Incarceration rates have tripled in the US and almost doubled in Western Europe over the past 50 years. This column uses data on the criminal behaviour and labour market outcomes of every Norwegian to show that in contrast to the US, where…
Month: August 2019
How Norway turns criminals into good neighbours – BBC News
“Not ‘guards’,” admonishes Hoidal gently, when I use the term. “We are prison ‘officers’ and of course we make sure an inmate serves his sentence but we also help that person become a better person. We are role models, coaches…
Federal lawsuit seeks to halt Wisconsin’s lifetime GPS monitoring | Buting, Williams & Stilling, S.C.
It can be hard for many people to sympathize for the plight of convicted sex offenders, but this program appears to confer little if any additional safety for the public. Furthermore, we can all recognize the need for due process.…
How Publicly Funded Colleges Encourage Dangerous Sex
Universities’ efforts to endorse sexually profligate lifestyles often result in cringey attempts to normalize bizarre, risky, and even destructive behavior. Events, curriculum, and programs prodding fornication, kinky activity, and pornography feed off the naiveté of freshman boys and girls to…
Anthony Leslie v. State of Tennessee, et al. | Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts
Anthony Leslie v. State of Tennessee, et al. M2018-00856-CCA-R3-HC Petitioner, Anthony Leslie, appeals from the dismissal of his petition for writ of habeas corpus relief. Petitioner alleged that an amended judgment of the Davidson County Criminal Court adding a provision…
Quintez Cephus’ attorneys say UW-Madison refusing to readmit their client | Local News | madison.com
“For a university to ignore a jury verdict and basically upend (Cephus’) civil rights is not what this university is about. This is a final plea to Chancellor Blank and the Board of Regents to make a decision based on…
CCRC scholarship round-up – August 2019 | | CCRC
Editor’s note: This past year has seen a burgeoning of scholarship dealing with collateral consequences broadly defined, from lawyers, social scientists, and philosophers. CCRC’s good friend Alessandro Corda has selected fifteen notable articles published in 2018-19, with information, links, and abstracts.…
Former Wisconsin WR Cephus acquitted of sex assault – Brinkwire
Former Wisconsin wide receiver Quintez Cephus was found not guilty of two counts of sexual assault Friday in Madison, Wis. The jury needed only 30 minutes of deliberation to reach its conclusion. Cephus, 21, was charged with second- and third-degree…