• Arthur Rizer
  • Criminal-justice reform is no boon to illegal aliens

    A common avenue of attack against criminal-justice reform, particularly its mandatory-minimum provisions, is to invoke the bogeyman of illegal immigration. The argument generally suggests that incarcerated aliens would receive some sort of windfall from the legislation. One frequently touted statistic holds that, of the 514 federal inmates who were serving a sentence for “simple possession” […]

  • Arthur Rizer
  • Criminal-justice reform won’t be a boon to illegal aliens

    By Arthur Rizer September 7, 2016 A common avenue of attack against criminal-justice reform, particularly its mandatory-minimum provisions, is to invoke the bogeyman of illegal immigration. The argument generally suggests that incarcerated aliens would receive some sort of windfall from the legislation. One frequently touted statistic holds that, of the 514 federal inmates who were […]

  • Arthur Rizer
  • Criminal-justice reform won’t be a boon to illegal aliens

    A common avenue of attack against criminal-justice reform, particularly its mandatory-minimum provisions, is to invoke the bogeyman of illegal immigration. The argument generally suggests that incarcerated aliens would receive some sort of windfall from the legislation. One frequently touted statistic holds that, of the 514 federal inmates who were serving a sentence for “simple possession” […]

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  • Arthur Rizer Trading Police

    Georgetown University From the SelectedWorks of Arthur Rizer February 24, 2015 Trading Police for Soldiers: Has the Posse Comitatus Act Helped Militarize Our Police and Set the Stage for More Fergusons? by Arthur Rizer Arthur Rizer, West Virginia University Available at: Arthur Rizer http://works.bepress.com/arthur_rizer/3/ Trading Police for Soldiers: Has the Posse Comitatus Act Helped Militarize […]