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And the talks got off to a rather rocky start when the vice president of Chechnya began by pointing at the Russians and said, "You should stay right here in your seats, because you're going to be on trial for war crimes."
"Like in the newspaper today, it said they can like, listen to mobile phones from prison, if a gang leader tries to continue his crimes from inside.
Give judges a list of mandatory sentences to impose for crimes, so that you don't need to rely on judges using their judgment.
And what the Veterans' Court did, was it treated each criminal as an individual, tried to get inside their problems, tried to fashion responses to their crimes that helped them to rehabilitate themselves, and didn't forget about them once the judgment was made.
She was convicted of category one crimes of genocide.
We then managed to set up a war crimes tribunal to deal specifically with those kinds of issues.
So we managed to get two women judges on this war crimes tribunal.
And back when Saddam Hussein was in power, the Americans didn't care about his crimes.
EA: Estimates of how many innocent people are locked up range between one and four percent, which maybe doesn't sound like a lot, except that it amounts to around 87,000 people: mothers, fathers, sons locked up, often for decades, for crimes they did not commit.
Across the country, over the last couple of decades, as property and violent crimes have both fell, the number of prosecutors employed and cases they have filed has risen.
We commit terrible crimes, and we smile at the delight in getting away with it.
They found information that was being recorded in wiretaps, a bunch of crimes that were being discussed, sensitive information.
In many ways, we've been taught to think that the real question is, do people deserve to die for the crimes they've committed?
The other way of thinking about it is not, do people deserve to die for the crimes they commit, but do we deserve to kill?
And so we have three strikes laws that put people in prison forever for stealing a bicycle, for low-level property crimes, rather than making them give those resources back to the people who they victimized.
Will eventually joined a gang and committed a number of very serious crimes, including, most seriously of all, a horrible, tragic murder.
We're going to devote enormous social resources to punishing the people who commit those crimes, and that's appropriate because we should punish people who do bad things.
But three of those crimes are preventable.
He told me that, of bin Laden's many crimes, this was, in his mind, one that didn't get enough attention, that he took this word, this beautiful idea.
The death penalty was a sanction for a long list of non-violent crimes: criticizing the king, stealing a loaf of bread.
In one project in the United States, information has been gathered on 300 innocent people, 300 defendants who were convicted of crimes they didn't do.
They spent 10, 20, 30 years in prison for these crimes, and now DNA testing has proven that they are actually innocent.
I did my experiments that involved showing people simulated crimes and accidents and asking them questions about what they remember.
In 1984, in what can only be considered one of the greatest crimes of humanity, nearly one million people died of starvation in my country of birth, Ethiopia.
Do you want to also help government find whether there's a better economic model, not just leaving these guys to come out of prison and waiting till they re-offend and putting them back in again, but actually working with them to move to a different path to end up with fewer crimes and fewer victims?
They've got to have a year to commit their crimes, six months to get through the court system, and then they would be compared to a group taken from the police national computer, as similar as possible, and we would get paid providing we achieved a hurdle rate of 10-percent reduction, for every conviction event that didn't happen.
So we get paid for crimes saved.
Society wins: fewer crimes, fewer victims.
So we went from doing low-level drug crimes that were outside our building to doing cases of statewide importance, on things like reducing violence with the most violent offenders, prosecuting street gangs, gun and drug trafficking, and political corruption.
The vast majority of those arrests are for low-level crimes, like misdemeanors, 70 to 80 percent.
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