Category Archives: News

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...

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 agencie...

Criminal Justice Court Reform: Salon ran a short excerpt from The Collapse of American Justice. The book has just been published posthumously and is by former Harvard law professor William J. Stuntz, who died earlier this year.  Immigration Court Reform: The ACLU, joined with dozens of other or...

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....

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...