A man was shot and killed in West Oakland, police said today. Jermel Holloway, 28, of Oakland was shot on the 3000 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Way shortly after 11 p.m. Sunday, said Officer Jeff Thomason, Oakland police spokesman. Witnesses called police…
An American authority on university degrees wants New Zealand to make it a crime to issue or purchase unapproved educational qualifications, after putting New Zealand on its list of countries that churns out “fake” degrees.
The Greater Beloit Area Crime Stoppers is seeking information about Curtis J. Dortch, 30, who is wanted on a felony bench warrant for domestic disorderly conduct and for domestic strangulation and suffocation.
New help lines for victims of crime and those needing non-urgent medical help should be available soon throughout the EU thanks to a decision taken by the European Commission.
A man was fatally stabbed in a San Francisco liquor store early today, authorities said. The victim, whose name wasn’t immediately released, was attacked inside the Cadillac Market at 499 Hyde St. at about 1:50 a.m., according to police and the store manager….
Statistics show that the number of major crimes is continuing to fall this year in nearly every category, defying the wisdom that hard times bring crime.
The State of Michigan has been remarkably successful this term in getting Sixth Circuit decisions in habeas cases reviewed by the Supreme Court. Berghuis v. Smith and Berghuis v. Thompkins are presently being briefed on the merits. Today the Court…
A man was shot and killed south of Santa Rosa, authorities said. Alejandro Ortega, 18, of Santa Rosa was found lying unconscious in the road near Moorland Avenue and Neville Way in the unincorporated Bellview area shortly before 3:30 a.m. Saturday, said Lt….
Mass incarceration is breaking our democracy. According to the often-cited PEW report, “One in 100: Behind Bars in America 2008,” over two million people — or one in every 100 adults — is locked behind bars. In 2007 states spent more than $49 billion on corrections, up from $11 billion 20 years before. Recidivism rates continue to stay the same, with about half of released inmates returning to jail within 3 years. There is growing public demand for criminal justice reform, but change is slow. One impediment to reform is barring people with felony convictions from the polls. Another subtle, yet equally damaging, way that mass incarceration puts its thumb on the scales of democracy is through the U.S. Census.
The U.S. Census counts prisoners where their bodies are located on Census day, not where they come from and where they will return, on average, 34 months later. This remains true even though prisoners cannot vote and they remain legal residents of the places they lived prior to incarceration.
Census counts are used to apportion political power at all levels of government. When states draw districts based on the Census Bureau’s flawed counts, districts with prisons are afforded extra representation simply because the prison industry has a facility there. The practice of crediting thousands of disproportionately urban and minority men to other communities has staggering implications for modern democracy.
A POLICE sergeant has become a partner against crime by putting his wealth of experience into a town safety group.
