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New Data: Unhoused People Tracked at Intake in 20% of Local Jails
Homeless people are most often arrested for property crimes, often trespassing, and more likely to be 55 years and over. But data within...
Crime and Justice News
Feb 132 min read
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Is The U.S. System Of Clemency Far Too Political And Limited?
This winter's change of presidential administrations featured an outburst of clemency actions by leaders of both major political parties....
By Ted Gest
Feb 123 min read
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Advocates Issue Guides To Help Media, Crime Victims Reduce Harm
The glare of media is can be unavoidable for victims and survivors of crime. Whether it’s breaking news coverage of violence, inquiries...
Crime and Justice News
Feb 111 min read
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Trump Seeks More Local Police, Jail Help On Immigration Enforcement
For years, the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office in suburban Indianapolis has wanted to partner with federal immigration authorities to...
Crime and Justice News
Feb 102 min read
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Fentanyl Trafficking Bill May Bring Harsher Federal Sentences
The Republican-led House passed legislation Thursday with significant Democratic support that would lead to harsher sentences for...
Crime and Justice News
Feb 72 min read
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Guntube: How Youtube Is Influencing Gun Culture
A sprawling community known as 'guntube' — firearms channels on Youtube that have tactical training tips, firearm reviews, and test...
Crime and Justice News
Feb 62 min read
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White House Touts Deportations, While Numbers Are At Obama Level
President Trump’s mass deportation plan has not yet taken hold, but you wouldn’t know that from the White House PR campaign. The...
Crime and Justice News
Feb 52 min read
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To 'support the president,' red states pursue sweeping immigration measures
As 2025 legislative sessions power up across the country, red-state lawmakers who back President Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans...
Crime and Justice News
Feb 43 min read
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Why Overdose Deaths Fell Sharply, And Will The Decline Continue?
The story of Hamilton County, Ohio, which includes Cincinnati, is the story of much of the nation in 2025. Deaths from drug overdoses...
Crime and Justice News
Feb 32 min read
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Will 2025 Be A 'Return To Normalcy' For U.S. Crime Trends?
Across large U.S. cities, murders are down by about 17% since last year, with cities like Philadelphia and Baltimore registering...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 313 min read
521 views
As Trump files flurry of orders to upend U.S. immigration, what legal routes remain?
Promising the largest deportation effort in U.S. history, President Trump, in his first days in office, has released a dramatic series of...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 303 min read
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Report: Prison Discipline 'A System Of Petty Tyranny'
A new report by the Prison Policy Initiative examining disciplinary rules and punishments in all 50 state prison systems has found that...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 292 min read
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Will Biden Anticrime Programs Survive Trump's Grant Suspension?
As the Trump administration paused potentially trillions of dollars of federal grant, loan and other financial assistance programs, the...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 282 min read
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Immigration Arrests Up, But No Millions of Criminals To Deport
"Border czar" Tom Homan and other top officials oversaw immigration enforcement efforts in Chicago on Sunday, as ICE officials...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 272 min read
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Report: Public Defense Fees Can Make Justice Unaffordable
Public defense is a right, but it still often come with a price, according to a new report from the Center for Justice Innovation and...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 242 min read
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Violent Crime Now Below Pre-Pandemic Levels, Study Finds
Reported violent crimes in most categories are occurring at a lower rate than before the COVID-19 pandemic and social justice protests...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 233 min read
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Do Biden, Trump Pardons Send 'Horrible Message' About Justice?
A day that began with an outgoing president’s pardon of lawmakers and his own family ended with an incoming president's pardons of...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 222 min read
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Trump Pardons 1,500 Capitol Rioters, Including Cop Assailants
President Trump on pardoned nearly all the rioters charged in connection to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, wiping away criminal...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 213 min read
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Trump Declaring Southern Border Emergency Among First-Day Moves
President-elect Trump is signing executive orders on Monday declaring an emergency at the southern border and ordering the start of mass...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 192 min read
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Biden Commutes 2,500 Non-Violent Drug Terms, More Clemency Likely
President Biden announced on Friday that he would commute the sentences of nearly 2,500 inmates serving long prison terms for nonviolent...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 171 min read
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