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3 Jun 2011, 3:44 am by Russ Bensing
California’s prison systems have been operating at 200% of capacity for over a decade. [read post]
2 Aug 2019, 3:23 am by Douglas A. Berman
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]
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 by Rekha Arulanantham
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]
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]
2 Mar 2012, 3:27 am by Russ Bensing
The Philadelphia Story. [read post]
14 Jul 2015, 4:30 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
President Obama delivered a major speech in Philadelphia today on federal criminal justice reform initiatives. [read post]
10 Nov 2017, 1:25 pm by Dean I. Weitzman, Esq.
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]
16 Jul 2012, 12:50 pm by SO Issues
Liberty Healthcare, a privately owned company based in suburban Philadelphia, did not respond to requests for comment. [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 by Gritsforbreakfast
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]
24 Jan 2011, 6:34 pm by Steve Hall
Today's Philadelphia Inquirer carries the editorial, "Life is the better choice. [read post]
10 Feb 2021, 2:07 pm by Patrick@nimblelight.com
Through her experience as a judicial law clerk in the Court of Common Pleas, Criminal Trial Division, Lauren Wimmer developed a thorough understanding of how the Philadelphia criminal justice system operations. [read post]
23 Sep 2015, 2:28 am by Walter Olson
Tags: Arizona, Maryland, Pennsylvania, police bill of rights laws, prisoners, public employmentGreat moments in public employment: correctional officers’ rights is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
8 Dec 2011, 8:46 am by Judicial Watch Blog
Abu-Jamal, who claims to be the victim of a racist legal system, was sentenced to death by the jury that convicted him in 1982. [read post]
4 Nov 2016, 8:09 pm
McCoy and Angela Couloumbis of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News and Brad Bumsted of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review published what seemed to be a never ending deluge of leaks, twists and updates. [read post]