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While more arrests are expected from the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, the courts have started to offer plea deals to those already charged, and two may come from Pennsylvania.
The government expects to broker pleas in many of the low-level cases, U.S. prosecutors have said in court. The requirement for defendants to receive a speedy trial weighs on the Department of Justice, bogged down by a heavy caseload from the Capitol arrests. The FBI has arrested more than 470 for the Capitol rioting, 44 of them from Pennsylvania, as of June 9.
The FBI tracked them inside the Capitol through video footage, allegedly rummaging through a police bag and removing escape hoods, equipment designed to provide some protection from chemical and biological agents and nuclear particles, according to the FBI s criminal complaints against Vogel and Maimone.
A new analysis of data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics shows "unnatural" deaths in state prisons nationwide are increasing while the total state prison population has remained relatively steady.The nonpartisan advocacy group Prison Policy Initiative reviewed state prison mortality data from 2001 to 2018.
Jails, Sheriffs, and Carceral Policymaking
The title of this post is the title of this recent paper authored by Aaron Littman just published in the
Vanderbilt Law Review. Here is its abstract:
The machinery of mass incarceration in America is huge, intricate, and destructive. To understand it and to tame it, scholars and activists look for its levers of power where are they, who holds them, and what motivates them? This much we know: legislators criminalize, police arrest, prosecutors charge, judges sentence, prison officials confine, and probation and parole officials manage release.
As this Article reveals, jailers, too, have their hands on the controls. The sheriffs who run jails along with the county commissioners who fund them have tremendous but unrecognized power over the size and shape of our criminal legal system, particularly in rural areas and for people accused or convicted of low-level crimes.
Here's a look at information and statistics concerning domestic (intimate partner) violence.According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,