Abel Assessment for Sexual Interest (Abel Screen): An assessment instrument that gives an objective measurement of deviant sexual interests. Able-bodied offender: An individual in the custody of the DOC who is cleared medically and is physically able to participate in a work program unless other...
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By Tom Brown Reuters – Tue, July 3, 2012 MIAMI - Quartavious Davis is still shocked by what happened to him in federal court two months ago. "My first offense, and they gave me all this time," said Davis, a pudgy African American with dreadlocks who spoke with Reuters at the Federa...
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Jonathan Simon, professor of law 8/17/12 It is hard to say whether they are the worst crimes. They are the crimes that horrify the most. A baby-sitter, for no apparent reason, strangles the 15 month old child she has been hired to protect. A professional thief shoots a young police officer in h...
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New York Times-EDITORIAL June 29, 2011 The 1986 federal drug law that punished people caught with crack cocaine far more severely than those caught with powder cocaine was a disaster on many levels. It undermined faith in the justice system by discriminating against poor and mainly minorit...
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By Roger Parloff, January 6, 2010 (Fortune Magazine) -- When it comes to fighting white-collar crime, the sharpest arrow in the federal prosecutor's quiver is a law most non-lawyers have never heard of, known as the "honest-services fraud" law. In essence, the law ...
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June 11, 2012 Katharine Mieszkowski - The Bay Citizen Faced with an influx of inmates, sheriffs across the state are backing a bill that would allow some felons to leave jail before they have completed serving their sentences. The legislation would apply to inmates who are dying or are so phys...
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Walter Pavlo 7/19/2011 When the feds come calling, there is a certain fear that comes over those who once felt above the law. This causes a mad rush to the courthouse to see if a member of the once thriving conspiracy can get a better deal than the others involved. In our justice system, the fir...
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Clarence Aaron Case: Pardon Attorney Torpedoes Plea for Presidential Mercy 05/14/2012 ProPublica's Dafna Linzer reports: A version of this story was co-published with The Washington Post. Clarence Aaron seemed to be especially deserving of a federal commutation, an immediate release from pri...
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The New York Times can't quite grasp the concept, but there's a stunningly simple explanation for the huge drop in crime rates: The villains are behind bars. Dan Seligman - 05.23.05A big story, inadequately memorialized by the media, is that crime in America has become a much smaller story. Cr...