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Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center often makes news for its celebrities, but hundreds of others at the jail face ...
Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center often makes news for its celebrities, but hundreds of others at the jail face ...
Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center often makes news for its celebrities, but hundreds of others at the jail face ...
When the judge set his bail at $3,000, Jonathan Broad*, 57, thought “All I want is to die free—not in jail.”. Broad was arrested in March 2016 and convicted of “criminal possession of a controlled ...
Deaths at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta have quadrupled in 2022. But Fulton County may cut funding to the pre-arrest diversion program.
In Georgia, a person can be charged as a “party to a crime” for simple acts like answering a phone or loaning gas money. I—and many women incarcerated alongside me—are trapped in prison for crimes ...
Rob Bonta’s career has hinged on the idea that the law can be used to engender social justice. His elevation to California’s “top cop” position, where he will become responsible for the vast ...
In February, Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón became the latest local Democratic politician to fold to conservative critics when he walked back two major campaign promises that had ...
[Debunking Common Bail Myths / Brave New Films] 4. The Role of Prosecutors. Prosecutors have the ability to reduce the use of cash bail. While judges are the ultimate gatekeepers, prosecutors play an ...
In the universe of legal cases impacted by anti-LGBTQ+ bias, there are few more notorious than Calvin Burdine’s. Though Burdine is most commonly known as the defendant in Texas’s “sleeping lawyer” ...
Topics. Policing; Pretrial; Prosecution; Punishment; Criminalization; Politics; Alternatives; Newsletter ‘Let Me See That Waistband’ A veteran D.C. police officer says the Metropolitan Police ...
A Myth . A “crime surge” always means money for police, even if the spike in organized retail theft is a myth.. For a handful of years, the most widely cited data on organized retail theft came from ...