14 May Criminal Justice Reform: Alaska Style
All eyes are on Alaska as we lead the charge in common sense, research based, bi-partisan criminal justice reform. The accession of fiscal conservatism in the Republican Party, with its...
03 May Medical Errors and Plaintiff’s Rights
While the health care industry and insurance companies were busy limiting the ability of victims to recover damages from preventable medical errors through tort reform, the number of people severely...
02 May Arrest and Collateral Consequences: Iditarod Edition
File this under "unforeseen collateral consequences of misdemeanor arrest and conviction #47,543" Collateral consequences are the often overlooked ramifications of being arrested, convicted at trial or by plea, or being found...
29 Apr Too Little, Too Late
Did you see the news about former Speaker of the House Denny Hastert? He was just sentenced to 15 months in prison for his efforts to cover up his sexual...
13 Apr Rethinking Pre-Trial Detention
If you were falsely charged with a crime, is there someone in your life who could drop everything and keep you within their sight or sound twenty-four hours a day...
10 Apr Senate Bill 91: Criminal Justice Reform
The lag time between research and science and legislators and laws can be most easily measured in decades - and that's how it is supposed to be. But for those...