Monthly Archives: February 2019

Scrubbing The Past To Give Those With A Criminal Record A Second Chance

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NPR

02/19/2019

Eric Westervelt & Barbara Brosher

Latosha Poston says she made a lot of mistakes in her life. Her legal troubles began in her teens after her first child was born in Indianpolis. Over the years, bad decisions led to some arrests, some convictions. “Sometimes we get stuck in our past and let our past guide us,” she says. The 44-year-old has […]

Indiana parolees find success, employment after prison

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The Indiana Lawyer

2/19/19

Associated Press

Most people in Indiana’s parole program are finding jobs after their release from prison despite having felony convictions, the program’s director says. About 80 percent of Indiana residents on parole have found employment, and most of those who fail on parole haven’t found a job or have their parole revoked because they use drugs and […]

Using Artificial Intelligence to Address Criminal Justice Needs

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National Institute of Justice

Christopher Rigano

10/8/2018

NIJ is committed to realizing the full potential of artificial intelligence to promote public safety and reduce crime. “Intelligent machines” have long been the subject of science fiction. However, we now live in an era in which artificial intelligence (Al) is a reality, and it is having very real and deep impacts on our daily […]

Dual Status in Indiana

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Indiana Court Times

1/15/2019

Hon. Vicki Carmichael | Judge, Clark Circuit Court #4 and Hon. Charles F. Pratt | Judge, Allen Superior Court

A Cultural Shift Historically, two distinct and separate paths were followed in the provision of services to children who came to the attention of the juvenile justice system. The selected path was generally not determined as a result of an assessment of the totality of the child’s circumstances and needs. Rather, the path was determined […]

Indiana agrees to provide Hepatitis C drugs to more Medicaid recipients

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The Indiana Lawyer

2/19/2019

Marilyn Odendahl

An agreement reached in federal court in February will allow Indiana Medicaid recipients infected with Hepatitis C to receive direct-acting antiviral medications, or DAAs, sooner rather than having to wait until the disease has significantly damaged their livers. An order signed Feb. 12 by Senior Judge Sarah Evans Barker of the U.S. District Court for […]

POPAI “Likes” Your Probation Organization Facebook Page

2/22/2019

Karen Oeding

We’d be happy to officially “Like” our Member Department and Corporate Member Facebook Pages. Our Facebook Page is at https://www.facebook.com/POPAIProbationIndiana/ Help me locate and like your page by sending your Facebook Page link to me through Facebook Message on our page. I need to let you know I am going to be checking to make […]

U.S. high court buttresses constitutional ban on ‘excessive fines’

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Reuters

02/20/2019

Lawrence Hurley

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In a decision that may curb the rise of financial penalties and property seizures in the U.S. criminal justice system, the Supreme Court on Wednesday for the first time ruled that the U.S. Constitution’s ban on “excess fines” applies to states as well as the federal government. The nine justices ruled unanimously […]

From A Cell To A Home: Newly Released Inmates Matched With Welcoming Hosts

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NPR

1/16/2019

Eric Westervelt

It’s a Friday night and roommates Jason Jones and Tamiko Panzella are hanging out in the Oakland, Calif., apartment they share, laughing about an epic gym workout misfire. “I get there and we have to take our shoes and socks off. And I’m like, oh no, she got me into yoga. She tricked me,” Jones […]

Juror with family drunk driving history not biased in OWI case

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The Indiana Lawyer

02/08/2019

Katie Stancombe

The Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed a woman’s drunken driving conviction after finding that she failed to provide sufficient evidence that one of the jurors hearing her case withheld potentially prejudicial information. When emergency personnel found Tracie Easler after receiving a report of an unconscious person, she was unresponsive, sitting behind the wheel of her […]

Is Marijuana as Safe as We Think?

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New Yorker

1/14/2019

Malcom Gladwell

Permitting pot is one thing; promoting its use is another. A few years ago, the National Academy of Medicine convened a panel of sixteen leading medical experts to analyze the scientific literature on cannabis. The report they prepared, which came out in January of 2017, runs to four hundred and sixty-eight pages. It contains no […]

Opinion | The opioid crisis is part of a decades-long overdose epidemic. Fixing it requires rethinking everything.

