Publications
Recent opinion contributors have argued in favor of banning all flavored cigarette products, including menthol. If banning things made them magically disappear, Prohibition and the war on drugs would…
From The Center Square:
Nila Bala, associate director of R Street’s Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties Program, told The Center Square this was an “access to justice” issue.
“So many…
An obscure rule in the game of Monopoly states that if you roll doubles three times in a row on a single turn, you go to jail. The longer you play the game, the higher your chances of being caught by…
Earlier this year, Chicago officers strapped an ankle monitor onto Shawn, a 15-year-old awaiting trial on charges of robbery. The ankle monitor offered police the ability to track Shawn’s…
WASHINGTON (Nov. 7, 2019) – In the last five years, only one death sentence has been handed down by a jury in Georgia. Yet alleged perpetrators can still be sentenced to death in the state, despite…
Capital punishment is quickly dwindling in Georgia. In fact, juries have delivered only one death sentence in over five years, and national polls show that death penalty support is near historic lows…
From AL:
Writing in The American Interest, Emily Mooney reports that a 2018 RAND study showed that educational programs offered in prisons were associated with reducing re-offending rates by as…
From The Center Square:
Jesse Kelly, a government affairs specialist at The R Street Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization, previously told The Center Square expunging a…
From The Crime Report:
The study, based on a 50-state survey by the R Street Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based policy think tank, examines how the most common pre-arrest diversion strategies…
Turn on any popular legal drama on television, and you’ll see that American culture defines successful prosecutors as those who bluster away in the courtroom securing guilty pleas, stern verdicts…