On June 29, at a signing ceremony in City Hall, New York City mayor Bill DeBlasio hailed a new City Council law, the “Fair Chance Act,” as a way to require city-based employers with four or more workers to take into account job applicants’ qualifications, rather than to screen them out early in the hiring […]
Month: October 2015
Article: Total Costs for Local Jails Are Seriously Understated, New Study Says
What does it cost taxpayers to run a local jail? Unless your hobby is studying local government budgets, you probably have little or no idea what the actual figure might be, but you no doubt believe it ought to be a statistic easy to look up, right? But, says a recent report from a non-profit […]
Article: Why Eyewitness Testimony May Be Wrong
If you were a prosecutor getting ready to go to trial, just about the best evidence you could hope to have, other than a full confession from the main suspect, would be an eyewitness account, from a victim of the crime or someone who saw it transpire, identifying the defendant as the actual culprit. What […]