Costs of Money Bail to Justice
More than 200,000 bail bonds are posted in California each year, generating $308 million in non-refundable premium fees from accused persons, their families, and friends who post bail for them. Being...
View ArticleEven After ‘Historic’ Criminal Justice Reform in Louisiana, Our Work Is Not...
Louisiana imprisons a larger share of its population than any other state in the U.S., and the U.S. locks up more people per capita than anywhere else on earth. With an incarceration rate almost five...
View ArticleCriminal Justice Reform Starts and Ends with the States
Criminal justice reform has the attention of the country, but it is at the state and local level where reform will be implemented. Much of the conversation about criminal justice reform has revolved...
View ArticleReplacing Judges with Computers Is Risky
Adopting technology for the sake of having it is an unwise move. Last year, the California Judicial Council proposed that California’s criminal courts jump on a failing bandwagon to inhibit and...
View ArticleThe ‘Crime’ of Paying College Basketball Stars: Form over Substance?
Last September, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that federal charges had been brought against major figures in college basketball. A group of 10 assistant coaches, agents and sneaker...
View ArticleVague Criminality and Mass Incarceration: Will Dimaya End the Insanity?
Today, the Supreme Court decided Sessions v. Dimaya and struck down the federal definition of “crime of violence” as unconstitutionally vague. The statute, section 16(b) (along with its very analogous...
View ArticleEvaluating New York’s “Revenge Porn” Law: A Missed Opportunity to Protect...
Six years after lawmakers first considered the issue of nonconsensual pornography, New York has criminalized the practice. We wholeheartedly support the effort in our role as legal scholars and as...
View ArticleRecent Case: Cantu v. Dothan
It is, perhaps, a severe understatement to claim that qualified immunity—the legal doctrine shielding police officers and other government officials from liability for constitutional violations in all...
View ArticleRecent Case: State v. Gokal
At the start of 2021, the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Houston, Texas was met with such high demand that the City’s vaccination call center phone lines crashed. And by the end of January, vaccine...
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