…barring juvenile incarceration for certain low-level offenses and routing $30 million toward community-based alternatives to incarceration. California, Rhode Island and West Virginia are the only states where youths cannot be…
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…rate in other cases leads to a significantly lower likelihood of high-school completion and a significantly higher likelihood of incarceration as an adult, including incarceration for violent crimes.” Juvenile incarceration…
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…incarceration may have significant implications for convicted persons as they attempt to reintegrate into society after release. A 2011 study published in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, “Increase…
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…of Essex. The U.S. rate of incarceration has dramatically increased over the past few decades, but analysis of underlying data shows the reasons are complex and varied. In December 2011,…
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…goal of lowering incarceration rates and reducing the overcrowding of prisons, among other things. Whatever the effectiveness of the wave of “get tough” laws of the last several decades, one…
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…the U.S. prison population has soared, leading to higher costs. Further, the increasing use of expensive incarceration practices such as solitary confinement has led to even higher bills for U.S….
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…face incarceration. Ivan Dominguez, a former litigator who is now the senior director of public affairs and communications for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, says there are other…
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…is unlikely to be driven by education, earnings, incarceration rates of blacks, institutions that remained after slavery, geographic sorting, or contemporary barriers to voting,” Williams writes. Her forthcoming paper adds…
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…the authors write. “Instead, they are more likely to be streamlined toward disciplinary responses, including detention and possible incarceration, with juvenile justice serving as the ‘de facto’ mental health treatment…
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…more than one year incarceration. Most people convicted of any felony cannot buy or own a firearm. The so-called “boyfriend loophole” previously hinged on how federal law defined “intimate partner.”…
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