The Crime Report

JUNE 24, 2021

A new study by researchers at the University of Georgia and Mississippi State University has found that youth whose parents monitored them, were consistent in their parenting, and had high levels of behavioral control were at lowest risk for adult crime, reports Phys.org.

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MARCH 3, 2022

For example, in 20 states, — including California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Wyoming — a pardon offers the only way to regain firearms rights lost because of a past conviction. To that end, there are still 32 states in which pardons cannot be counted on to provide record relief for ordinary people.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 27, 2021

According to researchers at the University of California-Los Angeles’ COVID Behind Bars Data Project, which collects and analyzes data on the pandemic in corrections settings, at least a half-dozen states, including Florida and Georgia as well as Texas, provide even less information on COVID-19 cases and deaths in state prisons, local jails and juvenile (..)

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DECEMBER 7, 2022

Those included in part cases against David Georgiyevich Sanakoev, Gamlet Guchamazov and Mikhail Mayramovich Mindzaev who were arrested on June 24, 2022 on ‘reasonable grounds’ that they bear responsibility for war crimes committed in the country of Georgia. .

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

times more often than men, that threats of death and gun violence are more than twice as common as any other form of threat, and that Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin and Arizona possess the highest share of incidents against poll workers and election officials. Meanwhile, U.S.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 20, 2022

One event held by the Georgia Youth Justice Coalition switched to an online modality after receiving a “vulgar death threat.”. The influx of hate mentions on social media and hateful rhetoric from far-right groups has led to an uptick in threats, causing many Pride events to cancel or switch online.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

It was followed, respectively, by Mississippi, Oklahoma (which was the world’s top jailer last year), Georgia, and Arkansas. Its incarceration rate of 1,094 per 100,000 was nearly double the overall U.S. average of 664 per 100,000. The first foreign nation appearing on the list, in the number 37 slot, was El Salvador at 562.

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JULY 20, 2022

Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, and Trey Gowdy , a long-time federal and state prosecutor who served four terms in the House of Representatives. The Task Force, launched in 2022, is co-chaired by former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, who was also U.S.

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DECEMBER 21, 2022

Georgia had the highest rate in the sample, at over 74 percent of incarcerated individuals sentenced to more than 10 years. However, the U.S. used longer sentences than countries with higher rates of violence. The study found that Moldova, the nation with the next highest percentage, incarcerated 37 percent of people for over 10 years.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Sabol, former head of the Bureau of Justice Statistics and now a criminologist at Georgia State University (GSU), and CCJ Senior Fellow and GSU Assistant Professor Thaddeus L. It updates an earlier CCJ study on disparity trends in correctional populations that focused on data from 2000 to 2016, the most current then available.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 17, 2021

A month later, in August 2021, UCLA found that Florida and Georgia had completely removed their COVID-19 data dashboards, while Louisiana drastically reduced its published data to only include active case counts, according to the report. Little has changed, the PPI said.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Others – Georgia, Florida and Texas – chose a different path, retaining the punishment but guiding discretion by narrowing and specifying the class of death-eligible crimes. For a time, that decision stopped the death penalty in its tracks and offered a stinging critique of its unfairness.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 23, 2022

In Georgia, medical costs for the elderly population in Georgia corrections facilities was nearly nine times the cost of care for nonelderly people in the system.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 28, 2021

. “Drugs in the black community have been treated very differently than drugs in the white community,” acknowledged Sherry Boston, district attorney for the Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit in DeKalb County, Georgia. “The truth is it’s all a public health crisis.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

For instance, Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama had low reported infection rates — a fact potentially attributable to abysmal testing practices leading to potential undercounting. “We California, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland and Montana all received full points for adopting a wide range of easy policy changes to address basic health needs.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

jurisdictions where two-thirds or more of the prison population are serving sentences of at least a decade are: Georgia, West Virginia, Alabama, Montana, Hawaii, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Utah, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, and Washington, DC. In 2019, Black Americans represented 14 percent of the total U.S. The 12 U.S.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 23, 2022

The commission will conduct a two-year inquiry into why so many military veterans land in jail or prison, said Army Col.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 14, 2023

In Georgia, a Black woman was pardoned 60 years after her execution for shooting a white man who threatened her. In 1951, seven young black men charged with raping a white woman were killed in “the largest mass execution for rape in U.S. They had no lawyers and were threatened with being released to a lynch mob if they didn’t confess.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 21, 2022

Louis lawyer who was arrested for pointing guns at Black Lives Matters protesters in 2020, and the three white men who were charged with chasing down Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia and killing him while he was out for a jog have sparked this movement. The criminal cases of Mark McCloskey , a St.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 23, 2021

In Georgia, the state excludes victims who consented to any of “the events leading up to the crime,” noting that being trafficked is a unique exploitation, and wouldn’t bar them from compensation.

