Illinois Asset Building Group Launches New Website

The Illinois Asset Building Group, of which Chicago Appleseed is a member, unveiled a new website this week. Be sure to check it out at: http://www.illinoisassetbuilding.org/ An excerpt from their launch email explains the site features: Asset Building Blog: our blog will provide a space for IAB...
January 19, 2012

Our Amicus Brief in Avery v. State Farm

 The Illinois Supreme Court has denied the appeal in Avery v. State Farm, without written opinion (.pdf), declining to restore the verdict. Chicago Appleseed takes no position on the merits of the underlying case, but did sign an amicus brief discussing the issue of judicial ethics and recusal raise...
November 21, 2011

Finding the “Fat Catchers” of Criminal Justice

This editorial originally appeared at The Huffington Post. Cook County criminal justice can learn some valuable lessons from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Oakland A's. Namely, experts are often overconfident. They make mistakes because they see the world from a narrow, limited per...
October 9, 2011

Links of Interest

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

Links of Interest

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