News of general interest to the WAR community.
Should the decades old ban on Pell Grants for Prisoners be lifted? New study says yes. From the Vera Institute of Justice joint report on the benefits of educational opportunities for people while incarcerated in the U.S.: Increase employment rates among formerly incarcerated students by 10 percent, on average; combined earnings among all formerly incarcerated people would increase by $45.3 million during the first year of release alone;Provide...
The Right to Meaningful Representation verses State Sovereign Immunity This case before and the decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit can be read by clicking the link below. church-v-missouriDownload I would love to hear from those who have legal expertise an analysis of this case and what it means for all indigent defendants.
FAMM Press Release about Florida criminal justice reform.
ACLU suit seeks changes to Michigan sex offender registry By George Hunter, The Detroit NewsPublished 12:01 a.m. ET...
Revises provisions governing the conditions for lifetime supervision of sex offenders. (BDR 16-408) Existing law sets forth certain conditions...
Makes the Case for More Lenient Sex Offender Laws in America According to Untouchable, there’s a reason most Americans...
University of California Press – Sentencing Reform Reporter website has produced the “The 2018 Debate over Federal Statutory Reform Proposals”.
Utah may be poised to dial back punishment for some crimes According to CBS affiliate KUTV in Salt...
According to Registrant Travel Action Group (RTAG), the Central America Country of Belize has implemented an IML policy...
Those seeking asylum today inherited a series of crises that drove them to the border At the margins...
Read this SCOTUSblog article on the February, 2019 U.S Supreme Court calendar of cases it will be hearing. Posted on December 21, 2018 by Amy Howe
WASHINGTON – FAMM President Kevin Ring issued the following statement today in response to the U.S. Senate’s bipartisan passage of the First Step Act (S. 3747) by a vote of 87 to 12: “This is not simply a matter of policymaking to us. This is about people – specifically, the people we have gotten to know in the last 27 years while promoting these reforms. This bill is...
Nevada becomes first state with a majority of law makers being women. In a new first for Nevada, two vacated Assembly seats were filled by the appointment of two women. This makes the total women in both legislative branches 32 out of the total 63 seats. Women will now hold 23 of 42 seats in the state Assembly and nine of the state Senate's 21 spots, giving them...
McConnell Says He Will Bring Criminal Justice Bill to Senate Floor for Vote Under pressure from the White House and a number of his fellow Republicans, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said today he will bring a major criminal justice bill, the FIRST STEP Act, to the Senate floor for a vote as early as the end of the week. Hit and Run Blog - Reason -...
Commission Considers Changes to State Sex-Offender Registry Click image to go to this article. Among several proposed changes are three headliners. The first focuses on revamping the system by focusing on an offender’s risk versus the offender’s conviction. In other words, how likely that person is to re-offend. “We’ve got over 5,000 people on the sex-offender registry now in Connecticut,” Delvin said. “By focusing on the really high-risk...
Constitutional Accountability Center, Cato Institute, and American Civil Liberties Union file Friend of the Court Briefs In Gamble...
Nondelegation doctrine defined at Wikipedia Reviving the Nondelegation Doctrine The Supreme Court has accepted certiorari in a case...
Master Thesis by Fresno State student Studied California Sex Offender Laws and Student Attitudes He surveyed more than 400 students on campus in spring 2018 to test whether their attitude on sex offender laws could be changed by providing expert information on current law and what experts view as better solutions than the lifetime registry, such as prevention and rehabilitation. "It was three different things that we tried...
United States District Court Rules in Favor of Plantiff in Due Process Case Registered sex offenders face significant restrictions in their daily lives. See, e.g., N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.18(a)(3) (preventing registered sex offenders from going to libraries, arcades, amusement parks, recreation parks, and swimming pools). Failure to register when required to by law is a felony, and there is no procedure enabling sex offenders to challenge the...
FAMM (Families Against Mandatory Minimums) President Kevin Ring released the following statement: Good riddance. For nearly three decades,...
