New Report: The State of Sentencing 2014
From The Sentencing Project I am pleased to share two new reports from The Sentencing Project documenting changes in criminal...
Legal Matters
Senate Introduces Legislation to Ease Reentry Process for Returning Citizens
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Senate introduced legislation that could help ease the reentry process for the formerly incarcerated. Mass incarceration...
Chicago Police Sued to Produce Key Investigative Records
Despite history of improperly withholding “street files†from criminal defendants, CPD tries to keep information secret under FOIA that could...
NEW REPORT: #BlackLivesMatter: Eliminating Racial Inequity in the Criminal Justice System
From Marc Mauer The Sentencing Project I’m pleased to announce a new publication from The Sentencing Project highlighting initiatives in...
Race & Justice News: Racial Disparities in UK and Australian Prisons Exceeds Those in U.S.
(From The Sentencing Project) Race & Justice News International Racial Disparities in Incarceration in UK and Australia Exceed Those in...
Brad Cosgrove Obtains $3.15 Million Verdict – Record for Leg Amputation in Rockford
Bradley M. Cosgrove, partner at Clifford Law Offices, obtained a record $3.157 million verdict late Thursday evening in Rockford in...
South Suburban Middle School Teacher Charged With Abusing Former Students
A Joliet junior high school teacher who formerly taught at a southwest suburban junior high has been charged with sexually...
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle Introduces Resolution Urging the Illinois General Assembly to End the Automatic Transfer of Children to Adult Court
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle introduced a resolution to the County Board urging the Illinois General Assembly to pass...
Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office Secures 60-Year Sentence in Shooting Death of High School Student
A Chicago man who gunned down a 15-year-old Chicago charter school student who was sitting on the front porch of...
Howard Morgan Is Free – A Peoples Victory!
(From the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression) We, along with tens of thousands of other people, greet the...
