Links of Interest

What We Read for the week of November 14-18, 2011 Criminal Justice Court Reform: The John Howard Association released its annual Year-End Assessment of Department of Juvenile Justice this week. WBEZ interviewed the author of the report  Thursday morning. Earlier this year, JHA criticized the DJJ...
November 18, 2011

Links of Interest

What We Read, November 7-11, 2011 Criminal Justice Court Reform: In April, we linked to a This American Life episode about a judge in Georgia’s Drug Court who was punishing defendants harshly in contrast with rehabilitative goals of drugs courts. The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that Geor...
November 11, 2011

Links of Interest

What We Read, October 24-28, 2011 Criminal Justice Court Reform: Special Rapporteur Juan Méndez  addressed the announced that U.N. General Assembly in New York,  discussing how solitary confinement violates the United Nations Convention against Torture. A link to his full report is available here...
October 28, 2011

Links of Interest

What We Read, October 10-14, 2011 Immigration Court Reform: The Adler School’s Institute on Public Safety and Social Justice will be hosting a panel discussion “A Dream Deferred: The Mental Health Implications of Being Undocumented” on November 1.  Last year, the Immigrant Youth Action League co...
October 14, 2011

Finding the “Fat Catchers” of Criminal Justice

This editorial originally appeared at The Huffington Post. Cook County criminal justice can learn some valuable lessons from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Oakland A's. Namely, experts are often overconfident. They make mistakes because they see the world from a narrow, limited per...
October 9, 2011