America’s prison complex is so vast that, even with all the public interest in reforming our approach to crime and punishment, elements of the system would have escaped attention but for the work of these two journalists.
A retired corrections captain writes that without a strong mental-health component, attempts to end financial bail will fail.
Judge Eduardo Padro turned down Johnny Hincapie’s request for a finding of actual innocence but said Hincapie’s lawyers had met the threshold to get their client’s conviction tossed. READ MORE.
Some homeless people do suffer from mental illness or substance abuse. But contrary to an increasingly popular canard, the problem for most of New York’s homeless is not in their heads, but in their wallets.
Brooklyn Independent Media’s Bk Live looks at the mayor’s plan to create an alternative system that will use supervision rather than money to get people to come to court.
A bid in the state legislature to raise the age for criminal responsibility in New York State may be coupled with a plan to build more prisons.
The taxpayer-underwritten project would front bail money to people accused of low-level crimes—which describes most of the people arrested in New York City.
One of every two people at Rikers Island has mistakes on their record. Frank Murphy is working to correct them, one by one.
Kevin Cleare marched from a police precinct to district attorneys’ offices to courthouses in an effort to clear up mistakes that had somehow burrowed deep into his criminal record history.
New York’s law enforcement system is great at arresting people, but lousy at keeping track of how the records of those encounters are handled.
