"Approximately one in 70 working people in the United States are employed by either the police or departments of corrections." In recent years, and in particular, in the aftermath of the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, ...
Political science
Jun 6, 2024
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Ireland has formally opened the new women's wing of the Limerick prison.
Social Sciences
Oct 20, 2023
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The U.S. prison population plummeted during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic but the percentage of incarcerated Black people rose, according to a new analysis of prison data published April 19 in the journal Nature.
Social Sciences
Apr 19, 2023
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The incarceration rate in the United States fell in 2021 to its lowest levels since 1995—but the U.S. continues to imprison a higher percentage of its population than almost every other country.
Social Sciences
Mar 2, 2023
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Prosecutors exert considerable power in the criminal justice system, and while defendants are predominantly Black and Latinx, prosecutors are overwhelmingly White. Despite calls for addressing racial disparities in this field, ...
Social Sciences
Oct 4, 2022
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People with disability are over-represented in prison and some are criminalised because of behaviours related to their disability. But they are unlikely to have their disability recognised or adjusted for, and the connection ...
Social Sciences
Jul 6, 2022
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A Houston-area official said Monday it will take 60 days to ensure a city drinking water system is purged of a deadly, microscopic parasite that doctors believed killed a boy and that led to warnings for others not to drink ...
Environment
Sep 29, 2020
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Texas officials on Saturday lifted a warning for all but one Houston-area community to stop using tap water because it might be tainted with a deadly brain-eating microbe.
Environment
Sep 26, 2020
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Although U.S. crime rates have dropped significantly since the mid-1990s, rates of incarceration peaked in 2008, and still remain high. The standard explanation for this pattern is that all people exposed to the criminal ...
Social Sciences
Aug 24, 2020
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America's prison populations are disproportionately filled with people of color, but prosecutors' biases toward defendants' race and class may not be the primary cause for those disparities, new research from the University ...
Social Sciences
Jan 17, 2020
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