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Article • January 21, 2020 • from CLN February, 2020
Oklahoma: Cocaine Bust Was Really Only Powdered Milk by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Cody Gregg of Oklahoma is a member of a growing segment of America’s population—he is a homeless person and also receives food from a community pantry. On August 12, 2019, Gregg was doing a probated sentence …
Article • January 21, 2020 • from CLN February, 2020
Filed under: War on Drugs
Montana Supreme Court Holds Automatic 35% Drug Fine Facially Unconstitutional by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The Supreme Court of Montana held that the state’s automatic and mandatory fine of 35 percent of the market value of the drugs in a drug-offense conviction is facially unconstitutional, because it doesn’t allow …
Article • December 19, 2019 • from CLN January, 2020
National Fingerprint Database Frees Man After 36 Years by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Archie Williams seemed doomed to die in prison. Sentenced to life without parole for a 1982 stabbing and rape, he managed to survive in Louisiana’s Angola as months bled into years, and years pooled into decades. …
Worth Rises: Paying for Jail - How County Jails Extract Wealth from New York Communities, 2019 PAYING FOR JAIL How County Jails Extract Wealth from New York Communities DE C EMBE R 2 01 9 C O- PUBL IS H E D BY: WO RTH RISES Worth Rises is a …
Article • November 19, 2019 • from CLN December, 2019
National Fingerprint Database Frees Man After 36 Years by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Archie Williams seemed doomed to die in prison. Sentenced to life without parole for a 1982 stabbing and rape, he managed to survive in Louisiana’s Angola as months bled into years, and years pooled into decades. …
Article • November 19, 2019 • from CLN December, 2019
High Bail Amounts Lead to Sharp Increase in Franklin, PA, Jail Population by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell In Franklin County, Pennsylvania, a rural area with about 154,000 residents, high bail amounts are forcing people who can’t afford to purchase their freedom to plead guilty just to get out of …
Article • November 19, 2019 • from CLN December, 2019
Law Professor Peeks at Prosecutor’s Veiled DNA Database by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In April 2007, the Orange County (California) District Attorney (“OCDA”) began what has become the largest database of DNA profiles not created by legislative act. Shrouded in secrecy until now, UC Berkeley Law Professor Andrea Roth …
Article • November 16, 2019 • from CLN December, 2019
Filed under: Informants
Why Juries Need Expert Help Assessing Jailhouse Informants by Alexandra Natapoff Informants are highly motivated to lie. But jurors don’t always have the information or skills to discern the truth. by Alexandra Natapoff, The Appeal, a nonprofit criminal justice news site In February 2010, I was asked to testify as an expert …
Vera Institute of Justice - Broken Ground: Why America Keeps Building More Jails and What It Can Do Instead, 2019 Broken Ground: Why America Keeps Building More Jails and What It Can Do Instead Chris Mai, Mikelina Belaineh, Ram Subramanian, and Jacob Kang-Brown November 2019 Foreword Perennial headlines about the …
Article • October 16, 2019 • from CLN November, 2019
Filed under: Searches, Databases
Is Data Mining an Invasion of Privacy? by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss The Northern California Regional Intelligence Center (“NCRIC”) contracted with surveillance and data mining giant Planatir, cofounded by billionaire and PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel, for services in synthesizing information gathered from databases in hospitals, banks, police departments, and …
Tennessee Criminal Justice Investment Task Force review, 2019 Criminal Justice Investment Task Force Acknowledgements While the work of a number of subcommittees of the Tennessee Criminal Justice Investment Task Force is ongoing and not reflected within this report, the Task Force would like to thank the following agencies, associations, and …
Association of Restrictive Housing With Mortality, JAMA, 2019 Original Investigation | Public Health Association of Restrictive Housing During Incarceration With Mortality After Release Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, PhD; Josie Sivaraman, MSPH; David L. Rosen, PhD, MD; David H. Cloud, JD, MPH; Gary Junker, PhD; Scott Proescholdbell, MPH; Meghan E. Shanahan, PhD; Shabbar …
Article • August 21, 2019 • from CLN September, 2019
Filed under: Crime Labs
Chicago Fingerprint Unit Flawed, Under Scrutiny by Bill Barton by Bill Barton In 2016, Cook County prosecutors relied on a fingerprint lifted from a laptop as pivotal evidence against a juvenile charged with robbery. According to Chicago Reporter coverage of the case, Judge Stuart Katz “ripped into the competence of …
Article • August 21, 2019 • from CLN September, 2019
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Groundbreaking Empirical Study of Expungement Released by Bill Barton by Bill Barton An empirical study of a state law limiting public access to criminal records has been released by professors Sonja B. Starr and J.J. Prescott of Michigan Law School. Starr and Prescott said, “Despite the considerable legislative ferment and …
Article • August 21, 2019 • from CLN September, 2019
Filed under: Statistics/Trends, Police
Another Study Shows There’s No ‘War on Police’ by Bill Barton by Bill Barton "Currently, the ‘war on cops’ thesis is not supported by any evidence, and we apply the 50-year lens in this study to provide important context for understanding recent trends in officer deaths.” That’s the conclusion of …
Article • August 21, 2019 • from CLN September, 2019
Massive Outing of Nationwide Instances of Police Misconduct Revealed by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon As reports of police abusing and even murdering citizens continues to rise over the years, databases of their misdeeds are emerging all over the U.S. These databases provide citizens with a great deal of transparency …
Article • August 20, 2019 • from CLN September, 2019
Filed under: Crime/Demographics
Oregon Supreme Court Holds ‘Attempt’ Requires Intent to Personally Participate in the Crime by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell In order to be found guilty of an attempt to commit a crime, the defendant must have intended to personally participate in the crime, and the attempt to solicit another person …
Article • August 20, 2019 • from CLN September, 2019
NYU Study Shows ‘Predictive Policing Systems’ Promote Bad Data, Bad Policing by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell A New York University study shows that “predictive policing” does nothing to prevent crime but actually increases bad policing in cities already struggling with corrupt police forces. This means that in at least …
Article • July 30, 2019
Scientific Experts Urge Forensic Experts to Be More Objective by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Scientific experts have long relied on objectivity to reach conclusions—the ability to prove repeatedly the outcome of an analysis no matter who’s doing the analysis. Forensics experts, on the other hand, have long relied on …
Article • July 17, 2019 • from CLN August, 2019
$1 Million Settlement for NYC Crime Lab Tech Who Blew Whistle on Use of Untested DNA Tests for Decades by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon  Television crime dramas like Bones and CSI that depict sterile, efficient crime labs seem to be little more than good art imitating bad life as …
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