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Cafe aims to help at-risk youth, reduce recidivism

Grand St. Settlement is a social services organization in New York that focuses on empowerment, support, and advocacy. In operation since 1916, Grand St. serves thousands of New Yorkers through child and family centers, education, and skills-based programs. In November 2017, Grand St. Settlement announced a bold — and tasty — new venture: GrandLo Café.

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Foreign-Born Are 21% of DOJ Prisoners; 94% Are Here Illegally

Mark Twain once famously maintained it could probably be shown through facts and statistics that there’s “no distinctly American criminal class – except Congress.” What then would that celebrated observer of Gilded Age corruption and criminality make of the facts and statistics recently released by the Departments of Justice (DOJ) and Homeland Security (DHS) in

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California Appellate Court Remands Sex Offender Commitment Order

The First Appellate District for the California Court of Appeals has remanded a lower court’s decision to civilly commit a prisoner as a sexually violent predator (SVP). The Alameda County District Attorney filed a petition to commit Joel Curlee as an SVP in December 2010. During the trial, Curlee was called as a witness during

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Seventh Circuit Rejects Demand for Recusal in Milwaukee Strip-Search Cases

The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently denied the City of Milwaukee’s attempt to force the removal of the judge presiding over several unconstitutional police strip-search cases on the basis of several allegedly improper statements. The City of Milwaukee contended that U.S. District Judge J.P. Stadtmueller refused to recuse himself, so

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Eighth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Excessive Force Case

The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a civil rights claim brought against the Jefferson County, Missouri Sheriff’s Department by a man beaten during a traffic stop. Edward C. Schoettle, an insulin-dependent diabetic, was driving his truck down a highway on November 6, 2010. When he became lightheaded,

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First Circuit Vacates Supervised Release Conditions for Sex Offender

The Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has vacated two onerous conditions of supervised release and reversed the imposition of a 20-year term of supervised release on a sex offender for violation of the Sex Offender Notification and Registration Act (SORNA). Moisés Medina, a convicted sex offender, failed to register when he moved to

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