Mental illness can cause some people to do things they wouldn’t ordinarily do, which includes breaking the law. According to one source, up to 500,000 people with various serious mental illnesses spend their days in jails and prisons. This number does not include those with passing encounters with the criminal justice system. If your loved […]
Sexual assaults inside women’s prison
A new government report on the rate of sexual victimization in America’s jails and prisons lists the State of Colorado’s Denver Women’s Correctional Facility as having the highest rate of sexual assault and misconduct by staff of any facility in the nation. The Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics’ survey of more than 92,000 […]
Attorney General Holder believes too many people are incarcerated in America
As Criminal Defense Lawyers, it is encouraging to hear the United States Attorney General believes incarceration is overused. Now if we can just get him to stop requesting incarnation as punishment, we will be on the road to recovery. Attorney General Eric Holder recently stated “As we speak, roughly one out of every 100 American […]