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Claire Cornelius
May 19, 20223 min read
Pilot Test of Prison Pell Grants Promotes Re-Entry, Study Finds
The Second Chance Pell Experimental Sites Initiative, launched by the U.S. Department of Education in 2015, provides need-based Pell...
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Crime and Justice News
May 18, 20222 min read
Buffalo Shooting Reflects 'Terrifying' Spread of Body Armor
When a shooter attacked a supermarket in Buffalo over the weekend, its security guard tried to stop him. At least one of his shots hit...
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Crime and Justice News
May 17, 20223 min read
Will Buffalo Killings Change Minds on Gun Control Measures?
President Biden is visiting Buffalo on Tuesday, seeking to console a grieving community reeling from a mass shooting police say was...
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Crime and Justice News
May 15, 20222 min read
Buffalo Grocery Gunman Inspired By 'Great Replacement' Race Theory
Before his racist rampage in Buffalo on Saturday, the alleged gunman left behind a document denying membership in “any organization or...
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Sydney Plaskett
May 13, 20222 min read
A Call For 'Radical Transparency' To Prevent Police Corruption
Reforms aimed at combatting corruption in U.S. policing should be focused on achieving “radical transparency,” says Michael Bromwich,...
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Crime and Justice News
May 12, 20222 min read
Biden Finally Moves to Revive U.S. Sentencing Panel, With 7 Nominees
The White House is nominating seven lawyers for the U.S. Sentencing Commission, a bipartisan panel that helps set policies for punishing...
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Crime and Justice News
May 11, 20222 min read
Firearm Homicide Rate In 2020 Highest Since 1994, CDC Says
The surge in U.S. gun violence in 2020 pushed the firearm homicide rate that year to its highest level in a quarter-century, reports the...
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Crime and Justice News
May 10, 20222 min read
Pulitzer Prizes on Criminal Justice Topped by Post, Times on Jan. 6 Riot
Washington Post reporters spread out across their home city on Jan. 6, 2021, trying frantically to reach their editor, finding it...
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Crime and Justice News
May 9, 20229 min read
How Are News Media Doing in Coverage of Policing, Drugs?
The news media overall have not done a good job of explaining the debate over "defunding the police" to the public, journalists and an...
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Crime and Justice News
May 6, 20222 min read
Recidivism Is Inadequate Measure Of Post-Prison Success, Experts Say
Recidivism is an inadequate measurement of success after release from prison, concludes a new report from the National Academies of...
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Crime and Justice News
May 5, 20222 min read
National Justice System Metrics Will Provide More Accurate, Timely Data
The national Justice Counts initiative released a series of metrics that aim to leverage data that the sponsors say "agencies across the...
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Crime and Justice News
May 4, 20222 min read
High Court Issue: Should DOJ Join Abortion Draft Leak Probe?
Now that Chief Justice John Roberts has ordered an investigation into the breach of an initial draft majority opinion overturning Roe v....
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Crime and Justice News
May 3, 20223 min read
31 States Could Ban Abortions If High Court Overturns Roe v. Wade
If the Supreme Court overturns the Roe v. Wade abortion case, as indicated in a draft opinion obtained by Politico, abortion would...
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Crime and Justice News
May 2, 20222 min read
Three Years Later, Republicans Stop Touting First Step Act
When President Trump signed the First Step Act in 2018, he had visions of using the legislation to make major inroads with Black and...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 29, 20222 min read
A Plan for Police 'Renewal and Redemption'
The current shortage of willing recruits to policing seems an odd time to impose much higher standards on new policing hiring, but that...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 28, 20222 min read
Tracing Data Establish That A Few Stores Sell Most Crime Weapons
About a dozen federally licensed firearms dealers in Philadelphia have done brisk business meeting the demand from legal buyers in one of...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 27, 20222 min read
DOJ's 'Law Enforcement Knowledge Lab' Tries To Promote Police Reform
The Justice Department is creating a comprehensive online portal and resource center aimed at improving community policing by providing...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 26, 20223 min read
Orrin Hatch Was Key Figure In Criminal Justice Policy
Longtime Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), who died Saturday at 88, was a leading figure in formulating U.S. anticrime policy during his time in...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 25, 20223 min read
Five Experts Offer Reason to Hope in Fight Against Gun Violence
From New York to Pennsylvania to Florida, from Nevada to California to Oregon, eight people were killed and dozens injured during at...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 22, 20223 min read
'Grievances and Guns' Behind Rise In Shootings Around The Nation
The stream of mass shootings around the U.S. comes amid a grim backdrop of increased gun violence nationwide, at a time when mayors,...
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