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Did Hochul go too far on prison strikers?
Gov. Kathy Hochul should be commended for bringing the illegal wildcat strike by prison guards to a conclusion within the law while...


Maine’s only law school asks state for $1 million to reopen criminal law clinic (via Press Herald)
The University of Maine School of Law is trying to reestablish a criminal justice legal clinic for student attorneys, but funding it...



How Do We Take Back the Supreme Court? (Hint: Not Court-Packing)
The Supreme Court was conceived of as a branch of government that would operate above politics, insulated from the passions of the...

The Economic Costs of Mass Incarceration
The following was a virtual talk given by Frank Zarro for the End Mass Incarceration event. The American justice system is an $80 Billion...

Creating an Independent Public Defense Authority in New York State
As we continue to address the many complex issues involving New York’s badly broken public defense system, we have to start by reducing the problems to their fundamentals. If one looks closely enough at public policy problems, answers and solutions can usually be found by correcting long-held political misperceptions, examining the basic structure of the system in question, and finding the money to get it right. MISPERCEPTIONS The vast majority of public defense clients are n














