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28 Feb 2008, 8:58 am
Under this plan, currently used in states such as Colorado and Nebraska, an independent commission of knowledgeable citizens recommends candidates to the governor, who appoints one of them as judge. [read post]
28 Feb 2008, 8:58 am
Under this plan, currently used in states such as Colorado and Nebraska, an independent commission of knowledgeable citizens recommends candidates to the governor, who appoints one of them as judge. [read post]
11 Feb 2008, 12:33 am
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Lentol (MS) -- Protects people who use the internet from convicted sex offenders Same as S 6875-A Last Act: 02/06/08 amend and recommit to correction02/06/08 print number 9859aA9918
Fields -- Prohibits certain sex offenders from entering a school bus or within one thousand feet of a school bus stop Same as S 6868 Last Act: 02/06/08 referred to codesA9923
Magnarelli (MS) -- Amends the criminal procedure law, the family court act, the… [read post]
7 Feb 2008, 8:05 pm
It has for too long been sustained by mythology and fiction, propped up by outdated rhetoric when courage and common sense would have served us better. [read post]
5 Feb 2008, 8:11 am
U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, January 29, 2008 US v. [read post]
3 Feb 2008, 11:31 am
California commission considering costs of sex offender laws A practical challenge to GPS monitoring More reasons to expect a GPS-world of corrections [read post]
30 Jan 2008, 7:57 am
The US Sentencing Commission did some very interesting work on recidivism a few years ago (see here and here and here), which found among other things that the recidivism predictor used by the the US Parole Commission two decades ago "is a statistically better recidivism risk prediction instrument than" the criminal history categories incorporated by the Sentencing Commission into the sentencing guidelines. [read post]
30 Jan 2008, 3:20 am
US Parole Commission, No. 06-1343 (10th Cir. [read post]
20 Jan 2008, 3:15 am
Life in prison without parole is a better alternative. [read post]
18 Jan 2008, 9:41 am
Texas Youth Commission conservator Richard Nedelkoff plans to hire a permanent executive director soon, he says, and it sounds like it won't be current acting E.D. [read post]
12 Jan 2008, 3:42 am
Memos from the probation and parole division describe his"special knowledge, skills and abilities" as "one of a kind. [read post]
8 Jan 2008, 6:45 am
But it was also a year when the issue of false confessions and recording interrogations penetrated the public consciousness with stories about the Justice Department's firing of US Attorney Paul Charlton, the CIA's destruction of interrogation tapes, the CIA's torture of detainees and the resulting false confessions, and even the Senator Larry Craig fiasco. [read post]
3 Jan 2008, 1:41 am
” This Immigration Logic leads to a conclusion that the “New E-2 Visa,” its not a new visa, doesn’t require an FBI criminal record check but teachers “can use the following options” ― contact a “local police station” or a “privately-run criminal record check” service, such as: “www.criminalbackgroundrecords.com. [read post]
31 Dec 2007, 3:28 am
The Sunset Commission said low parole rates were the main cause of prison overcrowding in the last few years along with lengthier sentences "enhanced" by the Legislature. [read post]
30 Dec 2007, 6:15 am
When the penaltywas in full-speed-ahead mode, the courts used to spend weeks, even months,on the highest profile cases.Now that life without parole is more often used, it has become acceptableto some who once might have objected to it. [read post]
29 Dec 2007, 12:49 pm
In reality, however, most of the "criminals" locked up are poor people who commit non-violent crimes out of economic need.Violence occurs in less than 14% of all reported US crime, and injuries occur in just 3%. 36% of convicted offenders were under the influence of Alcohol during the commission of their crime.Drug offenders, up 37%, represented the largest source of jail population growth between 1996 and 2002. [read post]
21 Dec 2007, 6:55 am
This story also puts into perspective the over-wrought hand-wringing by some about the much small number of federal crack offenders that might be released nationwide each year as a result of the US Sentencing Commission's new crack guidelines. [read post]
20 Dec 2007, 2:09 am
There are a large number of American states that have the death penalty on the books but don't really use it. [read post]
17 Dec 2007, 11:23 am
Moreover, as I have stressed in prior posts, I am troubled that in eliminating the death penalty, New Jersey has expanded its use of the penalty of life without the possibility of parole. [read post]
17 Dec 2007, 9:03 am
"The state Assembly approved the measure Thursday by a 44-36 vote after the Senate OK'd it 21-16.New Jersey has not executed a prisoner since 1963.The new legislation replaces the death penalty with life in prison without parole. [read post]
