The Crime Report

MAY 12, 2022

A 36-year-old man walked out of an Illinois prison last May in a pair of joggers and a T-shirt. If we’re Number 1, it must be really bad for other states, because it’s rough enough here in Illinois,” Cook said. An author of the recent report that examined all 50 states’ restorative rights laws mirrored Cook’s point.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

As the holiday shopping season approaches, a string of “smash-and-grab” robberies have hit luxury retailers in California and Illinois, leaving authorities shocked by the brazen nature of the thefts that have involved sometimes dozens of people at a time, reports Reuters. The Los Angeles Times reports that San Francisco Dist.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 27, 2022

Even worse, those laws exacerbate labor shortages by taking willing workers out of the job market who could fill essential jobs in critical fields. During the 2021 legislative session, 10 legislatures made significant progress in adopting laws that expand licensing opportunities for people with criminal histories.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 25, 2022

This year’s rich harvest brings the total number of criminal record reforms enacted in the past three years to over 400 separate laws,” the report said, celebrating what it said was a bipartisan commitment to end “unwarranted discrimination” against the formerly incarcerated. not disenfranchising at all). Reintegration Awards.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Lee Enterprises , along with Capitol News Illinois. On a chilly November morning in 2019, Lutrice Williams, a patient at a state-run mental health center in southern Illinois, was surprised by a visit from a sheriff’s deputy.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 6, 2023

side without going through a designated port of entry, that same action becomes a misdemeanor or even a felony , depending on the circumstances. . Just like jaywalking across the street, prosecutions for walking across the border also disproportionately impact people of color and result in lethal confrontations with law enforcement. .

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

I recently wrote a column stating that the sixth count appeared to be based on a factually and legally inapplicable provision of Wisconsin law. “The Wisconsin Department of Justice honors concealed carry permits issued in Illinois. .” Yesterday, Judge Bruce Schroeder dismissed the sixth charge in the case.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

That decision has been the law for more than 70 years, she wrote, and has been repeatedly reaffirmed by this Court. New Jersey , the Supreme Court held that a jury must find, beyond a reasonable doubt, any fact that increases the penalty for a crime above the maximum established by law. In the Illinois case , the U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. applied federal common law. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate at gmail dot com.

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