Rethinking the Criminal Justice System
Welcome to a new section of our site where we'll be focusing on criminal justice reform. It will be a place to share different perspectives on how we can improve our criminal justice system, focusing especially on Baltimore and Maryland.
One of our regular contributors is going to be Page Croyder. She is a former assistant state's attorney. She supervised the "War Room" from its creation in 2004 until her retirement in January of 2008. For everyone who's not a criminal justice insider or expert, and is wondering what the "War Room" is, find out by reading Page's first contribution to our site. We'll be soliciting various other people to share their thoughts and ideas as well.
- February 17, 2010
Page visits three Baltimore district courthouses to see how some of the judges spend their days. What she finds is less than encouraging.
- February 1, 2010
Maryland judges are hoping that Maryland legislators forget about them next month. If they do, the judges will get nearly $40,000 in raises apiece.
- January 21, 2010
Page Croyder discusses the case of John Couplin, juvenile record confidentiality and other recent concerns in the criminal justice system.
- January 7, 2010
What does our criminal justice system need to be doing, that it is not doing, to reduce violence?
- December 9, 2009
Snitching and the criminal justice system: what are the larger ramifications?
- December 9, 2009
Baltimore State's Attorney Pat Jessamy says that police and prosecutors are collaborating better together because her statistics show that fewer criminal cases have been dropped for “legal insufficiency.” Is it the whole story?
- November 24, 2009
Could reforming the process of pre-trial jailing save taxpayer money in the long term?
