Blog Posts in January, 2015
In Pennsylvania, 429 death warrants have been signed since 1985 but only three people have been executed. The state's top judge, Chief Justice Ronald D. Castille of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, ...
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"Outgoing Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley took the state's last four inmates off death row, commuting their sentences to life in prison without parole in one of his final acts in ...
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%It's a mixed report as far as whether the criminal justice system in this country is growing or contacting. The number of persons under adult correctional supervision fell by 41,500 persons ...
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The criminal justice system's overreliance on incarceration is now recognized as having life-long effects on the overall economy, those sentenced to prison, and the prisoner's children as ...
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The last quarter Fiscal Year 2014 sentencing statistics were released by the Sentencing Commission. There are lots of interesting information that the Commission has mined. One trend is that for all ...
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We all know that seized drug proceeds are used to fund prosecutor's offices and even initiatives sponsored by law enforcement agencies. To me, those uses are bothersome because agents are given a ...
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