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Three Percent of Americans Have Been To Prison- Eight Percent Have Felonies

Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Thirty-five years of speaking for national and state criminal justice agencies. Interviewed multiple times by every national news outlet.…

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Can We Cut Probation Caseloads by 50 Percent?

admin August 30, 2017 crime offender reentry Parole and Probation probation recidivism Reentry Violent Crime

Observations So the bottom line is that we can “manage” the probation population by limiting interactions. But unlike the advocates, I’m not going to tell…

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Offender Recidivism: What Works-What’s Hogwash

admin June 14, 2017 Corrections incarceration incarceration rates jail parole Parole and Probation Prison prison population prison releases recidivism Reentry

Subtitle We may be making progress as to reducing recidivism in the United States. Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Thirty-five years of speaking for national…

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80 Percent of Civil Rights Suspects Declined From Federal Prosecution: Federal Suspects Not Prosecuted

admin April 19, 2017 federal courts federal crimes non-prosecutions prosecution

Observations 16 to 85 percent of federal suspects in criminal matters concluded are declined from federal prosecution. 80.8 percent of the 631 civil rights violation…

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Percent of Arrests Not Prosecuted

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Observations Federal Data: 16 to 50 percent of federal crimes are declined from prosecution, per “Federal Justice Statistics.” State Data: 34 percent of state felony…

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What is Jeff Sessions’ Project Exile? Is it Effective?

admin March 20, 2017 crime crime in America crime in the United States law enforcement police Project Exile Violent Crime

Observations Is Project Exile Donald Trump’s and Jeff Sessions’ primary anti-violence effort? Launched in 1997 by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, homicides in Richmond exhibited a…

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Bronx (NY) Mental Health Court Doesn’t Work

admin June 30, 2016 mental health courts speciality courts

Bronx (NY) Mental Health Court Doesn’t Work Our notes: Specialty courts are popping up throughout the country and that’s good; the criminal justice system is…

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6,000 federal inmates released– states affected

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The US Sentencing Commission modified its guidelines affecting 46,000 federal inmates with drug distribution charges to be released (after judicial review) approximately two years early…

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Do Mental Health Courts Work?

admin June 28, 2015 mental health courts

Adult Mental Health Courts Receive Mixed Ratings Adult Mental Health Courts are specialized, treatment-oriented, problem-solving courts that divert mentally ill offenders away from the criminal…

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42 percent of felony convictions result in a sentence to prison. 33 percent go to jail

admin January 13, 2014

Incarceration sentences were almost evenly divided between prison (36%) and jail (37%) in 2009. Felony convictions were more likely to result in a sentence to prison (42%) than jail (33%). Nearly all incarceration sentences for misdemeanor convictions were to jail (53%) rather than prison (3%).