Cities and counties concerned about immigrant rights should closely examine law enforcement’s collaboration with federal immigration authorities 鈥� and the role a for-profit company has in drafting language used in many law enforcement policy manuals 鈥� according to a new report from the UW’s Center for Human Rights.
On a rainy December afternoon, a group of students in the 黑料老司机’s Law, Societies & Justice program sit in a classroom discussing what elements might be included in a restorative justice program. The conversation is lively, the comments thoughtful. But this isn鈥檛 any ordinary classroom, and it isn鈥檛 your usual group of university students. The UW students were taking the autumn quarter class on culture, crime and criminal justice alongside 10 male classmates who brought more than theoretical…
Stricter state sentencing laws in Washington have swelled the ranks of inmates serving life sentences to nearly one in five. And some lifers who opted to go to trial are serving much longer sentences than others who committed the same crimes and plea-bargained 鈥� raising questions about equitable treatment of prisoners. Those are among the findings in a new analysis by undergraduate honors students in the 黑料老司机鈥檚 Law, Societies & Justice program, who sought to determine the number…
Jail stays and costs increase when federal immigration authorities request that inmates be held under what are called “detainer requests,” according to UW research.