Summary of abstract from OPDV talk at ACJS, it discusses that research has not been done on OPDV in 3 decades and calls for a paradigm shift among academics and practitioner towards survivor centered research

#OPDV #OIDV #DomesticViolence #DV #IPV #IntimatePartnerViolence #GBV #PoliceDomesticViolence #PublicHealth #Survivors #Research #SocialWelfare #PublicPolicy #CriminalLegalSystem #ZeroTolerance #PoliceCulture

#OPDV #OIDV #DomesticViolence #DV #IPV #IntimatePartnerViolence #GBV #PoliceDomesticViolence #PublicHealth #Survivors #Research #SocialWelfare #PublicPolicy #CriminalLegalSystem #ZeroTolerance #PoliceCulture

Thanks @theshoestring.bsky.social for your commitment to exposing the #criminallegalsystem, #injustice, #parole, with good #journalism

As more people with serious mental illness enter the criminal legal system, questions arise about “capacity to proceed.” NC Health News reporter Rachel Crumpler explains what capacity to proceed means. #capacitytoproceed #mentalillness #criminallegalsystem #nc #ncga #ncpol

Is the Criminal Legal System Becoming More Gender Egalitarian? The Gender Gap in Criminal Court Case Outcomes in Texas, 1993–2015 | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja

Is the criminal legal system becoming more gender egalitarian? A new study of 30+ years of Texas data finds the gender gap in convictions is growing, but incarceration is becoming more equal. What does this mean for gender and the carceral state? #CriminalLegalSystem #Gender

#OPDV #OIDV #DomesticViolence #DV #IPV #IntimatePartnerViolence #GBV #PoliceDomesticViolence #PublicHealth #Survivors #Research #SocialWelfare #PublicPolicy #CriminalLegalSystem #ZeroTolerance #PoliceCulture

It's nice to see more and more #crime and #criminallegalsystem reporters here on Bluesky. Journalists play a key role in shining a spotlight on the American criminal legal system.

Today, we’re sharing a list of reporters and journalists that inspire us and keep the conversation going.

Under Trump, the criminal legal system now targets green-card holders While there is little public data about the number of lawful permanent residents targeted at ports of entry, an uptick in reports has immigrants fearful of traveling

“Immigrant rights groups & legal experts say the Trump administration is extending its reach of the U.S. #criminallegalsystem ... to arbitrarily harass & detain noncitizens, including lawful permanent residents & #greencard holders.”

Read @prismreports.org:

Captured Words Free Thoughts Writing and Art from America's Prisons ​​Check out

Check out this amazing journal On line and you can get hard copies. #criminallegalsystem #prison

#OPDV #OIDV #DomesticViolence #DV #IPV #IntimatePartnerViolence #GBV #PoliceDomesticViolence #PublicHealth #Survivors #Research #SocialWelfare #PublicPolicy #CriminalLegalSystem #ZeroTolerance #PoliceCulture

#criminaljustice #criminallegalsystem #abolition #harm #accountability #police #policing #law #legal #socialjustice
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Intro to Criminal Justice Reform Want to learn about criminal justice reform? Start here.

Intro to criminal justice reform

www.vera.org/news/intro-to-criminal-j...

#criminaljustice #criminallegalsystem #massincarceration #carceralstate #prisons #massdeportation

After Surge During Pandemic, Homicides Fall Significantly

Homicide rates continue to fall sharply in cities across the country #criminallegalsystem GIFT ARTICLE @nytimes.com

#OPDV #OIDV #DomesticViolence #DV #IPV #IntimatePartnerViolence #GBV #PoliceDomesticViolence #PublicHealth #Survivors #Research #SocialWelfare #PublicPolicy #CriminalLegalSystem #ZeroTolerance #PoliceCulture

How client advocates are quietly reshaping criminal defense • Stateline Across the country, a quiet change in public defense is giving people something the traditional system often doesn't: a path forward. Client advocates are helping people avoid incarceration, access tr...

A POSITIVE! Client advocates can provide support, reentry, and much else for their clients, reshaping criminal defense. Today, Partners for Justice has placed advocates in 25 public defense agencies across 17 states. #criminallegalsystem

The true cost of prisons and jails is higher than many realize, researchers say A new report tries to capture the true cost of incarceration to families of people behind bars. It found it costs them around $350 billion every year — almost four times the government's estimate for ...

"On average, people with a family member behind bars spend around $4,000 a year on their incarcerated loved ones..." #prison #criminallegalsystem

Lawyers for indigent clients need a raise - The Boston Globe The state’s baseline compensation of $65 an hour is much lower than in neighboring states — and so low that some lawyers are no longer willing to accept it.

