About Elizabeth Monkus

Elizabeth Monkus (she/her) is the Senior Attorney & Project Director for Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts. Elizabeth came to Chicago Appleseed in 2010 to manage the Judicial Performance Commission Demonstration project. She currently focuses on domestic relations and judicial elections in her program work.

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What We Read, October 3-7, 2011 Criminal Justice Court Reform: The Chicago Tribune reports that more non-violent offenders in Cook County are serving time under house arrest with electronic monitoring, rather than in jail, following a “collaborative push among the county’s law enforcement agencie...
October 7, 2011

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Criminal Justice Court Reform: Salon ran a short excerpt from The Collapse of American Justice. The book has just been published posthumously and is by former Harvard law professor William J. Stuntz, who died earlier this year.  Immigration Court Reform: The ACLU, joined with dozens of other or...
September 30, 2011

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What We Read, September 19-23, 2011 Criminal Justice Court Reform: Youth Today runs through the 2012 funding legislation approved by the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice and Science last week. The spending bill eliminates most federal funding for juvenile justice programs....
September 23, 2011

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Judicial Elections and Judiciary Reform: Last month, the Oklahoma Judicial Ethics Advisory Panel issued an opinion with guidelines on judges and the use of social media. Immigration Court Reform: On August 17, in Chicago, the Department of Homeland Security held a public hearing on its controv...
August 26, 2011

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What We Read, August 12-19, 2011   Criminal Justice Court Reform: Even conservative states are adopting lighter sentencing policies in response to unsustainable prison costs, reports the New York Times.  Matthew Iglesias questions the social, political, and economic rationale behind incr...
August 19, 2011
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