The Justice Juanita Kidd Stout Center for Criminal Justice (formerly the Criminal Justice Center or CJC), is a courthouse that is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is the main criminal courthouse of the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania (which comprises Philadelphia), housing...
There are many organizations that advocate to reform the criminal justice system such as the ACLU, the Brennan Center for... in Philadelphia Sentencing [edit] Sentencing laws within the U....
States criminal justice system refers to the unique experiences and disparities in the United... and Philadelphia. [27][28][29][30][31] Contents 1 History 1.1 Legal background (1763–1829)...
Mission Statement · Philadelphia City Council working in partnership with the community and stakeholders to improve our justice system, dismantle the pipeline to prison, and reduce crime and recidivism in Philadelphia. History · In February 2016, Council President Darrell L. Clarke named a diverse array of community and law enforcement leaders to a Special Committee tasked with overhauling Philadelphia’s criminal justice system. The Special Committee’s scope of examination will include but not be limited to: the unsustainable and rapid gr ...
Crime Philadelphia Criminal justice system Newsweek Magazine Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner on Radical Path to Remake Criminal Justice System Oct 31, 2018 at 6:00 AM EDT Krasner is part of a...
Advancing collaborative reforms in Philadelphia's criminal and juvenile justice systems that produce racial equity and community safety.
The latest episode of "Black Lightning" illustrates the inherent injustice of the criminal justice system. Eric Scott Kindley had signed up to be an Uber driver a day before his arrest. The...
Philadelphia criminal justice attorney on crime surge: It's 'out of control' Bill Brennan, a... I was driving home from a holiday celebration the other night in the heart of Center City and...
By Samantha Melamed and Dylan Purcell · October 24, 2019 ; It’s 11:30 a.m. when Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Rayford Means barrels into his courtroom to address his 8 a.m. docket, and the courtroom is filled to capacity — people dressed in ripped jeans and sweatshirts squeezed onto the benches and standing uneasily by the door. Almost all of them are here for probation-violation hearings, and Means kicks his courtroom into motion with an energy that’s more ringmaster than judge, instructing staff to call cases in a fashion that ...
Court No-Shows: A Systemic Issue ; 2024 Equal Justice Works Fellows ; ‘Stop Decriminalising Crime’ ; Supreme Court Revisits Retaliatory Arrest Claims ; ‘Officers’ Failure to Appear in Court Undermines Justice’ ; Significant Public Defender Shortage ; Report of the Philadelphia Event Review Team on the Wrongful Conviction of Marshall Hale ; American Criminal Law: Its People, Principles, and Evolution ; ‘False Positive’ Field Drug Tests Lead to Wrongful Convictions ...