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Barred By Their Brains: Inmates With Traumatic Brain Injury (Tbi), Claire Mikita
Barred By Their Brains: Inmates With Traumatic Brain Injury (Tbi), Claire Mikita
The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice
Abstract forthcoming.
Reforming Recidivism: Making Prison Practical Through Help, Katelyn Copperud
Reforming Recidivism: Making Prison Practical Through Help, Katelyn Copperud
The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice
While Texas has long been recognized as “Tough Texas” when it comes to crime, recent efforts have been made to combat that reputation. Efforts such as offering “good time” credit and more liberal parole standards are used to reduce the Texas prison populations. Although effective in reducing prison populations, do these incentives truly reduce a larger issue of prison overpopulation: recidivism?
In both state and federal prison systems, inmate education is proven to reduce recidivism. Texas’s own, Windham School District, provides a broad spectrum of education to Texas Department of Criminal Justice inmates; from General Education Development (GED) classes to …
Using International Human Rights Law To Combat Racial Discrimination In The U.S. Criminal Justice System., Terrence Rogers
Using International Human Rights Law To Combat Racial Discrimination In The U.S. Criminal Justice System., Terrence Rogers
The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice
Statistics tend to show Black people commit most of the crime in the United States. Those statistics fail to account for unequal treatment of minorities at each stage of the criminal justice system. This unequal treatment may take the form of buy-and-bust operations, racial profiling, street sweeps, and other police activities which target people in low-income communities populated mainly by minorities. The American criminal justice system contains a cyclical, self-perpetuating aspect to the treatment of certain minorities. These perceptions direct a disproportionate amount of law enforcement attention on minorities, which leads to disproportionate arrests of minorities. The result shows racial …
Getting The Mentally Ill Misdemeanant Out Of Jail., James R. Walker
Getting The Mentally Ill Misdemeanant Out Of Jail., James R. Walker
The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice
This Comment advocates for the release of jailed persons arrested for nonviolent crimes due to the symptomology associated with their mental illnesses. Mentally ill misdemeanants suffer from severe and persistent mental disorders, usually either a psychotic or mood disorder, without symptoms or a diagnosis of a personality disorder. Due to the increase in arrests of individuals with mental illnesses, jail and prison populations are drastically increasing. These institutions have turned into modern mental hospitals or asylums. Criminalization of the mentally ill occurs because increasing numbers of mentally ill persons who commit minor crimes are subject to more frequent arrests. The …
Texas, Step Up To The Plate And Compensate: Face To Face With Joyce Ann Brown, Wrongfully Convicted Never To Receive Compensation, Natasha L. Brooks
Texas, Step Up To The Plate And Compensate: Face To Face With Joyce Ann Brown, Wrongfully Convicted Never To Receive Compensation, Natasha L. Brooks
The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice
Abstract Forthcoming