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The Center is lucky to work with Anna Bryant, a Loyola graduate student in criminal justice and criminology, who was just interviewed by WBBM Newsradio about her report on changes in police presence in schools since the George Floyd killing: chicagojustice.org/2024/03/26/cop…

The new issue of Vital City, on the value of evidence in driving policymaking, includes a contribution from friend of the Center John Maki: vitalcitynyc.org/articles/why-d… Read the whole collection here: vitalcitynyc.org/issues/issue-7

Three of the Center's student researchers picked up awards at the Loyola Criminology Department's Honors Convocation last week. Congratulations, Jannah Abu-Khalil, Anna Bryant, and Hannah Eure!

Students from our Prison Reform class finished the term by delivering more than 200 donated toiletry items to The Women's Justice Institute (WJI), to be used to help women returning from prison get back on their feet.

Coding is Hard! But Loyola's criminal justice students have been learning how to program in Python from Branden Dupont, the Center's Deputy Director of Analytics--and they celebrated their last class yesterday by showing off their new data analysis and visualization skills.

At a summit for journalists hosted by the Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice today, the Center's Don Stemen is sharing the latest numbers from our ongoing evaluation of the elimination of cash bail: loyolaccj.org/pfa

CCJ research and Center Codirector Dave Olson are cited extensively in this NPRIllinois report exploring the first 9 months of data on the PFA and the end of cash bail in Illinois: nprillinois.org/illinois/2024-…

A new research brief summarizes recidivism patterns among those released from Illinois prisons between 2018 and 2022. Among other things, the analysis shows how rates of post-release arrest changed during the COVID-19 period: loyolaccj.org/blog/recidivis…

Colorado prosecutors now lead the nation in data transparency, with the unveiling of 4 new public data dashboards developed with the Center’s help as part of our work with Prosecutorial Performance Indicators. You can explore all 18 dashboards, covering 85% of the state, here: data.dacolorado.org

What gives with "emerging adults" in Illinois? A new CCJ report reveals that arrests and prison sentences involving 18- to 24-year-olds have dropped sharply over the past 14 years. Read the implications here: loyolaccj.org/blog/emerging-…

Center Codirector Dave Olson was featured in a recent CBS News (Chicago) segment exploring Chicago Police data showing a dip in Chicago crime during last month’s 2024 Democratic National Convention: cbsnews.com/chicago/news/d…

Congrats to Center alumna Martyna Malecka, the new Hate Crimes Research Analyst at the The Cook County State's Attorney's Office!

The Center's JCOIN project, aimed at reducing opioid overdose deaths among people returning from prison, was just showcased in Loyola University Chicago's Loyola Today: news.luc.edu/stories/resear…

Center Codirector Dave Olson is in New Orleans for the 51st Annual Conference of NAPSA, helping to lead this morning’s opening plenary on “The Elimination of Cash Bail and the Establishment of the Office of Statewide Pretrial Services in Illinois.”

The Center's Dave Olson is in Springfield presenting early findings from our PFA evaluation to journalists from across Illinois. Stay tuned for our Year One Report, coming soon! …launiversitychicago-my.sharepoint.com/personal/jgrif…

Journalists in Springfield and Chicago have now had a chance to hear from Codirector Dave Olson regarding the results of one year without cash bail in Illinois. Look for the details in our PFA Year One report, coming soon!

Happy Birthday, PFA! The Illinois law eliminating cash bail went into effect a year ago today, and media all over the state have been featuring the Center's take on the law's first year. Codirector Don Stemen was interviewed yesterday on WBEZ's Reset: wbez.org/reset-with-sas…

WBEZ's Chip Mitchell gave a shout-out to our 1st year report on Illinois' elimination of cash bail.

Whatever happened to The Purge? Center Codirector Dave Olson talks with WGN TV News about the first-year findings of our Illinois Pretrial Fairness Act evaluation. wgntv.com/news/illinois/…

In case you missed it: our detailed findings on the first year of Illinois' Pretrial Fairness Act were posted yesterday. Read all about how the end of cash bail is working in practice: pfa-1yr.loyolaccj.org