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justice not jails

MONDAY, 22 OCTOBER 2018

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To Free Detained Children, Immigrant Families Are Forced to Risk Everything
Jonathan Blitzer: Under a new Trump Administration policy, family members who come forward to claim unaccompanied minors can now be arrested and deported if they are here illegally.
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Jeff Sessions Is Quietly Transforming the Nation’s Immigration Courts

Priscilla Alvarez: The attorney general has stepped up the hiring of immigration judges, ordered them to hear more cases, and shown a preference for those who’ve previously been prosecutors.
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Nearly a Decade Awaiting Trial, Now Freed

Abbie VanSickle: In the first test of a newly signed law that significantly narrows California’s felony murder rule, a judge ordered the immediate release of a man who has spent nearly a decade awaiting trial in double murder.
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Women Ignored in Incarceration Reform

J. Gabriel Ware: Eighty-two percent of women in jails suffer from alcohol or drug addiction, and many of them are poor and struggle with mental health issues.
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Moms Play Critical Role in Reducing Recidivism

J. Gabriel Ware: Inmates who had a higher quality relationship with their mother prior to incarceration not only had higher odds of being visited by their mother, but also had significantly lower chances of recidivating.
OLD TIME PRISONERS
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