Recusal Standards for Judges

Finding ways to ensure the competence and integrity of the judicial system is a research and advocacy priority at Chicago Appleseed. We consider ways to advocate for improvement through our court-watching projects, the research and support we give to the Judicial Performance Commission, and in our r...
August 5, 2011

Links of Interest

What We Read, August 1-5, 2011 Criminal Justice Court Reform: Drug court: Why spending more will cost us less: Commentary in the San Jose Mercury News. In response to disproportionate numbers of nonwhite males unemployed and/or incarcerated, New York City unveiled a strategy involving, among o...
August 5, 2011

Links of Interest

What We Read, July 25-39, 2011 Criminal Justice Court Reform: Prison Law Blog links to a working paper by a Fordham University Law Professor, which concludes that “growth in prison populations has been driven almost entirely by increases in felony filings per arrest”. Cook County Board Preside...
July 29, 2011

Diversion Works.

That's the undisputed message in the most comprehensive study of diversionary drug courts ever completed. The Urban Institute, the Center for Court Innovation, and RTI International, conducted the multi-volume study, “The Multi-Site Adult Drug Court Evaluation." Researchers evaluated 23 drug courts...
July 22, 2011

Links of Interest

What we read this week. Criminal Justice Court Reform: Governor Quinn has abandoned plans to merge the Juvenile Department of Corrections with the Department of Child and Family Services. Judicial Elections and Election Reform: The Brennan Center examines public funding of campaigns in light o...
July 15, 2011