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10 Justice Questions
Let's start with the most controversial stuff. Why bow ties?
I have difficulty tying the four-in-hand. The small part gets around in front.
In your book Five Chiefs, you write about how you voted to reinstate the death penalty but would not now. Why?
In 1976 those of us who were the critical voters in favor of upholding the death penalty understood that it would be applied in a very narrow set ...
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A Different Type of Justice
An initiative in which I have taken part may serve as one instructive example, for it involves women and men across the country working to bring about restorative justice. Restorative justice seeks to establish right relationships between victims, perpetrators of crime and larger communities. It seeks healing for all parties.
Janine Geske, a former Wisconsin supreme court justice, is director of ...
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Americans Express Mixed Confidence in Criminal Justice System
Prior to the recent verdict in the Casey Anthony trial, Americans had middling confidence in the nation's criminal justice system. The plurality of Americans, 42% expressed "some" confidence in the system, while about equal numbers had a great deal/quite a lot (28%) or very little/none (29%). Date: July 11, 2011
PRINCETON, NJ -- Prior to the recent verdict in the Casey Anthony trial, Americans ha ...
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Criminal Justice Caucus Hosts Conference to Improve Those Impacted
On Saturday, Columbia University School of Social Work's Criminal Justice Caucus hosted "Removing the Bars: A Skills-Based Conference on Criminal Justice" on Amsterdam Avenue between 121st and 122nd streets. Students, educators and representatives from service providers in social work attended the one-day conference.
The Criminal Justice Caucus at Columbia University School of Social Work seeks t ...
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Criminal Justice System
Our nation's criminal justice system is one of the greatest threats to civil rights that we face today.
Today, 500,000 Black men are incarcerated, and one out of every six African American men has spent time in prison. In addition, Black women face the highest rate of incarceration -- an increase of 800 percent over 20 years.
Not only have America's criminal justice policies been racially dispro ...
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Justice for All
In 1998, Anthony Porter was literally a dead man walking. He had been convicted of a 1982 double murder and was on Illinois' death row. Both the Illinois and U.S. supreme courts had turned away his appeals for a new trial, and he came within 48 hours of execution. However, in 1999, he was found innocent after the actual killer gave a videotaped confession to two journalism students of the Innocenc ...
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The Fight for Justice
IN THE LAST DECADE, the so-called threat of terrorism has been extensively used to justify the criminalization of both migrants and immigrants. This Conservative government has increased hostilities through an arsenal of legislative changes, integrated law enforcement and the militarization of borders. Also, Harper and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney have aggressively courted a base within settl ...
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The Guilt Market
Criminal snitches are a pervasive feature of the justice system that the public rarely sees. Every year thousands of offenders offer information to the government on street corners, in the back of police cruisers, in jails, and in courthouse offices. In exchange for the information, police and prosecutors tolerate those informants' crimes. Sometimes the informant avoids arrest altogether; in other ...
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The US vs Barry Bonds
A criminal court case, no matter the complexity of the charges, can typically be reduced to a single question. In the perjury trial of former Giants slugger Barry Bonds, which began on March 21 in a federal courthouse in San Francisco, that question would seem unambiguous: Did Bonds lie in 2003 when he told the BALCO grand jury that he did not knowingly take steroids?
The case has dragged on so l ...
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Wealthy Donors Seek Public-Policy Changes
John D. Arnold, a 37-year-old billionaire hedge-fund manager, and his wife, Laura, a lawyer, have chosen to support causes that sometimes can't be advanced fully without legislative action.
That's why their $670-million Houston fund, the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, is paying for a mix of research and efforts to educate the public and policy makers about key issues affecting the criminal-jus ...
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