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Archive for July, 2019
Saturday, July 27th, 2019 @ 6:51PM
How Confirmation Bias Sends Innocent People to Prison
(innocence project)
“While cases like these often feature wrongdoing by individual prosecutors and police officers, a new study suggests the problem is deeper. After analyzing 50 wrongful convictions and other investigative failures, Texas State criminologists Kim Rossmo and Joycelyn Pollock …
Saturday, July 20th, 2019 @ 9:02AM
Sex Offender Registries Don’t Keep Kids Safe, But Politicians Keep Expanding Them Anyway
Despite child sexual abuse declining by 60% between 1992 and 2010, states continue to legislate as if lenient sex offender laws are a national emergency. And, like so many other corners of the criminal justice system, the crackdown hasn’t affected …
Thursday, July 11th, 2019 @ 7:08PM
Digital Jail: How Electronic Monitoring Drives Defendants Into Debt
Photograph by Zora J Murff for The New York Times
Yet like the system of wealth-based detention they are meant to help reform, ankle monitors often place poor people in special jeopardy. Across the country, defendants who have not been …