Criminal Justice

Workshops Set for Next Week on New Funding Opportunity for Re-Entry Programs (State of Delaware)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Jul 2016

Organizations interested in running offender re-entry programs are invited to two workshops next week on $2 million in grants soon to be made available through the Criminal Justice Council ... Video of the workshops will also be posted on the websites of both the Delaware Department of Justice and the Delaware Criminal Justice Council for interested non-profit groups that cannot attend....

Workshops Set for Next Week on New Funding Opportunity for Re-Entry Programs (State of Delaware Attorney General’s Office)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Jul 2016

Organizations interested in running offender re-entry programs are invited to two workshops next week on $2 million in grants soon to be made available through the Criminal Justice Council ... Video of the workshops will also be posted on the websites of both the Delaware Department of Justice and the Delaware Criminal Justice Council for interested non-profit groups that cannot attend....

Is the Supreme Court Seeking Revenge or Administering Justice?

Edit Modern Ghana 29 Jul 2016

In fact, the SC by these sentences no longer administered justice but was seeking revenge. What has happened in this case, the second in the history of the apex court is nothing but a show trial and what is known in International Criminal Law as “victors’ justice” ... Only the criminals on the defeated side are tried by the victorious side using their own standards of justice, which is nothing less than revenge....

>Is the Supreme Court Seeking Revenge or Administering Justice?

Edit Modern Ghana 29 Jul 2016

In fact, the SC by these sentences no longer administered justice but was seeking revenge. What has happened in this case, the second in the history of the apex court is nothing but a show trial and what is known in International Criminal Law as “victors’ justice” ... Only the criminals on the defeated side are tried by the victorious side using their own standards of justice, which is nothing less than revenge....

Point of View: It’s time to address racial disparities in Oklahoma’s prisons

Edit The Oklahoman 29 Jul 2016

A new report on racial disparities in state prisons underscores the need for policymakers and state administrators in Oklahoma to take a hard look at the policies, practices and prejudices that are playing out in the state's criminal justice system ... Oklahomans would benefit significantly by addressing the racial disparities in our criminal justice system, including but not limited to those evident in our incarceration practices....

Improve crime scene investigations

Edit Graphic 29 Jul 2016

Criminal investigations play a vital role in unravelling the circumstances surrounding cases in order to solve them ... Such a situation does not ensure prompt justice. The police and all responsible agencies must put their resources together to identify and implement the needed strategies and programmes which can improve criminal investigations in Ghana and ultimately lead to a faster criminal justice delivery system....

Delegitimizing capital punishment

Edit The Jakarta Post 29 Jul 2016

Unfortunately, in the case of the death penalty, Indonesia strictly disregards this moral facet by manipulating and criminalizing offenders as tools of deterrence ... A judicial review of the capital punishment article in the Criminal Code was filed, among others by members of the Bali Nine, a group of Australian citizens sentenced to prison and death for smuggling drugs into Bali in 2005 ... Otherwise, we are criminals....

Marilyn Mosby Sued By Baltimore Officers After Failing To Find Justice For Freddie Gray

Edit Inquisitr 29 Jul 2016

However, there are many in the community who believe the criminal justice system is corrupt and the acquittals were the reality all along. In bypassing a grand jury and finding probable cause on her own, and then blaming the judge, the criminal justice system, and proclaiming that Baltimore’s police department lacked community oversight, her ambitions, and rookie mistakes may have killed the case before it began....

International Students Spend Summer at WIU (Western Illinois University)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Jul 2016

MACOMB, IL - Students from Shanghai Customs College (China) spent three weeks (July 7-29) studying American Policies, border issues, customs, and the American criminal justice system on the Macomb campus of Western Illinois University ... The School of Law Enforcement and Justice Administration at WIU is the largest criminal justice program in the state of Illinois and one of the largest in the United States....

Why the Democratic Party Can’t Escape Mass Incarceration

Edit The Atlantic 29 Jul 2016

The 2016 Democrats are running as far away as possible from the criminal-justice policies of the 1990s Democrats, in many cases actively undoing the policies the party once sold as common sense ... President Obama implored the country to “work with police and protesters until laws and practices are changed,” a directive that’s in the party’s on criminal-justice reform....

Drugs Seizure in Blanchardstown, Dublin on the 28/7/16 (Ireland National Police Service)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Jul 2016

Both men are currently detained at Blanchardstown Garda Station under the provisions of Section 2 Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act 1996. These operations use advanced analytical and intelligence methods to disrupt criminals and dismantle their networks ... devastating impact of drugs and the associated criminality....

Clive McFarlane: Millbury police probe of its own officers was commendable

Edit Worcester Telegram 29 Jul 2016

You have to excuse members of the public if they sometimes think that the best way to avoid criminal charges is to become a police officer.I know this is not fair to those men in blue who discharge their duties with honor and courage on a daily basis, but it is a fact that the lack of accountability within the criminal justice system for officers ......

Alere shares whiplash as investors eye latest probe

Edit The Salt Lake Tribune 29 Jul 2016

Alere investors went on a wild ride in the last 24 hours as the shares plunged following a report of a second Justice Department ... Alere’s shares fell 29 percent to $31.47 on Wednesday -- their biggest one-day drop ever -- after the Wall Street Journal reported that the Justice Department’s criminal-fraud unit sent the company a subpoena....

Criminal Justice (TV series)

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