Criminal Justice

Senate Passes Leahy-Authored Bill To Improve Criminal Justice System (Patrick J Leahy)

Edit Public Technologies 16 Jun 2016

To Improve Criminal Justice System ... WASHINGTON (THURSDAY, June 16, 2016) - The Senate on Thursday unanimously approved legislation long championed by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) to help ensure that the criminal justice system functions fairly ... 'As a former prosecutor, I have great faith in our criminal justice system and in the men and women who have dedicated their lives to making it work,' Leahy said....

Senate Passes Leahy-Authored Bill To Improve Criminal Justice System (US Senate Committee on Judiciary)

Edit Public Technologies 16 Jun 2016

To Improve Criminal Justice System ... WASHINGTON (THURSDAY, June 16, 2016) - The Senate on Thursday unanimously approved legislation long championed by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) to help ensure that the criminal justice system functions fairly ... 'As a former prosecutor, I have great faith in our criminal justice system and in the men and women who have dedicated their lives to making it work,' Leahy said....

Gov. Deal appoints new member to State Parole Board

Edit Atlanta Journal 16 Jun 2016

Bunn has been executive director of the state's Criminal Justice Coordinating Council since 2013 ... He is currently the council's criminal justice liaison....

Health bodies call for drugs to be decriminalised

Edit ITV 16 Jun 2016

The call for decriminalisation is part of a wider package of measures that are aimed at reducing harm rather than being a predominantly criminal justice approach ... need of treatment and support – not criminals in need of punishment." ....

There is a stunning gap between the number of white and black inmates in America's prisons

Edit Business Insider 16 Jun 2016

The , published by The Sentencing Project, a nonprofit that advocates for criminal justice reform, looked at incarceration rates for ethnic groups in every state using data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics ... Nellis believes that the ultimate disparity in imprisonment rates of different races can be traced all the way through the criminal justice process....

Statement of Senator Patrick Leahy On Final Passage of the Justice for All Reauthorization Act (Patrick J Leahy)

Edit Public Technologies 16 Jun 2016

'Innocent until proven guilty' is a hallmark of our criminal justice system, but when a person who has been found guilty is actually innocent, we must provide access to tools like DNA testing that can set the record straight ... public defenders will have a seat at the table when States determine how to use their Byrne JAG criminal justice funding....

Statement of Senator Patrick Leahy On Final Passage of the Justice for All Reauthorization Act (US Senate Committee on Judiciary)

Edit Public Technologies 16 Jun 2016

'Innocent until proven guilty' is a hallmark of our criminal justice system, but when a person who has been found guilty is actually innocent, we must provide access to tools like DNA testing that can set the record straight ... public defenders will have a seat at the table when States determine how to use their Byrne JAG criminal justice funding....

Georgia’s pardons and paroles board gets a new member

Edit Atlanta Journal 16 Jun 2016

Nathan Deal announced Thursday that he had appointed to the board Criminal Justice Coordinating Council executive director Jacqueline Bunn....

Orlando gunman tried to become a Florida state trooper

Edit New York Post 16 Jun 2016

In 2006, he earned an applied science degree in criminal justice technology from Indian River State College. But he was denied admission last spring to the school’s six-month criminal justice program, which prepares students to work as police officers, NBC News reported ... scary to think about,” Mike Brown, 18, a criminal justice major, told NBC....

Cornyn, Leahy Bill to Help Reduce Rape Kit Backlog, Strengthen Crime Victim Rights Passes Senate (John Cornyn)

Edit Public Technologies 16 Jun 2016

'I have great faith in our criminal justice system and in the men and women who have dedicated their lives to making it work,' Sen ... The bill also would improve the administration of criminal justice programs by increasing accountability for federal funds and requiring the Justice Department to assist state and local governments to improve their indigent defense systems....

PN submits private member’s bill aimed to serve as tool to correct judicial errors

Edit The Malta Independent 16 Jun 2016

A private member’s bill has been put forward by the shadow minister for justice, democracy and citizen’s rights Jason Azzopardi so that in exceptional cases where it can be proved that an error occurred throughout ......

ICC President Judge Silvia Fernández – Remarks to the Forum for Security Co-operation of the OSCE – 15 June 2016, Vienna (ICC - International Criminal Court)

Edit Public Technologies 16 Jun 2016

ICC - International Criminal Court) Judge Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi President of the International Criminal Court. International Criminal Court ... outcome of criminal proceedings before the Extraordinary African Chambers in Senegal on 30 May ... These international justice efforts cumulated with the establishment of the International Criminal Court, with the adoption of the Rome Statute in 1998 and its coming into force on 1 July 2002....

Getting suspended or expelled in school should not keep people out of college

Edit The Times Picayune 16 Jun 2016

If universities and colleges follow the recent recommendation of the Obama administration, colleges will not consider the student's criminal record in the initial stages of the admissions process ... In contrast to the criminal justice system, where there are some very limited opportunities for expungement or certificates of rehabilitation, there is rarely such an option for school records ... criminal justice system....