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PNS Daily Newscast-February 18, 2019 


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Critics say computer programs that perform risk assessments on defendants in criminal cases aren't blind and actually contain racial bias. (pixel2013/Pixabay)
Bill Clamps Down on "Racially Biased" Algorithms Used in Trials
Thursday, February 14, 2019
BOISE, Idaho – Critics of computer algorithms that predict someone's risk of committing a crime say they're tinged with racial bias. A ...Read More
More than half of suicides within juvenile facilities occur while the young person is in solitary confinement. (Ryan Melaugh/Flickr)
Lawmakers to Consider Limiting Juvenile Solitary Confinement
Thursday, February 14, 2019
LINCOLN, Neb. – Nebraska lawmakers hold a public hearing Thursday for a bill that would limit the use of juvenile solitary confinement in ...Read More
A poll shows voters across party lines are concerned about racial bias in death-penalty cases; 47 percent voted for Donald Trump and 45 percent for Hillary Clinton in the last presidential election. (Center for Death Penalty Litigation)
Poll: Death Penalty Supporters are the New Minority
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina has long been considered a pro-death penalty state, but a first-of-its-kind poll found voters overwhelmingly ...Read More
Workloads for Minnesota's state public defenders are too high and affect their ability to represent clients, according to a 2010 report from the Minnesota Office of the Legislative Auditor. (AJEL/Pixabay)
Do Overworked and Underpaid MN Public Defenders Put Justice at Risk?
Monday, February 11, 2019
By Filiberto Nolasco Gomez / Broadcast version by Roz Brown Reporting for the Workday Minnesota-Minnesota News Connection Collaboration MINNEAPOLIS & ...Read More
A polygamist compound in the Black Hills may be empty, but state lawmakers are considering legislation that could be used to verify births and deaths there, should members of the sect return. (Wikimedia Commons)
SD Lawmakers Go After Polygamist Group with Registration Bill
Friday, February 8, 2019
PIERRE, S.D. - Occupants of a housing compound buried in the Black Hills and associated with a known polygamist sect are the focus of a bill in the ...Read More
Last April, former Gov. Bill Haslam refused to veto an anti-sanctuary-city measure, House Bill 2315, allowing it to become law without his signature and saying it
New Legislation Aims to Undo TN "Anti-Sanctuary-Cities" Law
Friday, February 8, 2019
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Immigrants' rights advocates say two bills introduced this week by Democrats in the Tennessee Legislature will help restore ...Read More
Marsy’s Law could allow crime victims to deny access to evidence needed for the people accused of a crime to defend themselves. (ohioduidefense/Pixabay)
Civil Liberties Group Questions Need for Victims' Rights Amendment
Friday, February 1, 2019
HARRISBURG, Pa. – A proposed amendment to Pennsylvania's state Constitution claims to protect the rights of crime victims, but civil-liberties ...Read More
More than 130 people on death row were tried before a 2008 package of reforms intended to prevent false confessions and mistaken eyewitness identifications, which have been leading causes of wrongful convictions across North Carolina. (psu.edu)
80-Year-Old Sentenced to Death Could Be Exonerated Soon
Thursday, January 31, 2019
WILSON, N.C. – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has agreed with The Duke Law Innocence Project's assertion that it's unlikely ...Read More
Death-penalty opponents say not only does capital punishment cost more than a life sentence, a wrongful execution can't be reversed. (Jason Rosenberg/Flickr)
KY Students Hear Conservative Case Against Death Penalty
Monday, January 28, 2019
FRANKFORT, Ky. – Conservatives historically are pegged as champions of the death penalty, but some say there's growing momentum to change that ...Read More
False testimony from so-called incentivized witnesses is one of the leading causes of wrongful convictions nationwide. (MargJohnsonVA/Flickr)
MT Bills to Help Wrongfully Convicted Get Hearing
Monday, January 28, 2019
HELENA, Mont. – Two bills designed to prevent wrongful convictions and defend the people accused are scheduled for a hearing in the Montana ...Read More
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