https://padlet.com/dwhenn/discover en-us 2017-11-15 01:59:48 UTC 2017-12-07 18:00:36 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Rocket.png https://padlet.com/dwhenn/discover/wish/211989269 A key district attorney has expressed support for aspects of a wide-ranging Senate plan designed to pare the number of people ensnared in the criminal justice system, while a Boston state senator is taking issue with other law enforcement officials who are pooh-poohing the legislation.]]> 2017-11-30 18:03:11 UTC https://padlet.com/dwhenn/discover/wish/211989269 https://padlet.com/dwhenn/discover/wish/211990068 That prompted tempered praise from advocates like the state American Civil Liberties Union, with concern that the bill didn’t go far enough: They want to repeal all mandatory minimum drug sentences from the law books because they say the evidence shows they don’t work. Meanwhile some prosecutors, like Cape & Islands District Attorney Michael O’Keefe, reacted with worry about “making it easier on people who sell drugs in the midst of this opioid crisis we’re in.”]]> 2017-11-30 18:04:30 UTC https://padlet.com/dwhenn/discover/wish/211990068 https://padlet.com/dwhenn/discover/wish/211991605 This summer 24 prosecutors from around the country and across the political divide came together in New York to discuss the criminal justice system and prosecutors’ role in it. Their aim was not to gain more resources to maximize convictions or felony charges, but rather to find ways to recognize the needs and the dignity of the communities they serve — including victims, witnesses and defendants — and to build a criminal justice system that better enhances safety and ensures fairness.]]> 2017-11-30 18:07:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dwhenn/discover/wish/211991605 https://padlet.com/dwhenn/discover/wish/211992010 The prosecutors attending represented jurisdictions ranging from rural West Virginia, to suburban Alabama, to the nation’s largest coastal cities. Some have been in office for as long as 35 years, while others were elected last fall as part of a wave of reform-minded prosecutors.

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Prisons contained both felons and debtors - the latter were allowed to bring in wives and children. The jailer made his money by charging the inmates for food and drink and legal services and the whole system was ripe with corruption. One reform of the sixteenth century had been the establishment of the London Bridewell as a house of correction for women and children. This was the only place any medical services were provided.

]]> 2017-11-30 18:10:43 UTC https://padlet.com/dwhenn/discover/wish/211993559 https://padlet.com/dwhenn/discover/wish/211993955 Between 2010 and 2015, 31 states reduced both crime and imprisonment. In the 10 states with the largest declines in imprisonment, the crime rate fell an average of more than 14 percent.

]]> 2017-11-30 18:11:28 UTC https://padlet.com/dwhenn/discover/wish/211993955 https://padlet.com/dwhenn/discover/wish/211994310 There are of course issues where left and right still part company. Controlling the proliferation of guns remains a political third rail. The left wants to talk about race, and the right mostly does not. But on issues such as pre-trial diversion, indigent defense, sentencing, parole, rehabilitation, bail and asset forfeiture, you will find the Koch brothers arm-in-arm with the ACLU.]]> 2017-11-30 18:12:04 UTC https://padlet.com/dwhenn/discover/wish/211994310 https://padlet.com/dwhenn/discover/wish/214248757 Charles Koch, the company's chairman and CEO, has said he became interested in criminal-justice reform after a grand jury's 1995 indictment of a Koch refinery in Texas for 97 felony violations of environmental law.]]> 2017-12-07 18:00:31 UTC https://padlet.com/dwhenn/discover/wish/214248757