Judges shouldn’t be prohibited from handing down appropriate sentences, writes Julie Stewart, president of Families Against Mandatory Minimums, an Open Society Foundations grantee.
Posts Tagged “criminal justice”
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I am happy to announce that Christopher Stone, a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and an expert in criminal justice with extensive international experience, will take the helm as president of the Open Society Foundations in the second half of next year.
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Widespread use of torture, deaths in police custody, dismal prison conditions—it's time for Kyrgyzstan to take action on the rampant abuses within its justice system.
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In the small town of Malindi, Kenya, women who use drugs will never receive the services they deserve until the community listens to their needs.
Posted in: Africa, Education & Youth, Health, Rights & Justice
Topics: citizenship, criminal justice, drug policy, drug treatment, harm reduction, HIV/AIDS, human rights, Kenya, malaria, Malindi, needle exchange, police abuse, pregnancy, public health, sex workers, statelessness, Umra Omar, women
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How many American children are suspended or expelled from school in their middle and high school years? Who are these students, and what happens to them?
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In Georgia, aggressive efforts to incarcerate indigent parents are often focused on the poorest of the poor, rather than on those parents of means who simply choose not to pay child support.
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Cambodia's new drug law has human rights groups concerned that the country's abusive practices toward drug users will intensify.
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New legislation allows for suspects in serious crimes to be held by police for up to 48 hours without access to defense counsel, and for up to 5 days without court review.
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Europeans may be surprised to hear that basic rights, such as the right to a lawyer or a phone call, are only now being debated at the European level. Yet at the moment many countries in the region fail to provide them.
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New York governor Andrew Cuomo has announced he is pulling the state out of the mass deportation program known as Secure Communities.
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