The Arizona Charitable Tax Credit The Arizona Charitable Tax Credit program allows you to donate to the Justice Project, while receiving a tax credit on your Arizona state taxes. This is not just another deduction—it is a true tax credit that reduces the amount you owe the state dollar-for-dollar. And, you can take advantage of …
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CNN: Prison system is failing America The numbers are arresting. If Americans under correctional supervision counted as a city of their own, they would form the largest city in the United States after New York. The number of people in prison, on parole or on probation, 6.9 million Americans, exceeds the populations of the second- …
Harvey Silverglate: Would Obama recognize criminal justice reform if it stuck him in the eye? This week’s panel on criminal justice reform, filmed at the White House and live-streamed on The Marshall Project’s website, had the potential to inform the public of the real and hidden problems that plague our state and federal justice systems. …
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Federal regulators took new steps on Thursday to slash the cost of calls in prison, which they said can run as high as $14 a minute. The move by the Federal Communications Commission was described as a “huge step forward” by one reform group and denounced as “wrong-headed” by a phone service provider that vowed …
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“There were about 250,000 jail beds in the early 1980s, and today there are more than 800,000 … Prosecutors have more beds to fill and they are doing so, and as a result more arrestees find themselves serving prison sentences than ever before. And some of them may be innocent.” Washington Post’s Justin Roman reports …
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Arizona Justice Project – And the Arizona Charitable Tax Credit Program Dollar-for-Dollar – Your contribution helps to identify and free the wrongfully convicted or those who have suffered a manifest injustice and are indigent.
Host: Ted Simons ASU Post-conviction Clinic Arizona State University’s Post-conviction Clinic seeks to help inmates who are innocent but have been convicted of a crime. The clinic recently received a new grant from the National Institute of Justice. Katherine Puzauskas, executive director of the Arizona Justice Project, and Robert Dormady, a law fellow at ASU …
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Advances in DNA Testing Could Put Thousands of Texas Cases in Legal Limbo By Meagan Flynn , Houston Press Five days after a Houston woman was raped by two men, she was driving down the street when she spotted 16-year-old Josiah Sutton. She thought she recognized his hat, and then immediately identified him as one of her …
By Sari Horwitz, Washington Post The Justice Department is set to release about 6,000 inmates early from prison — the largest ever one-time release of federal prisoners — in an effort to reduce overcrowding and provide relief to drug offenders who received harsh sentences over the past three decades. The inmates from federal prisons nationwide …
