Direct Answer “If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime” only makes sense in a…
Guest Contributor: This piece was written by Ally Micelli, paralegal and writer. Views expressed are the author’s…
The jury trial has been replaced, almost exclusively, by a system of secret plea-bargaining negotiations behind closed…
Plea bargaining is often sold as efficiency. The danger starts when that efficiency turns into manipulation, coercion,…
The political headline is obvious. The systems question is harder: what happens when thousands of people and…
Prosecutors are measured like system expanders, then everyone acts surprised when they keep expanding the system. The…
Convictions, be it felony or misdemeanor, come with collateral consequences. And here’s the part no one tells…
Key Takeaways The four goals of criminal sentencing — retribution, rehabilitation, deterrence, incapacitation — often fail to…
Every day, people discover the truth about the American criminal justice system — not from a civics…
In America, as soon as we are old enough to put our right hands over our hearts,…
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