Court Watching Report: Cook County Central Bond Court
Below is our Court Watching Report for the Cook County Central Bond Court, released 2011....
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...
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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...
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...
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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...