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Prisoners: What Are They In For?
At Wednesday night's Republican Presidential Debate, Carly Fiorina said, "We have the highest incarceration rates...
Commission on Civil Rights Releases Flawed Report on Immigration Detention Facilities
Yesterday, the United States Commission on Civil Rights* released a new report* on conditions at...
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Reform Criminal Justice for Justice, Not Political Expediency
It’s good to see President Obama and members of Congress take an interest in criminal justice reform, but their...
Happy Constitution Day!
On September 17th, 1787, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed the Constitution of the...
State Court Docket Watch News Clips: 9/16/2015
The New Jersey Civil Justice Institute has posted its overview of the coming New Jersey...
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State Court Docket Watch News Clips: 9/15/2015
The Attorney General of Washington asked the Washington Supreme Court to reconsider its opinion declaring...
Trump v. Reagan: A Fight Not Worth Having
Ronald Reagan, our nation’s 40th President and the conservative gold-standard, left office in January 1989,...
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Crime and the Economy
There has been much discussion lately of the direct costs of the criminal justice system....
NYT Misses the Mark on Mismatch
This past weekend, the New York Times ran a lengthy article titled "A Prescription for...
Shining City on a Hill
Donald Trump, who says he wants to Make America Great, is no Ronald Reagan when...