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04.26.10
Reversing The Direction Of Corrections
Category: Chicago Appleseed In The News
At a crowded legislative hearing in Chicago, criminal justice experts reminded state lawmakers that humane reforms could lower the state's prison population and save taxpayers money.
04.26.10
Prison Reformers Push Drug Treatment, Education
Category: Chicago Appleseed In The News
Ill. Lawmakers Consider Ways To Improve State Corrections System
04.21.10
An age-old debate exists about effect of politics in the judiciary
Category: Chicago Appleseed In The News
The debate about what role politics plays in the judiciary has been the subject of countless academic papers, public polls and legislative battles ever since the American judicial system was created.
04.07.10
Progress through Partnership
Category: E-Newsletters
Eighth Edition of Chicago Council of Lawyers' Judicial Directory Available
03.24.10
Progress through Partnership
Category: E-Newsletters
An MCLE Forum: Restructuring the criminal courts
03.17.10
Progress through Partnership
Category: E-Newsletters
Organizing for Change, Judicial Performance Commissioners, and Stan Utley!
03.15.10
Win a day with golf pro Stan Utley!
Category: Press Releases
Win a day with golf professional Stan Utley, one of America's 50 2009-2010 greatest teachers named by Golf Digest. Whether you are a seasoned veteran or new to the game of golf, learn more about the art of short game, putting and scoring from one of the best chippers and putters in the game...
02.17.10
Progress through Partnership
Category: E-Newsletters
Join us for "Organizing for Social Change in Chicago"
02.17.10
Organization calls for immigration court reform
Category: Chicago Appleseed In The News
Last year, Appleseed and the Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice released a comprehensive report, "Assembly Line Injustice," outlining findings that American immigration courts regularly fall beneath basic standards of justice. The report compiled the reports of trained court-watchers as well as more than 100 interviews with individuals who are involved in immigration court on a day-to-day basis, including practitioners (pro bono and fee-charging), officials of nonprofit associations and professional organizations, academics and governmental players. The report offered 34 recommendations aimed at promoting accuracy, efficiency and legitimacy throughout the immigration court process.
02.16.10
Chicago Appleseed Calls for Immigration Court Reform
Category: Policy Statements
...(T)here are many fine immigration judges and government attorneys working in this underfunded and yet critically important judicial system. But we heard of too many cases in which judges would engage in verbal abuse, mocking a pro bono attorney for being a "New York big firm do-gooder" or yelling at an immigrant for not looking him in the eye, not understanding that eye contact was inappropriate in the immigrant's culture. We heard repeatedly that training of immigration judges is inadequate. In one case, responding to an immigrant's claim that he faced persecution as a result of sexual orientation, a judge declared that the immigrant "didn't look gay" and denied asylum...