The criminal trial, expected to start in August, had been slated to start in October 2020 before Holmes requested a delay due to her pregnancy.
The COVID-19 pandemic is tearing through US prisons, with inmates 5.5 times more likely to catch the disease than the overall population. One prisoner under home confinement, 69-year-old Rufus Rochelle, is calling for the release of prisoners in daily Facebook Live streams. Correctional facilities are desperately lacking PPE and other […]
The COVID-19 pandemic is tearing through US prisons, and is spreading twice as fast behind bars than it is among the general public.
At “open prisons” in Finland, inmates come and go in vehicles, attend work and school, and can host overnight guests. And Finland is investing millions of euros in high-tech prisons with educational programs that teach inmates the basics of AI and other technologies. Finland has been named the happiest country […]
Schools with strict disciplinary measures, like suspension, are more likely to have students that are later incarcerated or arrested as adults, new research indicates. A paper authored by researchers at Boston University, Harvard University, and the University of Colorado finds that children that attend schools with higher rates of suspension […]
New York City has passed the algorithmic accountability bill, which will assign a task force to examine the way that city government agencies use algorithms. Algorithmic bias is a critical issue in the justice system, which often relies on algorithmic risk assessments to inform criminal sentencing in federal court. The […]
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Mark Gonzalez had never prosecuted a single case before he was elected district attorney of Nueces County, Texas, last November. The 37-year-old self-described “Mexican biker defence lawyer” spent his first decade in law poking holes through bad cases and defending low-level offenders from what he viewed as unnecessary prosecutions and […]
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They were all released early for their nonviolent crimes, either under President Clinton, Bush, or Obama himself.
