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Latest Fact-Checks In Criminal Justice

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Jason Miyares
Jason Miyares
stated on August 13, 2019 a radio interview.
"On average, 65% of gun deaths in America are from suicides."  
Mostly True
By Warren Fiske • August 21, 2019
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on August 10, 2019 multiple posts on Facebook
Say Jeffrey Epstein is not dead.
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • August 12, 2019
Dianne Feinstein
Dianne Feinstein
stated on August 3, 2019 a tweet
There are "more gun deaths by far" in the United States than any other country in the world.
False
By Chris Nichols • August 6, 2019
Sheila Bynum-Coleman
Sheila Bynum-Coleman
stated on July 26, 2019 a website post.
"African Americans are three to four times more likely to be arrested for drug crimes, and nine times more likely to be imprisoned."  
Mostly True
By Warren Fiske • August 6, 2019
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 31, 2019 a Democratic presidential primary debate
Says Kamala Harris oversaw a police department that was "abusing people’s rights" and that she did not "disclose to defense attorneys" when there was exculpatory evidence: "She didn't do that. She never did it. And so, what happened? Along came a federal judge and said enough, enough, and he freed 1,000 of these people."
Mostly True
By Bill McCarthy • August 2, 2019
Donna Shalala
Donna Shalala
stated on July 21, 2019 an interview on CBSMiami with Jim DeFede
Says children at Homestead migrant facility "get 30 minutes over a month to talk to family members. If they were in a prison — a federal prison — they would get 300 minutes."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • July 23, 2019
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on July 4, 2019 an event in Carrol, Iowa
"A black person is four times as likely as a white person to be incarcerated for the exact same crime."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • July 10, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on June 21, 2019 a policy proposal to ban private prisons
"Prison phone companies charge as much as $25 for a 15-minute call."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • July 1, 2019
Viral image
Viral image
stated on April 18, 2016 a Facebook post
A retired U.S. Army sergeant faces life in prison for killing two Syrian refugees after discovering they raped his teenage daughter.
False
June 19, 2019
Chris Taylor
Chris Taylor
stated on May 21, 2019 a tweet
"We saw the prison population expand and vacancy rates for correctional officers go from 2.9% to 15.2%" over the last eight years.
True
By D.L. Davis • June 4, 2019
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 14, 2019 a campaign event
The 1994 crime bill "did not generate mass incarceration."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg, John Kruzel • May 30, 2019
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on May 20, 2019 an interview on MSNBC
On the need for independent investigations of police shootings 
Full Flop
By Chris Nichols • May 23, 2019
Cody Smith
Cody Smith
stated on February 21, 2019 a statement
"On our current trajectory, we’ll be 2,000 prison beds short by 2021... We’ll need two new prisons soon, at the cost of $485 million over the next five years."
Half-True
By Lauren Richey • May 8, 2019
Miro Weinberger
Miro Weinberger
stated on April 3, 2019 state of the city speech
"The public health science is clear that the use of the addiction medicine buprenorphine saves lives whether that use has been prescribed or not."
Mostly True
By Aidan Quigley • April 7, 2019
Lena Taylor
Lena Taylor
stated on March 14, 2019 a community meeting
Says Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett did not want a juvenile facility in Milwaukee, "has never been to a juvenile facility," and "didn't want it to be done."
Mostly False
By D.L. Davis • April 2, 2019
Kaye Kory
Kaye Kory
stated on April 15, 2019 radio interview.
"Women in Virginia have been incarcerated at an increasingly high rate. It’s around (a) 300 percent increase in the past four or five years."  
False
By Warren Fiske • April 2, 2019
Toni Preckwinkle
Toni Preckwinkle
stated on March 19, 2019 a debate
"Nationally, they predict prison populations on the basis of third-grade achievement."
False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • March 24, 2019
Amy Klobuchar
Amy Klobuchar
stated on March 17, 2019 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union"
During her tenure as county attorney in Minnesota, "there was a 65 percent decrease in incarceration of African-Americans."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 22, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on March 7, 2019 a tweet
"Trump's campaign manager, Paul Manafort, commits bank and tax fraud and gets 47 months. A homeless man, Fate Winslow, helped sell $20 of pot and got life in prison."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • March 11, 2019
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 15, 2019 a tweet
"Since the passage of (the Violence Against Women Act), annual rates of domestic violence have dropped by 63 percent."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 22, 2019
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