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  by GREG BLUESTEIN Georgia should have sought U.S. Justice Department approval before implementing a new process of using Social Security numbers and driver's license data to check voters' immigration status, a three-judge federal panel ruled Monday. The 27-page ruling ordered Georgia election officials to…

  by William Graham The political crisis at Stormont has deepened with First Minister Peter Robinson accusing Sinn Fein of defaulting on the St Andrews Agreement and suggesting that Secretary of State Shaun Woodward should "respond". Contact between the DUP and Sinn Fein is continuing…

Funding from DoJ will reduce truancy, improve academics among underserved youth Washington D.C. Today U.S. Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) announced that the U.S. Department of Justice has awarded Big Brothers Big Sisters of America a significant grant to enhance its mentoring programs. The $8,615,548 grant,…

The Murky Evidence for and Against Deterrence Original Source By Cass R. Sunstein and Justin Wolfers Although the Supreme Court banned capital punishment for child rape last week, the justices have made it clear that for homicide, states may inflict the ultimate penalty. Last month,…

One evening last spring, as a fierce north-easter tore through the New York region, Gara LaMarche settled in to watch The Sopranos and bake batches of muffins. The next morning, baked goodies safely stowed in Ziploc bags, he set off for the offices of The…

This case study was commissioned by the Civic Participation Action Fund, an Atlantic grantee.   Cook County, Illinois, was one of the first jurisdictions to focus on electing a progressive prosecutor—a criminal justice reform strategy now being used across the United States. Kim Foxx was…

In an effort to inform the growing dialogue on school discipline, this report examines trends in suspensions in New York City over an 11-year period (2006-07 to 2016-17) for middle school and high school students. The report reveals that while suspensions on the whole fluctuated,…

By NPR StaffThe American rate of juvenile incarceration is seven times that of Great Britain, and 18 times that of France. It costs, on average, $88,000 a year to keep a youth locked up — far more than the U.S. spends on a child's education.But…

One of the first times Nicholas Peart was stopped and frisked by the NYPD was on his 18th birthday. How can he explain the Stop and Frisk policy to his two younger brothers? Learn More The Center for Constituional Rights, a legal and educational organisation…

Mary Johnson found forgiveness for Oshea Israel, the young man who murdered her son as a teenager. The two now live next door to one another. Witness to Innocence is a grantee (via a re-grant from Proteus Action League) of Atlantic’s Reconciliation & Human Rights…