Judges shouldn’t be prohibited from handing down appropriate sentences, writes Julie Stewart, president of Families Against Mandatory Minimums, an Open Society Foundations grantee.
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The execution case against Mumia Abu-Jamal has finally been dropped. His 30-year odyssey reflects the evolution of the U.S. capital punishment system.
Posted in: Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: Christina Swarns, Criminal Justice Fund, death penalty, Mumia Abu-Jamal, NAACP
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Local and national funders have helped transform Washington, D.C.’s juvenile justice agency by closing a notorious prison for court-involved youth and redirecting resources to community-based alternatives.
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If we truly want people to come out of prison with the ability to fully re-engage as productive citizens, why do we deliberately disconnect them?
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New York is poised to take further steps to remove young people from the lifelong negative consequences of prosecution and incarceration in the adult criminal justice system.
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Troy Davis's case represents everything wrong with the death penalty—from procedural obstacles to racial bias to witness mishandling to allegations of police and prosecutorial misconduct to inadequate assistance of counsel.
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For those who apply to college after prison, admissions barriers compound the consequences of a criminal conviction long after the sentence is served.
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Last Thursday felt like time for a toast for America’s largest social movement, the folks fighting for immigrant rights. With the news that the Obama administration would review many of its pending 300,000 deportation cases and allow some of those with no “criminal” record to stay, you could...
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Each time that DNA frees an innocent person from prison, which happens with increasing regularity, we learn that people convicted of serious rapes and murders falsely confessed, eyewitnesses to the crime misidentified them, informants lied, or forensic analysts exaggerated the evidence. A new...
Posted in: Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: Brandon Garrett, Criminal Justice Fund, DNA, forensics, innocence project, video, wrongful convictions
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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?