What We Read, March 5-9, 2012

Links of interest for this week. Don't forget to set your clocks forward this weekend!   Judicial Elections and Judiciary Reform: Colorlines discusses new voter identification laws, as we head up to super Tuesday. On Wednesday this week, a court in Wisconsin temporarily blocked a new voter ident...
March 9, 2012

Links of Interest

What We Read, February 27-March 2, 2012 Immigration Court Reform: The 11th Circuit heard arguments on Thursday, March 1, on immigration laws in Alabama and Georgia, modeled after the notorious Arizona immigration law. The Arizona law goes before the Supreme Court of the U.S. in April. The 11th...
March 2, 2012

Links of Interest

What We Read, February 20-26, 2012 Criminal Justice Reform: The big news in criminal justice last week was Governor Quinn's announcement that he plans to close Tamms Prison. The move is applauded by prison reform groups. The Justice Policy Institute wrote about taking politics out of the parol...
February 26, 2012

Links of Interest

What We Read, February 6-8, 2012   Immigration The National Immigrant Youth Alliance has created UndocuHealth, a resource for undocumented immigrants with mental health issues (via Feministing ). The merit’s brief for Petitioner Arizona in the federal immigration case U.S. v. Arizona is now av...
February 10, 2012

Reducing Urban Crime and Violence Forum Discusses Alternatives to Incarceration

The University of Chicago Crime Lab and Urban Education Institute co-hosted a panel discussion on criminal justice and education responses to Chicago violence. The first panel just concluded, with the following participants: Moderator: James Warren, Columnist | Chicago News Cooperative The Honora...
February 10, 2012