CSG Midwest Articles and
Publications by Topic
Criminal Justice/Courts
Capital Punishment
Drugs
and Alcohol
Guns and Gun Control
New state laws employ GPS to protect victims of domestic
violence (Stateline Midwest,
September 2008)
Legislators investigating expansion of state DNA databases (Stateline Midwest,
July 2008)
New direction for corrections: States, CSG collaborate on effort to improve outcomes, cut costs (Stateline Midwest,
June 2008)
Proposals seek to change Supreme Court selection process
(Stateline Midwest, May 2008)
What incentives do states offer inmates and parolees to participate in educational training?
(Question of the Month, February 2008)
Lawmakers, school officials examine campus security
(Stateline Midwest, November 2007)
Voter I.D., gun control among state policies at center of cases
that could be headed to Supreme Court
(Stateline Midwest, November 2007)
North Dakota studying incarceration alternatives to curb rises
in prison population (Stateline Midwest, July 2006)
States attacking violent crimes against children in variety of
ways
(Firstline Midwest, June 2006)
What kinds of
legislation have states considered that would enhance penalties
for crimes against the elderly? (Question of the Month,
May 2006)
2006 sessions include myriad proposals to curb eminent domain
powers (Firstline Midwest, February 2006)
Debate over eminent domain lands in state legislatures (Stateline
Midwest, October 2005)
Law enforcement adjusts to new roles, changing priorities since
9/11 attacks (Stateline Midwest, July 2005)
Michigan proposals aim to improve treatment of mentally ill (Stateline
Midwest, April 2005)
Improving prisoner re-entry programs focus of bipartisan report
(Stateline Midwest, February 2005)
Specialty courts emerging in states' criminal justice
systems (Stateline Midwest, January 2005)
Kansas Supreme
Court weighs in on school funding (Stateline Midwest,
January 2005)
New
era may be near in battle over eminent domain (Firstline
Midwest, December 2004)
What
limits do states in the Midwest have on awards for non-economic
damages in medical malpractice cases? (Question of the
Month, December 2004)
Which states have not been challenged on their education funding
formulas? (Question of the Month, November 2004)
As
region's number of seniors grows, so do concerns about elder abuse (Stateline Midwest,
September 2004)
North
Dakota aims to strengthen indigent defense system (Stateline Midwest, June 2004)
What
laws have states passed restricting the location of convicted sex
offenders upon re-entry into the community? (Question of the
Month,,
May 2004)
States
seek reduction in recidivism rates by improving prisoner re-entry
programs (Stateline Midwest, May 2004)
Minnesota,
North Dakota seek to strengthen sex offender laws (Stateline Midwest, April 2004)
Programs
take new approaches to domestic violence prevention (Stateline
Midwest, November 2003)
How
have states tried to improve community notification regarding the
whereabouts of sex offenders? (Question of the Month, September
2003)
Michigan
looks to improve child support collection (Stateline
Midwest, September 2003)
States
eye alternative
sentencing measures (Stateline Midwest, March 2003)
Project
aims to improve mental health, criminal justice systems (Stateline
Midwest, September 2002)
Legislation
seeks to prevent video voyeurism (Stateline Midwest, July 2002)
States
step in to provide more legal aid to poor (Stateline Midwest, July 2002)
Corrections
reform on legislative agendas (Firstline Midwest, June 2002)
What
kind of voting rights do states grant to prisoners and ex-felons?
(Question of the Month, March 2002)
Measures
seek to stop spread of street gangs (Stateline Midwest,
July 2001)
Laws seek better use of DNA technology (Stateline Midwest,
July 2001)
Compact
on adult offender supervision moves forward (Stateline
Midwest, April 2001)
Courts/schools
work together to help juveniles (Stateline Midwest,
April 2001)
States
improve tracking of sex offenders (Stateline Midwest, July
2000)
Legislative
proposals seek to reform juvenile justice systems (Firstline
Midwest, April 2000)
Lawmakers
try to protect children from online predators (Stateline
Midwest, April 2000)
States
consider ways to strengthen capitol security (Stateline
Midwest, March 2000)
Boot
camps used as part of states' juvenile justice systems (Stateline Midwest, February 2000)
Concerns
about politicizing of judicial races on the rise (Stateline
Midwest, February 2000)
Truth-in-sentencing
law taking effect in Wisconsin (Stateline
Midwest, January
2000)
Tort
reform eyed in Ohio (Stateline Midwest, October 1999)
State
attempts to stop school shootings (Stateline Midwest, July 1999)
Rising
prison population, criminal justice costs concern policymakers
(Stateline Midwest, June 1999)
Prosecutorial
misconduct becomes state legislative issue in Illinois (Stateline Midwest, April 1999)
Individual
Development Accounts part of state strategies to reduce poverty (Firstline Midwest, March 1999)
States
using prison inmates as workers (Stateline Midwest,
March 1999)
Changes
being made to domestic violence laws (Stateline Midwest,
February 1999)
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Tim Anderson
last updated:
September 08, 2008
