NEW: Democrats Demand Answers for Federal Prison Staffing Shortage After Corrections Officers Flee for ICE Jobs

The federal prison staffing shortage, exacerbated by corrections officers fleeing to ICE jobs, has contributed to more lockdowns, more violence and less access to recidivism-reducing programs, the lawmakers noted in their letter to the BOP director.

https://www.propublica.org/article/bop-prison-staffing-shortages-ice-democrats-william-marshall

#News #ICE #Prison #CriminalJustice #Democrats

NEW: Democrats Demand Answers for Federal Prison Staffing Shortage After Corrections Officers Flee for ICE Jobs

The federal prison staffing shortage, exacerbated by corrections officers fleeing to ICE jobs, has contributed to more lockdowns, more violence and less access to recidivism-reducing programs, the lawmakers noted in their letter to the BOP director.

https://www.propublica.org/article/bop-prison-staffing-shortages-ice-democrats-william-marshall

#News #ICE #Prison #CriminalJustice #Democrats

NEW: Trump Administration Moves to Allow Intelligence Agencies Easier Access to Law Enforcement Files

“None of this has been thought through very carefully,” one official said of the plans, which upend long-standing restrictions meant to protect Americans’ privacy.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cia-law-enforcement-records-privacy-intelligence-community

#news #Trump #CIA #LawEnforcement #Privacy #Government #criminaljustice

NEW: If Attorney General Pam Bondi’s team wins this case, thousands of immigrant moms and dads could be exposed to deportation for minor involvement in the juvenile court system, a new realm for President Trump’s deportation regime.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-immigration-deportation-family-court-sotero-mendoza-rivera

#news #trump #immigration #deportation #PamBondi #government #courts #law #criminaljustice

NEW: The Victims Who Fought Back

An #Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of women who killed their abusers.

Why are nearly all of them still in prison?

https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-survivors-act-domestic-violence

#news #crime #criminaljustice #domesticviolence #law #justice #women #courts

NEW: Rather than turn former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández over to immigration officials when he was released from #prison less than four years into a 45-year sentence, the #Trump administration paid to transport him 350 miles to a posh #NYC hotel.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-ice-pardon-juan-orlando-hernandez-honduras-prison-special-treatment

#news #government #ice #criminaljustice #drugs #Honduras

NEW: Rather than turn former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández over to immigration officials when he was released from #prison less than four years into a 45-year sentence, the #Trump administration paid to transport him 350 miles to a posh #NYC hotel.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-ice-pardon-juan-orlando-hernandez-honduras-prison-special-treatment

#news #government #ice #criminaljustice #drugs #Honduras

A plurality of Washington voters back lowering the threshold for drunk driving to a blood alcohol concentration of 0.05%

NPI's research suggests that even before hearing the evidence suggesting that Senate Bill 5067 will save lives, a near majority of the state's electorate is supportive of reducing the BAC limit for the first time in over a quarter century.

https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2026/01/a-plurality-of-washington-voters-back-lowering-the-threshold-for-drunk-driving-to-a-blood-alcohol-concentration-of-0-05.html

#CriminalJustice #SafeNeighborhoods #Transportation

A plurality of Washington voters back lowering the threshold for drunk driving to a blood alcohol concentration of 0.05%

NPI's research suggests that even before hearing the evidence suggesting that Senate Bill 5067 will save lives, a near majority of the state's electorate is supportive of reducing the BAC limit for the first time in over a quarter century.

https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2026/01/a-plurality-of-washington-voters-back-lowering-the-threshold-for-drunk-driving-to-a-blood-alcohol-concentration-of-0-05.html

#CriminalJustice #SafeNeighborhoods #Transportation

NEW: Louisiana Paroles Its Lowest Number of Prisoners in 20 Years Under Gov. Jeff Landry

The state parole board freed 185 prisoners during Landry’s tenure, compared with 858 in the two years before he took office.

Hundreds who would have been released under previous governors remain incarcerated with little chance of earning parole.

https://www.propublica.org/article/louisiana-parole-drop-jeff-landry

#news #louisiana #criminaljustice #JeffLandry #government

David Lammy's (UK Justice Secretary) own review in 2017 found that people from racialised backgrounds are more likely to trust a jury than a magistrate.

Judges are from a narrow background and part of the state infrastructure. They're more likely to accept the police or CPS narrative.

Juries protect against institutional failure.

#criminaljustice #jury #justice #ukpolitics #ukpol

NEW: A new congressional investigation prompted by ProPublica reporting has found that, contrary to the Trump administration’s claims, immigration agents have frequently detained and mistreated U.S. citizens.

https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-agents-detained-mistreated-citizens-congressional-investigation

#immigration #news #ice #government #trump #politics #criminaljustice #humanrights #civilrights

#AngelaDavis #BlackPanthers #AbolishPolice #Abolition #AbolishPrisons #anarchism #CommunityNotCops #Criminology #CriminalJustice

This attack on juries comes as police are using so-called 'crime-predicting' tech more and more.

This tool relies on flawed data that targets low-income and racialised communities who are already over-represented in criminal legal system data sets.

We need the human oversight of juries.

#criminaljustice #jury #justice #ukpolitics #ukpol