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10.07.11
From Our Blog: Links of Interest
Category: Blog
What We Read, October 3-7, 2011 Criminal Justice Court Reform: The Chicago Tribune reports that more non-violent offenders in Cook County are serving time under house arrest with electronic monitoring, rather than in jail, following a “collaborative push among the county’s law enforcement agencies”
09.26.11
Don't Miss Our Annual Fundraising Luncheon - Oct. 5th
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Chicago Appleseed and Chicago Council of Lawyers invite you to their Annual Fundraising Luncheon.
09.23.11
From Our Blog: Links of Interest
Category: Blog
What We Read, September 19-23, 2011 Criminal Justice Court Reform: Youth Today runs through the 2012 funding legislation approved by the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice and Science last week. The spending bill eliminates most federal funding for juvenile justice programs. The Economist discusses how the death penalty is disappearing slowly in the world, [...]
09.20.11
From Our Blog: “Are there better ways to do our business?”
Category: Blog
So asks New York State Chief Judge Jonathon Lippman, who has work within New York's court system for over forty years, 15 of them as a judge. During a recent interview with The Center for Court Innovation, Judge Lippman says the title question is what led New York to begin reforming its court systems 15 [...]
09.12.11
Community-Involved Efforts Lead to Record CPS Attendance Level
Category: Blog
Chicago Public Schools enjoyed a 94.7% attendance rate on the district's first day of school. The turnout this Tuesday marks a four-year high, and a jump from 92.9% last year. CPS attributes the turnout largely to coordinated efforts among the schools, community organizations, and families. One of the main causes of poor first-day attendance is [...] Read more about this over at our blog.
08.26.11
What We Read, August 22-26
Category: Blog
Judicial Elections and Judiciary Reform: Last month, the Oklahoma Judicial Ethics Advisory Panel issued an opinion with guidelines on judges and the use of social media. Immigration Court Reform: On August 17, in Chicago, the Department of Homeland Security held a public hearing on its controversial "Secure Communities" program. Undocumented youth led protests and several [...] Check out our blog to read more of this post.
08.22.11
CPS Principal Pay-for-Performance Plan Opens the Door for Community Schools
Category: Blog
Merit pay is a notoriously tricky business. Reward short-term returns and you hang the future out to dry. Or, as we've seen in a growing number of school districts across the country, you run the risk of teachers and administrators taking shortcuts (ie, cheating) to grab the brass ring. Mayor Emmanuel has proposed an incentive [...] Visit our blog to read more of this post.
08.19.11
What We Read, August 12-19
Category: Blog
Criminal Justice Court Reform: Even conservative states are adopting lighter sentencing policies in response to unsustainable prison costs, reports the New York Times. Matthew Iglesias questions the social, political, and economic rationale behind increasingly curtailing formerly incarcerated individuals' right to work. To read our staff picks, please be sure to visit our blog. Do you have some interesting articles you've read this week? Share them with us in the comments field.
08.18.11
More incarceration does not equal less crime.
Category: Blog
The ACLU posted a fascinating infographic this week. The above graphic compares the change incarceration rates and the change in crime rates from 1999 to 2009. Illinois' prison population has skyrocketed since 1970, but has not grown considerably in the past decade, as illustrated by this chart produced by the John Howard Association, a Chicago-based prison watchdog organization. Over on our blog, you can read more about the facts behind why prison is not the answer.
08.18.11
Save The Date: Annual Fundraising Luncheon Set for October 5, 2011
Category: Chicago Appleseed In The News
Chicago Appleseed and Chicago Council of Lawyers invite you to their Annual Fundraising Luncheon.