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August 21, 2017 | Fox News The man who shot and wounded an Ohio county judge outside a courthouse Monday morning before being shot dead was the father of a Steubenville High School football player who was convicted of rape in 2013, authorities said Monday. Jefferson County Judge Joseph Bruzzese Jr., 65, was “ambushed” while walking […]

July 20 | Harvard Kennedy School – Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy The Executive Session on Community Corrections has released an unprecedented consensus document entitled Toward An Approach to Community Corrections for the 21st Century: Consensus Document of the Executive Session on Community Corrections. This is the first time in the thirty-plus year history of the PCJ Executive […]

By KAMALA D. HARRIS and RAND PAUL  July 20 | New York Times Kalief Browder, a 16-year-old New Yorker, was arrested on charges of stealing a backpack in 2010. To ensure he would show up for trial, and because of a previous offense, the judge set bail at $3,000. But his family could not afford to pay. So Mr. Browder […]

By Christopher Ingraham December 12 | New York Times A new report from the Brennan Center for Justice concludes that “unnecessary incarceration” — imprisoning people for low-level offenses and keeping them there for years — is ruining hundreds of thousands of lives, wasting billions of dollars and having little effect on public safety. If you’ve been following the […]

For Blacks Facing Parole in New York State, Signs of a Broken System By MICHAEL WINERIP, MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ and ROBERT GEBELOFF PUBLISHED:DEC. 4, 2016 | New York Times Jaimie Davenport and Billy Cassell had their first hearings before the New York State Board of Parole earlier this year. Both were serving a maximum of six […]

Morrison to take over Jefferson County Probation Department By BRIAN MOLONGOSKI BMOLONGOSKI@WDT.NET PUBLISHED: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2016 AT 12:30 AM | Watertown Daily Times WATERTOWN — Jefferson County Probation Supervisor Martin J. Morrison will take over leadership of the department following the retirement of current Director David D. Corey at the end of November. Mr. […]

Montgomery County unveils addition to public safety facility By Daniel Fitzsimmons October 19, 2016 | The Daily Gazatte FULTONVILLE — Montgomery County Executive Matt Ossenfort and other officials unveiled a recently completed 10,000-square-foot addition to the county’s public safety building on Wednesday, touting it as crucial to emergency management staff in responding to any future […]

Ruling Loosens Ban on Owning Guns After Minor Convictions By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSSEPT. 8, 2016 | The New York Times HARRISBURG, Pa. — A federal appeals court has ruled that some people convicted of comparatively minor state crimes should get a chance to legally own guns, issuing a divided decision that reshapes longstanding rules. The […]

This small Indiana county sends more people to prison than San Francisco and Durham, N.C., combined. Why? By JOSH KELLER and ADAM PEARCESEPT. 2, 2016 | The New York Times LAWRENCEBURG, Ind. — Donnie Gaddis picked the wrong county to sell 15 oxycodone pills to an undercover officer. If Mr. Gaddis had been caught 20 […]

Group taught a skill, earn stipend to pay restitution By JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN and J. DAVID GOODMAN AUG. 21, 2016 | The New York Times Utah, a state where even regular beer is considered too intoxicating, has made possession of heroin or cocaine a misdemeanor rather than a felony. Mississippi has reduced its prison population by 15 percent […]