Report reveals federal jailing crisis that disproportionately affects people of color

The Federal Criminal Justice Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School has announced the release of the first national investigation of federal pretrial detention. The report, which identifies a “federal jailing crisis” that disproportionately impacts poor people of color, was authored and researched by Prof. Alison Siegler and a team of FCJC students. “Freedom Denied: How the Culture of Detention Created a Federal Jailing Crisis” drew upon two years of court-watching and interviews.


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Source: Phys.org