Lawyers for indigent clients need a raise-- oped in @bostonglobe.com #criminallegalsystem
The state’s baseline compensation of $65 an hour is much lower than in neighboring states — and so low that some lawyers are no longer willing to accept it.

Outside Official Will Take Over Deadly Rikers Island Jail, Judge Orders

Gift article--
"A federal judge overseeing New York City’s jails took Rikers Island out of the city’s control on Tuesday, ordering that an outside official be appointed to make major decisions regarding the troubled and violent jail complex." #criminallegalsystem

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/n...

Maine Department of Public Safety commissions independent study on criminal data analysis Study will examine data collection barriers in Maine's criminal legal system by 2026

Maine is set to uncover the hidden obstacles in its criminal legal system with a groundbreaking study on data collection by 2026.

Click to read more!

#ME #PublicSafety #CriminalLegalSystem #CitizenPortal #MaineCriminalJustice #DataCollection

What’s in a Name? - Alexander Bolling - Inquest Being forced by prison authorities to publish anonymously caused me to reflect on the long history of Black authors choosing names in response to state violence.

This a wonderful story by a #Massachusetts incarcerated author who wasn't allowed to publish his own book in his own name #writingcommunity #criminallegalsystem #Booksky 💙📚

inquest.org/whats-in-a-n...

Justin Douglas, a commissioner who championed this reform, emphasized that enforcing these debts was costly and ineffective.

“This is fake debt to begin with,” he said.

How can we expect to reintegrate people when they are set up to fail? #CriminalLegalSystem

Healey vowed more gubernatorial mercy. Those convicted of murder wait to hear if that means them. - The Boston Globe Governor Maura Healey is weighing a state board's recommendation that she commute the sentences of four men convicted of murder.

It is NOT a GOOD LOOK GOV. MAURA HEALY. You are not gutsy and it's clear you are straddling the fence on the #criminallegalsystem harder choices

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/23/m...

Read Harvard’s lawsuit against the Trump administration - The Boston Globe Harvard University sued the Trump administration, alleging that the government’s campaign to alter the school’s policies while cutting off research funding is unconstitutional.

#HARVARD SUES TRUMP OVER FUNDING FREEZE --Yes!

Here is the complaint: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
and below, the story #criminallegalsystem

For Sale in Bukele’s Prisons: Calls, Letters, Conjugal Visits

The truth about El Salvador's #prisons #criminallegalsystem
#humanrights #AbregoGarcia

Trump Live Updates: Deportations, Harvard Feud and Ukraine Peace Talks (Gift Article) Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. dissented. A group of migrants had been scheduled to be flown out of the country, according to people familiar with the matter.

GOOD NEWS! "Supreme Court, for Now, Blocks Deportations of Venezuelan Migrants" --In an emergency filing, lawyers had asked the justices to stop the deportations.- #criminallegalsystem

#15,000,000 to house prisoners in El Salvador??? WHO THE F authorized this? I ask again, IS THIS LEGAL? We can just pay other countries to take our prisoners.

#criminallegalsystem

After Self-Immolations at Red Onion Prison, Virginia Prisoners Allege Crackdown At least six people at Red Onion State Prison in Virginia intentionally lit themselves on fire. Now, prisoners say the staff is retaliating.

PUSHBACK by #prisoners #criminallegalsystem
"Virginia Prisoners Sue After Self-Immolations at Red Onion Prison" theappeal.org/red-onion-pr...

They Got Life in Prison at 17. Now They’re Helping Others Avoid That Fate. Eddie Ellis and John Pace were sentenced to life in prison as teens and are now fighting to change the laws that kept them behind bars.

A story with HOPE #criminallegalsystem #prison

Eddie Ellis and John Pace were sentenced to life in prison as teens and are now fighting to change the laws that kept them behind bars.

Americans Must Prepare to Fight for the Citizenship Rights of U.S. Prisoners Trump's Plan to Render U.S. Citizens to Foreign Jails Seeks to Exploit Americans' Disinterest in the Rights of Prisoners

FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE PRISONERS...

Those of you interested an #prisonersrights must read this!
by @sifill.bsky.social
#criminallegalsystem

Who Is Billy Marshall? What to Know About Trump’s New Bureau of Prisons Director West Virginia’s top corrections official led a troubled state agency, and will now head a federal bureaucracy plagued with problems of its own.

The Orange Maniac appoints a person who poorly ran Virginia's prison system to head Bureau of Federal Prisons where sexual abuse at the women's facilty and other major issues across the board have run rampant. #criminallegalsystem Meet Billy Marshall: