"There Is Almost No Voter Fraud in America."
"I hope for four, or five. It could be 10,000," he said. "It's a shot in the dark." — Tennessee State Elections Coordinator Mark Goins, when asked how many noncitizens may be registered to vote in his state. The New York T...
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Ohioans Rise Up to Stop Voter Suppression Bill
Pundits, politicians, and publicists all agree: Ohio is crucial to any national election. And this year, Ohio is just one of many states that has had to grapple with legislators’ attempts to restrict voting rights. In 2011, state legislatures...
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Breaking the Addiction to Incarceration: Weekly Highlights From the Blog
Today, the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. With over 2.3 million men and women living behind bars, our imprisonment rate is the highest it’s ever been in U.S. history. And yet, our criminal justice sy...
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Breaking the Addiction to Incarceration: Weekly Highlights
Today, the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. Withover 2.3 million men and women living behind bars, our imprisonment rate is the highest it's ever been in U.S. history. And yet, our criminal justice system has fai...
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Ohio and the Death Penalty
Check out this great editorial the New York Times ran over the weekend, highlighting the longstanding problems with Ohio’s death penalty and calling for an end the practice throughout the country: Governor Kasich should instead listen to Ohi...
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Criminal Sentencing Reform Wins Bipartisan Support in Ohio
Ohio's legislature has not been the friendliest place for civil libertarians this year. Bills under consideration include the most restrictive photo identification requirements for voters, privatizing six of the state's prisons and some of the nati...
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Being Poor Is Not a Crime
June 2011 marks the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon's declaration of a "war on drugs" — a war that has cost roughly a trillion dollars, has produced little to no effect on the supply of demand for drugs in the United States...
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