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No-Knock Raids: Examining the Risk, Controversy and Constitutionality

These searches are referred to as “no-knock” raids because they omit the standard “knock and announce” element most search warrant executions provide.

The Latest Trends of Asset Forfeiture Transparency and Juvenile Justice

This State Factor examines trends across the states in Civil Asset Forfeiture reform, as well as in juvenile justice for the latest legislative sessions. It also examines the driving policy ideas…

The End and How to Breakthrough: The Number of Laws Criminalizing Innocent Conduct is a Touch Too Much

With the explosion in the number of criminal statutes and criminal regulations, it is particularly difficult for an individual to know what conduct has been deemed criminal or noncriminal. In…

2016: A Successful Year for Criminal Justice Reform and Path to the Future

In 2005, Texas officials noticed the alarming rate at which their state’s corrections budget was growing. By 2007, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice wanted the state legislature to…

State Factor: Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Reform Saves States Money and Reduces Crime Rates

The United States has been experiencing increasingly high levels of incarceration, particularly over the last three decades. Several states have realized such levels are not sustainable and have been examining…

Recidivism Reduction: Community-Based Supervision Alternatives to Incarceration

Recidivism Reduction: Community-Based Supervision Alternatives to Incarceration As a result of failed corrections practices, our criminal justice system has created a revolving door of offenders. More than 40 percent of…

Criminalizing America – How Big Government Makes a Criminal of Every American

There are more than 1.5 million Americans under the supervision of state and federal correctional facilities, at a cost of more than $30,000 per prisoner every year. While some criminal…

Five Solutions for Addressing Environmental Overcriminalization

Five Solutions for Addressing…

Inside ALEC May/June 2013

Inside ALEC February 2012

Getting Corrections Policy Right

Criminals On The Streets: A Citizen’s Right To Know