Bartlett, vice chair of the House Judiciary Committee, was speaking about the Youth Equity and Safety Act, or the YES Act. Not only would it end the practice of charging some youths as adults, but it would also make sure they’re housed in juvenile facilities.
Black Caucus lays out legislative priorities for 2025 session - Maryland Matters
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The Legislative Black Caucus unveiled a sweeping agenda Thursday that includes a number of issues that are back after they were debated in previous sessions but didn't pass. Caucus members said the me...Legislation to end the practice of charging youths as adults is a priority of the Office of the Public Defender, which is scheduled to outline its legislative agenda Thursday during a rally at Lawyers’ Mall in Annapolis.
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Legislation to end the practice of charging youths as adults is a priority of the Office of the Public Defender and advocates, who are scheduled to outline their legislative agenda Thursday during a r...Olinda Moyd is director of the Decarceration and Re-Entry Clinic at the American University Washington College of Law and serves on the executive board of the Maryland Alliance for Justice Reform. She also serves on the parole and reentry subcommittees of the Maryland Equitable Justice Coalition and was recently appointed by Gov. Wes Moore to serve on the Correctional Ombudsman Advisory Board.
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Olinda Moyd is director of the Decarceration and Re-Entry Clinic at the American University Washington College of Law and serves on the executive board of the Maryland Alliance for Justice Reform. She...The complaint seeks to address a longstanding crisis in the state that sees hundreds of defendants who are deemed too mentally ill to participate in their court cases and found to present a danger to themselves or others, left to deteriorate in jails ill-equipped to treat their conditions.
Maryland health department sued for leaving mentally ill criminal defendants ‘languishing in jails’
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A disability rights group is suing Maryland’s health secretary and health department in federal court for leaving mentally ill people accused of crimes to languish in jail rather than admitting them...The criminal legal system’s dependence on life sentences disregards research showing that extreme sentences are not an effective public safety solution.
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One in 6 people in prison–nearly 200,000 people–are serving life sentences. This report examines the prevalence of life sentences nationwide.Study after study shows incarcerated education helps do what citizens and policymakers alike say they want: keep people from committing more crimes. However, getting education for many people behind bars remains a challenge.
Inmates are learning to code in prison. Jobs may be hard to come by | CNN Business
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Graduation day dawns sunny and warm for the first day of November, but the weather hardly matters for the joint MIT-Georgetown coding class, which takes place at the Correctional Treatment Facility, o...When policymakers abandon the idea that these problems can be addressed as narrow recruitment and human resources issues, and instead move away from mass criminalization and incarceration, we will finally see real movement on these issues and real relief for workers and incarcerated people alike.
Why jails and prisons can’t recruit their way out of the understaffing crisis
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Jails and prisons across the country have record-high vacancies, creating bad working conditions for corrections staff and nightmarish living conditions for incarcerated people. Why haven’t ...The 18 recommendations from the Maryland Equitable Justice Collaborative (MEJC) aim to fix the imbalance in state sentencings: Black residents accounted for 32% of Maryland’s population in 2023, but about 71% of those incarcerated in the state’s correctional facilities, the group notes.
Group tackling mass incarceration in Maryland releases recommendations - Maryland Matters
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A group tackling mass incarceration in Maryland released recommendations Thursday and plans to produce a report by next month, in time for the General Assembly to possibly take them up as legislation ...
