New Report Looks at Strategies to Cut Incarceration of Illinois Women by Half
Colette Payne (right) speaks at the annual Mother s Day vigil, organized by Moms United Against Violence and Incarceration, outside Cook County Jail in Chicago. Payne and other organizers at the Women s Justice Institute released a report detailing the impact of incarceration on women and explaining how to dramatically reduce the Illinois women s prison population.
Between 1980 and 2014, the number of women incarcerated across the United States increased by 700 percent. In Illinois, womenâs incarceration increased by 767 percent during that same time period. While that number has slowly decreased over the past two decades, the 1,418 women in the stateâs prisons at the end of 2020 is still more than quadruple the 401 women imprisoned in 1980. (These numbers only include people in Illinoisâs âwomenâs prisons;â they exclude people in womenâs jails and trans women in menâ
Inside vaccine efforts in NY prisons: Eligibility expanded, concerns remain
Nabeeha Anwar | Illustration Editor
A judge in Albany Supreme Court ruled in March that New York’s full incarcerated population will become eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine.
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In early April, days after he became eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine, Tracy White sat down in his prison dorm and wrote down four reasons why he would get the vaccine.
He wanted to protect others he comes in contact with. He wanted to protect himself from testing positive again. Upon his release, he’ll try to start his own cleaning business in Syracuse, and he didn’t want to be “alienated from society” when that happens. He wanted to be a part of the slow return to normal that he’s watched on cable TV.
To what extent should the Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act be applied?
How should the long-term impact of repeated abuse be measured, or the length of time between an instance of abuse and a criminal act be considered?
Such questions, considered by the state Supreme Court’s Appellate Division, could soon decide Nicole Addimando’s fate. In doing so, the panel of four justices may also provide clarity for the application of a two-year-old state law that s relatively lacking in legal precedent, while intended on providing sentencing leniency for those driven to criminal activity by domestic violence.
“Does (a criminal act) have to be a sense of immediacy as to spatial and time orientation?” Judge William Mastro asked Putnam County Assistant District Attorney Larry Glasser during a virtual appellate court hearing Thursday. “Does the act apply because of the history (of abuse), or does the state require imminency of conduct that creates the reaction that ends up in th
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Peaceful marches across the city Tuesday night
convicted of murdering George Floyd in Minneapolis last year. New York elected officials
The mass protests that swept the city after Floyd’s killing last year have had repercussions for New York. The state repealed the law that had long kept police disciplinary records secret, and those records, after months of litigation, are now
finally becoming public. The city voted to make it a crime for cops to use a chokehold or pin someone s neck under their knee, among a raft of other legislation. Most recently, the city