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Good Conduct Time For Prisoners: Why (And How) Wisconsin Should Provide Credits Toward Early Release, Michael O'Hear
Good Conduct Time For Prisoners: Why (And How) Wisconsin Should Provide Credits Toward Early Release, Michael O'Hear
Marquette Law Review
Wisconsin is one of about twenty states not offering good conduct time (GCT) to prisoners. In most states, prisoners are able to earn GCT credits toward accelerated release through good behavior. Wisconsin itself had GCT for more than a century, but eliminated it as part of a set of reforms in the 1980s and 1990s that left the state with what may be the nation’s most inflexible system for the release of prisoners. Although some of these reforms helpfully brought greater certainty to punishment, they went too far in eliminating nearly all meaningful recognition and encouragement of good behavior and …
Hallows Lecture: Screws V. United States And The Birth Of Federal Civil Rights Enforcement, Paul J. Watford
Hallows Lecture: Screws V. United States And The Birth Of Federal Civil Rights Enforcement, Paul J. Watford
Marquette Law Review
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Gang Definitions, How Do They Work?: What The Juggalos Teach Us About The Inadequacy Of Current Anti-Gang Law, Zachariah D. Fudge
Gang Definitions, How Do They Work?: What The Juggalos Teach Us About The Inadequacy Of Current Anti-Gang Law, Zachariah D. Fudge
Marquette Law Review
Precisely what constitutes a gang has been a hotly contested academic issue for a century. Recently, this problem has ceased to be purely academic and has developed urgent, real-world consequences. Almost every state and the federal government has enacted anti-gang laws in the past several decades. These anti-gang statutes must define ‘gang’ in order to direct police suppression efforts and to criminally punish gang members or associates. These statutory gang definitions are all too often vague and overbroad, as the example of the Juggalos demonstrates. The Juggalos are the fans of Insane Clown Posse, and have been declared a gang …