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Liberty and Healthcare for All Brennan Center for Justice

WEBOpponents, including Justices Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas and Alito ( who co-authored a rare four-voice dissent ), complain that the law is an attack on individual …

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A Guide to Emergency Powers and Their Use

WEBExecutive Power. In February 2019, President Donald Trump declared a national emergency to secure funding that Congress had expressly denied for the …

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Mercy, Especially for the Mentally Ill Brennan Center for Justice

WEBMercy, Especially for the Mentally Ill. In his essay for Solutions: American Leaders Speak Out on Criminal Justice, Bryan Stevenson calls on Americans to …

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How to Fight the Heroin Epidemic Brennan Center for Justice

WEBThe administration must make a stronger effort to prioritize treatment programs as a solution to drug crises, including the current heroin epidemic. In addition, …

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The Era of Punitive Excess Brennan Center for Justice

WEBThe Era of Punitive Excess. The criminal justice system is marred by an overreliance on excessive punishment. This essay is the first in the Brennan Center’s …

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Covid-19 and the Struggle for Health Behind Bars

WEBThe second shocker: Covid-19 is estimated to have reduced the life expectancy of prisoners in Florida’s state system by four years. Both of these facts indict …

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Judicial Interventions for Inhumane Prison and Jail Conditions

WEBFor decades, New York City’s jails have been riddled by complicated, entrenched, and interlocking problems. In 2011, 12 people confined to the New York …

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The Links Between Mass Incarceration and Poverty

WEBBetween policing, jails, prisons, probation, and parole, New York State, its counties, and its localities spent $18.2 billion on the carceral system in 2019, according …

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60 Days After Dobbs: State Legal Developments on Abortion

WEBOn June 24, the Supreme Court released its decision in Dobbs v.Jackson Women’s Health Organization, overturning Roe v.Wade and holding that there is no …

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The Facts on Bail Reform in New York: How Pretrial Detention and

WEBIn 2019, New York ended the use of money bail and jail for most cases involving misdemeanors and lower-level felonies. The law, which was implemented in …

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How to Lower the High Level of Jail Suicides

WEBAccording to the latest Bureau of Justice Statistics report, suicides were the leading cause of jail deaths between 2000 and 2019, totaling 6,217 — 30 percent of all …

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Address Gun Violence by Going After the Root Causes

WEBIn 2020, President Trump launched Operation Legend, a nine-city law enforcement initiative to address violent crime, resulting in over 2,000 arrests within its …

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How Coronavirus Could Affect U.S. Jails and Prisons

WEBPeople who come into jails and prisons are a very high-risk population for the virus, according to the former chief medical officer of the NYC Correctional Health …

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Can We Trust the Jury in Trump’s Manhattan Trial

WEBThis piece with originally published on cafe.com and is reprinted with their kind permission. How best to decide who is guilty of committing a crime? Until 1641, when it …

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How Atrocious Prisons Conditions Make Us All Less Safe

WEBThrough strict authoritarianism, rules, and control, prisons lessen personal autonomy and increase institutional dependence. This ensures that people learn to rely …

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Government Access to Mobile Phone Data for Contact Tracing

WEB13. There is no definition of “record” in the SCA, but courts have interpreted the term to include some data revealing a customer’s location, most notably cell-site …

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Brennan Center Letter to Governor Cuomo

WEBhave access to it).2 Cramped in close quarters, our nation’s correctional facilities — including those in New York State holding over 40,000 people — are essentially petri …

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How Some European Prisons Are Based on Dignity Instead of

WEBView the entire Punitive Excess series This essay is part of the Brennan Center’s series examining the punitive excess that has come to define America’s …

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Using Smart Reforms to End Mass Incarceration

WEBBrennan Center research indicates that 40 percent of those in state and federal prisons don’t need to be there for any public safety reason. And we know we can …

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l. Unregulated Work in the Auto Services Industry in New York …

WEB90 Unregulated Work in the Global City, Brennan Center for Justice, 2007 benefits. However, an informal segment of lots and ga-rages remains in low-income …

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Supreme Court of the United States

WEBAs with the privilege against self-incrimination, constitutional protection of religious conscience is rooted in the heart, mind, and soul of the believer, not in some third party …

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