Links of Interest — June 3, 2011

What We Read, May 30 – June 3, 2011 Criminal Justice Court Reform: The ABA advocates several common sense ways for States to save money while furthering goals of criminal justice. MacArthur Justice Center Director Locke Bowman remains skeptical about Mayor Emmanuel's pick for Police Superinten...
June 3, 2011

Featured Resource: ABA Criminal Justice Section

The ABA's Criminal Justice Section "State Policy Implementation Project" includes a collection of research and recommendations proposing five reforms: 1. Pre-Trial Release Reform 2. Decriminalization of Minor Offenses 3. Effective Reentry Programs 4. Increased Use of Parole and Probation 5. Comm...
June 3, 2011

Immigration Court Reform Serves Everyone’s Interests

This article originally appeared at the Huffington Post. "These are death penalty cases being handled with the resources of traffic court,” one Immigration Court judge told Chicago Appleseed, in an interview for a 2009 report. A recent two-part Associated Press report on immigration court also cap...
May 31, 2011

Evaluating Judges

87 percent of all state court judges face election to gain or retain their seats, according to the National Center for State Courts, with 39 states electing at least some of their judges. State courts in the United States are unique in the world—neither our own federal system, nor any other nation,...
May 25, 2011

Links of Interest for the Week — May 20, 2011

Immigration Court Reform: Human Rights Watch presented testimony to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary about reducing the immigration court backlog through decreasing transfers and providing counsel. Criminal Justice Reform: Chicago Appleseed does not work in the area of prison reform but sev...
May 20, 2011