It turns out it may the schools, and not the kids, who are causing the discipline problems. A new study from Texas tracked every Texas seventh-grader from 2000, 2001, and 2002 for six years or more to examine the interaction between school discipline, poverty, race, and the juvenile justice system.
As the New York Times reported yesterday, time is running out for Humberto Leal Garcia, Jr., who is scheduled to be executed in Texas on July 7. Convicted of a 1994 murder and aggravated sexual assault, Leal, a Mexican citizen, was not notified of his right to contact his consulate pursuant to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations and subsequently sentenced to death. The treaty violation could have been the difference between life and death.
Wesleyan University’s Prisoner Education Program provides educational opportunities to violent offenders in a maximum-security facility. Alexis Sturdy—the program’s fellow—discusses some of the challenges that the program has encountered, as well some of the program’s achievements and aspirations.
The Supreme Court ordered California to reduce overcrowding in its prisons in an opinion handed down this week. Full capacity,
According to The Economist (and others), the old adage “what the judge ate for breakfast” should instead be “how recently
Many federal judges are criticizing the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, aimed at narrowing the gap between sentences for convictions
As the government shifts its focus in the wake of the financial crisis from corporations to individuals, it brings with
In the wake of controversy over Yale University’s response to the Delta Kappa Epsilon march–where students chanted, “No means yes!
The New York Times reports on Wednesday that the shortage of sodium thiopental, covered previously by Amicus, is causing corrections officials in states across the country to take desperate, and possibly illegal, measures to obtain the supplies of the drugs needed to carry out executions.
Pfc. Bradley Manning is the soldier who was charged with leaking classified information to WikiLeaks last year. In a recent
John Thompson was convicted of murder in New Orleans in 1985 . After a trial where he opted not to
