How many American children are suspended or expelled from school in their middle and high school years? Who are these students, and what happens to them?
Posts Tagged “Criminal Justice Fund”
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In Georgia, aggressive efforts to incarcerate indigent parents are often focused on the poorest of the poor, rather than on those parents of means who simply choose not to pay child support.
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New York governor Andrew Cuomo has announced he is pulling the state out of the mass deportation program known as Secure Communities.
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Sherrilyn Ifill, professor of law at the University of Maryland and board chair of U.S. Programs at the Open Society Foundations, breaks down the implications of the Supreme Court ruling forcing California to reduce the extreme overcrowding of its prisons.
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruling on California prisons provides policymakers with the opportunity to correct misguided sentencing policies and, in the process, to produce more effective public safety outcomes.
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A Louisiana judge recently sentenced a 35-year-old man to prison for the rest of his life—for marijuana. Setting aside the question of whether the punishment is ethically justified, let's look at whether it's smart.
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In a video interview, Open Society Fellow Susan Burton talks about her work helping formerly incarcerated women in South Los Angeles turn their lives around.
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John Thompson spent 18 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Now the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled there is no accountability for the prosecutors who covered up evidence and nearly got him executed.
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Eliminating the disparity in sentencing for crack versus powdered cocaine offenses isn't a matter of being soft on crime. It's about fairness and sound public policy.
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The prescription for addressing substance-abuse problems in the U.S. remains an exorbitantly expensive dose of prison, instead of treatment programs that are cost-effective, protect community safety, and improve people’s lives.