Links of Interest

What We Read, October 24-28, 2011 Criminal Justice Court Reform: Special Rapporteur Juan Méndez  addressed the announced that U.N. General Assembly in New York,  discussing how solitary confinement violates the United Nations Convention against Torture. A link to his full report is available here...
October 28, 2011

Links of Interest

What We Read, October 10-14, 2011 Immigration Court Reform: The Adler School’s Institute on Public Safety and Social Justice will be hosting a panel discussion “A Dream Deferred: The Mental Health Implications of Being Undocumented” on November 1.  Last year, the Immigrant Youth Action League co...
October 14, 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