Guidelines Manual
Title | Guidelines Manual PDF eBook |
Author | United States Sentencing Commission |
Publisher | |
Pages | 556 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Criminal justice, Administration of |
ISBN |
Problem Solving Courts
Title | Problem Solving Courts PDF eBook |
Author | JoAnn Miller |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2009-11-16 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1442200820 |
Problem Solving Courts examines a relatively new approach to criminal justice in which judges, advised by law enforcement officers and mental health workers, meet with offenders on a weekly basis to talk about their issues in a socio-legal setting where therapeutic intervention is combined with a measure of punishment for program violations. Sociologist JoAnn Miller and judge Donald C. Johnson, creators of three successful problem solving courts themselves, address the compelling needs for alternatives to prisons, analyze problem solving courts in depth, and assess the impact problem solving courts can have on offenders and their communities.
Redeeming Justice
Title | Redeeming Justice PDF eBook |
Author | Jarrett Adams |
Publisher | Convergent Books |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2021-09-14 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0593137817 |
“A moving and beautifully crafted memoir.”—SCOTT TUROW “A daring act of justified defiance.”—SHAKA SENGHOR “Nothing less than heroic.”—JOHN GRISHAM He was seventeen when an all-white jury sentenced him to prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Now a pioneering lawyer, he recalls the journey that led to his exoneration—and inspired him to devote his life to fighting the many injustices in our legal system. Seventeen years old and facing nearly thirty years behind bars, Jarrett Adams sought to figure out the why behind his fate. Sustained by his mother and aunts who brought him back from the edge of despair through letters of prayer and encouragement, Adams became obsessed with our legal system in all its damaged glory. After studying how his constitutional rights to effective counsel had been violated, he solicited the help of the Wisconsin Innocence Project, an organization that exonerates the wrongfully convicted, and won his release after nearly ten years in prison. But the journey was far from over. Adams took the lessons he learned through his incarceration and worked his way through law school with the goal of helping those who, like himself, had faced our legal system at its worst. After earning his law degree, he worked with the New York Innocence Project, becoming the first exoneree ever hired by the nonprofit as a lawyer. In his first case with the Innocence Project, he argued before the same court that had convicted him a decade earlier—and won. In this illuminating story of hope and full-circle redemption, Adams draws on his life and the cases of his clients to show the racist tactics used to convict young men of color, the unique challenges facing exonerees once released, and how the lack of equal representation in our courts is a failure not only of empathy but of our collective ability to uncover the truth. Redeeming Justice is an unforgettable firsthand account of the limits—and possibilities—of our country’s system of law.
The Delinquent
Title | The Delinquent PDF eBook |
Author | Orlando Faulkland Lewis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 16 |
Release | 1914 |
Genre | Prisons |
ISBN |
The Bail Book
Title | The Bail Book PDF eBook |
Author | Shima Baradaran Baughman |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 331 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1107131367 |
Examines the causes for mass incarceration of Americans and calls for the reform of the bail system. Traces the history of bail, how it has come to be an oppressive tool of the courts, and makes recommendations for reforming the bail system and alleviating the mass incarceration problem.
Sensible Justice
Title | Sensible Justice PDF eBook |
Author | David C. Anderson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 1998-01 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9781565843899 |
On any given day in America, more than 1.5 million people are locked up in state prisons and local jails, at costs that approach $20,000 per inmate each year. Crime and incarceration generate heated, but often contradictory, political debate; voters consider prisons the only real sanction for crime, but adamantly resist new taxes to pay for them. Sensible Justice explores creative solutions some states and cities nationwide have devised to tackle the prison problem.
The Joint Committee on Prisons, to Whom was Committed the Memorial of the Inspectors of the State Prison, Praying the Removal of Lunatic Convicts from Said Prison, Respectfully Report the Accompanying Bill
Title | The Joint Committee on Prisons, to Whom was Committed the Memorial of the Inspectors of the State Prison, Praying the Removal of Lunatic Convicts from Said Prison, Respectfully Report the Accompanying Bill PDF eBook |
Author | Massachusetts. General Court. Joint Committee on the State Prison |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1842 |
Genre | Prisoners |
ISBN |
On February 9, 1842, the Joint Committee on Prisons, in response to a petition from the Inspectors of the State Prison, submitted a bill: An Act concerning lunatic convicts, 1842. The prison physician was to report insane convicts to the municipal court judge in Boston. That judge was to investigate the situation and could order the prisoner sent to the state lunatic hospital. If he did not, the prisoner remained in the state prison. If the prisoner were restored to sanity, he was remanded back to the state prison to serve out his sentence.