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The Crime Report

MAY 5, 2021

He added: “Louisiana currently holds more people with LWOP sentences than Alabama, Georgia, New York, and Texas combined.”. All three states, Davis wrote, illustrate the inequities and injustices of U.S. mass incarceration. In Alabama, for example, where just 19.5

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APRIL 28, 2023

Georgia decision that effectively vacated more than 600 death sentences across the nation. Yet at least a dozen death row inmates, so psychologically damaged by their long term solitary confinement, refused to leave their cells to co-mingle with other inmates during either the exercise or shower periods. Supreme Court’s 1972 Furman v.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

Through resources like transitional housing and supportive services for victims, they have been able to secure successful prosecutions in Wisconsin in cases like a farm worker’s death in Georgia, which exposed a sophisticated labor trafficking ring as well as young baseball hopefuls recruited from South America who were forced into working under (..)

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The Crime Report

JULY 2, 2021

Some counties in Alabama, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, and Tennessee pay $10; in Georgia, some pay $5, says The Indy. San Francisco isn’t the only place dealing with a lack of diversity in their juries due to the low pay that jury duty provides. Many other cities and counties are trying to increase jury duty pay.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Was Travis McMichael acting outside of the legal (and moral) bounds when he, in the course of allegedly effecting a “citizen’s arrest” after a claimed trespass on a Georgia construction site, took unarmed Ahmaud Arbery’s life?

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Georgia, Kentucky and Tennessee are among states where “reckless provision” of a firearm to a minor can lead to criminal charges. While CAP laws have been enacted in 29 states and the District of Columbia, the trigger for liability varies from state to state. The definition of a “child” ranges among states from age 14 and 18.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 28, 2023

So after they left for a job further north in Cairo, Georgia, he got her a bathroom key to take a shower at the next truck stop where they stopped for their next meal. He described the hitchhiking woman as impatient, and said he thought she looked like she’d been on the road for a while.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 26, 2022

In Georgia, they must be at least 25, have earned a high school diploma or equivalent, and register to vote. “In 17 states, judges with no law degree are permitted to adjudicate eviction cases.”. In the state of Delaware, someone would only have to be 25 years old and a Delaware resident to be a magistrate judge.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

While on patrol as a City of Roswell, Georgia, law enforcement professional in the early 2000s, one of us (Kalfani Turè) was dispatched to a signal Fifty-Four call, denoting a suspicious person or incident. Photo by Rita Buchanan for NPR.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 9, 2023

When Matthew Boyd was released from a Georgia state prison in December 2020, officials sent him home without medicines he uses to manage chronic heart and lung conditions and high blood pressure, he said. In Georgia, even basic discharge planning can be rare, said Craig Burnes, a certified peer-support specialist for incarcerated people.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Russell Covey, a professor at Georgia State University College of Law who has studied plea bargaining, has outlined how this sentence “ceiling” tied to the best plea offer could work in practice.

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The Crime Report

JULY 19, 2021

who is now an assistant professor of criminal justice and criminology at Georgia State University, agrees. “I “Communities have known for some time that a police report is not the whole story, and it’s not the way that the community would tell the story.”. Thaddeus Johnson, a former police officer in Memphis, Tenn.,

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Looking back over the weeks of coverage of the trials of Kyle Rittenhouse in Minnesota and the killers of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia, it’s clear that we have a civic emergency on our hands. Fox News’ Tucker Carlson interviews Kyle Rittenhouse following his acquittal. Photo courtesy Fox News.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 18, 2022

For example, people with life sentences in Alaska are excluded from vocational education and individuals on death row in Georgia are not allowed to formally participate in education programming. Sign up for the College Inside newsletter here. . Many states also prioritize enrollment based on release date.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 8, 2021

California, Texas, Florida and Georgia?held The second BJS report on jail populations found that 8 of the 10 states with the highest jail incarceration rates were in the South: Louisiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Virginia, and Arkansas. roughly 480,000 individuals. in mid-2019. Just four states?California,

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JANUARY 17, 2022

Raphael Warnock, was hosting Georgia Gov. Major events for the holiday also included the annual Martin Luther King Jr. service at the slain civil rights leader’s Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, whose senior pastor, U.S. Brian Kemp and other politicians. Monday would have been the 93rd birthday of the Rev.

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OCTOBER 31, 2022

Georgia decision, only two states (Maine and North Dakota) had what could best be described as “natural life sentences” but even those sentences could be commuted to fixed terms of years with parole eligibility. Before the 1972 Furman v.

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