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Criminal Justice News This Week (week of 12-14-20)
C.D.C. Call for Data on Vaccine Recipients Raises Alarm Over Privacy "The Trump administration is requiring states to submit personal data — including names, birth dates and addresses — of Covid-19 vaccine recipients."
Fewer Ohio Inmates During Pandemic, But ACLU Still Concerned "There have been 115 confirmed or probable COVID-19 inmate deaths and 7 staff deaths in Ohio’s prison system. The prison population has been reduced because of COVID, but advocates say the facilities are still overcrowded and dangerous."
Coronavirus cases in the Cuyahoga County Jail more than doubled in one day "Coronavirus cases in the Cuyahoga County Jail on Thursday more than doubled between Wednesday and Thursday, according to statistics released by the county."
A growing group of prosecutors, who say the job is more than locking people up, wants to help free criminals, too "When Calvin McNeill was 16, he and a group of friends in Baltimore decided to rob a neighborhood dice game. Things got chaotic, and McNeill shot and killed a man. It was 1981. The teen was sentenced to life in prison."
Can Body Cameras Improve Policing? "Body cameras are brimming with possibility, but they’re not a magic remedy for misconduct."
Federal Investigators Join Probe Into Casey Goodson Shooting Death "The Department of Justice announced Tuesday it is joining the investigation into the death of 23-year-old Casey Goodson, a Black man who was shot and killed by law enforcement in Columbus, Ohio, on Friday."
I Was Wrongfully Imprisoned by a Nonunanimous Jury "The Supreme Court now has the chance to release hundreds like me."
Judges should be able to take a 'second look' at prison sentencing “We know that implementing second-look laws, which would allow judges to review every offender’s sentence after a certain period — say 10 or 15 years — could reform our criminal justice system in a way that would recognize the capacity for rehabilitation, ensure public safety and reduce excessive sentences.”
Conflicting Narratives Emerge in Ohio Shooting, Prompting Protests "Much about the shooting death of Casey Goodson Jr. by a sheriff’s deputy has been disputed — what led to it, why it happened and where exactly on his body Mr. Goodson was shot."
How a Spreadsheet Could Change the Criminal-Justice System "A lack of data instills trial-court judges with enormous, largely unrestrained sentencing power."
