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...Antonio M. Ginatta Letter from Human Rights Watch about the Smarter Sentencing Act ANTONIO M. GINATTA Advocacy Director, US Program, Human Rights Watch The Honorable Charles E. Grassley United States Senate 135 Hart Senate Of ce Building Washington, DC 20510 The Honorable Jeff Sessions United...

...Nkechi Taifa Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Convenes Historic Hearing On March 3, 2006, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights convened its first ever hearing on the impact of mandatory minimum sentences in the federal criminal justice system of the United States. Spurred...

...Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights © The Ohio State University Letter to House Judiciary Committee Members Urging No Vote on FIRST STEP Act LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS (May 8, 2018) Dear House Judiciary Committee Member: On behalf of The Leadership Conference...

... legislative reform efforts in the United States as well as changes in correctional training and supervision practices. Doing the Right Thing: The Evolving Role of Human Dignity in American Sentencing and Corrections I. Introduction Human dignity is a concept that most people in the United States do...

...Jamie Fellner © The Ohio State University An Offer You Can t Refuse: How U.S. Federal Prosecutors Force Drug Defendants to Plead Guilty JAMIE FELLNER U.S. Program, Human Rights Watch [Reprinted below are the Summary and Recommendations included in An Offer You Can t Refuse: How US Federal...

... confined in correctional facilities or under supervision in the community must be protected from sexual predators. They do not relinquish their fundamental human rights when they are incarcerated or otherwise constrained. They still have the right to be treated in a manner consistent with basic human...

...-leveling process under which juveniles’ emerging right to be free from merciless punishments would apply to everyone. This is the norm in other Western democracies, which have gravitated toward universal human rights and moderate punishment. A broader outlook may spell the difference between a conception...

... years, Frankel worked to make his plan a reality. By 1978 his efforts had all but ceased, as he left the bench and moved on to other concerns, including international human rights. Frankel’s sentencing valedictory, delivered at a symposium sponsored by the Yale Law Journal, was in 1992, a decade before...

... sentence, his risk of conviction, and the sticker shock of intimidation to achieve a guilty plea); Human Rights Watch, An Offer You Can t Refuse: How Federal Prosecutors Force Drug Defendants to Plead Guilty 5 (Dec. 2013), https www.hrw.org/report/2013/12/05/offer-you-cant-refuse/ how-us-federal...

... five strategies to increase the chance that the present conjuncture leads to deep change and avoids the stabilization of the prison population into "mass incarceration lite." © The Ohio State University "Mass incarceration lite" human rights dignity evidence based penology racial...

... to, and monitoring such abuse. The Commissioners believe that standard compliance will result in achieving PREA's original goal: the protection of incarcerated individuals from sexual abuse. © The Ohio State University sentencing sexual abuse human rights National Prison Rape Elimination Commission PREA...

...William A. Schabas © The Ohio State University The Federal Death Penalty and International Law WILLIAM A. SCHABAS M.A. (Toronto), LL.D. (Montreal), Professor of Human Rights Law, National University of Ireland, Galway and Director, Irish Centre for Human Rights. In recent years, United States...

... the CERD has addressed the issue of mandatory sentencing and what recommendations we made to the relevant governments. 1. The Relevant International Human Rights Norms that Address Mandatory Minimum Sentences The U.S. practice of imposing mandatory minimum sentences raises concerns with respect to a number...

... position, as expressed in early 2008 by the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Kafkaris v. Cyprus,3 goes toward outlawing irreducible sentences. One issue needs to be clarified immediately: There is no doubt about the position as far as children that is, people under the age...

...Wade Henderson Statement of Wade Henderson: Drug Sentencing Practices and Issues On behalf of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), the nation s oldest, largest, and most diverse civil and human rights coalition, I am pleased to submit the following statement to the Inter-American...

... types and rates of Anne-Marie Cusac FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER VOL. 28, NO. 5 JUNE 2016 341 punishment in the context of different types and rates of crime. The high rates of homicide and gun violence in the United States are unusual in the world, he emphasizes. The Under [European] human rights...

... make more money.33 According to a 2014 Human Rights Watch report, the longer it takes offenders to pay off their debts, the longer they remain on probation and the more they pay in supervision fees. 34 For the companies that Human Rights Watch observed, offenders could not pay off their debts...

... right outside our windows and in the newspapers nearly each day.8 For the same reasons I join the members of the Justice Roundtable in citing the ethnically debilitating trends and statistics for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights today, I first introduced the Major Drug Trafficking...

...Robert C. "Bobby" Scott Testimony of Congressman Robert C. Bobby Scott This testimony is written in support of the petition by the Justice Roundtable urging the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to determine whether the United States government is violating international law and norms...

.... justice system. This testimony is being delivered before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on behalf of the Justice Roundtable by Charles J. Ogletree. I. Introduction The Justice Roundtable is a broad network whose mission is 1) to promote fairness and equality in all areas of the criminal...