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Federal Court Caseloads Threaten Constitutional Protections

Civil and criminal case filings in federal courts have grown dramatically over the past two decades. Still, at the same time, the number of judges available to hear them has barely increased, according to a report by researchers at Syracuse University. As a result, the study concluded that if Congress fails to solve the problem,

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Report: Human Impact to Prison Overcrowding

By Mary Kuhlman / The Journal-Courier Illinois houses an estimated 49,000 people in its prison system, and a recent report finds it’s one of the most overcrowded systems in the nation. In fact, only Alabama’s prisons are more crowded. The Federal Bureau of Justice Statistics’ most recent census of prisoners found Illinois is operating at

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The Numbers: Who’s in American Prisons, and for What Crimes?

American prisons are currently experiencing a shortage of space and an abundance of prisoners; in a word, overcrowding.  The United States incarcerates 25 percent of the world’s prisoners despite accounting for only 5 percent of the world’s population.  The Federal Bureau of Prisons alone is experiencing overcrowding at a rate of 40 percent in its

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