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Jail Lengths of Stay Increasing Across the US: Report

The Crime Report

When looking at the charges individuals are being held on, in two of three counties, the average length of stay for violent felonies increased by 23 or more days. Yet, in all counties, individuals admitted for violent felonies spent on average over 100 days in jail in 2019. . Looking Ahead.

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Chiefs: Dropping Gun Permits Threatens Public Safety—and Officers’ Lives

The Crime Report

No law enforcement official I’ve spoken with thinks these policies are a good idea. She wrote , “the new law will complicate the tasks of determining who is not permitted to carry a gun and of getting illegally possessed guns off our streets.” Indiana’s permitless carry law goes into effect on July 1.

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The U.S. Needs a Federal Commission on Wrongful Convictions: Paper

The Crime Report

Of the 1,385,258 people in prison for felony convictions in 2019, it is estimated one to five percent—or between 13,853 and 69,263 people—at the end of 2019 were in prison for crimes they did not commit. Mary’s University School of Law. The percentage of people exonerated for crimes they did not commit in 2019 barely exceeds 0.01