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Donkor Esq.Last weekend, I joined a group of Lawyers from the Greater Accra Bar Association on a visit to the Nsawam Medium Security Prison.The goal was simple: \xa0offer legal support to inmates who ...
The American criminal justice system is effective at delivering some form of justice, but what it does not do well is heal. Here’s what we can learn from the restorative justice movement.
The Criminal Justice System Is Not Broken. It’s Doing What It Was Designed to Do. Alec Karakatsanis’s book “Usual Cruelty” is a powerful takedown of the U.S. mass punishment bureaucracy ...
This branch of the criminal justice system interprets and applies the law to each case and ensures cases follow due process during trials. Judges command courts to ensure the law is followed and ...
If we have learned anything in the last decade about our criminal justice system, it is how astonishingly dysfunctional it is. Extensive investigations have revealed persistent racial disparities at ...
Capitol Hill is buzzing about the serious problems within our federal criminal justice system. The Federal Bureau of Investigations, Department of Justice, and other agencies are under the ...
How the justice system criminalizes the poor — and funds itself in the process. January 29, 2019 ... prosecutors and judges is enormous at this level of the criminal-justice system.