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Pleas Are Out of Control. The Fix? Put Communities Back Where They Belong

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Community Plea Proposal Panels move review by a jury of one’s peers to the most critical phase in the modern criminal adjudication process. They would empower communities that best know the harms caused by crime and the effects of criminal sentences, rather than prosecutors, to craft the disposition in most criminal cases.

Amicus, Criminal Justice, Human Rights, Policing and Law Enforcement

Pretrial Detention Has Become Exponentially More Deadly in the Pandemic

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Pretrial detention, or keeping a person accused of a crime in jail until their trial, is a common practice throughout the United States. Though the system is portrayed as a way to protect public safety and ensure people show up for their trials, most often it instead simply forces those who cannot afford bail to sit in jail, while those who are able to pay the fine roam free before their court date. Although some local governments have reduced jail populations by releasing detainees, it has not been enough to protect inmates from the spread of COVID-19 within jails.

Amicus, Weekly News Roundup

This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

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This week, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on Arizona’s “ballot harvesting” law, a federal judge in Texas rules the pandemic moratorium on evictions is unconstitutional, the House passes the Equality Act, and the most violence in Myanmar since the military coup at the beginning of February. 

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