2020, 3:44 am
Philadelphia, a challenge to Philadelphia’s exclusion of Catholic Social Services from the city’s foster care system because the group will not place children with same-sex couples; the brief urges the court to overrule a key free exercise precedent, Employment Division v. [read post]
13 Dec 2019, 11:41 am
Another life ruined, a prison sentence in the wings. [read post]
3 Jun 2011, 3:44 am
California’s prison systems have been operating at 200% of capacity for over a decade. [read post]
2 Aug 2019, 3:23 am
But such changes, while desperately needed, do nothing for the hundreds of thousands of people who are already serving long sentences in America’s expensive and overcrowded prison system. [read post]
30 Jun 2012, 7:21 am
Public defenders reduce overall expected time served in prison by 24%. [read post]
9 Dec 2022, 10:00 pm
”So how might the American legal system accomplish the task of instilling a sense of purpose to jury service, as well as usher gratitude for participants’ time and effort? [read post]
3 Jul 2012, 12:02 pm
They also remain tethered to the criminal justice system—sometimes decades after they complete their sentences—and live under constant threat of being sent back to jail or prison, solely because they cannot pay what has become an unmanageable legal debt. [read post]
27 Sep 2022, 12:24 pm
NRE also found 17 “Group Exonerations” of 2,975 defendants, mostly Black and Latino or Hispanic, wrongfully convicted of drug crimes due to the systematic misconduct by police in Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia and elsewhere. [read post]
14 Jul 2015, 4:30 pm
President Obama delivered a major speech in Philadelphia today on federal criminal justice reform initiatives. [read post]
2 Mar 2012, 3:27 am
The Philadelphia Story. [read post]
10 Nov 2017, 1:25 pm
A man who was struck by a tractor-trailer and seriously injured as he was helping a friend change a flat tire on a vehicle on the shoulder of Interstate 81 four years ago has been awarded a $15.5 million jury verdict in a Philadelphia court. [read post]
20 Apr 2009, 9:44 am
Those asking for life in prison: 12. [read post]
26 May 2017, 1:15 pm
The public’s clamor for a new approach from prosecutors reached deafening levels last week in Philadelphia, where voters in the Democratic primary sent Larry Krasner on to the general election. [read post]
1 Aug 2018, 5:43 am
See coverage from The Hill.Conservatives 💗 'progressive' prosecutorsWe've discussed on this blog the memo from Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner detailing what prosecutors can do to scale back mass incarceration. [read post]
16 Jul 2012, 12:50 pm
Liberty Healthcare, a privately owned company based in suburban Philadelphia, did not respond to requests for comment. [read post]
6 Feb 2009, 8:34 am
Horn spokesman Stephen Morello provided a list of things the commissioner has done and is doing to address problems, including improving the staff-inmate ratio in high-risk teen housing areas to 1 in 25-a move that advocates have been demanding for years. 'While one inmate homicide is too many, the NYC jails compare quite favorably with other large city systems on this point,' Morello says, citing federal stats that show the homicide rate in the city jails being far better than… [read post]
24 Jan 2011, 6:34 pm
Today's Philadelphia Inquirer carries the editorial, "Life is the better choice. [read post]