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NBC News

Michelle Chen

The reason drugs are killing more Americans every year has to do with the social toxins in our communities. As opioid deaths surge nationwide, the overdose crisis that claims so many young lives every day has spiraled into a public health emergency. But the epidemic started long before your teenage neighbor took his last hit […]

David, Rush publish dissent as high court lets stand sentencing via video

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The Indiana Lawyer

2/13/2019

Dave Stafford

ndiana’s chief justice and the most senior jurist on the Indiana Supreme Court published a sharp dissent Tuesday from a 3-2 ruling that could pave the way for defendants to be sentenced via video. Chief Justice Loretta Rush and Justice Steven David argued in the minority that defendants have a constitutional right to be physically […]

Request for Presenters at 2019 Justice Services Conference

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Indiana Office of Court Services

01/28/2019

Indiana Office of Court Services

The Indiana Office of Court Services is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the 2019 Justice Services Conference. The conference will be held on August 6th – 8th, 2019 at the Indiana Convention Center. The conference will include all staff from Probation, Court Alcohol and Drug Programs and Problem-Solving Courts. With the increased […]

Indiana’s abortion ultrasound requirement could get final say from the Supreme Court

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Indy Star

02/04/2019

Shari Rudavsky

The Supreme Court of the United States may have the ultimate say on whether women in Indiana seeking abortions will have to pay an additional visit to a doctor’s office for an ultrasound before undergoing the procedure. On Monday the state of Indiana asked the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court’s preliminary injunction blocking […]

State, national groups support Indiana public defense reform

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The Indiana Lawyer

02/06/2019

Olivia Covington

Leaders of state and national criminal justice organizations are declaring their support for the Indiana Public Defender Commission’s reform initiative, which the commission is presenting to the Indiana General Assembly this year in an effort to secure additional funds to expand and improve indigent defense services statewide. In a letter submitted to House Speaker Brian […]

Odds of dying from accidental opioid overdose in the US surpass those of dying in car accident

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CNN

1/14/2019

By Kevin Flower and Meera Senthilingam

For the first time on record the odds of accidentally dying from an opioid overdose in the United States are now greater than those of dying in an automobile accident. The grim finding comes from the National Safety Council which analyzed preventable injury and fatality statistics from 2017. The NSC also found the lifetime odds […]

Harris County judges unveil drastic new plan for releasing defendants on no-cash bail

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Houston Chronicle

01/18/2019

Gabrielle Banks

The new slate of Democratic judges have approved comprehensive revisions to Harris County’s bail system that could clear the way for thousands of people, regardless of income, to avoid spending time in jail while awaiting trial on minor offenses. The county judges plan to present their new court protocol to a federal judge, in a […]

Pretrial Release producing expected results

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Chronicle Tribune

01/27/2019

Spencer Durham

Ten months into piloting a pretrial release program, Grant County officials are seeing the outcome they wanted – defendants showing up to their court date. Grant County was one of 11 counties selected to pilot a pretrial release program that helps judges make more informed decisions on who they release. The program began on March […]

Rush, Goff publish dissent on poverty as probation violation

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The Indiana Lawyer

January 16, 2019

Katie Stancombe

A split Indiana Supreme Court denied a petition to transfer a homeless man’s probation violation appeal, with two justices writing in a published dissent that the litigant was an indigent man incarcerated for probation violations that resulted from his poverty, not his intentions. Chief Justice Loretta Rush and Justice Christopher Goff both dissented from the […]

Decatur lawyer sentenced to jail for forgery, counterfeiting

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The Indiana Lawyer

1/27/2019

Dave Stafford

An attorney in northeastern Indiana has been suspended from the practice of law after she was criminally charged. The lawyer has been accused of signing a judge’s name to a phony order in a divorce case and sending emails to an expungement client’s widow posing as a deputy prosecutor. Jill N. Holtzclaw of Decatur was […]

LGBTQ Youth and Juvenile Detention

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MST Services

1/24/2019

According to the US Department of Justice, 856,130 juveniles were arrested across the country during 2016, 45,567 of which were held in 1,772 juvenile facilities. Of those 45,567 juveniles, an average of fifteen to eighteen percent identified as LGBTQ–that’s twice the rate at which LGBTQ are represented within the general US population. In a recent […]