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'Atrocious' Rural TX Courts Leave People Jailed With No Lawyers
South Texas jail inmate Fernando Padro, accused of stealing credit cards to buy diapers, a bike and other goods for his family, heard...
Crime and Justice News
18 hours ago2 min read
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Five-State Research Project Promotes More-Humane Prisons
With the nation's prison population standing at about 1.3 million and invovlving 200,000 corrections officers, many inmates still must...
By Ted Gest
2 days ago3 min read
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'That's Not the Jessie I Knew,' People Said After the 1996 Murder. But He Did It. This Week, He Was Executed By Louisiana
Jessie Hoffman, the 46-year-old man gassed to death by Louisiana on Tuesday, was not someone who led a life of crime that ended in the...
Crime and Justice News
5 days ago2 min read
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Can Cognitive Behavioral Interventions Reduce Community Violence?
Firearm‑related injuries have been the leading cause of death for young people since 2020, surpassing motor vehicle crashes, cancer, drug...
Crime and Justice News
6 days ago3 min read
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How Trump Hopes High Court Will Affirm His Immigration Strategy
President Trump has accelerated a multipronged, methodically planned strategy to push the Supreme Court to bless his power to deport...
Crime and Justice News
7 days ago2 min read
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Local News Coverage Of Police Not More Polarized, Study Finds
High-profile incidents of police violence against Black citizens—most notably the 2020 murder of George Floyd—led to protests and...
Crime and Justice News
Mar 183 min read
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'Stick Talk' Teaches Chicago Teens How To Handle Guns Safely
Each year, the Chicago Police Department seizes 10,000 illegal guns and arrests thousands of people for illegal gun possession. Yet guns...
Crime and Justice News
Mar 172 min read
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Chicago Clearance Rate In Non-Fatal Shootings Is A Tiny 6 Percent
Tom Wagner was working as a rideshare driver when he was shot during a Chicago carjacking in 2021. The shooting left a jagged scar across...
Crime and Justice News
Mar 142 min read
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Report: Many Jurisdictions Locking Up More People, ‘Reversing Years of Downward Trends’
Many systems of confinement are locking up more people, reversing years of downward trends, according to the Prison Policy Initiative’s...
Crime and Justice News
Mar 133 min read
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What's Next For Police Reform Under Trump's DOJ?
President Joe Biden made it a priority for his Justice Department to investigate local police agencies with troubled records, including...
Crime and Justice News
Mar 122 min read
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Many Suicides Prevented By Increased Use Of Red-Flag Laws
Luc-John Pentz of Connecticut was 30 years old, struggling leaning heavily on alcohol. His sister Adriana found out he had purchased a...
Crime and Justice News
Mar 112 min read
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California Resentencing Law Leads To 174 Releases In Nine Counties
In 2023, more than two decades after prosecutors sent her to prison on a drug conviction that triggered California's three-strikes law, a...
Crime and Justice News
Mar 102 min read
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Unsecured Guns In Homes Blamed For School Shootings, Teen Deaths
Gun violence has been the leading cause of death for young children and teenagers in the United States since 2020. Many experts recommend...
By Claire Cornelius
Mar 72 min read
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Marshals Warn Judges Of Threats Amid Musk's Online Attacks
Federal marshals have warned federal judges of unusually high threat levels as tech billionaire Elon Musk and other Trump administration...
Crime and Justice News
Mar 62 min read
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More States Back Feds On Immigration Despite Profiling Fear
As the Trump administration seeks more partners to help round up immigrants living in the U.S. illegally, some states and cities are...
Crime and Justice News
Mar 52 min read
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Study Identifies 'Resource Attacks' As Potent Reform Tool
Criminal justice reformers and the scholarly literature that guides their work have paid too little attention to a tactic that...
Crime and Justice News
Mar 42 min read
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Hate Crimes Dropped Unexpectedly In A U.S. Election Year
The number of hate crimes reported to police in the largest U.S. cities fell last year, an unprecedented and unexpected decline in an...
Crime and Justice News
Mar 32 min read
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Are Community-Based Efforts To Combat Gun Violence Working?
The nation has been trying to deal with high levels of gun violence for decades. Have many efforts to combat it been successful? The...
By Ted Gest
Feb 282 min read
164 views
Police Killings Of Civilians Continue To Rise, Especially In Southwest
The number of people killed by police officers rose slightly in 2024, marking the smallest increase recorded in years, says a report by...
Crime and Justice News
Feb 272 min read
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How ICE Is Collaborating With Local Police Agencies On Immigration Enforcement
The Trump administration has revived a long-abandoned program that lets local and state law enforcement challenge people on the street...
Crime and Justice News
Feb 263 min read
214 views
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