Tag: Criminal Justice
An Examination of Compensation Following Wrongful Convictions
(Source) As mass incarceration continues to plague the United States criminal justice system, improved technology and evidence-gathering techniques seek to identify and exonerate the wrongfully convicted. Those accused of a crime may be wrongfully convicted for a variety of reasons such as eyewitness misidentifications, coerced false confessions, faulty forensics science, incompetent public defenders, and suppression…
24 Feb 2020
Stepping Up: The First Step Act and Criminal Justice Reform
(Source) America incarcerates people at a higher rate than any country in the world. The highly politicized War on Drugs led to a spike in incarceration, particularly in lower-income and minority communities. Although the prison population in the United States has declined since 2016, incarceration and recidivism rates remain high. According to a study by…
9 Oct 2019
Using the Internet to Police the Police
Michaela Dudley examines a potential solution for uncovering police brutality in light of the recent jury verdict against the City of Chicago.
31 Jan 2013