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People Need Help, Not Handcuffs: Mental Illness and the Criminal Justice System
People with mental illness are significantly overrepresented in our nation’s jails and prisons. Each year, roughly two ...
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Uniting to break the silence: Criminal Justice System agencies join forces to tackle ‘Honour’-Based Abuse
Jaswant Narwal, Chief Crown Prosecutor and National Honour-Based Abuse lead for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “Being the victim of abuse, violence or sexual assault is undoubtedly a harrowing ...
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Criminal Law 101: Understanding the Criminal Justice System
It’s time for Criminal Law 101, a primer on how criminal law works within our American judicial system. This episode of Next ...
Convicting the innocent: how a rotten system ensures miscarriages of justice will continue
Once someone is convicted their court records will be deleted or made unaffordable, their legal aid will be slashed and they ...
Trump gives political speech at a Justice Department shaken by firings and dropped cases
President Donald Trump is set to deliver what the White House calls a law-and-order speech on Friday at the Justice Department, the storied building from which the government pursued criminal ...
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More than $250,000 in federal grants awarded to Valley crime prevention efforts
More than a quarter of a million dollars in federal grants have been awarded to law enforcement agencies in the Mahoning Valley to support crime prevention and control efforts.