tag | criminal justice

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November 8, 2020 | 7:23 PM

Berks County judge: Man cannot be retried in 1996 slayings of 2 cousins

The judge last month dismissed the charges against 44-year-old Roderick Johnson, saying his initial trials were unfair and trying him again for the same crimes would violate federal double jeopardy laws, the Reading Eagle reported.

By The Associated Press
 Emma Lee
September 9, 2020 | 5:32 AM

Could bringing back ‘gun court’ help abate gun violence in Philadelphia?

Roughly 16% of the city’s first 300 homicides also involved victims on probation.
By Ximena Conde/WHYY
August 30, 2020 | 8:58 AM

Fact check: Trump and Biden’s records on criminal justice

Pence claimed that Biden would “double down in the very policies that are leading to violence in American cites,” to which Biden responded with a reminder that “right now … we’re in Donald Trump’s America.”

By Brian Naylor/NPR

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August 25, 2020 | 7:35 AM

Sex offender registries often fail those they are designed to protect

By Cheryl W. Thompson/NPR
 Emma Lee
August 24, 2020 | 5:42 AM

Pa. offering ‘safe return’ to some parolees who have violated supervision rules

As long as they don’t have any outstanding arrest warrants for new charges, they’ll likely return home afterwards.
By Aaron Moselle/WHYY
 JOSE F. MORENO / Philadelphia Inquirer
August 21, 2020 | 4:31 PM

Review of COVID-19’s effect on communities of color largely ignores Pa. inmates

The report recommends greater flexibility to release people from state prisons after Gov. Tom Wolf’s reprieve program came up short.

By Joseph Darius Jaafari / Spotlight PA
 Marc Levy
August 1, 2020 | 7:34 AM

Report: probation, parole ‘feed mass incarceration,’ and the ‘problem is particularly acute’ in PA

By An-Li Herring/WESA
 Carolyn Kaster
July 31, 2020 | 4:13 PM

Report: Probation, parole ‘feed mass incarceration,’ and the ‘problem is particularly acute’ in Pa.

Pennsylvania is one of three states featured in a new report that details how probation and parole have swelled U.S. prison populations by “often [setting] people up to fail.” 

By An-Li Herring/WESA
 Steve Helber
July 16, 2020 | 10:02 AM

US prison populations down 8% amid coronavirus outbreak

More than 57,000 prisoners have tested positive for the coronavirus in facilities across the country since the outbreak began.
By Damini Sharma and Weihua Li/The Marshall Project and Denise Lavoie and Claudia Lauer/The Associated Press
 Jimmy Emerson
July 15, 2020 | 2:15 PM

Bucks County goes to court to shield prison’s coronavirus plan from PA Post

By Joseph Darius Jaafari
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