Prosecution Women Prisoners: Altering the Cycle of Abuse by Amy Fettig Because the lives of women prisoners are largely unknown, ignored, and discounted, their civil and human rights are frequently violated.
Prosecution Let’s Abolish Mandatory Minimums: The Punishment Must Fit the Crime by Molly M. Gill Mandatory minimum sentences deprive judges of discretion and often lead to overpunishment, violating two bedrock human rights principles: (1) punishment should not be cruel, inhumane, or degrading; and (2) sentences should be proportionate to the crime.
Prosecution The Right to Life? Policing, Race, and Criminal Injustice by Delores Jones-Brown The only way to reduce questionable police killings is to take seriously the notion that everyone has individual constitutional and human rights.
Prosecution Ensuring Employee Rights in Internal Investigations by N. Richard Janis Corporations and other organizations faced with potential criminal investigations and enforcement proceedings need to be able to conduct their own investigations to learn the facts and make informed judgments about how to respond.
Prosecution A Broken Indigent Defense System: Observations and Recommendations of a New National Report by Norman Lefstein Due to funding shortfalls, excessive caseloads, and a host of other problems, many indigent defense systems are truly failing. Not only does this failure deny justice to the poor, it adds cost to the entire justice system.
Prosecution Better Than Prison: A Prosecutor’s Collaborative Models for Reducing Criminal Recidivism by Charles J. Hynes As this nation crams an ever-rising number of people into prisons, one has to wonder whether such a level of confinement really furthers the ultimate goal of our criminal justice system—to ensure that members of society are safe in their persons and property.
Prosecution Challenging Disenfranchisement for Felony Convictions by Ryan S. King More than five million Americans cannot vote as the result of a felony conviction, many of whom have completed their sentences and live in the community. Growing public dissatisfaction with these laws since 1997 has led to a groundswell of support for reform.
Prosecution Restricting Sex Offender Residences: Policy Implications by Jill S. Levenson With laws in at least thirty states that prevent registered sex offenders from residing within a specified distance of places commonly frequented by children, many sex offenders are having difficulty finding compliant housing.
Prosecution Human Rights Hero: Justice John Paul Stevens by Aram A. Schvey His innate sense of pragmatism, coupled with several early formative experiences, transformed this mild-mannered jurist into one of the staunchest defenders of the rights of the accused and the convicted.
