Study: Longer Time Spent in Pre-Trial Detention Leads to Longer Prison Sentences

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Oregon Jail Facilities Lack Drug Addiction Treatment Services

Oregon jails that house people awaiting trial on misdemeanor or serious felony charges, sometimes for months or longer, do not have consistent drug addiction programs, Ben Botkin reports for the Oregon Capitol... Read more »

Illinois Officials Consider Required Training on Sexual Assault Cases

Illinois officials are questioning whether the state’s roughly 1,000 judges should be required to undergo the same training to better respond to rape survivors that illinois police officers have participated in 2018,... Read more »

Report Highlights Failures in Texas Death Row System

A two-part report published on Monday by the Wren Collective, a group of former public defenders who do criminal justice research and policy, found that in most Harris County, Texas cases ending... Read more »
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