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Todd Cox, policy director at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, has this notable new commentary in The Hill headlined "Sentencing reform is moving in the wrong direction." Here are excerpts with a bit of additional commentary to follow: In 2015, Senator Chuck Grassley introduced a long awaited bi-partisan criminal justice reform bill designed to address inequities in federal sentencing and promote rehabilitation and re-entry for persons who are incarcerated.
Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister Kamina Johnson Smith speaks with then United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, the most senior member of the Trump administration to visit the island since Trump was elected US president. Johnson Smith is expected to lead Jamaica's delegation to the regional foreign ministers meeting in The Bahamas starting tomorrow.
The longtime anti-nuclear activist and repeat candidate for statewide office was tired of not getting through to voters. And after a publicized arrest for growing marijuana, his political aspirations felt more distant than ever.
Minutemen and border security supporters gather before heading to the U.S.-Mexico border on Saturday. Pledging to report unauthorized entries into the United States - and shame any state leaders who welcome them - about 20 border security supporters assembled Saturday morning near Jamul.
In this undated photo provided by Shelly Covington, Olusegun Olatunji, a Nigerian native, and his son, Micah, pose for a photo at a Denny's restaurant in Bloomington, Ind., in November 2007. Olatunji overstayed a work visa 30 years ago.
An Oklahoma measure awaits Gov. Mary Fallin's signature that would allow only judges, not juries, to sentence juveniles to life imprisonment without parole for murder. Lawmakers introduced the measure because of U.S. Supreme Court decisions that practically eliminated mandatory life without parole sentences for offenders who are accused of killing when they were 17 or younger, The Oklahoman reported.
An ex-coal executive who's running for U.S. Senate after serving a one-year prison sentence has unleashed a political ad that takes swipes at "China people" and calls the Senate majority leader "Cocaine Mitch." Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship, a Republican, is seeking the West Virginia seat now held by Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, but his ad disparages Kentucky GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell.
A Georgia inmate executed Friday for a 1996 shotgun slaying twitched briefly as the lethal injection flowed into his body and groaned, "It burns, man." Robert Earl Butts Jr., 40, was declared dead by a prison warden at 9:58 p.m. after the compounded barbiturate pentobarbital was injected into his body.
Last October, Thomas Homan, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement , announced that 2018 would see a significant increase in worksite related investigations. He pledged a four-fold increase in worksite audits.
Saudi Arabia has confirmed the arrival of a prisoner who was sent back to the kingdom from the Guantanamo Bay detention center to serve out the remainder of his 13-year sentence. Ahmed Mohammed al-Darbi is the first detainee to leave the US base in Cuba since President Donald Trump took office.
So what's it going to be, America: a democratic republic, or Trumpistan? A nation governed by the rule of law, or an oversized kleptocracy, whose maximum leader uses the decayed shell of government to punish his political enemies and reward friends and family? In another way of putting it, the United States government increasingly resembles a professional wrestling spectacle - all scripted feuds and melodramatic revenge plots enacted by a cast of alternately sinister and clownish figures skirting the edge of self-parody. According to The Washington Post, President Trump has personally intervened with the postmaster general in a fruitless effort to double the rates Amazon.com pays the U.S. Postal Service to ship packages.
Once upon a time, the word "socialist" wasn't considered a dirty word. In fact, in 1912 , roughly a million people , voted for a socialist for president.
This photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Robert Fratta, former suburban Houston police officer on death row for hiring a hitman to kill his estranged wife in 1994. In a ruling late Tuesday, May 1, 2018, Fratta lost an appeal moving him a step closer to execution.
A Cambria County judge ran afoul of the Constitution by conducting the mass trial and incarceration for 54 people held in contempt of court, a state appellate court concluded. Cambria County Judge Tamara Bernstein jailed defendant Gregory Mauk for two weeks.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller, in a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump's lawyers in March, raised the possibility of issuing a subpoena for Trump if he declines to talk to investigators in the Russia probe, a former lawyer for the president said on Tuesday. John Dowd told Reuters that Mueller mentioned the possibility of a subpoena in the early March meeting.
U.S. Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand, D-New York, is again criticizing the military's handling of sexual assault victims following the latest Department of Defense report that showed more cases are ending without convictions. The senator on Tuesday released a statement on the DoD's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office report , saying that not enough is being done to convict accused sexual offenders in the military.
For weeks, President Donald Trump has expressed alarm about a caravan of Central American migrants heading for the United States and vowed to keep them out. But on Tuesday, U.S. officials allowed a second group of the asylum seekers across the border, their fate now in the hands of immigration officials and judges.
Two of Missouri's highest profile Republicans are butting heads. One is a governor enveloped in legal drama; the other is a state attorney general investigating said governor while also campaigning for a seat in the U.S. Senate.
Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver arrives at federal court, Monday, April 30, 2018, in New York. The former speaker returned to court Monday to listen as prosecutors accuse him for a second time of collecting $4 million in illegal kickbacks from a cancer researcher and real estate developers.
A group of immigrants from Central America, whose caravan north earned the ire of President Donald Trump and became a flash point in the roiling debate over illegal immigration, requested asylum at the California border Sunday in a scene marked by emotion and theater. As the boisterous gathering at the border fence in Playas de Tijuana grew to hundreds, some waved Honduran flags, called out chants and waved bouquets of yellow flowers.