Revisit teen sentences
New York will no longer treat many 16- and 17-year old offenders as adults.
Algorithms and Justice: Scrapping the ‘Black Box’
The justice system is increasingly turning to complicated computer algorithms to help make decisions about bail, sentencing and parole. But many question whether paying private software companies to use secret algorithms in criminal justice is in the public’s best interest.
Republicans Vow To Appeal Pa. Supreme Court Decision To Throw Out District Voting Maps
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling is potentially the first final decision requiring a congressional map to be redrawn, but Republicans are calling the ruling “partisan” and the timeline to redraw the map “impossible” and want the nation’s highest court to weigh in.
U.S. Supreme Court to decide legality of Ohio’s process for removing inactive voters from rolls
Sixty-one-year-old Portage County resident Larry Harmon showed up to vote in 2015 only learn his registration was canceled.
Harmon hadn’t cast a ballot since the 2008 presidential election because he saw abstention as a way to express his dismay with politics. But the Navy veteran who works as a computer consultant didn’t realize infrequent voting would trigger Ohio’s process to remove him from the voting rolls. And he wasn’t happy.
January Council Meeting Updates
At its meeting in Philadelphia on January 18 and 19, the Council reviewed drafts for several projects, with the following outcomes:
Experts applaud decision to close Lincoln Hills and form other teen prisons
Closing a Wisconsin teen prison is a decision that’s being applauded by some who say closing Lincoln Hills may help teens. But others warn it’s just the first stop to fixing a broken path in the criminal justice system.
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