One important difference between the protests that have spread across the country for the past nine days and nights and other protest movements is their subject….,
— Read on fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-the-police-see-issues-of-race-and-policing/
Tag: Criminal Justice System
Juvenile Court Statistics 2018
Minneapolis Police Missed Reforms Before George Floyd’s Death | The Marshall Project
The department allows officers to use choke holds barred in other cities.
Summer Heat – The New Inquiry
This article talks about abolition of Policing. This concept was first brought up in 2014-15 during the riots then. Summer Heat – The New Inquiry
— Read on thenewinquiry.com/summer-heat/
New Guidance to Protect People Behind Bars from COVID-19
Today, as part of its efforts to protect people most at risk of contracting COVID-19, the Vera Institute of Justice issued a guidance brief urging Attorney General Barr, governors, sheriffs, and corrections administrators to take immediate action to stem the explosion of COVID-19 cases in jails, prisons, and detention centers. Warned for weeks about the impending crisis, people behind bars are now facing the consequences of slow and inadequate government responses. Thousands of lives are at risk.
Prisoners in 2018
From the end of 2017 to the end of 2018, the total prison population in the United States declined from 1,489,200 to 1,465,200, a decrease of 24,000 prisoners. This was a 1.6% decline in the prison population and marked the fourth consecutive annual decrease of at least 1%. ****See report HERE
Length of Incarceration and Recidivism – USSC.GOV
Length of Incarceration and Recidivism is the seventh publication in the Commission’s recent series on recidivism. This study examines the relationship between length of incarceration and recidivism, specifically exploring three potential relationships that may exist: incarceration as having a deterrent effect, a criminogenic effect, or no effect on recidivism. There are links to this report and other reports – Found HERE
You Can’t Police Your Way to Public Health | The Nation
Criminalizing social-distancing violations threatens the very communities most vulnerable to the pandemic.
— Read on www.thenation.com/article/society/police-coronavirus/
Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2020
This report offers some much needed clarity by piecing together this country’s disparate systems of confinement. The American criminal justice system holds almost 2.3 million people in 1,833 state prisons, 110 federal prisons, 1,772 juvenile correctional facilities, 3,134 local jails, 218 immigration detention facilities, and 80 Indian Country jails as well as in military prisons, civil commitment centers, state psychiatric hospitals, and prisons in the U.S. territories.
This report provides a detailed look at where and why people are locked up in the U.S., and dispels some modern myths to focus attention on the real drivers of mass incarceration, including exceedingly punitive responses to even the most minor offenses.
Go to the webpage HERE
RAMOS v. LOUISIANA
In 48 States and federal court, a single juror’s vote to acquit is enough to prevent a conviction. But two States, Louisiana and Oregon, have longpunished people based on 10-to-2 verdicts. In this case, petitionerEvangelisto Ramos was convicted of a serious crime in a Louisianacourt by a 10-to-2 jury verdict. Instead of the mistrial he would have received almost anywhere else, Ramos was sentenced to life without parole. He contests his conviction by a nonunanimous jury as an un-constitutional denial of the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial. Held: The judgment is reversed.
Syllabus HERE
Future of Policing 