Listed below are a couple of odds and ends that caught Grits' eye whereas I am targeted elsewhere: Greater than 1,200 Texans have emaile...
Listed below are a couple of odds and ends that caught Grits' eye whereas I am targeted elsewhere:
- Greater than 1,200 Texans have emailed DPS Director Steve McCraw within the final week urging the company to undertake rules proposed by Just Liberty and its allies to rein in arrests by state troopers for Class C non-jailable offenses. Go here to send your own email.
- A former TDCJ guard was sentenced to 180 days in jail for permitting two inmates to assault a 3rd then trying to cowl it up.
- Prices have been dismissed towards two Harris County jailers who left a Class B pot defendant in a cell crammed with feces and rubbish then tampered with data to cowl it up. Prosecutors waited too long and the statute of limitations has passed.
- Coverage from yesterday's House Corrections Committee hearing on parole jogged my memory of this recent Grits post. Sounds prefer it was a one-sided dialogue.
- Two tutorial papers elevate fascinating questions: Did Justice Samuel Alito suggest a viable legal strategy for holding law enforcement officials accountable once they wrongfully kill individuals? And what duty do prosecutors have to research and cost officers who interact in misconduct?
- From the Vera Institute, "Why more incarceration won't reduce crime?"
- By way of the Wrongful Convictions blog, see Samuel Gross, "How concealing key evidence convicts the innocent." Associated: From the New York Occasions Journal, "She Was Convicted of Killing Her Mother. Prosecutors Withheld the Evidence That Could Have Freed Her."
- Truthful Punishment Challenge, "Dozens of wrongful convictions tossed out of Southern California Courts because of prosecutor bad behavior."
- Aggressive regulation enforcement in poor neighborhoods quantities to a "crime tax," posit criminologists.
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